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Prussing elected Urbana mayor over Bradfield

BY BRITTANY GIBSON STAFF WRITER

Democratic candidate and incumbent Laurel Prussing was voted mayor of Urbana on Tuesday. She received 62.5 percent of the vote over her opponent Rex Bradfield’s 37.5 percent.

“I feel just fine,” Prussing said. “I was hoping for sixty percent and did a little better than that, so that was nice.”

This is Prussing’s third term as mayor and the second consecutive term where she was able to surpass her Republican opponent in votes. The outcome mirrored the 2009 elec-

tion in which Prussing won with 53 percent of the vote, while Bradfield received 32 percent.

The election saw 14,467 voters this week, in comparison to the 26,300 people who voted in the 2009 race.

“I have no idea why there were so many less people,” Champaign County Clerk Gordy Hulten said. “I don’t know if it was more or less contested races, I don’t know if it was the fact that the election was after Easter, I don’t know if it was election fatigue from

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From left to right: Brittany Aubin, presenter; Shivani Parekh, secretary of UNICF at the University; Ana Cheung, UNICEF member; Melissa Riepe, Road Scholar with the Global Poverty Project; Sagar Desai, co-president of Cross-Cultural Solutions; and Jay Gunning, Road Scholar, pose in front of their sign which explains 1.4 billion reasons for 1.4 billion people to help with world aid. UNICEF gave a presentation at the Natural History Building on Tuesday.

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Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing is interviewed by media at Brookens Adminstrative Center on Tuesday night. Prussing won the mayoral election and will serve another four years in office.

RSOs bring Global Poverty Project to campus Tuesday

BY ATOOSA SAYEH STAFF WRITER

Kyle re-elected in only council contest

BY EARN SAENMUK STAFF WRITER

Champaign citizens reelected Will Kyles for his second term as District 1 Champaign City Council member during Tuesday’s elections.

Kyles received about 60 percent of the votes.

The District 1 race was the only contested race in Champaign this year. The two candidates, Kyles and Gina Jackson, have both previously held the position.

Champaign County Clerk Gordy Hulten said the election went well this year, and he saw no major problems with vote tallying.

Although Kyles said campus voter turnout more than doubled since he was first elected in 2009, he said he thought the turnout was still low. He said he thinks the campus community is a very important part of the election.

“Campus matters,” Kyles said. “If you look at the (campus voting) numbers, it doesn’t look significant, but it helps to finalize everything.”

Tierra Braxton, sophomore in LAS, said this was her first time voting in Champaign, and she was not familiar with the candidates.

“I’m not really sure who all these people are,” Braxton said. “I just looked at their job and stuff online.”

As he continues his role as a council member, Kyles said he wants to focus on infrastructure issues and economic development.

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Engage more with police and community departments Insure safer neighborhoods Improved infrastructure Neighborhood stability Collaboration between property owners and city representatives Promote neighborhood commercial zoning options in every neighborhood Increase stable tax base

“Moving forward we definitely have to have some sustainability in the program that we already have,” he said. “I think we will work on infra-

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“I came here to raise awareness because without awareness there can be no action, and in our world today we need more action.”

Because UNICEF officials agree that this issue is prevalent for University students, Shivani Parekh, UNICEF secretary of the University’s branch and junior in Engineering, said they decided to bring the GPP presentation to the University after seeing it at a national UNICEF conference in Chicago last fall.

Desai said CCS also contacted GPP around the same time, so UNICEF and CCS decided to host the presentation together.

“We thought GPP would be good to bring to the campus because global poverty is a problem in our world, and I believe the presentation will make students become more aware and use the resources they have to help end poverty around the world,” he said.

Desai said CCS paid $500 to fund the presentation, while the University paid the remainder of the cost. Local businesses Panera Bread and Cravings also supported the event by donating food at the presentation.

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Nearly 500 students attended the Global Poverty Project’s “1.4 Billion Reasons” presentation Tuesday to learn about what they can do to help end world poverty.

The presentation, held at the Natural History Building, was hosted by the UNICEF branch at the University and Cross-Cultural Solutions, a registered student organization.

GPP presenter Brittany Aubin began by discussing her experiences in the Peace Corps and how it taught her about problems people face around the world.

“I came here to raise awareness because, without awareness, there can be no action, and in our world today, we need more action,” Aubin said.

Aubin said the GPP defines extreme poverty as “people in the world who are living under $1.50 a day.” She said GPP’s

Sagar Desai, co-president of CCS and senior in LAS, said GPP is touring around several universities in the U.S. to share this goal, as university students are one of its main focus group. challenge is to make the public “I feel like when we look around campus and see people aware of these conditions.

“We at GPP have a challenge with iPhones, MacBooks, iPads, called ‘Live Below the Line,’ it’s hard for students to realize where we challenge people to go that not everyone in the world five days living has what they below $1.50 a have,” Desai day,” Aubin said. said.

“Our presenGuada lupe tation is called Garcia, senior ‘1.4 Billion Reain ACES, said sons’ because she attended the event to learn 1.4 billion peohow she could ple live below $1.50 a day, and contribute to the that is 1.4 bilcause. lion reasons why “I came here we need to end to learn more world poverty.” about global She said the poverty and see BRITTANY AUBIN, what resourcgoal of GPP is Global Poverty Project presenter to bring the peres I can use to centage of globhelp end poval poverty down to 0 percent. She erty around the world,” Garcia added that GPP representatives said. “I believe global poverty is believe that making people more a big issue, and this presentation aware of global poverty will help made me more aware (of) what I them achieve this goal. can do to help.”

The Champaign City Council voted 8-0 on Tuesday to approve plans for the Parking Lot J development, at 524-6 E. Green St. and 601 S. Sixth St. Construction of the two-tower 12-story hotel and apartment complex, which will be built in the parking lot’s current location, will begin in fall 2013.

The council began the proposal in March 2012 and selected JSM Development as the developer in August.

JSM Development will pay Champaign approximately $3.9 million to purchase the land and will also share in the cost of a street reconstruction project of Healey Street, between Sixth and Fourth streets.

“This is possible because of the kinds of partnerships we have in campustown and the rein-

vestment in that area that busi- ing and developing in campusnesses have helped us with,“ said town,” he said. “We solved the Deborah Frank Feinen, council flooding in campustown, and member at-large. “(We’re) real- we have been watching the sigly beginning to nificant multilook at that area million dollar as an urban investment roll downtown.” in ever since.”

Thomas BruHe added that since the develno, Champaign opment began, deputy mayor, campustown’s said campusre a l est ate town’s “transhas become fo r m a t i o n a l ” desirable. d evelo pme nt , “The highest comprising rents in Chamboth the new paign County, hotels and othTHOMAS BRUNO, er projects, can residential and Champaign deputy mayor be partly attribcommercial, can uted to the city be found in the solving its flooding problems campustown area,” Bruno said. about 10 years ago.

“Certainly the surface parking “Flooding depressed the inter- lot has never been the best use est in the private sector invest- for that valuable land, and I’m

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“Certainly the surface parking lot has never been the best use for that valuable land, and I’m glad we can finally put a project on it.”

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glad we can finally put a project on it.”

According to the ordinance, the construction will include a five-story parking garage below the new building. Four stories of hotel rooms will extend outward over the building that currently houses Penn Station, 605 S. Sixth St., and Flat Top Grill, 607 S. Sixth St. The project contains 108 hotel rooms, 297 apartments and about 21,000 square feet of retail space.

The parking garage will have hourly public parking spaces available.

JSM will work to provide additional parking during construction, according to Jill Guth, director of commercial leasing at JSM. “Any time you add more residential area, the surround-

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deal with.”

Prussing said her biggest challenge will be budgeting for FROM PAGE 1A the city of Urbana. She will be the presidential election we just responsible for distributing colhad ... I just don’t know.” lected taxes, which make up the Bob Koch, an election judge, budget. said the mayoral election was Prussing will resume office the most important issue on the and face these issues in May. ballot.

“The main problem (that I will “It was the main race that had deal with) is the budget ... that’s more than one person looking to taken center stage because of get a spot,” he said. (our) budget and because of the Koch said he saw a few hun- way that Illinois is in a big finandred people vote at his polling cial bind,” she said. “We don’t place at St. Matthew’s Luther- want them to solve their proban Church, 2200 Philo Road, lems by shifting them onto local Urbana. governments.”

For many citiVoter Steve zens, taxes was O’Connell, of a main issue Urbana, said he that influenced thought Bradtheir votes. field’s views on “Getting new the budget and people in (to other economrun for governic issues were ment) and my reasons why he sitting in on a was not voted into office. mayoral meet“I think the i ng strongly influenced me,” opposing persaid Jim Barkson (Bradfield) er, Urbana citiwas looking to zen since 1979. go in another “I was ready for direction ecoa new mayor ... n o m i c a l l y, ” We had sideO’Connell said.

JIM BARKER, walk repair and “I saw him as Urbana citizen things that norwanting to go a mally would be little more condone that aren’t getting done, servative ... He didn’t seem to but they are still taking taxes want to develop things as much out for them.” as Prussing.”

Prussing said much of these Bradfield was not immediatetaxes had to do with a new hos- ly available for comment. pital bill that was passed into Voter Carol Burwell said a law last year. reason voter turnout was so low “The hospitals have gotten a could be that citizens are satisbill through the legislature last fied with Urbana’s government year saying that they’re char- and therefore did not vote in the ities, which means that they election. don’t have to pay local prop“I think everyone’s pretty erty taxes,” she said. “That content with what’s going on in means their charity care is life,” she said. “I think people being paid for by the taxpayers get really comfortable and think of one city — Urbana — because that this is just the way it is they’re located in Urbana, yet instead of going out and voting.” they serve counties for miles around. I think that’s an ineq- Brittany can be reached at uity that we’re going to have to bdgibso2@dailyillini.com.

“I was ready for a new mayor ... We had sidewalk repair and things that normally would be done that aren’t getting done, but they are still taking taxes out for them.”

