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Champaign Mayor Don Gerard released his emergency order Wednesday morning for the informal campus holiday, which is expected to take place March 1 through March 2, although the order notes the holiday may extend into March 3.

As in past years, the entry age for bars and licenses that sell alcohol will be 21 years or older from 10 a.m. March 1 to 2:30 a.m. March 2 and from 9 p.m. March 2 to 2:30 a.m. March 2. Establishments are also required to have one of-age employee checking IDs during business hours on March 1-3.

The order forbids all Champaign bars and restaurants with liquor licenses from serving or permitting consumption of alcoholic beverages between 6 to 10 a.m. on March 1-2. Other restrictions, in effect from 10 a.m. March 1 to 2:30 a.m. March 3, include:

Hosting any private par-ties with drink specials

BY LAUREN ROHRSTAFF WRITER

With the possibility of a mas-ter’s degree in Engineering, students could further develop their technical and professional skills to become more competi-tive in their fields.

The proposed Master of Engi-neering degree is a non-thesis, professionally oriented program that will seek to develop curric-ulum among different industry-related departments, said Victo-ria Coverstone, associate dean for graduate and professional programs in Engineering.

More importantly, she said, the new degree will combine in-depth technical expertise with

more professional development. This training is beyond what a student could receive from a traditional bachelor’s degree, without the commitment to a Ph.D.

“Increasingly, in the breadth and depth of the engineering profession today, we need addi-tional preparation in profes-sional skills,” Coverstone said. “Industries are looking for engi-neers who have a broad mix of hard science and math tools, and a big picture understand-ing of project management and business.”

The proposal for the Mas-ter of Engineering degree was passed through the college and

graduate college levels before it was approved by the Urba-na-Champaign Senate on Feb. 4. Proposals for programs within the master’s degree were also approved, including a major in materials engineering and a concentration in energy systems.

These proposals will be brought to the University board of trustees and the Illinois Board of Higher Education for approval.

Although the college is already well known for its rig-orous science curriculum, Cov-erstone said many engineer-ing students have come forth inquiring about a program that will better prepare them for jobs in industry-related fields of engineering.

“There is a real need for these types of programs, as a

bachelor’s degree is not always enough to obtain or keep a good position, and one cannot usu-ally afford to return to school for more than a year to do the advanced training employers want,” said Randy McCarthy, professor of mathematics.

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Proposed bill opposes toxins above aquifer

Engineering proposes new degree

BY EMMA WEISSMANNSTAFF WRITER

More than 200 volunteers dis-tributed alcohol safety informa-tion to students in preparation for Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day during the Champaign Commu-nity Coalition’s “Walk as One” event Wednesday.

Information about alco-hol poisoning, amendments to state laws regarding social hosting and information about city fines were among the items delivered to an estimated 2,900 campus residences, said Lt. Jim Clark of the Champaign Police Department.

The event was a preemptive measure led by members of the University, the three local police departments and the Champaign Community Coali-tion. Champaign Mayor Don Gerard said the informal cam-pus holiday is a community-wide issue and said it is the job of both the cities of Champaign and Urbana, along with the Uni-versity, to take on the role of keeping people safe.

“We want people to respect our community, and we want them to respect the rights of others,” Gerard said. “So what we need to do is manage it to make people safe. Taking what was an event started in the spir-it of civil disobedience and tak-ing that aspect out.”

Ashley Dye, assistant dean of students and director of Frater-nity and Sorority Affairs, said the student volunteers delivered the information with team lead-ers from the community, includ-ing police officers, firefighters, city council members and mem-bers of the Champaign Commu-nity Coalition.

“We really value our relation-ship and partnership with both the cities,” Dye said. “The hope really is that people are think-

ing about having a plan for the way that they are engaging with alcohol in general and to think ahead about those things so that they can make smart choices.”

Pauline Chitambo, freshman in LAS, was one of 30 student volunteers who helped stuff 2,900 bags Monday in prepara-tion for Wednesday’s event. She said she thinks it is a good idea to distribute safety information in advance, as it may prevent some students from engaging in dangerous behavior.

“People are going to pay a little bit more attention to the information that is coming toward them,” she said. “May-be they’ll look over everything, maybe they won’t. But they’ll at least see one thing.”

Clark wrote in an email that in 2012, Unofficial resulted in seven state criminal arrests, 22 medical calls and 14 trips to the hospital. That number was down from 2011, where 10 criminal arrests were made, 36 medical calls were placed and

28 people were transported to the hospital.

“This is a community prob-lem,” Clark said. “This isn’t something law enforcement is going to solve. It’s going to take law enforcement, the communi-

2012 289 tickets issued 107 tickets issued to Uni-

versity students 182 tickets issued to non-

University students 191 tickets issued to minors

for drinking 80 tickets issued for public

possession of alcohol

2011 328 tickets issued 123 tickets issued to Univer-

sity students 215 tickets issued to non-

University students 216 tickets issued to minors

for drinking 74 tickets issued for public

possession of alcohol

Mayor issues orders for bars, stores for Unofficial

Quad does the ‘Harlem Shake’

KELLY HICKEY THE DAILY ILLINI

Students perform the University of Illinois rendition of the “Harlem Shake” on the Quad on Wednesday. More than 1,000 people signed up to attend the event on its Facebook group.

For Unofficial, community prepares to ‘Walk as One’

Master’s program would prepare students for industry-related !elds

BY CLAIRE EVERETTSTAFF WRITER

The possibility of toxic substances being stored above the Mahomet Aquifer still looms as officials take steps to ensure the aquifer’s protection.

State Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet, and State Rep. Bill Mitchell, R-Forsyth, filed a bill Thursday that opposes polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB, storage in the landfill above the aquifer.

If the bill passes in the state House, which Mitchell said could happen by the summer, the county boards located in the areas the aquifer serves will have to approve the bill.

DeWitt County is the only one of the 14 counties affected by the aquifer that approves PCB storage. Mitchell said members of Champaign, D e c a t u r , Bloomington-Normal and Pike county boards opposed PCB storage over the aquifer at a hearing in fall 2012.

“The bill is pretty simple,” Mitchell said. “It says any areas that would be affected and get their water from the aquifer would have to approve of the contaminants being stored at Clinton.”

Clinton Landfill Inc. owns the land above the aquifer, a major underground water source for the east-central Illinois region. After receiving a permit from the Environmental Protection Agency, the company had permission to store PCBs.

“This is our sole source of drinking water, so without it, there’s nothing here,” Champaign Mayor Don Gerard said. “We need to protect it, and it’s disturbing to think that they (Clinton) got a permit in the state of Illinois.”

EPA data suggests that toxic PCBs cause cancer. However, the EPA has allowed the Clinton

Landfill to store PCBs, which are transported from companies in Chicago and other surrounding regions to the landfill.

Angela Adams, recycling coordinator for Champaign, said there were other options for non-aquifer-based landfills to dispose of PCBs, but they were farther away, so companies opted with the less expensive option.

She said Clinton Landfill representatives first presented the PCB storage in a landfill in Peoria in 2002.

In the permit application submitted in 2007, Clinton Landfill Inc. said Mahomet Aquifer groundwater was protected from PCBs because it is 170 feet below where the chemicals would be traveling, with a hypothetical 20-25 liners and the element of time to

shield possible contamination as well.

Gerard is endorsing a potential lawsuit against Clinton landfill to have their permit removed. In December, the attorney general of Illinois joined

in supporting the lawsuit. “They’re (Clinton Landfill)

trying to sell it like downstate doesn’t want us to be environmentally conscious,” Gerard said. “But it’s that downstate doesn’t want individuals to profit and pass their mess off on us.”

Gerard said it was a retelling of the story when Chicago would send its garbage down the Mississippi River and it ended up in St. Louis.

“We’d love for them to clean up their rivers and lakes,” Gerard said. “But with the private interest involved, you’re going to have to sacrifice some of your profit, spend a bit more money and do it right.”

Claire can be reached at [email protected].

ZACH DALZELL THE DAILY ILLINI

A group of students waits for the group leader to receive bags to distribute during the Walk As One event on Wednesday. The event’s goal was to remind students to be safe during Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day.

See WALK AS ONE, Page 3A

See ENGINEERING, Page 3A

See UNOFFICIAL, Page 3A

More inside: To read a story about Penn State’s State Patty’s Day celebration,

a campuswide event similar to Unofficial, turn to Page 3A.

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Master of Engineering: Professional-oriented Non-thesis Less research-oriented More interdisciplinary

Master of Science: Research-oriented Thesis or non-thesis More departmental within

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Champaign Domestic battery was re-

ported in the 1500 block of Wil-liamsburg Drive around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, no one was arrested.

