The Daily Illini: Volume 142 Issue 116

BY CARINA LEESTAFF WRITER

The owner of decommissioned bus company Lincoln-land Express, better known as LEX, will open a new ser-vice called Illini Express starting spring break.

Illini Express will begin selling tickets March 15 for weekend rides to Chicago area malls. Company owner Robert Frazier said Illini Express will hire former Lin-colnland Express, or LEX, employees but will be rent-ing vehicles from other companies.

Trips that LEX buses used to service to Midway and O’Hare airports will not be offered but may be consid-ered in the future.

LEX was shut down in December by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and is awaiting approval of a 600-page corrective action plan. Shashunga Clay-ton, public affairs specialist of the safety administra-tion, said the plan is still undergoing review.

“When LEX gets its authority back from the federal government, LEX will be doing the daily service,” he said.

The administration issued the company several vio-lations in October, which included false reporting of records, use of buses that were not periodically inspect-ed and failure to properly maintain vehicle parts and accessories.

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Illini Express to replace defunct LEX

Shake, rattle and roll the pressure away

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Beth O’Connor, senior in ACES, hula hoops to relieve stress about graduation at the annual Stress Less Party on Wednesday at the ARC.

BY LAUREN ROHRSTAFF WRITER

Students may start paying more for health insurance pro-grams if the University board of trustees approves a proposal to increase the fee. The board will determine health insurance fees for the fall 2013 semester at its meeting Thursday.

If rates are approved, under-graduate students would pay $254 in health insurance fees next semester, a 16 percent increase from this year’s rate of $219. Rates for graduate stu-dents would increase 6 percent, from $310 to $328.

At its January meeting, the board approved a 1 percent increase in total annual stu-dent fees for the 2013-14 aca-

demic year. This includes a $1 increase in health service fees, which, combined with health insurance fees, fund student health care programs.

These programs meet the requirements of the Afford-able Care Act, according to the health insurance fee pro-posal. The University revised student health insurance con-tracts after the U.S. Depart-ment of Health and Human Ser-vices finalized rules in regards to student health plans in March 2012.

At the meeting, the board will also vote on proposals to estab-lish the Center for a Sustainable Environment, the TIAA-CREF

Health insurance rates could increase

Violations issued on Unofficial decrease 32 percent since 2012

Proposal before board would raise fees by 16% for undergrads

DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTThe number of city ordinance

violations on Unofficial St. Pat-rick’s Day decreased by 32 per-cent this year, according to a Champaign Police Department press release.

According to the press release, the event resulted in 210 notices to appear, down by 100 from last year’s numbers.

Despite the decrease in vio-lations, the number of crimi-nal arrests increased, which the city attributed to the Social Host Law that went into effect Jan. 1. The new law states that individuals are criminal-ly responsible if they host an event or social gathering and knowingly authorize underage possession or consumption of alcohol. Of the 33 state arrests issued, 21 were for made in vio-lation of the law.

Chancellor Phyllis Wise said at the Urbana-Champaign Sen-ate meeting Monday that the University received minimal reports of disruptions.

“Even though we haven’t been able to close this activity

down, I think we’ve had it under good control, which has been part of cooperation between our campus police and the police in Champaign,” Wise said.

A total of 139 underage alco-hol compliance checks were also conducted at local bars and res-taurants by the Illinois Liquor Control Commission, Cham-paign Police, Urbana Police and the Illinois Department of Revenue’s Criminal Investiga-tion Unit. Two licensees out of the 58 that were checked sold alcohol to underage Unofficial participants.

In addition, many on-cam-pus bars received other licens-ee violations. Kam’s, Red Lion, Joe’s Brewery, White Horse Inn and The Clybourne received at least one violation from an alco-hol compliance check.

“It truly takes the coopera-tion of all of the agencies to suc-cessfully deal with an event of this magnitude,” Champaign Police Lt. Jim Clark said in a press release. “Overall, we are pleased with the results of this year’s event.”

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AMOUNTREQUESTED

$350,000

Orchard Downs Multifunctional Landscape

The purpose of this project is to develop a sustainable land use model out of the 16 acres of land on the southwest corner of Florida and Race Street. The funding inquiry states that the landscapes could include native planting, permaculture gardens, educational trails, and a space for recreation.

REQUESTED BY: SARAH LOVELL, HORTICULTURE/CROP SCIENCES

Sustainable Agricultural Food System

This project would collaborate with the Sustainable Student Farm. By designing a packaging and processing line, the purpose of the project is to reduce waste and teach sustainable processing techniques in the department of Food Science and Human Nutrition.

AMOUNTREQUESTED

$150,000

APPLICANT: BRIAN JACOBSEN, FSHN

Temple Buell Hall Lighting Project

This proposal is to install automatic lighting controls in Temple Buell Hall where the Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning departments are located. The funding request states that electric controls of lighting will reduce energy waste by 30-50 percent.

AMOUNTREQUESTED

$131,000

APPLICANT: GAINES HALL, ASSOCIATE DEAN, FAA

AMOUNTREQUESTED

SDRP Lighting

The SDRP was designed with a computer-controlled system where light use be divvied up in zones of demand. The zones are not congruent to actual use and the lights in the SDRP all remain on when the building is in use. This proposal is to rezone the building to make it conducive to the computer lighting system.

$94,350

APPLICANT: DAWN AUBREY, UNIVERSITY HOUSING

BIODIESEL

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Illinois Biodiesel Initiative

The Illinois Biodiesel Initiative was founded in the spring of 2006. Its purpose was to produce biodiesel from excess vegetable oil waste from University dining halls. The group has successfully produced biodiesel fuel and soap using the waste. However, the group was asked to leave their previous space at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center. The funding request is for new equipment and construction of a space.

$200,000

APPLICANT: BRUCE LITCHFIELD, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Campus groups request funds to make UI more green

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Each semester, working groups within the Student Sustainability Committee go through funding inquires. This semester, after inquiries, 13 projects were invited to submit proposals to the SSC:

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Champaign Criminal damage to prop-

erty was reported in the 1600 block of West Church Street around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, the victim reported criminal dam-age to his vehicle.

Attempted burglary was reported in the 500 block of North Neil Street around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, the offender broke a window and gained entry to a garage. It is unknown if anything was sto-len.

A 21-year-old male was ar-rested on the charge of throw-ing dangerous materials in the 200 block of East John Street

around 2:30 p.m. Friday.

Urbana Theft/lost property was re-

ported at Einstein Bagels, 901 W. University Ave., around 3 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, the offender stole the victim’s cell phone, which was mistakenly left on a table.

University An 18-year-old male was

arrested on the charge of tres-passing on state-supported land at Nugent Hall, 207 E. Gregory Drive, just before midnight Tuesday.

Identity theft was report-

ed at Saunders Hall, 902 Col-lege Court, around 7 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, the victim reported that someone had stolen her identity, cre-ated a fictitious business and filed income taxes under their name.

Damage to property was reported at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave., at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, someone broke into a window on the east side of Krannert. It is estimated to cost $800 to re-place the window.

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BY EARN SAENMUKCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The 93rd annual Engineering Open House will be held from Friday to Saturday throughout the Engineering Quad and at the Illini Union.

EOH is an event run by the EOH Central Committee of the Engineering Council, which includes students from all engineering disciplines.

Gloria Lin, a director of the committee and senior in Engineering, said there will be more interactive demonstrations this year because of presentations from many big companies including John Deere, Caterpillar and Boeing. The committee will also partner with the University and Champaign Police departments, who will demonstrate the bomb squad robots. which cost about $300,000.

“Every year we try to get bigger and better,” she said. “We try to bring in more attractions, and more cooperative sponsors.”

Lin said most of the main attractions will take place Friday, including a concert with a light show that uses more than 30,000 volts of electricity, led by Lippold Haken, lecturer in ECE. There will also be a talk called “Death From the Skies” by Phil Plait, an astronomer, lecturer and blogger.

In addition to the shows and exhibits, there will also be creative design competitions for students in middle school, high school and college. All the events are open to the public.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications, or NCSA, is offering self-guided tours of the Blue Waters Supercomputer on Saturday at the National Petascale Computing Facility, 1725 S. Oak St., Champaign.