CHAMPAIGN FROM PAGE 1A structure issues and economic development. I think the University will be a great partner for District 1.”

Kyles said Jackson was a big part of his success in 2009.

“Ironically, my opponent was the one who brought me into it and supported me,” Kyles said.

During this election, he said he and Jackson saw eye-

LOT J FROM PAGE 1A ing businesses will also benefit with the added customers,” Guth said.

Tony Buser, Flat Top general manager, said the building will have a very positive impact once it has been completed.

“I think it’ll bring more traffic,” Buser said. “It has to be good.”

But Brian Paragi, T.I.S store manager, said that while the new building will bring added traffic to the area once it is finished, construction would negatively impact business.

to-eye on a few issues, including economic and employment issues, and he will do his best to improve them.

“A lot of the time, it’s not really a huge difference in what we are talking about, but it’s more on how we approach them,” Kyles said.

He will begin his second term as council member in two weeks.

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“There is an impediment from the construction and sometimes customers are drawn away from that,” said Brian Paragi, T.I.S store manager.

Champaign Mayor Don Gerard said the other two developers vying for the lot will also develop land in the campustown area.

“I’m very excited at the fact that we have a local developer that’s investing so much in our community,” Gerard said.

“Thank you, JSM, for all you have done to help re-establish our campustown as a really premier location.”

Austin Keating and Earn Saenmuk contributed to this report.

Snow day decision leads to senate vote

BY LIZ AMANIEH STAFF WRITER

The Illinois Student Senate will vote at its meeting Wednesday on a resolution petitioning the academic senate to evaluate the possibility of granting the chancellor and the provost the power to suspend obligations for class attendance in emergency situations.

This petition comes as a result of the hazardous snowstorm that occurred March 24 before classes resumed after spring break. Throughout the course of the day, the southern portion of Illinois received about a foot of snow.

There were 531 reported incidents and 44 crashes on Interstate 57 between 2 p.m. on March 24 through 2 a.m. on March 26. Four injuries were also reported during this time, one involving a University student, according to the Illinois State Police.

The Illinois State Police contacted the University between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. on the 24th to request that a notice be sent out to the stu-

dent body regarding the dangerous road conditions.

At approximately 9:20 p.m.

March 24, Provost Ilesanmi Adesida issued a mass email to the student body discouraging students who had not yet returned to campus from traveling until the weather improved and the roads had been cleared.

Adesida sent another mass email at 9:35 p.m. to academic professionals, civil service workers and faculty, including the instruction that they take the warning information sent to students into account when handling class attendance issues the following day.

In response to Adesida’s email, many students contacted their student senators concerned they would lose points or have other academic sanctions levied on them should they be unable to attend class March 25. The provost’s email did not guarantee students that their instructors would not penalize them for missing class.

Senator Chris Dayton, senior in LAS, said that because classes

were not yet canceled, students may have already been traveling to campus, which may have put them in danger.

“The University did not cancel classes until 1:30 in the morning,” Dayton said. “Both time instances are well out of the window in which students would have been commuting to campus.”

The resolution’s sponsors feel as though some students had to make a choice between their education and battling potentially dangerous weather conditions to return to campus because of the University’s delay in canceling classes. In addition, the senators think that because a large number of students travel back to campus at the end of spring break, the University had a responsibility to make sure students did not have to choose between their education and their safety.

The resolution makes clear that while the appropriate process to cancel classes was followed, the administration should have suspended all obligations for class

attendance during the course of hazardous weather. The new resolution calls for the offices of the Chancellor and of the Provost to have the power in emergency circumstances to excuse students’ attendance in order to prevent situations where students may be endangered.

“We want to ensure that a student’s priority as well as this University’s priority is their own safety rather than attending class so they can get participation points,” Dayton said. “There is a great framework and repercussions to canceling classes that deal with union contracts, expenses, research, so canceling classes can be very costly for the University and I understand their hesitation to do so. But I believe there should be a framework (at) which point we can release students of their obligations for classwork without necessarily canceling classes.”

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Senate to vote Thursday on gun control

BY ALAN FRAM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The Senate’s top Democrat is setting Congress’ first showdown vote for Thursday on President Barack Obama’s gun control drive as a small but mounting number of Republicans appear willing to buck a conservative effort to prevent debate from even beginning.

Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada announced his decision Tuesday as the White House, congressional Democrats and relatives of the victims of December’s mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., amped up pressure on GOP lawmakers to allow debate and votes on gun control proposals. Twenty first-graders and six educators were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School, turning gun control into a toptier national issue.

“We have a responsibility to safeguard these little kids,” Reid said on the Senate floor, pointing to a poster-sized photo of a white picket fence that had slats bearing the names of the Newtown victims. “And unless we do something more than what’s the law today, we have failed.”

But Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, one of 13 conservative senators who signed a letter promising to try blocking debate, said the Senate bill puts “burdens on lawabiding citizens exercising a constitutional right.” He said none of its provisions “would have done anything to prevent the horrible tragedy of Sandy Hook.”

Obama was calling senators from both parties Tuesday to push for the gun bill, according to a White House official.

Reid’s determination to stage a vote came despite inconclusive talks between Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., aimed at finding compromise on expanding background checks to more gun purchasers.

But Manchin left a meeting in Reid’s office late Tuesday and

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Vice President Joe Biden speaks about gun legislation on Tuesday in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington. The Obama administration continued its efforts to pressure Republicans, with Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder speaking at the White House, joined by law enforcement officials. said he hoped a deal could be completed on Wednesday. Such a compromise would be likely to attract bipartisan support because both lawmakers are among their parties’ most conservative members.

The checks, aimed at keeping firearms from criminals and certain other buyers, are the cornerstone of Obama’s gun plan, which has been struggling in Congress.

Democrats have been buoyed by polls consistently showing more than 8 in 10 Americans support subjecting more buyers to background checks.

A Senate vote to begin debating the guns package would mark a temporary victory for Obama and his allies.

Some Republicans, though eager to avoid blocking debate,

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Reid said he did not know if he had the 60 votes he will need to defeat the conservatives’ roadblock. But at least eight Republicans have said they want to begin debate or have indicated a willingness to consider it: Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Susan Collins of Maine, Roy Blunt of Missouri and Mark Kirk of Illinois.

But some moderate Democrats are remaining noncommittal and might oppose opening the gun debate, including Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas, who are seeking re-election next year.

Begich declined to directly state his position and said of Alaskans, “We like our guns.”

There are 53 Senate Democrats and two independents who lean Democratic.

The bill would expand required federal background checks to nearly all gun transactions, stiffen penalties for illegal firearms trafficking and provide a small boost in school safety aid.

Associated Press writers Nedra Pickler, Jim Abrams, Andrew Miga and Henry C. Jackson contributed to this report.

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Virtual reality qualitatively changes the nature of communication. Unlike other media, avatars can alter their physical appearance and behavior in the eyes of conversational partners for strategic purposes. These transformations have a drastic impact on social, persuasive and instructional abilities, allowing avatars to achieve interpersonal goals that face-to-face humans cannot.

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Throughout American history, mass media has been influential in contributing to the myth of Black inferiority. In addition, media content continues to be a major factor in effecting attitudes and behavior among African Americans.

This presentation will show examples of how media messages utilize sensory cues that reinforce established racial biases. With over forty years experience in advertising, Tom Burrell has built credentials on understanding how African American consumers think, feel and act.

Via research from his Howard University Media Messaging Research Fellowship Program and excerpts from mainstream media, Burrell offers examples on how to challenge the myth of Black inferiority.

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Bousfield Hall step in right direction

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he University’s residence halls are changing — and not just on the outside. The ranges of students attending the University are becoming more diverse, and residence halls are accommodating accordingly.

Nugent Hall, built in fall 2010, was the first new residence hall seen on campus for nearly 40 years. Nugent partnered with The Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services and Beckwith Residential Support Services to create accommodations for students with disabilities.

Bousfield Hall, set to open in fall 2013, will include a suitestyle layout, some of which will be designated as co-ed suites.

The common theme: neutrality. The University is recognizing that they must not only consider the diverse needs of students, but that constricting dorms to students of a particular sex, ability or sexual orientation just won’t cut it anymore.

The University’s decision to include gender-neutral housing in Bousfield Hall is a start to providing more options and equality in students’ lives, but it’s certainly not a finish.

Particularly for LGBT students, gender-neutral housing provides a level of comfort, security and a tolerant atmosphere that may not be offered by traditional residence-hall living.

But this kind of housing can and should be expanded, giving students more options to better suit their lifestyles and promoting inclusion.

But when it comes to the needs of transgender students, the University isn’t quite there. Many of the dorms are segregated by floor, where residents share large, multi-stall, single-sex bathrooms. For the sake of inclusivity and promotion of diversity, the bathrooms in the dorms and around campus need to be updated.

The University’s idea of gender-neutral bathrooms is still a bit hazy. The gender-neutral bathrooms around campus are single use. Gender-neutral and single-use bathrooms are not necessarily synonymous. Single-use bathrooms are generally marked as a “family” restroom, but a truly gender-neutral bathroom — as we would prefer to see — are multi-stall, multi-sink restrooms where individuals of any sex or gender may enter. A more transgender-friendly and -inclusive campus will not just place a sparse number of single-sex bathrooms around campus and call it enough.

While the University’s inclusion of gender-neutral housing in Bousfield deserves praise, there’s room for improvement.

Housing should reflect the needs of every student the University chooses to admit.

Gender-neutral housing benefits the entire student body.

Students deserve to choose to live with the people that they feel most comfortable and safe with, regardless of their sex.

Most residence halls today are sex-segregated, and leaving only one viable place for an alternative may not perpetuate that segregation, but it’s not doing enough to remedy it either. Our University is on the right path to prove that diversity is more than just a person’s skin color or socioeconomic status, it’s about ideas, varied backgrounds and ability.

This is what makes an inclusive and diversity-welcoming university, so let’s continue to be on the forefront of diversity among this country’s universities.