Urbana Theft was reported in the

1800 block of Willow Road around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, the offender stole a pair of earrings from her mother while working as a caregiver.

Theft was reported at Mobil Super Pantry, 507 W. University Ave., around 5 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole $14.29 worth of gasoline and then left the area.

Theft was reported at Cir-cle K, 1605 N. Cunningham Ave., around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an un-known offender pumped gaso-line into his vehicle and left with-out paying. The offender has not been located.

Public indecency was re-ported in the 1200 block of North Coler Avenue around

8:30 p.m. Tuesday.According to the report, an un-

known offender entered the vic-tim’s yard and exposed his geni-talia to the victim.

Theft was reported in the 1300 block of North Lincoln Ave-nue around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, at an unknown time, an unknown of-fender stole a package from in front of the victim’s door.

Theft was reported at Wal-Mart, 100 S. High Cross

Road, around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.According to the report, the

unknown offenders took the vic-tim’s wallet out of a shopping cart when the victim was not looking. The second victim also had credit cards in the stolen wallet.

Theft was reported at Wal-Mart, 100 S. High Cross

Road, around 11 p.m. Tuesday.According to the report, an un-

known offender stole the victim’s temporary license plate. The of-fender has not been located.

University A 21-year-old male was ar-

rested on the charge of posses-sion of cannabis with intent to deliver and possession of a con-

trolled substance with intent to deliver in the 1100 block of South Euclid Street around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, University police served a search warrant at the sus-pect’s residence when they found prescription pills and cannabis intended for sale and $600 in cash.

A 22-year-old male and a 21-year-old male were arrested on the charge of manufacture/delivery of a controlled sub-stance in the 500 block of East Stoughton Street at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, police served a search warrant at the residence. They found more than 850 grams of cannabis, the drug DMT in a state of manufacture, an active psilocybin mushroom growing operation and more than $1,230 cash.

A building worker report-ed that racial epithets were scrawled in a bathroom at Dav-enport Hall, 607 S. Mathews Ave., at 3 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, re-moving the graffiti is estimated to cost $300.

Compiled by Sari Lesk

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POLICE

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Today’s Birthday The Spring Equinox today symbolizes new beginnings. Launch your great endeavor especially around May 25; an eclipse shines attention on your work. Communication is key until summer, when home and family take your focus. Monitor finances, especially debt, insurance and savings. Release personal limitations. You can have it all.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)Today is an 8 — Go for perfection, with the help of friends or family. You’re inspired and are inspiring. Private conversations help. Research provides illumination. Get the facts to the right person.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) Today is an 9 — Focus on completing old projects over the next few weeks. Invest in your own success and in new alliances. Narrowing down to what you love makes it easy to stick to a budget. Make money.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) Today is an 8 — Consider an option that seems beyond your reach.

Work for money without worrying about it. Balance work with social time. Everyone wants your attention; schedule for ease. Your efforts go farther, and playtime’s extra nice.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) Today is an 8 — Trust yourself and your intuition, and get the work done. The timing couldn’t be better. Make wise use of your turbo boost, then recharge before revving back up. Get this party started.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) Today is an 8 — Get deeply into a research project. Indulge your curiosity, and make a discovery. Put off procrastination. Discuss all ideas and work out the practical details in a plan for action.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) Today is a 7 — You can make do with what you have. Cleaning your space leads to new discoveries (or rediscoveries), and to major improvements. Your team’s coming to the rescue. Avoid gossip at work. Music is a wise investment now.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) Today is a 9 — Express your affection, and listen for other’s love. Hold yourself to high standards, but be flexible. Some things aren’t as imagined. Be careful around sharp objects. A blissful moment is possible.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)

Today is a 7 — Make great plans for the future and get moving. There’s plenty of work for the next month, and the pace could get intense. Play the ace you’ve been holding. Delegate when you can. Use your team.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) Today is an 8 — Seek inspiration this month. Delve into the mystery. Talk it over, and secrets get revealed. Launch a new venture. Negotiations could hit rough waters with unstable conditions. Listen more than you talk, and follow through.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) Today is a 7 — This month is about family. Set financial priorities to support this. An expert can help. Something you try doesn’t work, so devise a backup plan. This might take several tries. Set it up for success.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) Today is an 8 — You’re especially focused and keen this month, and your studies, research and writing thrive. Keep your eyes on the prize. Listen carefully. Secrets are revealed. Unexpected costs are likely now. The old way can still work.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) Today is an 8 — The solution isn’t far. Get the word out about what you see. Be cautious making commitments. You could make a lot of money during the next month. This prompts you to take action. Compromise works.

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Serving beer pitchers Drinks can only be served

in bottles, cans or paper or plastic cups

Stores with retailer’s licenses will not be allowed to sell package liquor between 6 to 10 a.m. March 1-2. Prior to the sale of 168 or more 12-ounce containers of beer or malt beverages or 100 ounces of distilled spirits or one keg, the store must fill out an adult responsibility form.

No keg permits will be issued between 12:01 a.m. March 1 to 2:30 a.m. March 3. Residences are limited to one keg.

The order also notes that police have the power to order any establishment with a liquor license to close if it is obstructing local traffic.

BY CHRISSY PAWLOWSKISTAFF WRITER

President Barack Obama launched College Scorecard, a site that provides information about all degree-granting universities and colleges, on Feb. 13 after discussing higher education reform in his State of the Union address.

After typing in the name of a university in the search engine, prospective students are presented with the cost, graduation rate, loan default rate, median borrowing and post-graduation employment information for that school. The data is ranked on a scale from low to high, allowing students to “get the most bang for your educational buck,” as Obama said during his address.

According to the scorecard, the University ranked medium in cost with an average net price of $15,610 per year for in-state undergraduate students. It earned a high graduation rate of 82.5 percent, and its loan default rate was 2 .5 percent, 10.9 percent lower than the national average. The University ranked high i n me d i a n borrowing. The average family borrows $22,125 in Federal loans, therefore paying $254.62 per month over a 10 year span.

T he U. S . Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and National Student Loan Data System provided the data compiled in these categories.

University spokesman Tom Hardy said the website is a good tool for students and their families making college decisions, but it is simply a new way of presenting information that already exists.

“I don’t know that it’s necessarily better or worse,” he said. “It’s probably close to the same of what’s already out there. But I think it’s always useful or helpful when there’s more information, so in that regard, I suppose it’s serving its purpose.”

Hardy said the University works hard to provide prospective students with this information and said they should use the University resources rather than solely relying on College Scorecard.

“All three campuses have websites devoted to answering questions about everything from tuition and room and board costs to financial aid options,” Hardy said. “So I think it’s good to have a lot of options, and students and their families need to do their homework and see what’s out there and provide themselves with the information that they think is important.”

Students such as Katy Alberts, freshman in FAA, feel enough resources already exist to help students and families make educated college decisions.

“I’ve been okay without it because I was able to get similar i n for mat ion ,” Alberts said. “I used different books, websites and information f r o m t h e University to choose this school.”

T i m o t h y Lewis, senior in LAS, said he will consider using the website when deciding which graduate school to attend.

“ I t h i n k the Col lege Scorecard can be a useful tool

for students looking to pursue higher education, especially if their financial situation is a main deciding factor,” he said. “I would use this in the college search to eliminate schools both before and after acceptance. The cost of college is a huge determining factor for many students, and this could help...determine the highest value option.”

However, Lewis said he still thinks the scorecard is missing key factors.

“One obvious missing thing is the total amount of tuition per university,” he said. “This would help students understand the net price metric a little better. An average percentage of total tuition covered by loans would probably be more intuitive than net price, but I feel like both of those measures should be included.”

Chrissy can be reached at [email protected].

Coverstone said officials are looking to enroll about 20 to 30 students in the program per year, and the degree will most likely be offered starting in fall 2014. Most of these students will pay full tuition, which will allow the college to generate enough revenue to cover the additional expenses of implementing the program, she added.

A total of 32 hours would be required for the degree, 12 of which must be technical course-work specific to the student’s major or concentration, accord-ing to the proposal. At least four of the remaining 20 hours must be spent on an internship with a professional company, laborato-ry or agency; a design project; or business and leadership courses.

This framework allows for the College of Engineering to team up with departments in other colleges to create a more inter-disciplinary program, Cover-stone said.

“The Master of Engineering will provide a mechanism to allow us to partner with other colleges in offering new merg-ing areas,” she said. “Now, we have to develop the specific cur-riculum that will fall under (that framework).”

Steven Michael, professor in business administration, said he supported the program and thinks it is a great addition to the campus. He said he hopes the new program will take advantage of the University’s strengths in other departments. For example, he said the new master’s degree could incor-porate curriculum from math-ematics, chemistry and business departments.