Blue Waters is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, and is used in a range of scientific problems. People interested in this supercomputer can see Blue Waters as well as the infrastructure required for it during the tours.

Trish Barker, a spokeswoman for NCSA, said EOH is a good opportunity for people who are interested in Blue Waters to come and learn more about it.

“People can just come in anytime and look around,” Barker said. “We’re

usually not open on the weekend, and we give tours by appointment during operating hours only, so this is the easiest time to come and see Blue Waters.”

The Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology will also have an open house concurrent with EOH. The Beckman staff will provide tours and presentations, along with interactive demonstrations of the research done at the institute.

Lin added that there is a smartphone application for Engineering Open House, as well as a Twitter account and a Facebook page for people who want more information about EOH events.

Earn can be reached at [email protected].

Select Exhibits

CONCRETE CRUSHING Basement, Talbot Laboratory: Both days (10:00/11:30/1:00/2:30)

DORM ROOM FIRE SIMULATIONBardeen Quad: Friday (11:00/1:00/3:00)

RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE106B3 Engineering Hall: Friday (9:00/9:45/10:30/11:15/12:00/12:45/1:30/2:15/3:00/3:45), Saturday (9:00/9:45/10:30/11:1 5/12:00/12:45/1:30/2:15/3:00)

PHYSICS VAN LECTURE DEMO141 Loomis Laboratory: Friday (10:30/12:00/1:30/3:00) Saturday (10:00/11:30/1:00/2:15)

TESLA COIL MUSICSouth End of Bardeen Quad: Friday (9:00PM onwards)

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS/CHAMPAIGN POLICE BOMB SQUAD112 Transportation Building: Friday (9:30/11:30/1:30/3:30)

The complete schedule of events can be found at http://eoh.ec.illinois.edu/attractions/2013-visitors-guide/.

EOH offers variety of programs, demos

Center for Farmland Research and the Grainger Center for Elec-tric Machinery and Electrome-chanics. All three centers would be established on the Urbana campus.

In addition, Chancellor Phyllis Wise will present a “dashboard indicator” report of the Urbana campus. This presentation will update board members of the campus’s enrollment numbers, graduation rates and research performance, as well as goals for the upcoming semester.

University spokesman Tom Hardy said the rest of the meet-ing will be fairly routine.

Lauren can be reached at [email protected].

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Jakub Walkosz working on his entry into the Jerry Sanders Creative Design Competition at the 2012 Engineering Open House.

BY JOHN O’CONNOR AND SOPHIA TAREENTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Pat Quinn proposed severe spending restrictions Wednesday in what he called the “most difficult budget ever,” telling a joint ses-sion of the General Assembly that the state is virtually paralyzed until it fixes its public-employee pension crisis.

With a scolding tone, the Democrat facing re-election in 20 months used tough language to describe the pension hole that will suck nearly $7 billion of the state’s general revenue in the coming year. He challenged lawmakers to send him a legislative fix and answered crit-ics by laying out specific provisions he wants to be part of the solution.

“This is the most difficult budget Illi-nois has ever faced, and it is only a pre-view of the pain that is to come if this General Assembly does not act decisive-ly on comprehensive pension reform,” Quinn said in a 30-minute address that focused almost entirely on the pension mess.

But his speech barely addressed the “pain” that Quinn aides hinted at the previous evening, not even mentioning, for example, the $400 million cut in pub-lic education necessary in large part because of the state’s required contri-bution to employee retirement accounts.

After years of state underfunding, the five systems have a whopping $96.7 bil-lion deficit in the amount necessary to pay benefits to everyone they cover.

Quinn proposed closing tax “loop-holes” to produce money to pay down the state’s gaping backlog of $9 billion it owes to vendors. He would eliminate three tax breaks, at least temporarily, to produce an extra $445 million annu-ally for a “Bill Payment Trust Fund.” The bulk of that would come from end-ing tax-free foreign dividends, which Quinn’s staff says could encourage mul-tinational corporations to move opera-tions to overseas subsidiaries.

“The more corporate loopholes we suspend, the faster we can pay down our bills,” Quinn said. “Why should we give costly, ineffective loopholes to some of the biggest and most profitable cor-porations on earth when we have bills to pay?”

He hinted he would be open to a heavi-ly regulated expansion of legalized gam-bling, as long as the new revenue gener-ated went to education.

Later Wednesday, the Senate Execu-tive Committee endorsed yet another proposal to add five riverboat casinos in Illinois, including a land-based opera-tion in Chicago, which would direct up to $1 billion in revenue from the slot

machines annually to public schools. Quinn has vetoed two similar bills in just the past year. Quinn budget spokesman Abdon Pallasch stressed Quinn wants a pension fix first but said the governor remains open to talks on gambling.

Quinn was pointed in his challenge to the lawmakers to act on the pension cri-sis. “So, members of the General Assem-bly,” he asked, “what are you waiting for?”

Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, responded afterward that he was already taking action, having planned a committee hearing next week on his combination legislation. It would offer employees a choice on whether they want retirement health care or annual cost-of-living increas-es, combined with a House-authored backup plan that would reduce post-career benefits and increase employee contributions.

“He’s frustrated, and he wants us to do something, so we’re going to start next week,” Cullerton said after the speech-House Democrats, with support from House Republican Leader Tom Cross of Oswego, have a separate plan.

Although Quinn didn’t hammer on the impact of budget cuts, such as the $400 million education reduction that will mean more teacher layoffs, shorter

school days and larger class sizes, Cross predicted taxpayers will start feeling the pinch of lack of pension action, and begin pushing for action.

“In the (House) speaker and perhaps the (Senate) president’s mind, you’re not going to lose an election because you haven’t passed a pension reform bill,” Cross said. “Now that we’re starting to talk about effect on other services, people will start to realize.”The state’s employer contribution to pensions of $6.8 billion in the coming year will rep-resent nearly one-fifth of the $35.6 bil-

lion general revenue — money spent for state operations such as education and public safety — expected to come in dur-ing the budget year that begins July 1.

Perhaps answering critics such as Senate Republican Leader Christine Radogno, who said the governor has been “woefully absent” in the pension debate, Quinn laid out specifics of the bill he wants to sign. It must guarantee the state pay its obligated share each year and dedicate $1 billion a year to pensions beginning in 2020, the year pension loans are paid off.

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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn quickly departs to his office after delivering his State of the Budget address to a joint session of the General Assembly in the House chambers at the Illinois State Capitol Wednesday in Springfield. Ill.

According to data from the Department of Transportation, 47 percent of inspections of LEX vehicles over the last two years have revealed violations that must be corrected before being allowed back on the road.

“I designed my buses, which were an older style model of a bus, that they (the FMCSA) didn’t like, and pretty much, that led to a lot of my problems,” Frazier said. “If I was that bad, they should have shut me completely down, but they didn’t. They said you are okay, but you can’t do the regular schedule.”

Frazier was referring to his oth-er company, Illini Tours, a char-ter bus service for group trips, which has not received any warn-ings from the FMCSA.

He said after LEX was shut down, he realized how much the business meant to him.

“I really loved this business more than I thought I did,” he said. “LEX (is) ingrained into the com-munity ... so that has given me the passion to want to come back and do it again.”

Frazier said refunds for LEX tickets are still being distributed to students.

Carina can be reached at lee713@ dailyillini.com.

Opinions4AThursdayMarch 7, 2013The Daily Illiniwww.DailyIllini.com

W elcome to the end of Week Eight. While that may seem to be an arbitrary number,

it proves we have reached the half-way point. Just as much is behind us, as is in front of us until we reach the light at the end of the tunnel that is summer.

This week, some of us might be saying good-bye to our eight-week-long classes, and others just might be starting to say hello to them. And then there are those of us currently scrambling to check if we signed up for any second-half-of-the-semes-ter courses, maybe in kinesiology or educational psychology.

Normally, I never think much about what the last eight weeks of class mean, but this semester there is a bit different of a feel to it. I wish I could say it is the sadness of grad-uating in about two months. The sad-ness of leaving behind the safety that my undergraduate career has brought to me. Or maybe sadness that I should have been filled with when I heard the Fall 2013 course listings were out and I could not register.