JOHN BUYSSE Opinions columnist

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otherwise support public schools and giving it back to families to spend on private schools. The theory goes that this would increase “competition” and force public schools to perform better in comparison with their public school counterparts or face the wrath of the free market. In actuality, it just drains them of desperately needed resources and deprives them of their ability to do what they’re supposed to do — teach children effectively.

If we want to truly fix a broken education system, we need to stop listening to people like Michelle Rhee. We can’t keep banging our heads against the wall, insisting that vouchers and competition will save our children, if we hope to produce different results.

We do need, though, to listen to teachers, principals, students, families and data — real, hard data, not erasure marks and skewed enrollment statistics. Real, hard data has shown that sufficient funding, fair compensation for educators, flexible curricula and a reduced emphasis on “teaching to the test” all lead to better outcomes for students.

Perhaps most importantly, the federal government needs to change its educational philosophy. That can start by seriously considering ending its No Child Left Behind Act and Race to the Top program, both of which tie federal grant money to increases in test scores and incentivize educators to cheat.

And, if I were President Obama, I’d stop trying to appeal to conservatives by advocating for charters and school privatization. Simply put, those ideas don’t work.

For once, let’s do right by our society’s kids and give them a free public education system they’ll flourish in.

I’m a proud graduate of a public high school. I’d love for my children to be too.

he sun is shining, birds are chirping and shorts are being worn across campus this week. This also means that finals are quickly approaching with the stress that accompanies it.

In keeping with my personal tradition, I have started to organize my life a few weeks ahead of time after being slightly lackadaisical for what felt like an endless winter. In doing so, I realized something startling: I don’t have any finals during finals week.

Instead, I have all my final exams, projects and papers crammed into the week before finals.

This is not the first time this has happened to me. In fact, it has been the case for more than half of the five semesters I have spent on campus.

However, in my younger and more naive years, I saw this as a benefit because I was often excited to head home for summertime in Chicago.

Now, though, I realize it is actually a terrible situation where students often find themselves at the short end of the stick.

Teachers often frame their decision to move a course’s final exam timeslot or project deadline to the week before finals as a kind gesture that has our best interests in mind.

However, this decision lacks thought, as they are only thinking about their own class. They are not considering what this might mean in relation to the other classes in a student’s schedule. More importantly, it is a violation of the carefully planned final exam schedule determined by the Office of the Registrar. This schedule is determined long before exam week and is based upon the regular time and day of a class. The thought here is that having a formal schedule will avoid any overlapping timeslots and will (hopefully) allow for a nicely spaced exam week.

Obviously, this is not always the case, and students will often find themselves with two or more finals in one day or all five or six within a few days. In these rare cases, though, students are able to adjust their finals schedule by notifying their professors of a conflicting exam or if they have three or more exams in a 24-hour period.

Don’t get me wrong. It can definitely be a nice perk to get one exam or project out of the way before the “real” exam week begins. However, this benefit is erased when all or most professors in a student’s schedule choose to move the time up. The result is an anxiety-filled prefinals week that often sees final exams on the last day of class and project deadlines on the same day.

The greatest problem with this format is not even having several exams crammed into a few day period. Instead, it is with the lack of time to prepare for such exams. On top of the premeditated exam schedule, the Office of the Registrar includes the much-appreciated Reading Day on Thursday during the last week of classes to allow time to prepare. A logjam of finals before this free day short-changes students looking for a day to gather themselves before finals.

Lastly, student jobs and registered student organizations accomodate to the University’s official final exam schedule. This may include responsibilities with jobs, student organizations and other outside projects. This same grace period is not present the week before finals, and professors must realize this.

This is much more than just an issue of the student body’s quality of life during finals season. The overall value and importance that the University places on finals should be noted. In many cases a final project or paper can be worth as much as 30, 40 and even 50 percent of a final grade.

In simpler terms, the weight of your grade determined during finals week can sometimes be equal to that of the prior 15 weeks combined.

The University must consider barring professors from deviating from the official final exam week schedule or set standards that force teachers and professors to offer students the option of taking it during the assigned finals time. These steps would encourage professors to honor the importance of finals in a way that matches the weight the University has chosen to place on them in determining our academic fate.

Going to this prestigious university should come with an expectation for times of great academic rigor, but the phenomenon of a premature finals week should never be part of that expectation. Allowing the unfair realities that can come with this to continue is something this university cannot allow to continue.

Adam is a freshman in LAS. He can be reached at ajsmit11@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @hercules5.

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Ebert’s courage shows in his fight with cancer KIRSTEN KELLER Opinions columnist

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hen I found out, I felt like the air had been knocked out of me.

I was sitting in a lecture at a copy editor’s conference in St. Louis on Thursday when I got the first push notification from The New York Times on my iPad: Roger Ebert had died.

My first thought was that it might be one of those cases where a news outlet reports a faulty death.

But soon I saw more and more organizations reporting Mr. Ebert’s death, and I began to realize and eventually accept it.

Yet I could not stop thinking that only two days earlier he announced on his blog that his cancer had returned.

A two-day leave of presence.

Among the countless stories pouring in about Mr. Ebert and his influential effect on the film world, I can’t help but notice that most of them barely mention his cancer, the disease that took this great man away from us.

Cancer is a sudden, nasty and lifechanging disease.

Mr. Ebert was first diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002. In 2006, he had his lower jaw removed because of a tumor in his salivary glands. He was hospitalized in December 2012 for a fractured hip.

Cancer affects not only the person with the disease, but also those who surround, love and admire that person.

It affects the course of lives. It throws lives into chaos. It provides challenges that no one believes they will ever have to face.

Mr. Ebert loved to talk. At his funeral, Mr. Ebert’s stepdaughter, Sonia Evans, said, “He realized connecting

with people is the main reason we’re here.”

Who would have thought that Mr. Ebert would ever lose his ability to speak to people with his own voice?

Cancer surrounds us all, and it seems like every year cancer cases become more prevalent.

I have an aunt and a cousin with cancer, the latter of whom is currently undergoing chemotherapy treatments.

Last summer I nannied for a mother who needed help with her two young kids while she went to and recovered from treatments. She has since been cancer-free. A high-school friend of mine recently emerged victorious from her battle with lung cancer. A family friend was recently diagnosed with cancer. Another family friend lost his battle a year ago.

But depending on how a person and the family handle the cancer, there can be tiny silver linings.

I’ve seen cancer bring families together, because that core unit is one heck of an important support system.

I’ve seen cancer unite schools to rally for a beloved students with a most undesired disease.

I’ve seen cancer make a mother’s love for her children persevere and grow.

And I’ve seen the personal strength of those who are left living after a loved one loses the fight.

Chaz Hammelsmith, Mr. Ebert’s wife of 20 years, said in a statement Thursday, “We had a lovely, lovely life together, more beautiful and epic than a movie.”

Chaz will still attend this year’s Ebertfest, a move that only makes sense, as that is what Mr. Ebert would have wanted for his namesake film festival.

In her statement, Chaz also noted that Mr. Ebert fought “a courageous fight.”

And maybe that’s why people are not focusing on his cancer.

Though Mr. Ebert’s jaw surgery changed his appearance and took away his voice, we kept hearing him. His writing, and the quality of it, was not compromised. His courage was noted in that he did not let cancer completely take over his life; he kept on doing what he loved.

And that’s what I’ve seen with cancer patients themselves.

Those with cancer do not want to dwell on the matter. They don’t want to let a disease stop them from living their lives.

As researchers keep searching for the cure for cancer, cancer patients will continue living a double life: one they choose to forget, and another they choose as the dominant one — the one they would normally live. It is this second life that gives hope and spirit to the person with cancer and those who surround him. It is the one that keeps the fight worth it.

Each cancer patient has his own story. But I believe that this unique story is one that makes people stronger.

And that is what will make the 15th annual Ebertfest a celebration and not a time for mourning.

Seeing Mr. Ebert’s casket on the front page of the Chicago Tribune’s arts and entertainment section yesterday was yet another shock to me.

He really is gone.

Yet the continuance of Ebertfest is a continuance of his spirit, a celebration of all that Mr. Ebert stands for and of all that he has done.

For cancer did not let him get down. Mr. Ebert was a fighter, and a very successful one at that.

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

Teaching for tests hurts public schools ADAM SMITH Opinions columnist

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ichelle Rhee’s four years as chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system were spent exemplifying Campbell’s Law, which states that the more quantitative incentives are used for social decision-making, the more likely corruption and cheating are to occur.

The Cornell- and Harvard-educated Teach For America alumna was hired by then-D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty in 2007 to head his failing school system, despite no prior experience in educational administration. Rhee promised true reform and promised that by focusing on test scores and expanding charter schools — two methods that were well on their way to being discredited — reform would come quickly.

On paper, it did: In a “Frontline” documentary on the D.C. education system, Washington Post reporter Bill Turque noted the sudden “outsize” gains of 20 to 30 points in test scores in the year after Rhee took over. Hundreds of D.C. schools saw marginal to substantial gains in their No Child Left Behind performance markers nearly instantly, and Rhee was celebrated as a hero.

But there was something sketchy about those numbers, wasn’t there?

Pressured by their boss’s rapidly increasing test standards and threats of school closures and determined to earn the federal funding allotted according to students’ scores, teachers across the district cheated — proving Campbell correct, once again — by erasing and correcting their pupils’ incorrect test bubbles.

The rest of Rhee’s reforms failed miserably — her high schools’ ranked dead last in the United States in graduation rates for the 2010-11 school year,

and her ostensibly money-saving moves to close dozens of schools instead cost the district millions of dollars. The vast majority of D.C. students weren’t learning any better under her stewardship, and, as a result, she and Mayor Fenty were ousted after just four years.

Yet for the past few months, the political media establishment, policymakers, and even the dependably sensible Jon Stewart have feted Michelle Rhee for her supposed educational genius. She has become a darling of the delusional Beltway center, epitomizing the type of compassionately corporate, pro-school-voucher, pro-quantitative-analysis reformer that so-called moderates adore for her willingness to close schools and dismiss teachers (so gutsy!) at the drop of a hat (or test scores).