“I hope that those depart-ments receive adequate infor-mation and adequate compensa-tion to plan, and staff courses to meet these programs’ demands,” Michael said.

Gay Miller, chair of the Edu-cational Policy Committee, said transparency in the implementa-tion of any program is a priority, especially if other departments and colleges are involved in the process.

So, as the curriculum for the degree is being developed, Cov-erstone said she expects depart-ments to be at the discussion table through the whole process.

“If a college were choosing to team with us, they would be involved in developing curricu-lum from the ground stages, so they would have an equal say in what their involvement would be in the degree,” Coverstone said.

Lauren can be reached at [email protected].

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Government college scorecard now online

The University’s Scorecard report Cost: $15,610 Graduation rate: 82.5% Loan default rate: 2.5% Median borrowing: $254.62

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‘Alcohol-free zone’ enacted for Penn State’s ‘Unofficial’

UI offers legal clinic for foreclosed

BY GENARO C. ARMASTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Nearly three dozen downtown bars, restaurants and beer shops have agreed to halt alcohol sales to counter an early St. Patrick’s Day celebration created by Penn State students, the most aggres-sive effort yet to curb drinking for the unofficial holiday known as State Patty’s Day.

In exchange, each business will receive a $5,000 subsidy to help account for lost revenue. A com-mittee composed of university and community leaders announced the plan Tuesday and listed 34 busi-nesses that it said supported this Saturday’s “alcohol-free zone.”

Every downtown establishment that sells alcohol will refrain from doing so Saturday, said Damon Sims, university vice president of student affairs and co-chair-man of a committee known as the Partnership: Campus & Com-munity United Against Danger-ous Drinking. The majority of the funds to pay for the subsidies to businesses would come from cam-pus parking fees collected during previous State Patty’s Day week-ends, he said.

State Patty’s Day was created in 2007 to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day when it fell on spring break that year. But the holiday no lon-ger falls during the break, and school administrators, student leaders and community residents have grown weary of a weekend that has become synonymous with excessive drinking and property damage.

Besides that, the last thing Penn State needs as it seeks to redeem its reputation after the Jerry San-dusky child abuse scandal is more negative attention.

Other schools have similar unof-ficial holidays, but Sims said he thought no other university com-munity had gone to the extent of getting establishments to go alcohol-free.

“Everyone in the partnership

really wanted this to go away. ... This became one of the few things that we thought of that we hadn’t tried,” Sims said in a phone inter-view. “Perhaps we can find more headway than in the past.”

The weekend in recent years has also sparked talk on social media, which authorities have said has contributed to a spike in out-of-town revelers.

“This is an outside-the-box solu-tion that businesses, the borough, student leaders and the University have embraced,” Tom Fountaine, borough manager and committee co-chairman, said in a statement that included declarations of sup-port from student and business leaders.

Police, along with community, school and student groups, have ramped up efforts in recent years to counter the excessive drinking that marks State Patty’s Day. Fra-ternities and sororities banned parties for Friday and all social functions Saturday. Volunteer opportunities have also been pro-moted as alternative activities in a day of service.

Last year, authorities said arrests dropped by about 13 per-cent to roughly 300.

“I don’t think it’s a bad idea. If you ask me, State Patty’s Day is pretty dumb,” fourth-year senior Nick Stuchlak said about the no-alcohol zone. After meeting fel-low senior Nick Mattise at the university’s main gate downtown, Stuchlak said he doesn’t do any-thing special for the day, which he equated to just an excuse to drink.

But Stuchlak and Mattise both questioned how the move would affect how non-Penn State visitors would act.

“I think we’ve learned better in the past year how to act, but people from out of town — this isn’t their town,” said Stuchlak, of Scranton. “They actually have no stock in acting correctly.”

Said Mattise, also of Scranton: “It’s gotten out of hand with the out-of-town people.”

BY FREDERIC J. FROMMER AND PETE YOSTTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., holding back tears, entered a guilty plea Wednesday in federal court to criminal charges that he engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. He faces 46 to 57 months in prison, and a fine of $10,000 to $100,000, under a plea deal with prosecutors.

A few hours later, his wife, Sandra Jackson, pleaded guilty to filing false joint federal income tax returns that know-ingly understated the income the couple received. She faces one to two years in prison and a fine of $3,000 to $40,000.

In a 17-page prosecution doc-ument, Jackson’s wife admitted that from mid-2006 through mid-October of last year, she failed to report $600,000 in

income that she and her hus-band earned from 2005 to 2011.

Before entering the plea to a conspiracy charge, Jesse Jack-son told U.S. District Judge Rob-ert L. Wilkins, “I’ve never been more clear in my life” in his decision to plead guilty.

Later, when Wilkins asked if Jackson committed the acts out-lined in court papers, the for-mer congressman replied, “I did these things.” He added later, “Sir, for years I lived in my cam-paign,” and used money from the campaign for personal use.

Jackson dabbed his face with tissues, and at point a court employee brought some tissues to Jackson’s lawyer, who gave them to the ex-congressman. Jackson told the judge he was waiving his right to trial.

“In perfect candor, your hon-or, I have no interest in wasting the taxpayers’ time or money,” he said.

U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen called the guilty plea “nothing short of tragic.”

“Jesse Jackson Jr. entered public life with unlimited poten-tial, but squandered his bright future by engaging in a self-destructive course of conduct that was staggering in both degree and scope,” Machen said. “For seven years, Mr. Jackson betrayed the very peo-ple he inspired by stealing their campaign donations to finance his extravagant lifestyle.”

Jackson had been a Demo-cratic congressman from Illi-nois from 1995 until he resigned last November.

He is scheduled to be sen-tenced June 28, and his wife on July 1. Wilkins, who presided over both guilty pleas, is not bound by the terms of the plea agreements.

Both Jacksons are free until sentencing.

Jackson pleads guilty to misuse of campaign funds

Union protests continue

ty and the University all work-ing together.”

Champaign City Manager Steve Carter was in attendance Wednesday and reiterated the fact that the community feels some responsibility for the safe-ty of University students.

“The University is an impor-tant part of the whole com-munity,” Carter said. “We feel responsible, and we want the students to feel safe when they’re here.”

The volunteers walked a por-tion of campus, moving south from Green Street to Gregory Drive from Fourth Street west to Oak Street, Clark said.

“Typically, that has been an area where we’ve had the most problems,” Clark said. “Unruly parties, those kinds of things. We knew trying to walk the entire campus was too big an apple to take a bite of.”

He said he also previously spoke with property managers on campus and Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, who emailed the information to their resi-dents and members.

“A lot of the information we’re distributing is stuff we’ve always put out, but it’s in the press release format,” Clark said.

“We realize a lot of students probably don’t see the main-stream press, so we felt this was a better way of trying to get that information out.”

Emma can be reached at wessmnn2 @dailyillini.com.

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Rick Milton, a building service worker in Alice Campbell Alumni Center, protests outside of his place of work with members of the Service Employees International Union Local 73 for a fair contract for all University workers Wednesday.

Website launches one month after Obama’s pledge to provide resource

“I think the College Scorecard can be a useful tool for students looking to pursue higher

education, especially if their financial

situation is a main deciding factor.”

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Former Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his legal team arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington on Wednesday. Jackson and his wife were to appear in federal court to answer criminal charges that they engaged in an alleged scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items.

DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT

The University of Illinois Col-lege of Law Community Preser-vation Clinic has been award-ed $403,271 in funding from a national foreclosure settlement. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan made the announce-ment Tuesday.

The Community Preservation Clinic gives law students the opportunity to evaluate loan doc-uments to assess options for peo-ple facing the prospect of foreclo-sure, according to a press release from the College of Law.

Madigan played in role in securing $25 million during a settlement with The Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells

Fargo, Citibank and Ally Bank. The banks faced allegations of fraudulent practices concerning improper foreclosures.

“There is simply no substitute for legal representation when fac-ing foreclosure,” Madigan said in the press release. “Not only will this funding give more Central Illinois residents an advocate to fight for them in court, it will give law students an opportunity to gain real lawyering skills by applying what they’ve learned in the classroom to their work in the courtroom.”

The clinic will use the fore-closure settlement funding to provide legal representation for tenants living in foreclosed

properties, according to the press release. Law students will also be able to interview tenants, assess legal defenses and conduct tri-al work.

“As a public, land-grant law school, the University of Illinois College of Law is committed to serving the citizens of Illinois,” College of Law Dean Bruce Smith said in a press release. “Protect-ing homeowners and preserving dynamic communities are wor-thy goals, and we are proud and grateful to have our efforts sup-ported by an office that is nation-ally recognized for its leadership in the areas of foreclosure, con-sumer protection and communi-ty vitality.”