And with that there comes some security, too. After registering, you know what you are going to do in the

near future. You know you still had some control.

But to me, the last eight weeks reminds me just how little focus I have this entire semester.

Thank you, senioritis.All of the motivation I have had

for the last 3 ! years seems to have deteriorated overnight.

For many of us, senioritis is in full swing. Freshman, I know most of you had senioritis last year. You were accepted into the University, and you just could not wait to gradu-ate from high school and become a semi-adult.

But guess what. The senioritis you experienced then is nothing like what the senior class is experienc-ing now. Fear is much more promi-nent then it was as we were leaving high school. Plans are not always set in stone at this point. Many of us are still waiting to hear from graduate schools, internships and, of course, the real world — jobs.

I hate to break it to you under-classmen, but senioritis gets much worse over time. Not better.

But fear not, for those who, like I, are suffering from this atrocious disease. There are ways to combat it:

1. Try something new on campus that you have not fit in your schedule these last few years. Chances are, if you are suffering, it might be from all the free time from your light schedule. Try going to one of the cultural houses to see a guest speak-

er and get a free lunch. Just because you are finishing your degree does not mean you have learned every-thing about every culture in this country.

2. Assemble a list of everything you want to do within the next nine weeks. Have you rang the bells at Altgeld yet? Have you visited the observatory? What about taking a flight over campus? See a show at Krannert or watch an a cappella group. This campus has plenty of things to do to shake up the monot-ony of those 100-level gen-eds that you put off until your last semester.

3. Sit in a lecture for a class that you are not taking. While it may seem odd to go out of your way to go to another class, but when else are you going to have the chance to learn something just for fun? Maybe sit in on a psych or history course. Or try to sneak into your friend’s flower arranging or veg-etable gardening course. I am sure your friends won’t mind (hopefully, maybe).

However, the ultimate mini-break is just around the corner. In just one week, we will all be heading our sep-arate ways for spring break. So may-be if we can survive just one more week, senioritis will fix itself. Or at least become bearable enough for us to get out of bed in the morning to attend our extremely early classes.

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

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It’s almost that time of year again — that time of March when the campus

rallies in abundant anticipation and excitement. However, I’m not talking about the Big Ten Basket-ball Tournament. I’m talking about Engineering Open House.

The 93rd annual EOH kicks off tomorrow and will feature over 250 exhibits put on by students, societ-ies and academic departments. It will also feature attractions such as the Illini Engineering Chal-lenge, the Jerry Sanders Robot Design Competition and a keynote speech by author and astronomer Phil Pliat.

While EOH is the talk of the town north of Green Street, stu-dents outside of Engineering Land are often uninterested, think-ing that EOH is not for them. The reality is that EOH is an event with wide appeal that should be embraced by the campus as a whole.

EOH is the largest student-run event at this university, consis-tently drawing over 20,000 visitors each year, including many prospec-tive students and alumni. The qual-ity of the event is something that most universities can’t rival, mak-ing it a staple of the Illinois experi-ence. Thus, no senior’s bucket list should be complete until they have gone and experienced at least some of what EOH has to offer.

Now, you may be wondering: What could an accounting or politi-cal science major possibly get out of watching a non-Newtonian fluids demonstration?

It turns out a lot, in fact.For starters, EOH provides the

unique experience for non-engi-neering majors to get a taste of what engineering is all about. This can provide a greater appreciation and understanding of the kind of work that engineering students and faculty are involved in and why it is significant.

This understanding is critical in a world that is driven by techno-logical innovation. Regardless of your major, technological chang-es are going to impact your life in some way — be it through a new cell phone, computer application or car running on alternative energy. Having a better understanding of where this technology comes from will make you better able to use it to your maximum advantage.

In addition to the idealistic ben-efits, EOH is a tremendous oppor-tunity to learn something new and interesting. The exhibits are designed to illustrate everything from basic scientific principles to cutting edge research. With the exhibits sprawling across the entire engineering campus, repre-senting everything from computer algorithms to hydrosystems, you are almost guaranteed to stumble across something that peaks your curiosity.

At an even simpler level, EOH is just plain fun. For instance, you can watch the state-of-the-art crusher in Talbot Laboratory apply a million pounds of force to burst a cement column, you can witness a live simulation of a dorm room catching fire, and you can experi-ence a live Tesla coil concert on the Bardeen Quad. All of these exhibits can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of age or background.

These thrills feed in to the main message of EOH, which is that engineering itself is exciting. The projects that University students and faculty are working on have the potential to revolutionize the way we live. Thus, understand-ing the importance of promoting engineering, even if you yourself are not a scientist or engineer, is essential for enabling a better future for all.

Experiencing EOH as someone from a non-engineering background even offers the possibility to find an original connection between some-thing you see being presented with something that you are working on in your own field of interest. This intermingling of ideas is the key to creativity, which is something that everybody values.

So, regardless of what you are studying or what your interests are, come out either Friday or Saturday to get a healthy dose of engineer-ing. Admission is free for all stu-dents, and you can spend the day exploring parts of campus that you may have never even known about before.

It will definitely be a blast, and it may even be a life changing experience.

Andrew is a sophomore in Engineer-ing. He can be reached at ajhorto2@ dailyillini.com.

C oncealed carry has been in the news a lot lately. But that doesn’t always mean it’s newsworthy.

In response to the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., The Journal News in Westchester, N.Y., published a map of concealed carry permit owners in December that includ-ed names and addresses of local residents who had gun permits.

The newspaper’s decision met immediate backlash from resi-dents and lawmakers. State Sen. Greg Ball announced plans to close permits to Freedom of Information Act requests.

And just last month, the Arkan-sas Business posted a list of permit holders’ names and ZIP codes in the state. Public out-rage ensued, and the newspaper took down the list.

Someone then posted an edi-tor’s name, address and home and work phone number online. The editor wrote: “Our home phone began ringing constantly, silenced only when we unplugged it in order to go to sleep. ... My work email address filled up with requests, complaints, insults, veiled threats and, yes, quite a few messages of thanks and appreciation.”

These newspapers all had the same problem: They published public data without context or analysis. Anyone can fill out a FOIA request. It’s a journalist’s job to take that raw information and give it meaning for readers. Publishing raw data is irrespon-sible and can even cause harm. Lawmakers who opposed the publication of these data right-fully pointed out the public safe-ty concerns that go with publi-cizing lists of gun owners.

But that doesn’t mean jour-nalists should back down from investigations about concealed carry, and lawmakers would be wrong to make these data private.

The Bangor Daily News in Maine sought information about concealed carry permit holders but dropped the request after Republican lawmakers held a press conference condemning the newspaper.

The Cherokee Scout in Murphy, N.C., withdrew its FOIA request, then published an apology to its readers.The newspaper request-ed the data Feb. 19.The local sheriff claimed the data weren’t public, readers complained to the newspaper, and The Chero-kee Scout dropped its request just three days after making it, and the editor of the paper resigned shortly thereafter.

The papers in Bangor and Mur-phy shouldn’t have dropped their requests. Journalists have to stand up against public outrage and legislative bullying.

But it’s also important that newspapers and journalists keep in mind their responsibility to the public.

We can’t just broadcast raw information, especially on a top-ic as sensitive as gun ownership. Journalists are detectives, writ-ers and analysts. We need to use all of those skills to make sense of gun ownership in the United States.

So to the newspapers in this country: Remember your role in society. Analyze data and help the public good. Be bold. And don’t shrink from public outrage of legislative threats.

I am a resident of the state of Illinois and should be eligible to run for Student Trustee

As a write-in candidate for student trustee, I was unfairly removed from the ballot, even though I was legally eligible to run. I am a resident of the state of Illinois. I live here. I pay tax-es here. I vote here. I have done so for the past 5 years. State law says that I need to be a resident to run for student trustee. I am. I have been a resident for the past 5 years.

I call on the administration to recognize state law, to stop dis-criminating against its students and to stop disenfranchising the great number of students on this campus who are considered “out-of-state” for tuition purposes, but who are residents of the State of Illinois under state law.