My question is this: How on Earth can these people trust her when absolutely none of her ideas have ever panned out?

Expanding the number of charter schools — semi-public institutions, funded in part by private sources, that aren’t subject to the same sort of union and federal regulations as public schools — hasn’t worked nationally, just as it didn’t work in D.C. NYU education history professor Diane Ravitch, whose influential blog explores the hypocrisies behind the modern reform movement, recently wrote in the Washington Post that “numerous national and state studies have shown that charters ... don’t get better results than regular public schools.” Scores of studies have come to the same conclusion, yet Rhee, along with Bill Gates and other misguided reformers, still extol the virtues of publicly funded schools able to fire and hire teachers at will (and, in the case of Louisiana’s charters, teach that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago.)

Most shockingly, Rhee, a selfdescribed Democrat, recently endorsed school vouchers — a system that involves taking tax money that would

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Applications connect the world KATIE TRAVERS Contributing writer

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today’s interconnected and globalized world, the ability to contact just about anyone, anywhere, exists with the simple opening of an app, dialing of a number or pressing of a button. Connecting to others around the world is possible without delving into one’s savings or hiking up one’s cell phone bill.

But only a few are truly worth one’s time.

Viber Viberis one of the best cellphone applications for global communication. It provides free texting, group messaging, calling and photo sharing, but requires Internet access. So, for those with data restrictions, it is important to be informed about personal data usage guidelines when outside of a Wi-Fi region.

While generally compatible with iOS, Android, Blackberry, Bada, Nokia and Windows Phone, it does have some restrictions. For example, Blackberry users are still awaiting use of the app’s calling feature, which Viber is expected to release this April.

Unlike iMessages, Viber widens channels of communication by providing free texting for six different cellphone systems. Viber is easy to use and extremely popular, having over 780,000 likes on its Facebook page. Once downloaded, the app identifies the user’s contacts that already use Viber.

Straightforward and userfriendly, this is arguably the best and cheapest resource for texting internationally, whereas a standard text message would deplete the change in one’s pocket with every character.

textPlus TextPlus lags behind Viber in terms of Facebook popularity, but it cannot go unmentioned.

It is another resource that aids with international communication. TextPlus is a bit more complex. It requires the user to register and create a new number, offering services to call users abroad. If calling a non-user, the user will be charged.

Users can check out how much it will (or will not) cost at www.textplus.com/rates to call overseas using its service.

TextPlus differs from Viber in that international communication from multiple devices is possible even if the other user does not have the app. TextPlus is accessible as long as a network or Wi-Fi is accessible. The app not only works with iPhone, Windows Phone, Nokia and Android, but also with KindleFire, iPad and iPod Touch.

Voxer Voxer is another application in a category of its own. It is not quite texting or calling, but something in-between.

Voxer allows text, photo and voice messages to be sent to individual users and groups.

Its orange-colored theme and off-beat, smiley-phoneface logo is kind of childlike and comforting. It is an

addicting app to use, especially after realizing that a good handful of contacts already have it installed. Voxer has inherently coined its own verb, asking its users to “vox,” which is something for the literary world to ponder as they send vocal blurbs and free texts to fellow users. The app is currently compatible with iPhone and Android.

Google Hangout And as always, the computer.

Using a computer is still the best way to contact someone abroad when a telephone will not cut it, budget or otherwise.

Skype still seems to make the most sense to plenty of people, but Google Hangout seems to be exceeding Skype’s quality and convenience.

Google Hangout is more accessible; after all, who does not have a Google account at this point?

Google Hangout is userfriendly and simple, and can be accessed directly from Google Chat. It also allows conversations to be accessorized. But beware — a moment away from the screen may result in turning back to a bearded conversant adding sound effects to the conversation. Google Hangout keeps things entertaining, with accessories such as gold crowns and musical instruments that can be positioned within the window. The comfort of sitting — virtually — face-to-face on a big screen to speak to an expatriate friend is about as close to the real deal as one can get.

Business related major available in ACES Agricultural accounting major offers skills for both business, agricultural-related fields STAFF WRITER

While Business is one of the most well-known colleges at the University, it is often forgotten that students can take an alternative route to the world of business — through agriculture. Agricultural accounting, or AgAccy, allows students to apply their knowledge of accounting to the production and processing of the agricultural industry.

Students that choose this major are also not limited to the confines of agriculture because the required coursework is very versatile. Many of them are able to earn their title as certified management accountant or certified public accountant prior to graduation. Internships that have been approved by ACES can also count for course credit for the major. This allows students to gain hands-on experience in agribusiness. More information can be found at the ACES Career Center.

Osayuki Uwumarogie, freshman in ACES, has already decided on a five-year college plan in order to better prepare herself for the CPA examinations. She also will be choosing to take additional course work — which is optional for AgAccy — to better prepare herself for the examinations and her future career.

Students are required to take

many of the same classes as accounting majors in Business, according to Ann Finnegan, director of undergraduate admissions and advising for ACES. These courses include: microeconomics, macroeconomics, applied computing, statistics, calculus, finance and classes of specialization in agriculture.

As a freshman, Uwumarogie is currently taking more business-related classes in order to fulfill her 126-hour graduation requirement. Although she said she feels there is a certain amount of stress in relation to her classes, she believes it will all be worth it in the long run. Students at the University have argued which students have a more difficult course load — accounting majors in Business or Agriculture. However, Uwumarogie said both require a special degree of proficiency to master. She said it is difficult to determine which is more rigorous.

“I feel like people think that because my accounting has the word ‘agricultural’ in front of it that it’s a completely different concept from regular accounting. Both deal with a lot of the same applications because it is essentially accounting,” she said.

However, if a student decides agricultural accounting is not the field for them, it is also a major that allows leniency when trans-

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ferring. Abby Koepke, sophomore in ACES, is currently transferring out of ACES and into the LAS. She said there has been little difficulty with the process, and many of her classes were transferable.

Finnegan also said transferring into ACES is relatively simple with no special requirements needed. Applications are strengthened by one’s GPA, success in relevant classes and compatible interests with the AgAccy program, Finnegan said.

AgAccy students have a variety of internships available to them as well, such as Fortune 500 food and agribusiness companies and public accounting firms. With multiple options available, Uwumarogie hopes to enter the world of financial auditing one day or possibly become a financial analyst.

Originally, her decision to join ACES was an accident, because she had wanted to be in Business for accounting. However, she believes this accident was actually an unexpected, positive change to her original plans because it opened her eyes to new possibilities.

Whether it may be an accident or on purpose, agricultural accounting is a diverse major that allows students at the University to gain extensive knowledge of accounting with an agricultural twist.

Christen can be reached at cmcglyn2@dailyillini.com.

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A BREWED AWAKENING TRY IT OUT

LYANNE ALFARO Staff writer

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do not drink much coffee.

As far as energy drinks go, I have never tried one. But I have a feeling Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in the minority on this campus. According to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, it is estimated that somewhere between 80 to 90 percent of children and adults in North America regularly consume caffeine. Therefore, when I decided to try going a week without caffeine, I thought it would be fairly easy. Two days into the week, I wondered if my challenge should have been to increase my caffeine intake instead.

I decided to visit Rebecca Roach, teaching associate in ACES and professor of food science and human nutrition, hoping she could tell me a little bit more about the stimulant before I made my final decision. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a central nervous system stimulant ... it would probably cause you to feel a bit jumpy,â&#x20AC;? Roach said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe you would have a hard time falling asleep.â&#x20AC;?

Needless to say, I decided to stick with the original plan.

How did I do?

I said that I do not drink much coffee. But I never said anything about tea. This could be more difficult than I had originally thought.

My tea mug reminds me of

home. The smooth contour of the cup, the acrylic flower painting on its side and the mint-infused steam which rises from it and tickles my nose all remind me of the comfort of my bed and homemade meals.

Usually, I consult my mug whenever I am stressed and need a little energy boost.

It was 2 a.m. on Day Four of the challenge, and I was working on an environmental history reading when it hit me. I looked down to realize that I was cradling my mug, which was halfway full with Brenner green tea. I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thought about the caffeine in the tea while picking up the mug from my desk, heating up the water, dipping a tea pouch in my cup and drinking from it. All I had focused on was that I was tired, stressed and in dire need of feeling awake and relaxed, all feelings that I associated with my mug.

Gregory Freund, professor of Medicine, said that what I experienced that night might not be so abnormal. After I told him that I felt a bit irritable after not having tea for a few days, he said that â&#x20AC;&#x153;ritualization,â&#x20AC;? or performing a routine act over and over, in my case, drinking tea out of my mug, might be the reason why. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are creatures of habit,â&#x20AC;?

Freund said.

Before going to sleep that night, I decided to challenge myself and resume my experiment of staying away from caffeine for the rest of the week.

When I woke up later that day, I steered clear of the stimulant.

That is, until I walked by Espresso Royale.

One second I was in line, thinking about buying a bottle of water, and the next I had changed my mind and ordered a medium hot chocolate. True, I never tried an energy drink, but boy, do I love chocolate.

I then realized I had already lost the â&#x20AC;&#x153;no caffeine challengeâ&#x20AC;? once but I could possibly redeem myself by skipping the hot chocolate I had just ordered. The swirl of the whipped cream teased me as it sat on my hot drink. As a matter of fact, I realized, the cookie cake my friends brought over earlier this week, on the first day of the challenge, was a chocolate chip cookie cake.

That had caffeine. Also on Monday, I had several chocolate and hazelnut cream-filled wafers. That had caffeine, too.

The box of assorted Fannie May chocolates that I continued to eat away throughout the rest of the week â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that also had caffeine.

I had shamelessly indulged.

If my unsuccessful challenge taught me anything about my consumption, it is that my diet was not as caffeine clean as I thought. However, that does not mean it is a bad thing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; caffeine is known to have positive effects on the body. While I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t plan on going completely caffeine-free again, I learned the importance of keeping my caffeine intake in check.

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Masters an emotional time for golf lovers

OF THE WEEK “I have been working all year for that exact moment, and just to know that pushing through all of the adversity and all of the things that were holding us back was worth it.”