O lder, grayer, wrinklier — these are the words that are grow-ing to become more accurate

descriptions of our world’s popula-tion. And while the world has been approaching senescence, a myri-ad of socioeconomic and political issues have straggled by its side, such as the stresses of funding Medicare and Social Security pro-grams seen in the United States.

In general, aging connotes a very negative image of a people unable to take care of itself, individuals who piggyback off their young, laidback folks waiting around while their peers drop like flies.

But this recent phenomenon of a graying world should be one we embrace, because while we charge forward in these upcom-ing decades, we will likely reap the benefits of a wiser society more conscious of social issues such as gender equality.

But first, allow me to run through some numbers that will really put in perspective the exact nature of this over-65 population burst:

According to a report released last October by the United Nations Population Fund and HelpAge Inter-national, people over 65 years of age represent the fastest growing demographic in the world. Within a decade, the number of older people will reach 1 billion, surpassing the number of people under 15 years old.

Today, 8.2 percent of the world’s population (currently at 7 billion) constitutes 65-plus-year-olds. In 2050, they will make up 16.7 percent of the 9 billion people in the world, according to esti-mates by the U.S. Census Bureau. In America, 65-plus-year-olds rep-resent about 13 percent of the pop-ulation; that number is expected to grow to 21.6 percent by 2050.

While your mind explodes, con-sider these facts on decreasing birth rates, another trend that walks hand-in-hand with the boom-ing older generation:

In the United States, 2011 marked the lowest birth rate in recorded history, at 63.2 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age, whereas in 1957, that number was double (the peak of the U.S. birth rate, during the midst of the baby boom).

In Japan, retailers sell more adult diapers than baby diapers. Enough said.

It’s astonishing just how quickly the world’s age demographics have changed, but it’s a reflection of the world embracing equality of gen-ders and changing societal norms. The pressure women have felt for millennia to have many children as physically, or not physically, as possible has been largely alleviated in developed societies.

Women will wait until their 30s to have kids. And maybe they will not have any at all. The culmina-tion of these factors, alongside increased life expectancy, can be attributed to the boom in older folks.

Right now, the most challenging hurdle people recognize in accom-

modating an older population will be maintaining a productive labor force. The ongoing recession seems to be putting an increasing number of both older and young-er work force participants out of a job. But within the older genera-tion workers, we’ve been seeing an increasing number of female participants — another signal of changing times for women’s rights worldwide.

Today, older people are less likely to participate in the labor force than they were 50 years ago. In 1950, 1 out of 3 people aged 65 or over was in the labor force. In 2000, this decreased to little less than 1 in 5, according to the report released by the United Nations on world aging.

But because the participation in the labor force for older genera-tions has dropped faster among men than women, the female share of the labor force has significant-ly increased — most especially in developed regions, like America. In 1950, 26 percent of the workers aged 65 or over were women world-wide, whereas in 2000, women rep-resented 29 percent in less devel-oped regions and 41 percent in more developed regions, according to the report.

Major obstacles will be faced as the shift from a younger to older people takes place, but the teem-ing number of our older counter-parts may be the beacon of effec-tive change in our society’s views on gender equality.

Nora is a senior in LAS. She can be reached [email protected]. Follow her @NoraAIbrahim.

Our modern world is devoted to automation. From drive-thru ATMs to machines that fill

fast-food beverage orders, auto-mated systems are increasingly doing jobs that humans used to do — and this is just the beginning.

Companies and innovators are constantly coming up with new ways to eliminate human error and maximize efficiency, and now they are no longer limited to just automating physical tasks.

For instance, there are com-puter programs that can analyze legal documents, perform medical diagnoses, and even write news articles and poetry. Wall Street is now governed by a set of high-frequency trading algorithms that take about 60 percent of all trad-ing decisions away from traders in the pit and put them into the hands of machines.

The ramifications of this trend are enormous. It’s not too hard to imagine a future where every aspect of our lives is automat-ed — from cars that drive them-selves, to best-selling novels that are authored by lines of computer code.

Naturally, all of this technologi-cal advancement has caused peo-ple to worry about their job secu-rity. Just last month, “60 Minutes” ran a story featuring two MIT professors who predicted mas-sive unemployment in the near future stemming from the incred-ible expansion rate of automated systems.

The problem with this report, as well as society’s popular percep-tion, is that it almost completely ignores the ways that automation benefits the job market.

According to a report by the Information Technology and Inno-vation Foundation, automation is beneficial to the U.S. economy as a whole because higher produc-tivity leads to lower prices for consumers.

This frees up capital that can be used to start new industries that provide new jobs for workers at a wide range of skill levels.

Georgia Tech professor Hen-rik Christensen criticized the “60 Minutes” report, asserting that automation enables manufacturers to “in-source” because of lower production costs. He said this is beneficial to employment because each job that is brought back to U.S. shores creates 1.3 better and higher-paying jobs in related sec-tors such as supply chain.

Matt Tyler, president and CEO of Vickers Engineering, said in a Robotics Online article: “Roughly 90 percent of our automated cells are producing parts that were pre-viously made off shore. Automa-tion has not only allowed us to bring more jobs back to the United States due to our ‘new’ cost struc-ture, but our profit margin has increased.”

History shows that concerns about machines taking away our jobs are nothing new.

In the 1930s, a labor union wrote a letter to FDR urging him to “remove the loading machines from the coal mines, complete all public work with man power, take the tractor off the farms, go into the various industries and remove enough labor-displacing machines

to make employment for labor.”To the dismay of that union,

automation continued and eventu-ally boomed in the late 1950s, as manufacturers reached landmark levels of productivity.

Despite the prosperous econom-ic times, people were still wary about the implications of new technology. This feeling was even captured in an episode of “The Twilight Zone” in which a facto-ry boss fired all his workers and replaced them with robots, only before he himself was replaced by a robot.

Despite the hysteria, American workers have always been able to adapt as increasing productivity drives economic growth. While it’s true that the job market is shift-ing in a direction that requires workers to have more education and training, the idea that there will be mass numbers of unem-ployable workers is a myth. With whatever innovations come our way, there will always be a need for hands-on employees to main-tain, implement and upgrade the current automated systems.

Carl Schramm, head of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Founda-tion, told Forbes magazine, “The single most important contribu-tor to a nation’s economic growth is the number of startups that grow to a billion dollars in rev-enue within 20 years.” Without increases in technology, it would be impossible for new startups to grow and create jobs for the next generation. Thus, the real concern should be those who resist automa-tion, not those who are trying to promote it.

Andrew is a sophomore in Engineering. He can be reached at [email protected].

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There’s no doubt that Assembly Hall needs some work. The building lacks air-conditioning

throughout, bathrooms are only on the ground floor, accessibility isn’t as good as it could be, and the student section is small for the thousands of fans who love the Illini. Members of Orange Krush, the RSO that populates the student section game to game, must send some of their leagues to the nosebleeds of the stadium when their floor seating reaches capacity.

The 50-year-old building, designed by the same archi-tect who created the Krannert Center, has seen little reno-vation over its lifetime, but that’s looking to change.

Until Tuesday, students had an opportunity to sign a peti-tion, supporting the Re-Assem-ble Assembly Hall project, which looks to increase the size of the student section, add concessions and bathrooms, build a new entrance, cre-ate a student lounge area for better student-access to the games and improve accessibil-ity for patrons. The idea is to leave a legacy for students and alumni who get fired up with energy when history is made — like Tyler Griffey’s last-sec-ond winning shot against No. 1 Indiana on Feb. 7.

No doubt, that was an incredible moment, and sports fans, or not. felt what it meant to be an Illini.

The projected $160 million renovations, with a $25 fee per semester charged to students, makes all of this seem less than exciting.

The fee is expected to cover 17 percent of the total cost of the project, and the additional 83 percent is supposed to come from other sources: donors, premium seating and naming rights, for example.

Plans for this renovation have been in the talks for 10 years, but we are now just learning about them. Yet to be revealed are how many decades this fee will be charged to students and how much that fee will increase over that time.

Projects at this scale rarely stay under budget, and one of this magnitude could exceed that by millions of dollars. That could force students to pay this fee and its raises even longer.

A $25 increase isn’t that much in comparison to the $1,458 we will be charged next year per semester, but we take issue with the lack of informa-tion provided to students about how long this fee could contin-ue before they were asked to sign the petition.

Wholeheartedly, we believe in this project and what it will do for bolstering this school’s strong sports culture, but we are hesitant to advocate for this fee just yet. We aren’t sure if other avenues for gar-nering revenue for the Hall were fully explored. We are most concerned about this fee being indefinite, especial-ly if the additional 83 percent of the project’s cost doesn’t come.

If we knew a bit more, may-be we could endorse this hike in student fees, but until we know more, hesitation best describes how we feel about the coming vote in March.