For the past five years, I have given dedicated service to the University. From my very first days on campus, I was active in giving back to the great Universi-ty that gave me the opportunity to study in its hallowed halls. As stu-dent body vice president and as a member of the Academic Senates Executive Committee, I helped guide our University through the admissions scandal in 2009, one of the darkest moments in our his-tory, into the dawn of a new day. I defended our institution’s integ-rity before the public and in the press, vowing that I would help restore faith in our leadership.

As individuals, our campus’ administrators are fit for the task. Knowing and valuing the posi-tive, personal relationships I have developed with them over the past half-decade, I find that they are genuinely dedicated to serving the students’ best interests. How-

ever, more often than not, they take comfort in clinging to the status quo, rather than acknowl-edging the circumstances of the very present reality that compels them toward re-evaluation and beneficial change. It is altogether a disappointing day when our Uni-versity denies eligibility to stu-dents to serve on the board when they do live in Illinois.

This past week has been one out of the norm for me, both as a student and as a former candi-date for student trustee. This is because the University that I so dearly love believes that only in-state tuition paying students are eligible to serve on the board of trustees. This is absurd.

Furthermore, this discrimi-nates against many graduate and undergraduate students alike, and every international student, who make Champaign-Urbana their home. Under this misinterpreta-tion of the law, we do not have equal opportunity to serve on the board of trustees even though we take on an even greater finan-cial burden to attend this school. How tragic is this for an institu-tion whose current initiative is to focus on “inclusivity?”

State law says that to be eligible for student trustee, the student must be a resident of Illinois, and though state law adds additional requirements, such as the main-tenance of a certain grade point average, the law makes no dis-tinction in favor of in-state tuition paying students. Furthermore, all trustees, even those who are not students, are required to be state residents. We know for a fact that University administrators do not misapply their policies to the oth-er trustees.

The state of Illinois believed when it passed the state law that whenever students have been at

the University long enough to become informed of the issues, have an intent to remain in the area, and possess an honest inter-est in matters pertaining to the University, they should be eligible to serve. In proving my residen-cy, I provided evidence on vari-ous fronts, namely certification of my service on the City of Urbana Plan Commission, a public office just like that of the board of trust-ees. Plainly stated: I currently hold the office of a City Plan Com-missioner because I am a resident of Illinois.

On a campus boasting so many Nobel Laureates, how ignorant to reality can our University possi-bly be? The University apparently believes that I commute to class everyday from Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky or Indiana, instead of driving 10 minutes from my home in Urbana. You be the judge of what makes the most sense.

Despite stark reality, the Uni-versity remains steadfast in ridic-ulousness and denies opportuni-ties to students even though it has no basis in law for doing so. We, the students, know tuition is the price we pay for a first-rate, world-class education, however, state law does not discriminate on the basis of the dollars we pay to be eligible for service on the Board of Trustees and neither should our university. The truth is that if the University was able to discriminate against me, they are just as willing to mistreat you.

This is my solemn promise to the Students of the University of Illinois: I will fight this injustice until victory is won.

Yours forever, in Orange & Blue,

CAREY ASH,graduate student in educational policy

studies and law and legal resident of Illinois

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BY JOAN LOWYTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes begin-ning next month under a policy change announced Tuesday by the head of the Transportation Security Administration.

The new policy conforms U.S. security standards to international standards, and allows TSA to concentrate its energies on more serious safe-ty threats, the agency said in a statement.

The announcement, made by TSA Administrator John Pisto-le at an airline industry gath-ering in New York, drew an immediate outcry from unions representing flight attendants and other airline workers, who said the items are still danger-ous in the hands of the wrong passengers.

Transport Workers Union Local 556, which represents over 10,000 flight attendants at Southwest Airlines, called the new policy “dangerous” and “shortsighted,” saying it was designed to make “the lives of TSA staff easier, but not make flights safer.”

“While we agree that a pas-senger wielding a small knife or swinging a golf club or hock-ey stick poses less of a threat to the pilot locked in the cockpit, these are real threats to pas-sengers and flight attendants in the passenger cabin,” the union said in a statement.

The policy change was based on a recommendation from an internal TSA working group, which decided the items rep-resented no real danger, said David Castelveter, a spokesman for the agency.

The presence on flights of gun-carrying pilots traveling as passengers, federal air mar-shals and airline crew mem-bers trained in self-defense provide additional layers of security to protect against mis-use of the items, he said. How-ever, not all flights have federal air marshals or armed pilots onboard.

The new policy permits fold-ing knives with blades that are 2.36 inches or less in length and are less than 1/2-inch wide. The

policy is aimed at allowing pas-sengers to carry pen knives, corkscrews with small blades and other knives.

Passengers also will be allowed to bring onboard as part of their carry-on luggage novelty-sized baseball bats less than 24 inches long, toy plastic bats, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and two golf clubs, the agency said. The policy goes into effect on April 25.

Security standards adopted by the International Civil Avia-tion Organization, a U.N. agen-cy, already call for passengers to be able to carry those items. Those standards are non-bind-ing, but many countries follow them.

Box cutters, razor blades and knives that don’t fold or that have molded grip handles will still be prohibited, the TSA said.

Reaction to the changes was mostly positive among travel-ers interviewed Tuesday at Los Angeles International Airport.

“I figure small knives are appropriate and fine,” said Becca Wong of Los Angeles. “People carry pocket knives on them daily on the street so I’m just as at risk there versus on an airplane. So I’m not really too concerned about it.”

“Just a little small pocket-knife that most people have isn’t going to do a whole lot of damage to anybody,” agreed Matt Shaw of Los Angeles. “I don’t think it’s that big a deal.”

“I carry a pocket knife as well,” said Tunde Akinyele of Los Angeles. “But I know when I travel I leave it at home. They were taking those small knives that you use to clean your fin-gernails — those, no. But a pocket knife, I would say, yes, that is a weapon. It can be used to harm somebody on the flight. So I would say still we shouldn’t allow that yet.”

The policy change got a thumbs up from Dean Rhym-er, a Junior Los Angeles Kings hockey player who strode into the terminal carrying a hock-ey stick. “I think it’ll be help-ful. It’s easier to carry it on to bring it places.”

The items that will be per-mitted under the new policy don’t present any greater dan-

ger than other everyday items that passengers can turn into weapons, aviation security con-sultant John L. Sullivan said. A pen or a toothbrush can be sharpened into a knife like the “shivs” inmates sometimes make in prisons, he said. Some airlines have returned to using real glassware and silverware in first class, rather than plas-tic or paper, he noted. Glass-es can be broken and used as weapons, he added.

“There are a lot of things you can use on an airplane if you are intent on hurting some-one,” said Sullivan, co-founder of the Welsh-Sullivan Group in Dallas. “Security is never 100 percent.”

But speaking as a passenger, he said, the “last thing I need is someone getting on a plane tak-ing up valuable space with their pool cues and hockey sticks.”

Douglas Laird, a former security director at North-west Airlines and now a secu-rity consultant, said the change was long overdue. He said secu-rity should focus more on pro-filing passengers and less on what they’re carrying.

“After 9/11, TSA did a lot of things pretty fast without thinking it through. They have better things to do than look for a guy who’s got a 2-inch knife,” he said.

There has been a gradual easing of some of the securi-ty measures applied to airline passengers after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In 2005, the TSA changed its policies to allow passengers to carry on airplanes small scissors, knit-ting needles, tweezers, nail clippers and up to four books of matches.

The move came as the agency turned its focus toward keeping explosives off planes, because intelligence officials believed that was the greatest threat to commercial aviation.

And in September 2011, the TSA no longer required chil-dren 12 years old and under to remove their shoes at air-port checkpoints. The agency recently issued new guidelines for travelers 75 years old and older so they can avoid remov-ing shoes and light jackets when they go through airport security checkpoints.

BY TAYLOR ELLISSTAFF WRITER

For students looking to increase their course load, get classes out of the way or learn about a new topic, eight-week courses are an option. With sec-ond-eight-week courses begin-ning March 11, condensed cours-es will be offered on a variety of topics.