JACK CASSIDY Sports columnist

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love college basketball dearly, so March and early April come as close to paradise as the calendar gets. But it wasn’t the NCAA tournament theme that brought a smile to my face during Monday’s championship game.

It was a different theme. It was the Masters.

Football has the Super Bowl, baseball has the World Series, track and field and swimming and diving have the Olympics. But to call the Masters golf’s “championship” or “pinnacle,” although true, is to sell it short because it is oh so much more. It transcends the terms and titles usually associated with sport. The Masters is an experience, one to be shared and one to be remembered, far beyond the actual drives and putts.

The shots give us a reason to get together and tune in. And they rarely disappoint. The montage of the Masters’ greatest shots grows every year, its most recent addition being Bubba Watson’s 90-degree hook shot last year. But the joy of the shot hardly matches watching Bubba, after claiming the green jacket, collapse into his mother’s arms, waiting with a bursting anxiety and tears streaming down his face to run home to his wife and their 1-month-old baby boy. We cheered like fans at the shot. We cried like humans at the mother-son embrace.

The top shot of that Masters’ montage may belong to Tiger Woods for his 16th hole chipin in 2005 — the shot that rolled and rolled until it reached the hole, where it waited and waited, finally dropping in and sending Tiger and the crowd into a frenzy. As sports moments go, that shot ranks with any buzzer beater or Hail Mary. But that moment resonates with me for a different reason, far removed from the triviality of sports.

I watched the 2005 Masters with my dad and grandfather outdoors under a warm April sun in our new screened-in porch. Perhaps constructed for this very day, it housed the closest thing to a genuine Masters experience as one can get in central Illinois. There’s no other place the two biggest golf fans I know would have been.

One role model, my father, sat in one corner, feet up with a drink and cigar by his side. His hands rested proudly on either arm rest of his new patio furniture. In the other corner, another role model, my grandfather, or, as he was nicknamed, Pal. He mimicked my father: feet up, eyes glued to the screen. His hands, sunbaked and worn from decades of labor, rested on his large midsection. I sat next to the television, a 13-year-old just elated to be invited to the party.

The tournament, as usual, compelled and thrilled. It came to the 16th hole with Tiger needing a big shot. My recollection of that moment has since been flooded by replays and highlights of the chip, so I can picture the actual shot well. But my true memory

See JACK, Page 3B

ALINA WEINSTEIN, senior gymnast

PORTRAIT BY DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINI

Alina Weinstein

Senior gymnast clinches Illini’s 3rd trip to nationals, named Regional Gymnast of the Year

BY NICHOLAS FORTIN STAFF WRITER

Editor’s note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down Sunday nights and decides which Illinois athlete or coach is our Illini of the Week. Student-athletes and coaches are evaluated by individual performance and contribution to team success.

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enior Alina Weinstein steps to the balance beam for what could be the final routine of her career.

She is competing in the anchor position on the final event of the night with a chance for the Illinois women’s gymnastics team to go to nationals, but she doesn’t feel the pressure.

Weinstein raises a hand to the judges, takes a final deep breath and begins her routine. What happens next is “normal,” according to head coach Kim Landrus, but spectacular.

“Honestly, going up on that last routine I had thought we already sealed the deal,” Weinstein said. “I thought we had already clinched it, and so it was a very relieving feeling to me. I went up there and had fun with my routine because it felt like there was no pressure. It wasn’t until afterwards that I found out that my routine actually mattered because we were tied.”

Unaware of the pressure, Weinstein was at her best, scoring a 9.900 and finishing in a tie for first on beam.

Her score gave her the individual beam title and helped propel the Illini to a second-place finish at the NCAA Morgantown Regional, which earned the team a trip to its third NCAA nationals.

“It was extremely exciting,” Weinstein said. “I have been working all year for that exact moment, and just to know that pushing through all of the adversity and all of the things that were holding us back was worth it.”

To go along with her beam title, Weinstein also took home the floor and all-around titles with scores of 9.900 and 39.550, respectively.

Weinstein was also named Regional Gymnast of the Year after the meet, her third honor of the week after being named first team AllAmerican on floor and second team All-American in the all-around earlier in the week.

“It’s an honor,” Weinstein said.

“Our sport is a little different where to achieve All-American status, you have to place in a certain constraint, so I think that it’s great that I can be recognized not just for one performance but for a whole season of performances.”

Over the last year, Weinstein has won over 20 individual event titles, been named Big Ten Women’s Gymnast of the Week three times, and broken three school records, one of which was her own. Despite all her individual success, Weinstein says it’s not what drives her.

“It was super exciting (to win the individual titles),” Weinstein said.

“It’s not my goal going into a meet, it’s not something that I think about, so just to achieve that on top of the ultimate goal (of going to nationals) that I’ve been working for all year is just a testament to the sacrifices I’ve made to this team and to gym-

nastics, and it just feels really good to know that it pays off.”

Take last season. The Illini didn’t advance to nationals as a team, but Weinstein was selected to compete after she won the regional beam and all-around titles. In short, Weinstein said she was lost without her team.

“I enjoy competing with my team and for my team,” Weinstein said.

“It’s a totally different sport when my team is not there, and I don’t really know how to compete individually. It has been four years since club gymnastics, and my biggest passion and motivation is to do it for the team. So last year was weird, it wasn’t as exciting, it wasn’t as thrilling, and in the end it was just me out there, and I really didn’t like that, but it was still a great experience. My sophomore year, I went with my team and it was incredible, and I’ve been searching for that experience ever since.”

A lot has changed since the last time Illinois went to nationals in 2011. The Illini have lost some of their most decorated women’s gymnasts and have seen new gymnasts rise to the occasion.

During her sophomore year, Weinstein was given the role of leading off for the team all season. Now, Weinstein will be back at nationals again, this time as the leader of the Illini and the closer on every event.

“I’m more experienced,” Weinstein said. “I consider myself a veteran because of everything that I’ve been through and how I’ve grown as an athlete and as a person. I think that going into this, I’m a lot more

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Honorable mentions 4x400 relay (men’s track and field) — The relay crew of sophomore DJ Zahn, freshmen Cam Viney and Juan Paul Green, and junior Stephon Pamilton won its second title in as many weeks, finishing with a time of 3 minutes, 7 seconds in the Tiger Track Classic in Auburn, Ala. Justin Parr (baseball) — The senior center fielder is on a 17-game streak with a hit and is hitting .435. He went 2-for-4 with a solo home run (3) in Tuesday’s 8-4 loss to Eastern Illinois. mature, I know what to expect, I know how to handle my emotions and how to lead my team, and so I think that’s the biggest thing, I’m more experienced and I’m older now.”

Weinstein added that she’s now depended on to wrap-up each event and to motivate the other gymnasts.

“I’ve only been with her for a year, but I really look up to her both in the gym and outside of the gym,” freshman Giana O’Connor said.

“She’s always there to give advice and help me when I’m freaking out

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Eastern blasts out Illinois pitching in 8-run inning

Beckman announces details regarding spring scrimmage; starters, bench units to mesh

BY JEFF KIRSHMAN

For the first time since a 50-14 trouncing at the hands of Northwestern on Nov. 24, the Illinois football team will take the field. At Friday’s annual Orange and Blue Spring Game, and fans can expect much of the same as last year’s event.

Head coach Tim Beckman announced Tuesday afternoon the details for the game that will again feature three quarters of football with an additional fourth quarter of running clock that will stop for a one-possession game in the final two minutes.

The Illini seniors were divided into two teams and drafted the freshman, sophomores and juniors to fill out the orange and blue rosters complete with coaches and other football staff from trainers to sports information directors.

While the game offers an opportunity for bragging rights among the players and staff, Beckman said he’s most interested to see how new combinations of lineups work together.

“What I like about it is it gives an opportunity for a one to play with a two, maybe the No. 1 center is playing next to the No. 2 guard,” Beckman said. “All through spring, they probably haven’t played as much as one unit, so that makes the experience of playing with different guys very important.”

Linebacker Jonathan Brown and wide receiver Steve Hull will sit out for the Orange Team. Brown is recovering from an offseason shoulder surgery, while Hull is out with a hamstring injury, Beckman said.

BY CHAD THORNBURG STAFF WRITER

STAFF WRITER

Kevin Duchene’s third bout with trouble proved to be his last.

Illinois’ left-handed starter entered Tuesday’s top of the sixth inning having allowed just three hits to Eastern Illinois, including a pair of two-out doubles in the two innings prior.

He escaped those innings with relative ease, along with some help from right fielder Jordan Parr, who gunned down Eastern shortstop Cameron Berra for his fifth outfield assist of the season.

That sixth inning was a barrage of terror from the Panthers that the Illini couldn’t handle. Down a run, Eastern scored eight runs in the inning and went on to earn its first win over the Illini since 2011 with an 8-4 victory.

“They outpitched us, they played better defense than us and they outhit us,” head coach Dan Hartleb said. “It’s tough to win games when you get you get outplayed in all three aspects.”

Three relievers were brought into stymie the danger in the sixth, but by the time right-hander Andrew Mamlic retired Mitch Gasbarro, Eastern’s 12th batter of the inning, the Panthers had amassed a seven-run cushion.

Drasen Johnson and J.D. Nielson both failed to record an out in their relief attempts. Eastern recorded six hits — all singles — and the Illini committed three errors to contribute to the damage.

Duchene accounted for the first error when a ground ball by Panthers shortstop Dane Sauer ricocheted off his glove toward the third base line. Duchene’s

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Eastern Illinois’ Cameron Berra (8) is safe at home after Illinois’ Kelly Norris-Jones (4) misses a throw against Eastern Illinois at Illinois Field on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 attempt to recover resulted in a wild throw toward first base, sending Sauer to second. Caleb Howell followed by poking the ball into left field with some opposite-field hitting that sent Sauer to third base. A suicide squeeze attempt

by Mitch Gasbarro was handled successfully by Duchene, who pitched the slow-rolling bunt to catcher Kelly Norris-Jones in time to tag out Sauer for the first out in the inning.