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NORA IBRAHIMOpinions columnist

While people may argue noth-ing ever happens in govern-ment (It’s pointless, etc.) I

argue something pretty amazing is happening. Last Thursday the same-sex marriage bill passed in the Illi-nois Senate. I hate to admit it, but I found out through Facebook when the news broke, after cries of Facebook friends covered my newsfeed with (incorrect) proclamations of “same-sex marriage legal in Illinois!” and “same-sex marriage passed!” Face-book friends, it still has a long way to go.

The vote in the state senate was almost entirely along party lines. Not shockingly, senators such as Bill Brady voted against the bill. My guess is he’s trying to be as strict of a Republican as possible in case he runs for Illinois governor in 2014. But for this state, for a Republican to vote along party lines seems odd to me. Even after Blago was arrested, the state still voted for a Democrat. This has been a Democratic-lean-ing state for some time now. To get those votes, you have to be willing to work with the other side. But that’s not to say no Republican voted for it. The one and only Republican propo-nent was Sen. Jason Barickman of Champaign.

In addition to the party-line voting, it’s semi-important to note this vote took place on Valentine’s Day. While I may not be this day’s biggest fan, state Sen. Kyle McCarter seems to appreciate the love aspect of it. Actu-ally, I take back my use of appreci-ate. He took issue with it being voted on Feb. 14 because it was voted on a holiday dedicated to celebrating love, disguising how the bill’s passage will result in “a devaluing of traditional marriage.”

“Devaluing.” Mr. McCarter, states allowing

same-sex marriages have lower divorce rates than the national aver-age. I will not disagree with him that it would change what is “tradition-al marriage,” but it is not as if this change is detrimental to society. And it surely does not devalue it any more than those who marry and divorce faster than this year’s short NHL season.

But everything we do is always for the children, right? They are our most precious resource after all. Illi-nois Republicans seem to fear schools having to accept same-sex marriage into their curriculum.

Oh, no? The pain, the agony. How dare they? What if a student already has two mothers or two fathers? It is not as if a public school is going to refuse to speak to them during par-ent-teacher conferences.

Last time I checked, schools tend to teach us to love and respect each other. I mean, is that not the point of the golden rule? Do unto others as you would unto you. I’m pretty sure I stared at a sign that said that every year in grade school, and I could not have been the only student to have ever seen it.

I just do not foresee public schools having problems accepting this. Of course, private religious institu-tions are a different matter, but just because the school is private and reli-gious doesn’t mean it can’t be pro-gressive or understanding.

And it is not as if the bill requires churches to perform same-sex wed-dings. An amendment was added to the bill stating churches do not have to perform the wedding or the recep-tion and will not be reprimanded for doing so. This distinction was perhaps what caused Barickman to vote for the bill. Because hey, I get it. Every-one is entitled to their own opinion and some people are morally against same sex marriage.

But that number is quickly dwin-dling. A Gallup poll shows that 53 percent of the country is now in clear favor of it and 46 percent against. While that may not seem like stagger-ing numbers, it is important to note that in March of 1996, only 27 percent believed same-sex marriage should be valid. And I can only imagine the per-cent of proponents increasing as more and more of the younger population have no problems with two men or two women marrying.

So if this bill was able to make it so far, maybe Valentine’s Day isn’t so bad. But as of right now, there is no set date to debate the bill in the House as the bill’s sponsors are working on getting enough support.

I leave you with one last question. If the bill is argued in the House dur-ing another holiday such as Arbor day, will McCarter or other Republicans try to refute by speaking for the trees, claiming the bill devalues our fight against global warming? He should probably speak to the Lorax before making that claim though.

Joanna is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].

yas and high-energy footwork with intricate choreography. Perform-ers dance to a fusion of modern American and traditional Indian folk music.

Female performers wear a full-length skirt, blouse top, sequins and a secured headpiece. Males wear a similar ensemble featuring loose pants and shirt. This year, the UIUC Raas Team’s costumes and dandiyas will feature pink and blue colors.

“We get up at 5 a.m. and put on our full costume right there and then, even though we don’t dance until 8 p.m. at night,” Patel said. “The costume itself probably weighs about three pounds, it’s crazy. Throughout the day you just feel an adrenaline rush.”

As Patel and Modi prepared for one their last rehearsals before the weekend’s competition, they recollected the moments leading to their first Raas performance. According to Patel, the UIUC Raas Team had about 200 fans from the University drive to the 2010 com-petition to cheer them on.

“We are hearing I-L-L-I-N-I probably to the extent that you would hear at a football game,” Patel said.

“You can hear the stage,” he added.

“The stage is moving,” said

Modi, completing Patel’s thought. “It’s shaking while you are back-

stage. And it is so scary because you think, ‘I am about to stand on that stage,’ and people are scream-ing for you,” Patel said.

This year, co-directors and for-mer UIUC Raas Team members Anjali Raichura, senior in ACES, and Mayuri Baheti, senior in Busi-ness, hope to see more Illini faces in Raas Mania’s crowd.

“So far we have around 200 tickets sold,” Raichura said. “And there will be approximately 200

people attending, 18 to 20 peo-ple per team with managers and such.”

Patel and Modi say although they can remember everything leading up to their Raas perfor-mances, the events following are usually a blur.

“I had to watch a video to see how we did,” Patel said about the 2010 Raas competition. “We did really well.”

Lyanne can be reached at [email protected].

BY HALEY JONESSTAFF WRITER

“Order! Order in the court-room.” The Illinois Trial Team seems to have exactly that, as they have been steadily working their way toward nationals for the sec-ond year in a row.

The mock trial team consists of 30 students divided into three teams based on ability — Blue, Orange and Bears. Each team par-ticipates in mock trials where they can experiment with the theatri-cal aspect of a jury trial. At com-

petitions, the Illinois Tri-al Team’s plaintiff fac-es another university’s defense and vice versa.

T h i s year, the Blue team a d v a n c e d

from regionals and is hoping to make it to nationals in April for a second time. They attended nation-als last year for the first time in the program’s history. Their next stop after regionals is the Open-ing Round Championship Series in March.

The Bears have won one tourna-ment in addition to many individual awards, and the Orange team will head to regionals this weekend.

The multiple tournaments each team participates in have ful-filled Matthew Stuart’s thirst for competition.

“I came to the University of Illi-nois looking for something with that competitive edge, and mock trial has given that to me,” said Stuart, sophomore in Business.

At the end of August, all mock trial teams receive the case that they will work on for the year. Teams compete with the same case at each competition, start-ing in August and ending at nation-als in April.

The team does not get bored of debating the same case, however, because their competitors always put a different spin on it, said Amy-na Visram, junior in ACES and tournament chair on the team.

“You never know what they are going to throw out; you nev-er know what they are going to manipulate,” Visram said. “You just have to be ready and prepared for anything.”

She added that the team enters competitions with about 75 per-cent of the trial already scripted and ready to perform, but the other 25 percent has to be done right off the cuff. The cross-examinations can be made up on the spot. This is because whoever is playing the witness can put his own spin on what he thinks the affidavit means.

“All the schools get a case and all of the affidavits are the same, so it is just six pages of a person’s sto-ry,” Visram said. “It is so cool see-ing how different schools interpret those six pages differently and how different people act the same role in so many different ways and different interpretations.”

Alison Anderson, senior in LAS and president of the tri-al team, said that it is a great way to start networking before going to law school. The judges at competitions are actual attor-neys, lawyers, law students and judges. The Illinois Trial Team also teaches valuable lessons to aspiring law students.

“You have to play around with facts and walk the fine line of defending people who are accused of killing someone,” Anderson said. “You have to real-ize the nature of the justice sys-tem is that everyone gets a fair trial, regardless of what side they are on. It is a good life lesson for people who want to be attorneys.”

The teams compete a few times a month and hold practic-es Wednesday and Sunday for about three hours. Stuart said the practices can be fun, but the members also know when to get down to business.

Being part of the Illinois Mock Trial team has made Ander-son’s college career all the more enjoyable, largely due to her teammates.

“You come because you are interested in law and it is a gate-way, but you stay because of the people,” she said. “The friend-ships I have made have definitely made my college career what it is. It has made my time at U of I the best thing in my life.”

Haley can be reached at [email protected]

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“If people wanted to know where it was, we had people mes-sage us and we’d message them back instantly with the address,” Arnold said. “We thought it’d be cool to see how many people would show up using that method since regular venues can’t do it. Call it viral marketing or whatever, but it worked.”

Facebook’s analytics report revealed that more than 4,000 peo-ple viewed the event page, which surprised the members. They said the house event overwhelmed them because of the large amount of people coupled with the house’s condition during the show.