According to Gina Martinez, professor of political science, eight-week courses can be a great option for students who are balancing their school work with other commitments. Specifically, online courses can be beneficial, such as the foundations of politi-cal science class she teaches.

“I know some students who are either working or aren’t able to come to campus all the time and really benefit from the online eight-week courses,” Martinez said. “They can just get it out of the way and it’s a bit more flex-ible with their schedules.”

Eight-week courses can also be an option for students who aren’t necessarily interested in cer-tain topic that they’re required to learn about. By only having to endure a course for half the amount of time, it can make learning about an unfavorable topic less painful.

Shortened courses are also an option for those planning to grad-uate in May who need to complete their curriculum.

“I decided to take a second-eight-week course because I real-ized I need more hours to gradu-ate than I thought,” said Patrick Sullivan, junior in Business.

Sullivan, who will take a labor and employment relations course this semester as an eight-week course, explained that he likes taking classes this way because it gives him time to get used to a few of his classes before adding more hours during the second eight weeks.

However, for those who have never taken an eight-week course, it may take some get-ting used to. According to Mar-tinez, the format of an eight-week course is different from the classes most students are accustomed to, especially if the course is online.

“If a student was taking all online classes, they would get used to that kind of format,” Mar-tinez said. “But let’s say if you’re just jumping into a class for eight weeks, you’re not remember-ing that you’re supposed to be posting discussions online since you’re used to talking in class and turning things in during class.”

Sullivan explained that it can be more difficult to remember to do class work when you aren’t actually going to class.

Even though it may take some time to get used to an eight-week course, the class structure generally is not any more con-fusing than full-length courses.

Lynn Holley, lecturer in jour-nalism and academic programs coordinator for the depart-ment of journalism, explained that crisis communications, an eight-week course only offered in the spring, isn’t too difficult to manage.

“I don’t think anything we put up as homework and assign-ments wasn’t doable,” Holley said. “We gave everyone the course evaluation and no one mentioned it was too much work.”

Whether students like it or not, it’s up to each individual to decide if an eight-week course is a good choice for them. It may seem risky to take a course that’s condensed into a short period of time, but it could be potentially beneficial to do so — as long as the student is willing to work hard.

Taylor can be reached at [email protected].

Eight-week courses can be beneficial but challenging

TSA alters security rules to allow small pocket knives

GENE BLYTHE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Sept. 26, 2006, file photo, knives of all sizes and types are piled in a box at the State of Georgia Surplus Property Division store in Tucker, Ga., and are just a few of the hundreds of items discarded at the security checkpoints of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport that will be for sale at the store.

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BY HANNAH BOLLMANSTAFF WRITER

In a tiny prac-tice room in the Music B u i l d i n g , Adam Davis’

towering upright bass seems even more massive. As he plays a small part of Bach’s 3rd Cello Suite, his passion for the music is obvious. Since picking up the upright bass at age 10, Davis, sophomore in LAS, has estab-lished an impressive resume that includes both local and interna-tional symphony orchestras.

Davis was 15 when he began playing professionally, or as he said, “when people started pay-ing me to play.” Although he is not involved with any music groups directly affiliated with the University, he plays with a local organization called the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, whose next perfor-mance will take place at Kran-nert Center for the Performing Arts on March 9.

Davis, though not obligated, is committed to practicing his art.

“I practice two to four hours a day every day,” he said. “The time commitment does take away from time to do homework, but it doesn’t really impact me.”

Lee Mirowitz, Davis’s room-mate and a junior in LAS, con-firmed Davis’ dedication to his instrument.

“He makes time to practice every day, but he doesn’t let it consume him,” he said.

Mirowitz said that Davis is also passionate about chess and makes time to practice it, as well as com-plete all of his schoolwork.

“He makes sure that things that are impor-tant to him all have a good frac-tion of his time,” Mirowitz said. “If he doesn’t think something is important, he doesn’t worry about it.”

Rhett Brad-ley, fellow bass-ist and junior in LAS, said Davis’ hard work pays off.

“I always benefit from playing with someone better than me, and Adam is a phenomenal bassist,” Bradley said.

Bradley said that playing along-side Davis and having the ability to critique each other and share music challenges him to become a better player.

Since becoming a professional bassist, Davis has conjured up a collection of experiences, some of which have carried him across the world. The summer after his freshman year, he earned an internship with the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra and toured Japan with the organization. Dur-ing another summer, Davis toured South America with the Chicago

Youth Sympho-ny Orchestra. In August 2010, Davis played on the “Kidza-palooza” stage at the Chicago music festival Lollapalooza.

“I played with Dan Zanes (and the Chicago Youth Symphony Soundtrack) on the kids’ stage,” Davis said about

the experience. “The coolest part was that I got a free artist pass.”

One of Davis’ career highlights was his performance with the Vid-eo Game Orchestra, wherein he was conducted by well-known composer Alvin Silvestri, who is responsible for the scores for films such as “Back to the Future” and “Forrest Gump.”

“It was really fun and just a great experience to be able to play the music while being conducted by him,” Davis said.

Davis takes pride in his work as a musician and plans to con-tinue playing.

Of his future, Davis said, “I’d like to be a full-time professional musician, sort of work my way up. Hopefully, I’ll be in a big city and be playing with a professional orchestra full time.”

Mirowitz, too, sees a bright future for the bassist, citing the first time he met Davis. The friends first met this past sum-mer, when Davis came to the dining hall where Mirowitz was eating.

“He asked if I wanted to hear him play and ended up lugging this giant instrument into the caf-eteria,” Mirowitz said. “He per-formed his upright bass for every-one in the dining hall, and I was amazed.”

Mirowitz describes Davis’ diverse interests and his passion for the things he does a “breath of fresh air.” Bradley describes Davis’ musical skills as “phenom-enal.” However, Davis describes himself just as a “normal student.”

Hannah can be reached at [email protected].

Bassist has campus, international experience

JONATHAN DAVIS THE DAILY ILLINI

Adam Davis, sophomore in LAS, stands with his upright bass in the music building. Davis plays in several local orchestra’s and near Chicago and St. Louis. “I practice two to four hours a day every day,” he said. “The time commitment does take away from time to do homework, but it doesn’t really impact me.”

Looking to increase your course load, get classes of the way or learn about a new topic? Turn to Page 5A to learn about the second set of eight week courses, which start March 11.

Short courses provide passion for the curious student

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“I’d like to be a full-time, professional musician, sort of work my way up.”ADAM DAVIS,bassist

K arisma Penn and Adrienne GodBold are used to being the underdogs.

The Illinois women’s basket-ball team’s seniors have nev-er been favored in their three appearances in the Big Ten Tournament and have never came in higher than a No. 9 seed, yet have found moderate success, going 3-3, including becoming the first No. 11 seed to make the semifinals in 2011.

First-year head coach Matt Bollant is looking to change the underdog mindset.

“We want them to believe that we should win, that they deserve to win,” Bollant said. “One of the things you do as a winning program is you believe you should win and you believe when you step on the court that you’re going to win.”

For the first time in four years, Penn, GodBold and the Illini are favored to win their first-round game in the Big Ten Tournament this Thursday, when they face No. 11 seed Wis-consin at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Ill. To dem-onstrate the change, the Illi-ni were given dog tags before their trip to the tournament that said, “Started from the bottom now we’re here.”

Illinois has already defeated

Wisconsin twice this season in a 64-56 win Feb. 3 and a 60-53 win Feb. 18.

“That gives you a lot of con-fidence,” Bollant said.

The first two meetings between the Illini and the Badgers were similar in many ways. Not only were the final scores and margin of victory just points apart, but the Bad-gers had 27 turnovers and shot 37 percent and 39 percent in both of their losses.

“It wasn’t as tough as it was the first time,” GodBold said. “We pretty much know how they play. I’m not too much wor-ried about it.”

GodBold, the Big Ten Defen-sive Player of the Year, said stopping Wisconsin junior Morgan Paige will be key beat-ing the Badgers. Paige scored 23 points in the first meeting between the two teams but was limited to 14 in the second. She also committed 14 combined turnovers in the two meetings.