That was enough for Hartleb, who called for Johnson to replace Duchene after 5 1/3 innings. Johnson, however, was unable to help preserve the lead.

Duchene was credited with the loss, his first of the season.

“I don’t really know what I was doing on that botched play,” Duchene said. “They got hot for an inning, which doesn’t usually happen, but it did today.

So hats off to them.”

Illinois gained its lead off a solo home run by Justin Parr in the first inning to extend his career-best hitting streak to 17 games. Parr’s 2-for-4 hitting on the night proved to be the only asset for the Illini’s offensive attack, which was held to five hits by five Panthers pitchers. The

Panthers recorded 12 hits on the night.

“The bottom of their order ate us alive,” Hartleb said, referring to Eastern’s seventh, eighth and ninth hitters, who combined to hit 5-for-12.

Illinois went eight innings without a hit before Chase Hainline singled in the bottom of the ninth. The Illini did manage to add three runs in their final inning off a three-run home run by Thomas Lindauer, though it did very little other than damage Panthers reliever Scott Houdek’s ERA. “We didn’t have any quality at-bats,” Parr said. “One bad at-bat rolled into another.”

Eastern head coach Jim Schmitz responded by inserting No. 1 starting pitcher Joe Greenfield to close the game, suggesting this wasn’t just any midweek affair in the eyes of the Panthers.

“Signing day is coming up,” Schmitz said. “You want to win all your games, but when you’re recruiting in your home state, these are the teams you’re looking to beat.”

Jeff can be reached at kirshma1 @dailyillini.com and @jkirsh91.

Tight end Jon Davis will not participate for the Blue squad.

The kickers will be very limited participants, as kicking will not be live during the game; all punts will be fair caught and the ball will be placed on the 30-yard-line in place of kickoffs.

Beckman said the kickers were evaluated during a scrimmage earlier this spring and sophomore Taylor Zalewski is currently edging redshirt freshman Ryan Frain for the starting gig.

Friday’s televised scrimmage will be the first opportunity for the Illini to put the bitter taste of a 2-10 season behind them.

“We have to progress, we have to move forward,” Beckman said. “Of course you learn from your past experiences, but it’s time to take the program and move it forward.

“Last year wasn’t anything that anybody wanted, but we have to move forward. We can’t dwell on the past.”

Fresh faces The majority of the freshman class won’t arrive until the summer, but the Illini still have a few new names on the spring game roster with five junior college transfers and five early enrollee freshmen.

Because of the shallow depth of the Illinois roster, several of the new arrivals have found themselves in the mix for significant playing time this spring and when the season kicks off in the fall.

Beckman singled out Iowa Western

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

THE ONES TO WATCH

JOHNATHAN HETTINGER Illini columnist

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ost students can immediately recognize a No. 3 stitched on the front of an orange Illini jersey. They can tell you that No. 3 is Brandon Paul. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty darn good.

Most students identify a No. 2 on the front of a blue football jersey with Nathan Scheelhaase. They know heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been the leader of the Illinois football team for three years. Even though he wears a helmet, most students can point him

out around campus.

But not many know the tall, long-haired blonde with a Belgian accent on the golf team. Not many can point out Justin Parr, who is on a 17-game hitting streak, in a class.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a guide to five Illini ath-

Johnathan is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at hetting2@ dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @IlliniColumnist.

Alina Weinstein Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gymnastics

Jesse Delgado Wrestling

Ashley Spencer Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s track and field

Thomas Pieters Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf

Justin Parr Baseball

Year: Senior Hometown: Plainsboro, N.J. Achievements: Two-time NCAA regional champion, second-team All-American in floor in 2011.

What you need to know: Weinstein led Illinois to its thirdever appearance at the NCAA Championships this season. She won the last two NCAA Regional all-around competitions, and she finished eighth in the nation in the floor during her sophomore year. Weinstein is smart, too, being named academic all-Big Ten the last three years.

Year: Sophomore Hometown: Gilroy, Calif.

Achievements: 2013 NCAA champion, 125-pound weight class What you need to know: Delgado became the first Illini to win a national championship at 125 while Illinois took fifth at the NCAA Championships.

Delgado was also named an All-American following his freshman year, when he placed seventh at nationals.

He became the first individual Illini wrestler to win a national championship since 2003.

Year: Sophomore Hometown: Indianapolis Achievements: 2012 NCAA champion in 400-meter dash, All-American in 200 meters and 400.

What you need to know: Spencer is one of the fastest women in the world. She became the first freshman to win a national championship in the 400 since Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards in 2003. She has continued her winning ways this season, finishing third in the 400 at the NCAA Indoor Championships

Year: Junior Hometown: Nijlen, Belgium Achievements: 2012 NCAA champion, European Palmer Cup participant What you need to know: Pieters is one of the top collegiate golfers in the nation.

He announced in January that he will forego his senior season of eligibility to play golf professionally, so he has just four tournaments left at Illinois.

The Belgium native helped Team Europe win the Palmer Cup, a collegiate version of the Ryder Cup, last summer.

Year: Senior Hometown: Chillicothe, Ill. Achievements: Currently on a 17-game hitting streak, hitting .435 on the season.

What you need to know: Parr never gets out. He is leading the baseball team with a .435 average. There have been just two games that he has not recorded a hit this season. If you see him on campus, try not to confuse him with fellow Illini outfielder and twin brother Jordan Parr.

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Illinois loses 12-1 to Eastern, game called

BY SEAN NEUMANN STAFF WRITER

Eastern Illinois’ high-powered offense buried Illinois 12-1 before the game was called due to a fiveinning mercy rule on Tuesday afternoon at Eichelberger Field.

The mercy rule is invoked in the NCAA when a team is leading by eight runs after five innings.

Illinois struck first when Allie Bauch score the team’s only run on a fielding error by Eastern Illinois shortstop Bailey O’Dell after pitcher Hanna Mennenga walked the first three batters of the inning; however, Mennenga’s performance quickly turned around.

The Panthers’ pitcher tallied 12 strike outs in five innings, holding the Illinois offense to just two hits.

The Illini left five runners on base, including leaving the bases loaded in the first inning.

Head coach Terri Sullivan said the team has had trouble scoring runs all season long, and the Illini need to learn to play in the runscoring situations they often come across.

“We pressed after we had that lead in the first inning,” Sullivan said. “Our team just has to know they have to keep playing aggressive.”

First baseman Remeny Perez said Mennenga was no more impressive than any other pitchers the Illini have faced so far this season and that the Illini were just watching too many pitches go by.

The Panthers blitzed the Illini for six runs on just three hits in the third inning. Eastern Illinois infielder Ally Seplak scored after Illini pitcher Pepper Gay hit Brooke Owens with the bases loaded. Gay had walked catcher Hannah Cole to load the bases after Seplak and Carly Willert both reached base on a pair of singles. Willert crossed the plate on O’Dell’s RBI single to left field that

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gave EIU the lead 2-1.

Gay proceeded to hit third-baseman Ashleigh Westover to force in another Eastern Illinois run, before a fielding error by Perez allowed Owens to increase the Panthers’ lead to 4-1.

Gay was pulled from the game after she walked April Markowski to force in O’Dell, allowing the Panthers to up their lead to 5-1.

“After they got a couple hits, I stopped being as aggressive as I should have been,” Gay said.

Illinois pitcher Jackie Guy came into the game in place of Gay, but walked Seplak to force in Westover and give Eastern Illinois a 6-1 lead.

Eastern’s offense continued its rally in the top of the fourth inning.

Cole scored on Westover’s RBI single to right field, which set up for Reynae Hutchinson’s threerun home run over the left-field fence and increased the team’s lead to 10-1.

Eastern Illinois added two more runs in the top of the fifth inning when Willert and catcher Melise Brown both scored on RBI infield singles to increase their lead to 12-1.

The Illini have lost 10 of their last 11 games during their slump, while Eastern Illinois has won 19 of its last 21.

Sullivan said she may shake up the lineup and give young players valuable game experience, but she will mainly press players to step up and work on bringing back the

team’s confidence.

“We really do believe in everyone on this team, but it’s time they stop worrying about what they haven’t done and really play in the present,” Sullivan said.

Gay said she feels confident the team will be ready for this weekend’s series against Big Ten opponent Minnesota after planning for more work on in-game situations in practice this week.

“I know the coaches have our backs 100 percent,” Gay said. “You just have to keep playing. That’s all you can do.”

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

Men’s tennis works to rebound from losses

BY J.J. WILSON ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The Illinois men’s tennis team hasn’t been at the top of its game the past two weeks. After dropping its first Big Ten match to Minnesota two weekends ago and falling out of the top 25, the Illini lost to Michigan on the road, as the Wolverines climbed to No. 24 in the rankings.

The competition is only expected to get tougher, as Illinois welcomes No. 5 Ohio State this weekend, but there are important factors of the Illini’s game that need to be looked at before ruling them out.

Doubles recovery Illinois’ spring season started poorly in doubles play, losing six of its first seven doubles matches. Big Ten play has seen the Illini at 6-1 for securing doubles point, yielding their only point to Wisconsin

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Community College transfer Martize Barr as a player who’s worked his way into the first unit, filling in for suspended senior wide-out Darius Millines.

“Martize Barr is the first one that you have to mention because he’s running with the ones right now and he’s made strides each and every practice,” Beckman said.

The second-year head coach also called out Darius Mosley, a freshman who enrolled a semester early, as a player making an immediate impact, working in with the first and second units.

“Here’s a young man that just graduated from high school, still hasn’t gone to prom yet and he’s involved in a Big Ten schedule,” Beckman said.

involves the men in the room.

Both men recognized the potential of the shot along with the patrons at Augusta, and they stirred with the growing roar of the crowd. My dad lifted his feet off of the foot rest, placed them on the ground and leaned forward. The ball kept rolling. Pal kept his feet up, but lifted his head off the back of the chair ever so slightly, leaning in to see the ball more clearly. The ball kept rolling.