Drinks were held in the base-ment, although difficulties arose when a pipe broke and the base-ment flooded. Bao said she floated on top of boxes while a friend held onto her from the staircase so that

she wouldn’t fall in the water. Kit-ty litter mixed in with the water, which some attendants confused with the smell of eggs cooking.

“People went, ‘Eggs? Who in their right mind are making eggs now?’” Arnold said, laughing. “But everything generally went smoothly and we received a lot of compliments. Ultimately, we were happy with it, too.”

Andrew Kling, lead singer and guitarist of The Dirty Feathers, said he and his friends enjoyed performing. Although they rare-ly play at house shows, he said they always enjoy mixing it up, and add-ed Canopy’s Club provided a spe-cial night.

“We showed up at night not knowing what to expect and saw a hundred people outside waiting on the front lawn,” Kling said. “Parts were chaotic. ... The mic kept swat-ting me in the face because the crowd was four inches away. But it was great — we didn’t feel much pressure and everyone was into it.”

In addition to the high turn-out, Bao said she was interested to see the specific types of peo-ple who attended. She expected

to see many regulars of The Can-opy Club, but she was surprised to notice a lot of unfamiliar faces.

“It goes to show that there’s a huge interest in live music in this community and there aren’t many venues for people to go to,” Bao said. “There are rarely many house shows, and we were happy to coordinate one. That’s what we like to do, and we hope we support more of the local music community.”

Future events for Canopy’s Club are not set, but they have sever-al ideas in mind, including a barn show, charity events and another showing with The Dirty Feathers, according to Kling. Bao said the logistics of organizing events is much more frustrating than peo-ple think, but they remain focused and optimistic.

“What’s great about the last show is that it was snowing a lot and people still came,” Arnold said. “That’s great because it gives us more of a desire to keep going at it. Clearly, we’re excited.”

Adlai can be reached [email protected].

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PHOTO COURTESY OF ANJALI RAICHURAThe UIUC Raas Team prepares for the annual contest Raas Mania scheduled for Saturday at Lincoln Hall. Raas is a traditional Indian folk dance.

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BY ADLAI STEVENSONSTAFF WRITER

Only after 200 people squeeze into a small house does the impor-tance of sturdy piping and end-less access to drinks really shine. Without those features, things will become “scrambling, hectic and stressful,” as a group of students learned while hosting a live-music event Feb. 1 in an Urbana home.

This can especially happen when rock bands The Dirty Feath-ers, Bummer and A Cool Hand are performing in the living room.

But the hosts said the night was an overall success for Canopy’s Club, a new RSO that planned the

house event and aims to extend the music scene of Champaign-Urba-na beyond existing venues.

“I feel like we started out as sim-ply an extension of The Canopy Club, but now our group has turned into supporting local music,” said Ellie Brzezenski, senior in Media. “A lot of people who came to our event also go to Canopy Club, but I feel we’re more interested in get-ting local talent out and bringing people together who like music.”

Brzezenski and her partners, students Claire Bao and Brett Arnold, met while writing for the Illini Media website The 217 under the music blog Soundbytes. Arnold

and Bao also knew each other from working at The Canopy Club, and they generated ideas for an RSO after promoting the club on Quad Day last fall.

Arnold said Canopy’s Club spawned from the music venue’s idea to affiliate more with the Uni-versity, although he emphasized the RSO’s independence from the facility.

“We want to stress that we’re doing our own thing outside of Canopy Club,” said Arnold, junior in Media. “They don’t fund us or anything — it’s essentially our own operation. But they do support us and appreciate what we’re doing.”

Mike Armintrout, the talent buyer and organizer at The Can-opy Club, echoed Arnold’s com-ments, adding his personal state-ments of support for the RSO. He said the three students started the club on their own and that he appreciates their initiative.

“I’m very excited to see them start their own configuration,” he said. “Everything they do is out-side the walls of what we do in our venue in Urbana, so it’s very cool to see them set up by themselves.”

Bao said an unaffiliated connec-tion still exists between the two organizations since they regularly interact with the venue for vari-

ous reasons, both personally and professionally. Canopy’s Club has about 80 members, many of whom are promoters for the music venue; however, the positions between the founders fluctuate. In Bao’s words, the three founders have official titles, but they all wear different hats.

“I’m technically the presi-dent, (Arnold) our treasurer, and (Brzezenski) the secretary, but nothing’s set in stone or particu-larly specific,” said Bao, senior in Media. We all do everything; we’re constantly texting and emailing each other when we need to get things done.”

Canopy’s Club began planning music events last semester, but members said ideas for Febru-ary’s house show came quickly. Brzezenski said they contacted The Dirty Feathers through Face-book and spoke with members of A Cool Hand and Bummer through their own connections.

“Frankly, we were pretty lucky,” Brzezenski said. “But a lot of it is who each of us knows and using those connections.”

Arnold said they created a Facebook page for the RSO and the house show, although its loca-

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New RSO gives students alternative live-music experience

All rise! The Illinois Trial Team is now in session

The Illinois Trial Team hopes to make it to their second nationals competition in the group’s history this year. Turn to Page 5A to find out more about the team’s success.

fter seven months of rehearsal, Nisha Patel began her first five-min-ute performance in 2010 for the UIUC Raas Team at center stage.

“You get on the stage, and you can’t even see a single thing out there, because it’s just black,” Patel said as she reminisced over standing before an audience for her first Raas performance. “You just hear everything and you are on spotlight.”

A teammate at the time, Avsar Modi joined Patel at a theater in Ann Arbor, Mich. for this performance. Today, Patel, senior in LAS, is co-captain of the team with Modi, junior in FAA.

Together, Patel and Modi teach the team the traditional Indian folk dance called Raas as well as choreography for the annu-al contest, Raas Mania, to take place on Saturday, Feb. 23 at Lincoln Hall. Since the majority of the UIUC Raas Team is com-posed of freshmen this semester, the team will forgo competing in this year’s event,

but will give an “exhibition act,” which Patel and Modi refer to as “The Return.”

Other teams from across the country that will perform at the University’s first intercollegiate Raas competition include St. Louis University (SLU Raas), Emory University (Emory SaRaas), University of Texas at Austin (Texas Raas), University of Miami (Swaggeraas), Indiana Univer-sity (Indiana HoosierRaas)and University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC Dangeraas).

Each team has 16 members on average – eight males and eight females.

On stage, the teams will compete for a bid to make it into the Raas Nationals, along with the other top six teams in the nation. The Raas dance, which emerged from the state of Gujarat, India,incorporates two baton-like sticks per person, called dandiyas.

These are used throughout the festival of Navratri, when performers dance in circles to honor the Goddess Durga. The dance incorporates twirling of the dandi-

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BY LYANNE ALFAROSTAFF WRITER

Young Indian folk dance team prepares for annual contest at Lincoln Hall

PHOTO COURTESY OF ANJALI RAICHURA

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How many days until football again?

A countdown to insanity.I’m not talking about

insanity like the guy with above-average and somewhat suspicious mus-cles shouting at you about “results in 60 days!” on TV, I’m talking about sports insanity.

It’s a disease, and it’s contagious.

Symptoms include own-ing copious amounts of spirit wear, bookmarking sports blogs online, getting constant game updates on your phone and, above all, making countdowns.

You know what I’m talk-ing about.

Two days until NFL Scouting Combine

Players are lined up, stripped down and asked to perform on cue. Oh, your vertical jump was off today? Sorry, you just dropped to the third round. You cramped up during the 40-yard dash? Better luck next time. It’s better than a soap opera, I swear.

All the athletes are extremely talented and just itching to prove their worth to the top brass.

Obviously the results of the combine have no effect on my personal life whatso-ever, but will that stop me and my fellow football fans from pouring over bench press numbers? Absolute-ly not.

Fifty days until Illinois’ spring football game

The promise of Memorial Stadium under the lights, a second-year coaching staff with a lot to prove and die-hard fans waiting for their first glimpse of 2013 Illinois football gives me chills. It’s an up-close-and-personal look at our very own foot-ball program that is hard to come by during the fall season.

While it is impossible to draw concrete conclu-sions from a spring game, it reminds fans that foot-ball still exists outside of fall Saturdays. It provides a basis for the team to work from and the Big Ten Net-work gets the chance to overanalyze every detail to my great delight. Who will be breakout players? Will the new recruits live up to the hype? Will the 8 p.m. start time bring more fans than in recent years? So many questions just waiting to be answered! 50 days, just 50 days.

Sixty-three days until the NFL Draft

Now I realize that not everyone can fathom watching Roger Goodell read out the names of soon-to-be multi-millionaires for hours on end. There is end-

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BY MICHAEL WONSOVERSTAFF WRITER

Entering its game against No. 7 Penn State, the Illinois women’s basketball team was searching for an NCAA tour-nament resume-building vic-tory. Instead, it suffered its worst loss of the season.