Illinois would have to win four games in four days to win the Big Ten Tournament, a task that has no team has accom-plished since the tournament’s inception in 1995.

“It’s more mental,” GodBold said. “Yeah, there’s physical

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Share some love for players out of the spotlight

S ometimes I tell my friends I’m secretly an offen-sive lineman. I’m actu-

ally 6-foot-5 and 350 pounds. I know, I hide it well. Typical responses to this statement range anywhere from milk -out-of-the-nose-type laughter to utter disbelief that out of all the positions at my imaginary disposal, I would choose center ... or maybe linebacker? The verdict it still out.

“G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S”Fergie taught me how to

spell glamorous back in 2007. Such creativity in song titles these days. But what makes one position in sports more glamorous or alluring than another? They’re all neces-sary. You can’t have a soccer team without a goalkeeper, or a baseball team without a right fielder. So why do the quarter-backs and pitchers get all the pretty girls and sweet endorse-ment deals?

I am reminded strongly of the BCS national cham-pionship this past January, when the cameras panned on Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron’s girlfriend, former Miss Alabama and Auburn alum Katherine Webb, and announcer Brent Musburger just about had a heart attack. The 73-year-old Musburg-er concluded his embarrass-ing speech with the line, “You quarterbacks, you get all the good-looking women.”

Awkward.

“I be on the movie screens, magazines and bougie scenes ... ”

Bling, swag, attention, kudos. Whatever you want to call it, certain positions get more of it than others.

Let’s face it, even at a school where the football team goes winless for the season, every-one knows who the quarter-back is.

Glamour doesn’t only confine itself to one position on a team, but the entire sports scene. In America, we love our football, basketball and baseball. Soc-cer is big in Europe, and Eng-land and India are huge cricket markets. But what about the little guys? Gymnastics, ice skating or swimming. Do we even hear about sports such as these other than every four years at the Olympics?

Now there are rare cases where you have an athlete so spectacular or so full of per-sonality that he breaks out of this unfortunate dichotomy of the adored and the forgotten. Apolo Ohno — speed skater. Usain Bolt — sprinter. Brian Scalabrine — beloved bench warmer.

Aryn Braun — offensive lineman. Just kidding.

“I’ve got money in the bank, and I’d really like to thank all the fans ... ”

While it’s always nice to hear players thank the “O-line,” the “guys behind me” and “all the fans that got us here today” during postgame news con-ferences or award acceptance speeches, I propose a new way of thinking. The major net-works might want to read this.

ARYN BRAUNSports columnist

Illini to host NFL hopefuls at Pro Timing Day

BY SEAN HAMMONDSTAFF WRITER

Illinois football players with aspirations of playing at the next level will have their final chance to impress NFL scouts Thursday when Illinois hosts its Pro Tim-ing Day.NFL hopefuls Michael Buchanan, Terry Hawthorne, Akeem Spence, Hugh Thornton

and others are expected to par-ticipate in drills before NFL per-sonnel at Irwin Indoor Practice Facility at 8:15 a.m.

The aforementioned four were the only Illini invited to partici-pate in the NFL Scouting Com-bine last month in Indianapolis, Ind.

The Combine and Pro Day are the players’ two largest opportu-nities to catch the eyes of scouts between football season and draft day. None of the four Illini is expected to be drafted in the first round.

Spence, who is foregoing his senior season at Illinois, is expected to go as early as the sec-ond round.

He performed well at Febru-ary’s NFL Combine; notably in the bench press, where he placed third out of all of the defensive lineman, bench pressing the 225-pound barbell 37 times.

Hawthorne might be the Illini with the most to prove at Pro Day. After a 2011 season in which he had three interceptions and 60 total tackles,Hawthorne saw his numbers decrease in 2012 and

missed part of the season because of injuries following a vicious hit at Wisconsin on Oct. 6.He had to be taken off the field in an ambu-lance after attempting to tackle Badger’s tight end Derek Watt.

Hawthorne ran the 40-yard-dash in 4.41 seconds at the Com-bine but will need to improve in other areas if he wants to see his draft stock rise.

Beckman said he liked what he heard about the Illini players at the Combine.

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Terry Hawthorne breaks a tackle from Indiana’s Nick Stoner after intercepting the football Oct. 27. Indiana beat Illinois 31-17. Hawthorne, along with Michael Buchanan, Akeem Spence and Hugh Thornton, will be competing in Pro Timing Day on Thursday.

Four Illini follow up strong performances in scouting combine

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#7 Iowa(19-11, 8-8)Jaime Printy: 13.0 ppg, 4.3 rpgMorgan Johnson: 14.9 ppg, 7.5 rpgAt Purdue, Iowa StateVs. FIU, Northwestern

#2 Nebraska(19-11, 8-8)Jordan Hooper: 17.9 ppg, 8.7 rpgLindsey Moore: 15.0 ppg, 5.4 apgAt Mich., Mich. St.South Dakota St.

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Game 6 Winner#6 Illinois(16-12, 9-7)Karisma Penn: 19. 4 ppg, 9.9 rpgAdrienne GodBold: 17. 3 ppg, 7.1 rpgGeorgia, at Neb.Bradley, Ill. St., Northwestern

#10 Northwestern(13-16, 5-11)Kendall Hackney: 13.8 ppg, 5.9 rpgMaggie Lyon: 12.8 ppg, 4.0 rpgAt Ill., at Iowa, at Minn.At Ill. St., Hofstra, at Ind.

#3 Purdue(21-8, 10-6)Courtney Moses: 13.2 ppg, 38.1 3-pt %Drey Mingo: 12.4 ppg, 6.3 rpgAt Neb., at Mich. St., at Ill.At Ind.

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#11 Wisconsin(11-18, 3-13)Morgan Paige: 16.1 ppgCassie Rochel: 7.0 ppg, 9.2 rpgPenn St.Northwestern, at Va. Tech

#8 Minnesota(18-12, 7-9)Rachel Banham: 21.0 ppg, 4.1 apgMicaella Riche: 13.3 ppg, 7.5 rpgPenn St.Vs. Richmond, at Kan., Northwestern

#1 Penn St.(24-4, 14-2)Maggie Lucas: 20.5 ppg, 47 3-pt %Alex Bentley: 14.0 ppg, 3.7 spgAt Neb., at Texas A&M, At Mich. St.Minn., Wisc.

Game 7 Winner

Game 3 Winner

Game 8 Winner#5 Michigan(20-9, 9-7)Kate Thompson: 14.9 ppg, 4.2 rpgJenny Ryan: 10.4 ppg, 5.3 apgAt PurdueAt Utah

#9 Ohio St.(17-12, 7-9)Tayler Hill: 21.0 ppg, 4.5 rpgAshley Adams: 9.6 ppg, 7.1 rpgAt Ill., Mich. St., Mich.At Wash. St., at Wisc.

#4 Michigan St.(22-7, 10-6)Klarissa Bell: 11.4 ppg, 5.9 rpgJasmine Thomas: 10.0 ppg, 5.4 rpgVs. Texas Tech, at Ill., at PurdueNone

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#12 Indiana(11-18, 2-14)Aulani Sinclair: 15.9 ppg, 4.3 rpgJasmine McGee: 12.8 ppg, 5.8 rpgPurdueBelmont, Cleveland State, Wisc.

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Illinois opens postseason at Big Ten Tournament

ILLINI ATHLETES SOUND OFFWant to get to know your Illini athletes?

Watch a video of them answering questions about pop culture at DailyIllini.com.

2010 — 1st round: No. 9 Illinois 59, No. 8 Indiana 53. Quarterfinals: No. 1

Ohio State 66, Illinois 55.

2011 — 1st round: No. 11 Illinois 63, No. 6 Wisconsin 56. Quarterfinals: Illinois 55, No. 3 Michigan 43. Semifinals: No.

2 Penn State 79, Illinois 64.

2012 — 1st round: No. 7 Michigan 68, No. 10 Illinois 53.

Finally favoredSeniors Karisma Penn and Adrienne GodBold have not been favored in three trips to the

Big Ten Tournament, but, as a No. 6 seed, the Illini will finally be favored against No. 11 seed Wisconsin on Thursday. Look at how Penn, GodBold and the Illini did the last three years:

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Dry stretches for Illini offense destroying season

“What the hell is going on?”