Both men let out an audible, “Oh!” as the ball rested by the hole, Nike symbol up, seemingly stopped for good.

Then it fell in. Pal leaned his head back, hands still resting on his stomach and let out a deep belly laugh, saying more than any exclamation ever could. A smile and a laugh from a man watching an unforgettable moment on his favorite weekend of the year, and it couldn’t have been more genuine.

It was the last Masters that Pal ever saw, and that laugh of disbelief stands as one of my final memories of my grandfather. It’s perhaps the best memory I have, a memory only the Masters can bring. And when the Masters rolls around this weekend, I’ll think of him and smile.

I’ll also think of my dad. “I just want to see it,” he would say about Augusta National. And wouldn’t you know it, after years and years of trying for tickets, this week he’ll get his chance. He’s attending a practice round. He could care less about the golfers. What do they matter? Top-ranked players will be replaced, great shots will be surpassed by better shots and the moments of “sports” will fade, just as they always do.

He’s more interested in seeing the hallowed grounds and feeling all they have to hold.

He’ll remember his favorite tournaments and recall his memories of watching them.

He’ll appreciate the course’s beauty. And, undoubtedly, he’ll think of his father, too.

ESPN’s Wright Thompson wrote a column several years ago about the fatherson charm of the Masters. I’d wager no one has ever read it without crying. But on the column, Thompson says, “I didn’t write that story ... I opened a vein.”

What other sporting event can house such emotionally charged memories — such love? It’s been termed “A tradition unlike any other.” That’s exactly right. My dad and grandpa would agree.

Change of direction

Illinois second baseman Allie Bauch swings for the ball during the game against Eastern Illinois on Tuesday. The Illini lost the game 12-1 after the game was called due to a five-inning mercy rule.

— a point which would be Wisconsin’s only of the match. Now, Illinois’ doubles game levels out at an even .500 in its 20 matches.

Singles woes After Minnesota exposed weak spots in the Illini’s singles game two weeks ago, Michigan took advantage, claiming five of six singles courts. Illinois head coach Brad Dancer said the team had trouble balancing composure with energy at Minnesota and that they would work on fixing this as a team before Michigan. Given the weekend, though, which saw Illinois losing eight of 12 singles courts to Michigan and Michigan State, the Illini may be heading into trouble this weekend.

Tough tandem Sophomores Tim Kopinski and Ross Guignon are a No.

22 duo as of March 26, and the ranking is expected to rise after defeating No. 12 Evan King and Shaun Bernstein at Michigan last weekend. While Ohio State boasts the No. 13 pair of Peter Kobelt and Connor Smith, Kopinski and Guignon sport a 4-0 record against ranked opponents when paired together, all of which were ranked No. 39 or better.

Against the odds Illinois has played eight matches against top-25 opponents this season. When Illinois was ranked No. 16, they lost to then-No. 19 Tennessee and thenNo. 24 Tulsa. Their only victory over a top-25 team ranked below them came against thenNo. 20 Northwestern. When it comes to teams ranked above them, Illinois dropped three of its five matches but managed to

record two top-seven wins over then-No. 5 Duke and then-No. 7 Kentucky.

Much of Illinois’ 2012 spread running game consisted of top backs Donovonn Young and Josh Ferguson running horizontally across the field, only to be stopped just beyond or short of the line of scrimmage.

Offensive coordinator Bill Cubit hopes to change that this season, shifting the focus from stretching the field east and west.

“To get the ball north to south, that’s the shortest distance (to the endzone),” Cubit said. “So I’m going to bang it in there.

And I told the guys, sometimes a 2-yard run is a pretty good run.

It gets us second and 8. That’s what we have to do.”

He said Ferguson has been limited in the spring with an ankle injury. He added that sophomore Dami Ayoola will see more time this year and that he hopes to add another back into the mix.

“We’re going to have to have somebody else come in because, as an old friend of mine once said, ‘You can’t have enough of those backs,’” Cubit said “And right now, those guys are kind of banged up.”

Accessorizing

The Illini are 2-2 since hitting the road two weeks ago, but they will be back at Atkins Tennis Center for their next three matches. On the season, Illinois has played 11 of its 20 matches at home, including seven backto-back from the end of January into March, and turned out a 6-5 record in those contests; however, three of those ended with the Illini getting shut out by top-25 opponents.

Dancer has said the Net Nuts organization — the men’s tennis team’s fan base — has been a big, positive impact on their home performances.

With a new season, comes another themed wristband for Beckman’s Illini.

In place of last season’s “ONE” wristbands that all players and coaches wore last season, the team is sporting new wristbands with “WIN” inscribed on them, which Beckman said stands for “Whatever is Needed.” Everyone in the program wears the wristband on their right wrist.

“It’s the philosophy of this football team that we have on this wristband,” Beckman said.

“This program needs to take it one day at a time and continue to strive to get ourselves better as coaches, as players, as anything that’s involved in this program.

“Whatever is needed today to be successful to make this program better.”

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Even with two top-20 individual performances, the Illinois women’s golf team couldn’t get it done after placing 17th among 20 teams at the Marsh Landing Invitational in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The tournament featured top-25 teams Purdue and Texas Tech, as well as four other top-50 squads, but the course at the Marsh Landing Country Club was a relatively easy one.

“The layout was pretty much straightforward,” junior Ember Schuldt said. “(There was) not a lot of trouble around the hole.”

Head coach Renee Slone did not notice anything unusual during the practice round and did not

expect the team to have a lot of trouble with the course.

“This was a golf course that really presented a number of scoring opportunities,” she said.

“You could be aggressive, for the most part, anywhere. We just did not take advantage of the opportunities.”

Even Schuldt admitted her wedge play was not as sharp as she wanted it. She said she was not quite getting her shots as close to the hole as they should have been.

Still, she and sophomore Samantha Postillion managed to stay competitive following a quick start on day one through the first two rounds. On the par-72 course, Schuldt and Postillion shot a 72 and 71 in round one, respectively.

While both jumped around in the

top 20 spots throughout the tournament, they each had one round that bumped them out of top-10 contention. Postillion finished in an eight-way tie for 11th place at 3-over-par and Schuldt in a threeway tie for 19th at 4-over.

After a slow start at the Insperity Lady Jaguar Invitational last month, Postillion knew what she needed to tweak to have more success come match play.

“I felt like my wedge after the last tournament was what I needed to work on,” she said. “By the time I got here ... I felt my game was good overall.”

Postillion added that because the course was one of the shorter courses the team has played this season, it fit her game better because she’s a shorter hitter. The

flatness of the course and slower greens were also in her favor because they helped her putting.

The team has been looking for a change of mindset during tournaments, and Slone acknowledged that the message might just be getting to Postillion and Schuldt.

“Both ... posted some solid rounds,” Slone said. “Neither had their ‘A’ games, really. That shows the level of mental toughness we’ve been looking for this season.”

While there are some positive individual results for the second straight tournament, the team as a whole is still a concern for Slone going into the final invitational before the Big Ten Tournament. Senior Crystal Smith tied for 90th. Sophomore Jacqueline

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Calamaro tied for 92nd and sophomore Michelle Mayer finished 99th individually.

The Illini will be in Columbus, Ohio, for the Lady Buckeye Spring Invite starting April 20. Postillion said she will try to get her teammates to practice as many extra minutes as they can to prepare.

Whatever method they choose, Slone acknowledged the failure of applying what was learned early in an up-and-down fall season to the spring competitions.

“We’re not getting it done in that area,” Slone said. “Eventually, we’ve got to find a way to get it in the hole, and that’s just not happening.”

about stuff, and she really pushes me a lot in the gym. She’s a team leader, but she’ll also come up to you individually and tell you how to like fix your form to stick your vault, which is where I get the most out of it. She helps me with my vault a lot.”

“She has a great work ethic,” Landrus said. “She leads by example and she’s a vocal leader, and that combination has really inspired our team. She walks the talk.”

Going into her final meet, Weinstein said through all the changes on the team, one thing has stayed the same: her “passion and love for Illinois gymnastics.”

“I came on this team for a reason,” she said. “I wanted to take it higher and keep improving it, so this is my last push to make a mark on this program.”

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

UConn claim womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title against Louisville Huskies ties title record with 8 rings

BY DOUG FEINBERG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW ORLEANS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Geno Auriemma and Connecticut are back on top. With freshman Breanna Stewart leading the way, it might be a while before they relinquish that spot.

Stewart scored 18 of her 23 points in a dazzling first half and Connecticut won its eighth national championship with a 93-60 rout of Louisville on Tuesday night. It was the most lopsided victory in a title game.

The title tied Auriemma and the Huskies (35-4) with Pat Summitt and Tennessee for the most in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball history at eight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fact that I tied Pat Summittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record puts you in the category of the greatest womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball coach that ever lived,â&#x20AC;?

Auriemma said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just thrilled for our seniors. This team accomplished an amazing feat this last month.â&#x20AC;?

It might not take long for Auriemma to pass Summitt the way Stewart and the rest of his Huskies played. His prized freshman was unstoppable, hitting shots from everywhere on the court to earn Most Outstanding Player honors for the Final Four. Even her father in the stands watching repeatedly said â&#x20AC;&#x153;wowâ&#x20AC;? as his daughter took the game over. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is unbelievable,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve thought about since the beginning of the season.

And now to be here and actually win it, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great feeling and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to set in for

a while. I just played really confident and stopped thinking. When I second-guess myself, nothing good comes out of that.â&#x20AC;?

The loss ended an unprecedented tournament run by Louisville.

The Cardinals became the first No. 5 seed to make the championship game, pulling off the greatest upset in tournament history when they beat Brittney Griner and Baylor in the regional semifinals. Jeff Walzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team then beat Tennessee in the regional final before topping Cal in the Final Four.

The Cardinals just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough to beat their Big East foe.

Louisville was trying to become just the second school to win both the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s championship in the same season and the first since UConn in 2004.