After winning two of its first three games against ranked opponents , Illinois (15-10, 8-5 Big Ten)couldn’t keep up in Happy Valley, losing by dou-ble digits for the first time since Dec. 5 in a 95-62 loss at Penn State (22-3, 12-1)on Wednesday.

“I just want to give Penn State a lot of credit,” Illinois head coach Matt Bollant said. “Wow, were they good tonight. They came out and punched us in the mouth, and we really didn’t respond. You saw flash-es on tape of what they can do and today it felt like they put it all together and played a com-plete game.”

Illinois allowed over 90 points for the first time since Jan. 22, 2011. Penn State out-shot Illinois from the field 61.1 percent to 33.3 percent and outrebounded the Illini 45-26.

Big Ten player of the year candidate Maggie Lucas spearheaded the Nittany Lions effort, contributing 22 points, nine rebounds and five assists. Senior Adrienne GodBold led

Illinois with 17 points and tied a career-best with seven steals. Even with the scoring contribution, GodBold shot only 6-for-22 and turned the ball over six times.

With the loss, Illinois drops to a fourth-place tie in the Big Ten after entering the game in a three-way tie for third.

Although Illinois held its own during the opening min-utes of the game, Penn State surged on a 15-3 run to take a

25-13 lead with 9:39 left in the half after the score was tied at 10 at the 14:09 mark.

With 6:37 left in the half, Illinois trailed 32-18, as Penn State , the

nation’s second-best 3-point shooting team, started 11-for-20 from the field, including 4-for-6 from behind the arc. Illinois, on the other hand, made only seven of its first 21 shots.

The Illini trailed 54-33 at the half, allowing its most points in any half and trail-ing by its largest deficit after the first half this season.

Penn State shot 58.6 percent from the field and shot 22 free throws in the first half. Illinois shot only 36.7 percent from the field, but perhaps a bigger problem was that Illinois con-verted 10 first-half turnovers

Penn State dominates in Happy Valley

BY THOMAS BRUCHSTAFF WRITER

A funny thing happens when you play a team that doesn’t have anything to lose because it has lost so much already.

Ask No. 4 Michigan on Sun-day night; it ran into a Penn State team that was win-less in confer-ence play and found itself grinding out baskets and relying on a H e r c u l e a n effort from Trey Burke at the end of the game just to secure a home victory against a Big Ten bottom feeder.

Illinois, winners of four straight, stares down a sim-ilar mental barrier Thurs-day night at Assembly Hall in its only regular-season tilt

against Penn State. The Nitta-ny Lions have not won a game since Dec. 29 and are still win-less in the Big Ten.

But Illinois head coach John Groce insists Penn State is playing some of its best bas-ketball of the year — after

consecutive losses to Iowa and Michi-gan by a com-bined score of 10 points — and that his team will not overlook its opponent.

“Obviously, they’ve been through a lot of adversity,” Groce said. “They’re get-

ting better and, obviously, they’re choosing to get bet-ter. So I think that speaks for the mental toughness on their

BY GINA MUELLERSTAFF WRITER

For once, Illinois head coach Justin Spring was silent.

The Illinois men’s gymnastics team was sup-posed to have Sunday off. However, the team captains felt that the Illini needed to have a team meeting after a shocking loss to Iowa on Saturday night.

“We figured out that our meet on Saturday was a wake-up call,” senior Yoshi Mori said. “Unfortunately, it was too late. But we changed our mentality.”

Before Monday afternoon’s practice, Spring led the usual team meeting. He normally explains to the Illini what they need to improve on, what he wants to see during practice and any other details for the upcoming meet. This Monday, the team meeting began with silence.

“I said ‘What’s up? How’d the weekend go?’” Spring sarcastically said. “I’m sick of talking and I wanted to hear it from them. And they said, ‘That was embarrassing. We are a better team than that. We know we should be.’ It was good to not have to talk for once and have it come from them.”

Drastic changes were made at the begin-ning of this week’s training. The style of prac-tice was one of the most important alterations. Though gymnastics is an individual sport, a support system was desperately needed.

“We felt like we were lone soldiers out here,” sophomore Josh Wilson said. “We were kind of

on our own late in practice when the special-ists are done, but people who do multiple events are still lingering. It’s hard to stay motivated when you are one of the last ones still working.”

Illinois has now been practicing more simu-lation events as a team. Before each event the men huddle together, talk about the event and end the huddle with a chant. The setup is very similar to how a real meet is conducted. Every Illini circles around the apparatus, watching their teammates perform, cheering him on.

“When you are up there you are listening to everyone,” Wilson said. “Every one has little sounds they make, I bark. We do dumb things but it gets people going. They yell ‘roll tide’ at me because I’m from the South. So just small things that keep them motivated while they are doing their set.”

In addition to support, Mori personally felt he needed another change. Suffering multiple injuries this season, he didn’t change the diffi-culty of his routines. This weekend was a harsh reality for Mori because as it stands now, he can’t perform the same routines.

“I’ve been struggling with my gymnastics,” he said. “I’m getting a lot more support now because I let it all out in the meeting. I’ve had meetings with my coaches, but never with my guys. My guys are helping me more than anyone.”

After both meetings, the energy in the gym

Groce not going to overlook improving Penn State

Men’s gymnastics changes regimen after shocking defeat

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Illinois can’t keep up, drops to 4th-place tie in Big Ten

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Illinois’ Yoshi Mori performs his pommel horse routine during the Gym Jam against Iowa at Huff Hall on Saturday.

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Illinois head coach John Groce evaluated point guard Tracy Abrams’ performance against Northwestern as an “A”.

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Karisma Penn dribbles past Penn State's Mia Nickson during Illinois’ 95-62 loss at Penn State on Wednesday. The loss brings the Illini to 15-10, 8-5 Big Ten for the season.

“I just want to give Penn State a lot of credit.”

MATT BOLLANT,Illinois head coach

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Editor’s note: Every Thursday, the Daily Illini sports department will ask four Illinois student-athletes questions pertaining to life off the field.

Renovate Assembly Hall or build a new

arena?

What would you give Michael Jordan for

his birthday?

What is one country you’ve always wanted

to go to?

What is the place you want to do a “Harlem

Shake” video?

What is your favorite second-semester

holiday?

Kyle Dooley,senior,wrestling

Unofficial I don’t even know what the “Harlem Shake” is.

Renovate it. I think it’s an iconic fixture in

Champaign.Spain A pair of wrestling

shoes

Jannis Toepfer,graduate student, men’s track and field

Spring break because it’s the longest

Right in the middle of the Big Ten

Championships

I think they should renovate it.

Central Africa A one-on-one game.

Sarah Fielder,junior, women’s gymnastics

Spring breakAt Irwin with all the

athletes Just build a new arenaGreeceMaybe like a ... I don’t

know.

More online: To see a video of Illini athletes answering these

questions and more go to www.DailyIllini.com.» »Compiled by Alex Roux

ILLINI ATHLETES SOUND OFF

Renovate it.St. Patrick’s Day Somewhere track-related

Samantha Murphyjunior,women’s track and field

IrelandIt would have to be something that he

couldn’t buy.

BY CLAIRE LAVEZZORIOSTAFF WRITER

Despite a second-round struggle at the two-day Mobile Bay Intercollegiate in Mobile, Ala., the Illi-nois men’s golf team captured a third-place finish out of 16 teams at the par-72 7,212-yard Magnolia Grove Crossings Golf Course.

After playing a solid first round on Sunday, finish-ing tied for third, the Illini were faced with obsta-cles before the second and third rounds.

After a heavy dew on the Magnolia course pushed back the start of the tournament and a suspension of second-round play was prompted because of dark-ness on the back nine, the Illini were forced to con-tinue the second round of the tournament the fol-lowing morning before the start of the third round.

Despite these setbacks, solid golf was seen throughout this tournament, which was hosted by the University of South Alabama.

Sophomore Brian Campbell posted a first round of four-under par, 68, the best score out of all of Illinois players. He then posted a 77 and 72 in the second and third rounds, respectively, to tie for fifth.

Illini senior Mason Jacobs contributed a one-under par 71 the first round, a 75 the second round and a one-under par 71 the final day of the tour-nament to also finish tied for fifth with teammate Campbell.

“I am really proud of Brian and Mason’s efforts,” head coach Mike Small said. “For them to show up and play well, it showed their ability to come back and finish strong after a second-round struggle,” he said.

In addition, freshman Charlie Danielson finished with plus-4, tying him for 16th place, while junior Thomas Pieters tied for 22nd and freshman Thom-as Detry finished tied for 39th.