Twice, I turned to Ethan Asofsky, one of the Daily Illini’s basketball beat writers, as we watched Illinois’ loss at Iowa on Tuesday, searching for an answer that was not readily forthcoming.

Both times were the open-ing stretches to halves. Both times Illinois was mired in an awful slump. Both times I was left without a good answer to the question.

Illinois began the game scor-ing only four points in the first 11:44, a remarkable stretch of offensive futility rife with bad shot selection, squandered fast-break opportunities and miss-es on any good shots that were open.

The Illini managed to stay in the game with effective defense, their active hands creating mul-tiple Hawkeye turnovers and contesting open looks. They clawed their way back from an 11-point deficit, even managing to take a brief lead before trail-ing by three at the half.

But then it happened again. The second half began and the Illinois offense again resem-bled the immediate aftermath of the plane crash in “Lost,” the survivors roaming around with stunned looks on their faces as they took in the carnage. Iowa showed a zone press, often sink-ing back into a half-court zone,

and the Illini looked lost. Their spacing was poor, waning shot clocks went unnoticed and it cul-minated in a total of three points being scored in the first 8:16 of the half as Iowa again built an 11-point lead.

To their credit, Illinois was able to fight back yet again, climbing to within two with just under five minutes remaining before the Hawkeyes slammed the door shut. But this tendency for the Illini to dig themselves holes early in halves is costing them resume-building wins.

It’s not an anomaly. In fact, it has developed into a norm on the road against quality opponents. In Illinois’ last four road games against good teams (We’re ignor-ing the game at Northwestern because, let’s face it, without Drew Crawford and Jared Swop-shire, the Wildcats are the equiv-alent of a high school team. And they play in a high school gym. Those bookish nerds.), they have been outscored by double dig-its to open a half four times (the second half at Iowa just missed the cut, coming in eight points.)

The most glaring example occurred at No. 10 Michigan State in January, when Illinois led by 10 at the break before the Spartans roared past with a 14-0 run to start the second half. Illi-nois lost 80-75.

The Illini didn’t wait until the second half at Minnesota. Illi-nois trailed 13-2 out of the gate and 26-14 but was able to recover to lead by one at the half. This was the only one of these four games the Illini managed to win, and it came against a Golden Gopher team playing without an injured Rodney Williams.

It happened once again at No. 7 Michigan. After the Illini built a three-point halftime lead, the Wolverines erased it with a 16-3 run. Brandon Paul disappeared on offense, not even attempting a shot, and Illinois fell 71-58.

And then of course Tuesday night in Iowa City, Iowa, the openings of both halves caused most Illinois fans to ask, “What the hell is going on?” once more.

This sort of trend should not

develop, particularly with a team filled with veterans. Head coach John Groce admitted as much following the game, saying he was disappointed.

The fact is, Illinois isn’t con-sistent enough offensively to mount the sort of comeback needed to climb out of these Shia Lebeouf-sized holes. With no inside presence (Iowa outscored Illinois 28-12 in the paint) and a flagging transition game, the Illi-

ni have nowhere to go when they need easy buckets. They sim-ply can’t afford to fall behind by such large margins.

The road won’t get any eas-ier on Saturday at Ohio State, which has lost only twice at home all season (to No. 4 Kan-sas and No. 2 Indiana no less), and is playing its best basket-ball of the season coming off a convincing win at Indiana. Illinois matches up well with

the Buckeyes, as evident by its dominant 19-point win in early January, and has a decent shot to pull the upset.

But if the Illini find them-selves in an early hole, asking, “What the hell is going on?”, chances are they won’t climb out of it.

Daniel is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected] and @danielmillermc.

DANIEL MILLER-MCLEMOREBasketball columnist

Groce hitting the road, trying to lure top 2014 talent to Illini

BRIAN RAY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Illinois guard Brandon Paul reacts to being called for a foul during the game against Iowa, Tuesday, in Iowa City, Iowa. Iowa won 63-55, dropping the Illini to 21-10 on the year. Illinois will head to Ohio State on Saturday for a season-ending matchup with the Buckeyes.

BY THOMAS BRUCHSTAFF WRITER

As the days on the calendar peel off to reveal the month of March and the college basket-ball season winds to a close, talk of madness, buzzer-beaters and championships start to dominate the college basketball scene.

For Illinois head coach John Groce, though, March serves as just another month to continue planting his imprint into the pro-gram as he finishes up his first year as head coach. His team sits at a 21-10 record and firmly into the field for the NCAA tourna-ment, but Groce still has his eye on recruiting.

Cliff Alexander, a Class of 2014 center prospect from (Chicago) Curie Metro High School, attend-ed Illinois’s final home game of the season Saturday. Alexander ranks as the No. 5 prospect in the Class of 2014, according to Scout.com, and the No. 2-ranked pros-pect at center behind fellow Chi-cagoan Jahill Okafor, who is also a recruiting target of the Illini.

The Orange Krush serenaded Alexander with a “We Want Cliff” chant during Saturday’s game, which elicited a smile from the high school junior.

“I loved it,” Alexander said of the Krush’s chant. “They showed a lot of love. I loved the crowd.”

Alexander decided to attend Saturday’s game last Wednesday after Groce visited his practice. The prospect cited the coaching staff as one of the primary rea-sons for his interest in Illinois, along with a certain high-profile scorer on the current Illini ros-ter — Brandon Paul.

“He got game,” Alexander said.A formidable list of the coun-

try’s elite basketball programs is in the running for Alexander, including Kentucky, Michigan State, Indiana, Louisville, Mich-igan, Ohio State and Wisconsin.

Before Alexander can dwell on any college choices, he must finish his high school basketball

season first. Alexander contrib-uted 16 points and 16 rebounds in Curie’s demolition of (Chicago) Bogan High School in a regional final last Friday and will face fel-low 2014 rival Okafor on Thurs-day in a sectional semifinals matchup.

Meanwhile, Groce used a light day following a loss to Iowa to trek to Evansville, Ind., on Wednesday and visit Class of 2014 point guard JaQuan Lyle.

On Wednesday, Lyle confirmed the visit via Twitter, tweeting “Coach Groce coming to prac-tice today..”

Lyle previously attended Illi-nois’ loss to Michigan in January

and also received the chant treat-ment from Orange Krush.

“He really loves the game of basketball,” Lyle said of Groce on Jan. 27. “He really looks forward to turning this school around. He just talked about me and how great I’d fit into the pro-gram. I really agree, but I just have to take my time and see.”

Lyle has offers from Louis-ville, Indiana, Florida, George-town, Cincinnati, Ohio State, North Carolina State, Texas and Tennessee in addition to Groce and Illinois.

Thomas can be reached at [email protected] and @ThomasBruch.

Groce disappointed in seniors’ performance against Iowa

The Illinois seniors endured an emotional day Saturday in their last game at Assembly Hall but fell flat in a road loss to Iowa on Tuesday. Illinois head coach John Groce said he was disappointed with his seniors.

“I’m disappointed with the way we came out in both halves, especially with older guys out there,” Groce said. “We’ve gotta get that corrected. I got 21-, 22-plus-year-old senior guys that have been doing this for awhile, and we have to be ready to play.”

BY J.J. WILSONSTAFF WRITER

After shutting out Illinois State 4-0 to start the day, the newly-ranked No. 13 Illinois men’s tennis team dropped to 7-4 on the season in a 4-1 loss to Notre Dame.

In the morning against the Red-birds, winning duos of freshman Alex Jesse and sophomore Farris Gosea alongside sophomores Ross Guignon and Tim Kopinski took two of three courts to pinch their third consecu-tive doubles point.

“They kicked our butts at No. 3 doubles, so that put a lot of pres-sure on the other two doubles right away,” head coach Brad Dancer said. “I think that was a good test for our doubles to sharpen us up a bit.”

Kopinski and Gosea fed off their doubles energy to claim quick sin-gles victories while freshman Bri-an Page redeemed his previous loss against then-No. 20 Northwestern with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Redbirds’ Jacob Wilson.