Louisville menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coach Rick Pitino, fresh off his title win over Michigan on Monday night, was sitting behind the Cardinals bench, trying to spur on the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team. He talked to the players at their pregame meal and told them to just enjoy the moment and have fun in the game.

It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to be, and Pitino was thoroughly impressed by Stewart, too. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is one of the best freshman in basketball,â&#x20AC;? he said in a halftime interview.

This trip to the Big Easy marked the beginning of the Stewart era. The heralded freshman had one of the most remarkable runs of any first year player in the history of the tournament.

She finished with 105 points in the tournament in only five games, missing the first round rout of Idaho to rest a sore calf. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most by any first-year player since UConnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Maya Moore in 2000, according to STATS.

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Connecticut players celebrate as they carry head coach Geno Auriemma off the court after defeating Louisville 93-60 in the national championship game of the women's Final Four of the NCAA college basketball tournament. The Tuesday win in New Orleans was Auriemmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record-tying eighth title with UConn.

Tigers score 7 runs in win

Illini rank 12th of 15 at menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf invitational

BY CLAIRE LAVEZZORIO

Cabrera knocks in 4 as Detroit tops Toronto

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DETROIT â&#x20AC;&#x201D; AL MVP Miguel Cabrera hit his first homer of the season and drove in four runs, left fielder Don Kelly made a home run-robbing catch and the Detroit Tigers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-3 Tuesday.

The Blue Jays, who spent millions during the winter to upgrade their roster, fell to 2-5 for their worst start since 2004.

Cabrera, coming off his Triple Crown season, had four hits and scored three times.

Torii Hunter had three hits, including the 2,000th of his career, and Alex Avila homered.

Kelly took away a home run from J.P. Arencibia leading off the second. Kelly ran back to the wall, reached above the fence and caught the ball as he rammed into the padding. Kelly bounced back toward the field and fell onto the warning track, but held on.

Anibal Sanchez (1-0) struck out eight in seven innings. He allowed two runs and five hits with one walk.

Drew Smyly and Al Alburquerque combined to pitch the eighth. Joaquin Benoit worked the ninth and gave up Cody Rasmusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; solo home run.

Brandon Morrow (0-1) gave up five runs and nine hits in 3 2-3 innings.

Cabrera hit an opposite-field liner just over the fence in right for a three-run hom-

PAUL SANCYA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Detroit Tigersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Miguel Cabrera, right, celebrates with teammate Torii Hunter after hitting a three-run home run against the Toronto Blue Jays in the fourth inning of Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game in Detroit. er in the fourth for a 5-1 lead. His 100th career home run at Comerica Park came after Austin Jackson and Hunter singled, and finished Morrow.

Miguel Cabrera added a run-scoring single and Matt Tuiasosopo had an RBI double in the eighth.

Melky Cabrera had three hits and his first RBI for Toronto. He moved past 1,000 career hits.

Detroit took a 1-0 lead in the first on

Prince Fielderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s RBI double off the wall in right-center. He drove in Cabrera, who singled with two outs.

Avilaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second home run of the season made it 2-0 in the second. He homered on Morrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first pitch of the inning â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it was the first pitch Avila saw since the birth of his first child, Avery Noelle, on Sunday.

The Blue Jays got a run in the third on Emilio Bonifacioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s triple and Jose Reyesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; single.

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Playing in Augusta, Ga., just days before the PGA Tour professionals arrived for The Masters, the Illinois menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf team finished 12th out of 15 teams at the Insperity Augusta State Invitational.

Despite high first round scores, the team was able to shoot a 1-under-par 287 on Sunday, ending up with the eighth-best round in the entire invitational.

The field was led by freshman Thomas Detry, who placed 16th, shooting 1-over for the tournament. Belgium-native Thomas Pieters shot a first round 79 and second round 75 but finished in the third round with a 67, the second lowest tournament score. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been like that all year,â&#x20AC;? Pieters said. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not into the round and focused right away, but I have to work on that.â&#x20AC;?

Despite his team coming in 12th, head coach Mike Small isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t discouraged by the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play after solid Sunday rounds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We showed some resiliency today, which is what we were looking for,â&#x20AC;? Small said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can still play better, but it was a positive day, and we need to build on what we did today. Thomas (Pieters) got the score that we need to have more often, and everybody else played better, too.â&#x20AC;?

Sophomore Alex Burge finished with a 2-over 74, and the freshman duo of David Kim and Charlie Danielson finished at 76 and 74, respectively.

After their final round, the Illini traveled to Augusta National to watch the practice round of The Masters. Pieters was able to talk to Nicolas Colsaerts, who is also Belgian and currently plays on the European and PGA tours. With Pieters turning professional after the end of this season, following Colsaertsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; path to the Masters is something he strives for. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to play in the tournament as soon as possible,â&#x20AC;? Pieters said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just hate watching the pros play, I want to be the one on the course playing.â&#x20AC;?

But before Pieters gets to this point, he is looking for a couple more wins before turning professional. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have the tournament at Purdue coming up, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to a win and to being a leader,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let my team down going into the Big Tens.â&#x20AC;?

The Illini will play in the Boilermaker Invitational in West Lafayette, Ind., on April 20-21, with a last chance to improve before the Big Ten Championships in French Lick, Ind., on April 26-28.

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Rutgers to discuss coaching debacle

Scripps National Spelling Bee adds vocabulary test to May competition

BY JOSEPH WHITE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Carmine Ralph Cicurillo questions Rutgers University President Robert Barchi over the expenses of athletic programs as Barchi addresses a town hall meeting Monday in Newark, N.J. Barchi announced Monday that university officials are reviewing practice videos of all sports to ensure proper behavior among Rutgers athletic staff. anger over the video, which was animal back into their living presented to university officials room to try to recruit their son in November by a former bas- after this video?” he asked. ketball program employee who Christie also said that he last week sued the university, wants to know why Rice was not claiming he was let go because fired even before the universihe was a whistle-blower. A per- ty knew about the video of his son with knowledge of the sit- behavior at practice. uation by who That’s a quesrequested anotion that the nymity because i n ve s t i g a t i o n the investigabeing commistion has not sioned by the been made pubuniversity could lic, has told look at.

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In a statement released by his lawyer late Monday, Hershhorn said he did call for Rice’s firing on the day in early December that he watched the video. He said he told Pernetti that if the video was authenticated, Rice needed to be immediately terminated. Contrary to his recommendation, Hershhorn said, the university chose to discipline Rice instead of let him go.

The Rutgers administration would not comment on Hershhorn’s account of events.

Meanwhile, a group of five Democratic members of the state Assembly made a halfdozen requests for information from Rutgers Monday under the state’s Open Public Records Act. The lawmakers, who plan to hold hearings on the situation, asked for communications about Rice’s hiring in 2010, his firing this month and several issues in between.

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“In the long run I think it’s a change for the better because it tests spellers’ all-around knowledge of the word as opposed to just the spelling of the word,” said 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali, also one of the favorites after finishing third the past two years.

But what about right now?

Arvind and the rest of the 281 spellers in this year’s bee now have less than two months to change their study habits ahead of the May 28-30 competition near Washington.

“I’m just going to review all the words for their meanings one more time, if I have enough time,” Arvind said. “But it’s going to be a little difficult to adjust to this right now.”

While the finals format remains unchanged, the televised semifinals will have a different payoff. Spellers will continue to be eliminated if they misspell on stage, but there will be only two semifinal rounds.

The results of those rounds will be combined with the computerized spelling and vocabulary tests to select the finalists.

The issue of determining the number of finalists has been problematic in the past because of the need to fit the bee into its allotted broadcast slot. Parents and spellers were upset in 2010 when officials abruptly halted the semifinals in the middle of a round because spellers were being eliminated too quickly.

The bee, working with its television partners, usually prefers to have nine to 12 spellers in the finals. That will be easier to accomplish now because the bee can take the spellers with the most points, with wiggle room to account for ties.

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WASHINGTON — What does it all mean?

That’s the question facing spelling whizzes across the country, who learned Tuesday that they will have to know the definitions of some of the those tough words they’ve been memorizing in the dictionary. For the first time, multiple-choice vocabulary tests will be added to the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. “Changes are not a surprise, but these changes are massive,” said Mirle Shivashankar, whose daughter, 11-year-old Vanya, is among the favorites after finishing tied for 10th last year. “It came as a shocker. ... We’re going to have to change the way we prepare a little bit.”

The changes will make it easier to nail down the nine to 12 competitors who make it to the final round, which will look the same as it has for years to primetime TV viewers, with spellers taking turns until only the champion has avoided the familiar doomsday bell. The changes do add a wrinkle to the televised semifinals, however, as even the best onstage spellers could find themselves eliminated from the finals if they perform poorly on the multiple-choice test.

Executive Director Paige Kimble said the changes were driven by the desire to reinforce the competition’s purpose — to encourage students to improve their spelling and broaden their knowledge of the language.

“What we know with the championship-level spellers is that they think of their achievement in terms of spelling and vocabulary being two sides of the same coin,” Kimble said.

Vocabulary has been a regular part of the bee during its 87-year history, but it’s always been the spellers asking for the definition to help them spell the word.

Now the tables will be turned, with the spellers taking a computer test that looks like some-

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The university said Monday that the school’s Board of Governors would meet Thursday to discuss hiring an adviser to report on what went wrong with Mike Rice.

University President Robert Barchi said that employees are going through video of practice sessions from other sports to see if any other troubling behavior needs to be rooted out.

The scandal has had farreaching implications on the university’s athletic department.

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1007 W. Clark, U.

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1005 W. Stoughton, U.

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707 W. Elm, U.

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101 W. Park, U.

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508 E. Clark, C

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55 E. Healey, C.

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1011 S. Locust

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303 W. Green, C.

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808 W. Nevada, U.

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604 E. Clark, C.

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217-359-3713

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217-337-1565

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101 E. Green St

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217-333-0112

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404 1/2 E. White, Champaign St.

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204 E. Clark, C.

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305 W. Elm, Urbana

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409 W. Elm, C.

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906 W. Springfield, Urbana

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714 S. Race, Urbana

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217-366-3500

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