With all five Illinois players placing in the top 40, Small isn’t too discouraged by the difficult sec-ond-round play.

“We missed some greens in regulation and it was hard to get up and down. And unfortunately, we went cold in our putting. Missing four to seven footers was disappointing,” he said.

But finishing strong is something that Small is most proud of despite these struggles.

“Being able to capitalize on our strengths and use them to our advantage definitely paid off while in Alabama,” Small said. “We’re still trying to fig-ure out why the second round was so difficult for us, but these next few weeks after evaluating each player’s individual games and needs, I think we will have a lot of success in store for the coming weeks.”

Claire can be reached at [email protected].

Men’s golf overcomes poor 2nd-round play, places 3rd in Alabama

Baseball tries to forget about season opener

BY JAMAL COLLIERSTAFF WRITER

Thomas Lindauer has felt the need to explain himself all week. It’s been eating away inside at him ever since Sunday, but he doesn’t want to talk about it. Yet people keep asking.

“How’d you guys do over the weekend?”

He had to answer it in class, and again when he went to study table.

Lindauer doesn’t want to be rude, although he’s a little annoyed. He knows people are going to ask him because they care and want to see if he and the Illinois baseball team did well.

So he reluc-tantly answers, informing those inquiring that the Illini lost two out of three in their opening series to Tennessee Tech, even though he thinks Illinois is better than the Golden Eagles.

In the back of his head, he thinks of how the Illini have got to get better.

Lindauer is off to a nice start himself; he started in the ninth spot of the lineup with an on-base percentage of .385, scored three runs and knocked in three more. His favorite part of the game is playing defense, and he was a part in the turning of two double plays.

The Illinois shortstop is usually a bit more reserved, but he’s a fast talker when he speaks. He quickly re-assures everyone that Illinois will be all right, and that this is a good team.

That bothers him even more.“Getting real tired of telling

everyone we played bad this wknd and we will be fine ... I want to win NOW! #Illini #Illinibaseball #BeE-lite,” Lindauer tweeted from his account (@ThomasL19) at 11:38 a.m. on Monday.

So as Illinois travels to Green-ville, N.C., to compete in the 10th-annual Keith LeClair Classic, the team will be looking to bounce

back from back-to-back one-run losses.

T h u r s d a y ’ s opener against East Carolina (0-3) begins a four-day tourna-ment against four different teams. Illinois (1-2) will send Kevin John-son to the mound after starting the only game the Illi-ni won this year.

Johnson went six innings, struck out six and allowed only one earned run last Friday.

Ohio, New Mexico State and Bos-ton College round out the rest of the field, and the Illini will match-up with them Friday through Sun-day, respectively.

Both freshmen starters, Kevin Duchene and Nick Blackburn, will make their second starts on Fri-day and Sunday, respectively. Both pitchers didn’t make it out the fifth inning in their season debuts last weekend and received no decisions.

Sophomore John Kravetz is expected to make his first start of the year Saturday.

Illinois head coach Dan Hart-leb especially likes these series in which Illinois can play four games against multiple opponents.

“It doesn’t let you get a false sense of security,” Hartleb said. “You have to do things correctly, and that’ll give us a gauge what we continue to work on and improve on. I want to get the best competi-tion early.”

The more games the Illini play, the easier it’ll be for them to form a routine, as last week Hartleb thought players were too “jumpy and excited.”

That resulted in elevated

pitches, 28 strikeouts during the three games, 32 men left on base and what Hartleb deemed a lack of composure in pressure situations.

Hartleb tries to get his players to focus on consistency during practice and especially emphasized it this week, albeit a short turnaround. The team bus left for North Carolina on Wednesday.

This weekend gives the Illini another chance, four more games to erase a notion of a slow start.

Lindauer wants to have results to talk about next week.

And he doesn’t want to have to explain himself again.

Jamal can be reached at collie10@

Thursday, 4 p.m.Greenville, N.C.

Illinois will also face Ohio, New Mexico State and Boston College at

the Keith LeClair Classic.

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Illinois’ Thomas Lindauer makes an out at second base in the Illini’s 15-4 win over Mississippi Valley State at Illinois Field on March 30. Lindauer had an on-base percentage of .385 and scored three runs this weekend at Tennessee Tech.

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rose. During every team set, screams and cheers could be heard booming in Kenney Gym. High fives were giv-en after every performance, and the support was contagious. Spring is pleased with the improvements this week, but knows there is still a lot of work to be done.

“Every one seems to be in the right direction, but once again it’s just like me beating them over the head with some ideologies that I know need to

be taken on,” Spring said. “But just because I said it doesn’t mean it’s going to be taken on. Just because the team had a meeting doesn’t automat-ically cure our lack of commitment of detail to the gym and our habits outside the gym and our lack of con-fidence when we compete. That’s a process.

“Things have been better in the gym and hopefully that change and the mental state is what it takes. I have a positive feeling about it.”

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team. We’ll be challenged.”No amount of mental toughness is

making up for some of Penn State’s deficiencies that are evident in statis-tics. Out of the 347 Division I basketball teams in the NCAA, the Nittany Lions rank 308th in the nation in points per game, 338th in assists per game and 333rd in field goal percentage.

The lone bright spots for Penn State are two guards that shoulder the load in almost every facet — D.J. Newbill and Jermaine Marshall. Newbill tallies 16 points, 5.7 rebounds and four assists per game, while Marshall averages 14.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.4 assists. Both guards score a majority of their points slashing to the rim, which Groce sees as an area his team needs to improve on defense.

“They get to the free-throw line a lot,” Groce said. “That’s one of the areas we have to clean up. Even from the other night, I thought we fouled too much (at Northwestern). They put you in that pre-dicament with how hard they drive the basketball, especially those two guards.”

Upon further analysis of the game film of Penn State against Michigan, Bran-don Paul saw that Michigan was hurt in its transition defense — and its mindset.

“A little bit of it was that Michigan maybe went into that game looking past them a little bit,” Paul said. “Penn State showed they’re a force to be reckoned with. They played well. I think they had like 19 points in transition against them, so that’s something we want to slow down as well.”

Groce reiterated that his team’s defense, which has improved steadily in the last month, has been the best that he’s seen all year and that he wants it to still improve. Now, Groce wants to coach guys that “when they get scored on, they get ticked off.”

Tracy Abrams, who graded out as an “A” on defense in Illinois’ last game against Northwestern, said that he and his teammates are starting to adopt that frame of mind.

“We know we have to guard better in order for us to win,” Abrams said. “That’s what we’ve been doing and we have to keep it up.”

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less analysis on players, coaches and, above all, that coveted “No. 1 draft pick” spot. Who will follow in the pres-tigious footsteps of Andrew Luck, Cam Newton and the Manning brothers? Will the Alabama defense (Roll Tide) steal the show as in years past? Per-haps a wildcard like USC quarterback Matt Barkley will come out on top. Or will Texas A&M’s talented linemen Luke Joeckel and Damontre Moore prevail?

Let’s not forget about draft night itself! There is the ever-important

decision of whether to attend the actual draft in person in New York, or to watch from home with family and friends. What if, God forbid, you were projected to go in the first round and you wait and wait until suddenly you’re the only person left undrafted behind the scenes at the legendary Radio City Music Hall.

Such drama! Such suspense! I can hardly wait.

The countdown is the epitome of ded-ication to ultimate sports fandom. This type of devotion and commitment can’t be summed up in a few pretty words.

It’s spending valuable time mak-ing lists and analyzing statistics, like rebounding numbers across the Big

Ten, instead of writing my history paper due at 9 a.m. on Thursday.

It’s watching Illinois beat up on Northwestern at Welsh-Ryan Arena in Evanston, Ill., when I should be prep-ping for a job interview.

Heck, it’s forgetting to eat because I’m so wrapped up in the Blackhawks game that just went into overtime AGAIN!

Sports insanity. It’s not a hobby. It’s a way of life.

By the way, 24 days until Selection Sunday. But hey, who’s counting?

Aryn is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @ArynBraun.

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by Penn State into five points. “Some of the foul trouble made us lose

our aggressiveness,” Bollant said. “We were a little shocked at how good they were. Instead of stepping up and fight-ing against it, we pulled back.”

Lucas led the Nittany Lions with 16 points, seven rebounds and three assists in the first half, shooting 5-for-7 from the field. GodBold scored nine points to lead the Illini at the half.

Although Penn State controlled the ball in the first half, Illinois forced 13 turnovers in the first 12 minutes of the second half. Despite the increased pres-sure, Penn State maintained it lights-out shooting and a large lead of 77-58.

Penn State kept building its lead despite the large margin, leading by as many as 33.

After winning its first five Big Ten road games, the Illini have now lost consecutive games away from Assem-bly Hall.

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