“From the top of the lineup to the bottom of the lineup, I think our team is really competitive and really emotionally engages our opponent,” senior Stephen Hoh said.

Kopinski said the Redbirds put up tough battles on all courts, but the Illini’s overall preparation for the matches gave them the leg up.

After starting the day on a good note, the Illini tried to bring similar

energy into their night match, but the Irish were fresh and ready for their first match of the day.

This time, Jesse and Gosea were taken down 8-5 followed shortly by freshman Jared Hiltzik and senior Bruno Abdelnour of the same deficit. Both defeats cut short duo Kopins-ki’s and Guignon’s 4-3 battle as they struggled to get on top.

“We’re weak (in doubles),” Dancer said. “We’ve won four of 11, and that’s just not going to cut it.”

An Irish victory in doubles tipped the momentum, showing in nearly every court of singles competition. Hiltzik, ranked No. 37 in ITA singles and named the Big Ten’s Athlete of the Week, clinched the lone point for Illinois in a 6-4, 6-3 win. Hiltzik has put up a 3-0 record in singles in the past week and has won crucial singles points for the team all season, includ-ing the winning point in the match against then-No. 5 Duke.

In the end though, it was the Irish who claimed the match, defeating Abdelnour, Gosea and Guignon and leaving the other two unfinished.

“Notre Dame was resilient,” Danc-er said. “Looking back, the coach-es made some mistakes in terms of just how we did our lineup. I think the guys played really hard, played with tremendous spirit, it was a ter-rific college tennis match, and I was certainly proud of our guys’ effort.”

Illinois will have the next 10 days

to pick up the pieces before taking on the top-two ranked teams in the country — No. 1 Virginia and No. 2 USC.

“We’re going to prepare as hard as we possible can,” Dancer said. “We certainly understand that a win over both of those teams would have a

huge impact for this season, and even a win over one of those teams would have a big impact. It’s an opportuni-ty on our home courts to make that statement and play as best as we can.”

J.J. can be reached at [email protected] and @TheWilson9287.

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Sophomore Farris Gosea waits for the ball during the Illini’s match against Iowa on Friday. Gosea, and doubles partner Tim Kopinski, won their match against Illinois State on Tuesday before a loss later in the day to Notre Dame.

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Pieters leads Illini to victory at Louisiana Classics

Men’s tennis served a win, loss in South Bend

BY CLAIRE LAVEZZORIOSTAFF WRITER

After winning the Big Ten Match Play Championship in early February, the Illinois men’s golf team pulled off a win at the Louisiana Classics against some of the top-ranked teams in the nation on Monday and Tuesday.

The team won with a final score of 2-over-par, after holding off LSU and Houston by eight and 10 strokes, respectively.

After the first two rounds played at the par-72, 6,898-yard Oakbourne Coun-try Club in Lafayette, La., all five Illini

stood in the top 20, with senior Mason Jacobs and freshman Thomas Detry tied for ninth. Illinois led by seven strokes over Kansas despite battling windy con-ditions that effected play.

“It was cool and windy, but for the most part, we played well. We didn’t have any really low numbers or any real-ly high numbers,” Illinois head coach Mike Small said in a statement after the first two rounds.

But the low numbers were in store for the Illini the final day of the tournament, especially from soon-to-be professional Thomas Pieters. After shooting a 3-over

75 the first round and 72 the second, Piet-ers was tied for 20th along with fresh-man Charlie Danielson.

His third-round 68 earned him a fifth-place finish in the 14-team field. Pieters had battled the flu for a week after the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate, in which the Illini placed third, in late February.

“I didn’t work out for almost a week,” he said. “I didn’t eat very well and didn’t have a lot of energy to make it through a 36-hole day.”

Pieters’ condition didn’t stop him from leading the Illinois squad by two strokes.

“I was definitely expecting to shoot

that low,” he said of his final round. “I got off to a great start the last day. I gave myself a lot of birdie chances and am extremely happy how my round end-ed up.”

Pieters was also pleased by the play of his team.

“It’s really encouraging how the whole team played steady. We’re such a deep team with a lot of talent throughout, and I think that definitely showed in Lafay-ette,” he said.

Sophomore Brian Campbell finished tied for 11th while Jacobs and Detry tied for 17th among the competitive field.

Danielson tied for 26th overall while sophomore Alex Burge and freshman David Kim, both playing as individu-als, tied for 13th and 33rd, respectively.

The win gives Illinois top-three fin-ishes in the team’s first two stroke-play tournaments this season. This is also the Illini’s fourth win this year, adding to victories at the Big Ten Match Play Championships, the Wolf Run Invitation-al and the D.A. Weibring Intercollegiate, the latter two which were in the fall.

Claire can be reached at [email protected].

He was especially glad that they made it through the inter-view process without any hiccups.

“A lot of people don’t under-stand that (the interview) is just as important as running a fast 40 or lifting a lot of weight,” Beck-man said. “It’s how you respond to people and how you communicate, especially when you’re trying to get drafted in those first couple of rounds.”

Beckman said the NFL hope-fuls have been working out at Irwin Practice Facility and the lifting at the football facilities. He also said other former Illini in the NFL have been back on campus working out. He said former play-ers are always welcome to come back, and the team even does their laundry for them “because this is their football team.”

It is common for players to only do certain workouts at Pro Day, usually the ones in which they feel they can improve on their scores from the official combine.

Last year, former Illini wide receiver A.J. Jenkins took advan-tage of Pro Day and was eventu-ally drafted 30th overall by the 49ers after being projected by some as a third-round draft pick.

This year’s Illini will have the same opportunity as Jenkins.

They have one more opportu-nity to wow professional scouts before the NFL Draft begins on April 25.

Sean can be reached at sphammo2@ dailyillini.com and @sean_hammond.

It may seem like it’s impossible to win a baseball game without a pitcher, but unless he throws strikeouts during each at bat, he’s in deep trouble without an outfield to back him up.

Maybe I just like to root for the underdog. It’s like that scene in “The Replacements” when Jumbo, a former sumo wrestler, picks up a fumble and sprints as fast as his 400 pounds will carry

him until he reaches the Prom-ised Land, the end zone. John Madden, in his cameo announc-er role, says it best when he exclaims, “I love to see a fat guy score.”

It’s fun to see different peo-ple get a chance to ham it up in the spotlight. In most cases, the recognition allotted to big-name athletes is well-deserved, and they get that attention because of talent and hard work. But there are others working just as hard that may go unnoticed.

And so I wait for the day when

sensationalist journalists decide to cover right fielders, crick-et players and pommel horse specialists.

In the meantime, I will contin-ue to stuff my face with Nutella and Twinkies in the hopes of one day becoming the starting cen-ter for the Chicago Bears. Lord knows we need some help in that department. I’m looking at you, Marc Trestman.

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

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wear and tear on your body, but mentally you have to be tough. This is the Big Ten.”

Physically, the quick turnaround may be more difficult for the Illini, who only give six players significant minutes. Bollant thinks his team can handle the turnaround.

“This time of year, if you win and move on and you’re playing in the quarters, or the semis, or the finals, the excitement and the adrenaline, that should mean a lot to you,” Bollant said. “They’re ready to go. Our starting five is as fit as anybody in the conference and almost any team in the nation.”

The tournament has become more impor-tant for the Illini after they lost their final two games of the regular season and three of their last four, with the only win coming over last-place Indiana.

The recent slide has turned Illinois from a solid NCAA tournament team into one on the bubble. A win over Wisconsin would give a small boost to the Illini’s tournament chances, though Illinois could greatly improve its resume with a win over Wisconsin and over No. 3 seed Pur-due on Friday.

“I feel like we deserve to be in, but you’re always trying to increase your resume,” Bollant said. “For us, we want to end on a good note.”

Illinois lost to potential opponent Purdue on Sunday, though Bollant said his team was play-ing some of its best basketball of the season.

“As much as any loss that I’ve had as a coach, watching the film, I felt really good about how we played, how hard we played, how together we were.” Bollant said. “Hopefully, we can car-ry that into the Big Ten Tournament and play extremely well there.”

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