The Daily Illini: Volume 142 Issue 3

BY EMMA WEISSMANNSTAFF WRITER

Nine jurors in a San Jose, Calif., courtroom ruled in favor of Apple Inc. on Friday in an intellectual property rights case against Sam-sung Electronics Co. The verdict came as a result of a long-lasting patent battle between Samsung and Apple over intellectual property rights.

As a result of the trial, Samsung owes Apple $1.05 billion for copy-ing various design and software elements from Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices and using them on

various Android products, such as Apple’s touch-screen technology. Apple fi led suit in April 2011 .

Michael Shaw , professor of busi-ness administration, lectures on mobile computing and mobile com-merce with his students. He said he thinks last Friday’s jurors were “quite logical” and the verdict was “fair and justifi ed.”

“What this verdict said is you cannot just bypass other peo-ple and use other people’s ideas,” Shaw said. “And so, in a way, over the long term, you can say that it’s good for innovation because it forces companies to think about new product design and new user experience.”

But others say that patents given out for basic components, like dou-ble-tap or fl ick functions, stand in the way of innovation.

“If you start fi guring out who owns the patent on what, it’s vir-

tually impossible for you to start producing a new product without fearing that somebody’s going to sue you,” said Vishal Sachdev , visiting assistant professor of business.

Sachdev said that, as a result of this trial, Samsung might come up with an even more creative prod-uct and “out-innovate” Apple to avoid future intellectual proper-ty battles.

Will Tham , president of the University’s chapter of Industrial Designers Society of America and senior in FAA, started following the suit after learning about it in a society newsletter.

“I kind of favored Samsung, and I kind of wanted them to win because Apple is trying to enforce really small detail,” Tham said.

“Yeah, they do have the design patents, but by having these patents maintained for such a long time, it

is slowing the process of innovation .... Now they should be rushing to innovate in another way instead of just holding that ground.”

Tham said he thinks it is good for students to be aware of the case but “hopefully people will realize it’s stupid.”

“Fighting over the radius of a corner for a billion dollars?” Tham said. “(It’s sad) to see that creative process stifl ed by money.”

Shaw, on the other hand, said he thinks students will learn valuable lessons about respecting intellec-tual property rights as a result of this trial.

“I think that, of course, we are all passionate about these products, and I know young people especially are,” Shaw said. “Another lesson for every one of us as a citizen in this democracy is that we need to

Editor’s Note: On Thursday, the Daily Illini Editorial Board sat with Chancellor Phyllis Wise to discuss issues on cam-pus. This is a portion of the transcript from that meeting.

DI: What would you like to do differently this year in comparison to last year and what do you plan to keep the same?

Phyllis Wise: We were very fortunate this last year to be able to recruit a new provost, which was

announced probably after you left for summer break: Dean (Ilesanmi) Adesida .... We also hired a new vice chancellor for research, who just arrived from Penn State. So I have basically a new

team to work with. ... So now that I have a new team, it’s a matter of getting us all onto one page and really going forward. I feel that this year ... is a very distinctive year in the past ten-year his-

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How is it being back in Lincoln Hall after the renovation?

“Everything is better. For instance, I really like being able to open and shut windows in various places if I need to. In the old Lincoln hall, at the very end, we couldn’t even open and shut windows no matter what the weather; they would get stuck. In my offi ce, I used an old sweatshirt stuffed into the gap between the bottom of the window and the cell in order to keep the cold air out. So it’s really just a great facility.”

JOHN MURPHY ,associate professor in communications

“We were in a temporary building for three years while it was under construction; it was really diffi cult because we were on north campus. It was far enough north that we had very little undergrad population that would come up unless they absolutely had to have advising, so that was diffi cult. The grad students’ space was also not the best for them professionally. So it’s really nice being back in the building; we’ve got all the grad students housed in some great spaces and all our faculty are here. ”

SHARI DAY ,offi ce administrator for sociology

“Night and day, it’s really different. I have been a faculty member since 1999 and until we moved out for the renovation, my offi ce was on the fi rst fl oor of Lincoln Hall. Now, we are upstairs, our departments are on the third and fourth fl oor, so it’s a lot quieter and better for the students.”

CARA FINNEGAN ,associate professor in communications

“Before the construction ... the communications graduate students were located in the basement of Lincoln Hall. We had offi ces in the basement. When people and students went down the stairs, they sort of saw the bare stone area, and then they would walk into our offi ce that had an old couch and some rooms and desks, but the ceiling tiles were crumbling, and it was pretty dank; it felt like a basement. So, this is a big improvement to be now on the fourth fl oor in this beautiful, new refurbished facility.”

ELIZABETH CARLSON ,graduate student in communications

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Champaign! Residential burglary was

reported in the 800 block of Hollycrest Drive at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, noth-ing was reported stolen.

! Residential burglary was reported in the 100 block of East Daniel Street around 4 a.m. Friday.

According to the report, the victim’s residence was entered and a television was stolen. There were no suspects at the time of the report.

! A 22-year-old female and a 24-year-old female were arrest-ed on the charges of aggravat-ed battery and criminal damage to property around 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

According to the report, two females fought in a front yard. Both accused the other of be-ing the aggressor. One subject threw a brick at her own vehi-cle.

! Robbery was reported in the 00 block of South Sixth Street around 1 a.m. Friday.

According to the report, the victim was approached by four unknown males who punched him and took his wallet and

cell phone. The following items were stolen: one cellular phone, one driver’s license, one purse or wallet, and one currency that was not a check or bond.

! Reckless discharge of a fi rearm was reported near North Fourth Street and Hill Street just after midnight Sun-day.

According to the report, shots were reportedly fi red in the area.

! Burglary from motor vehi-cle was reported in the 00 block of East John Street around 5 a.m. Friday.

According to the report, the victim’s vehicle was burglar-ized overnight by an unknown suspect. No serial number is known. One computer was re-ported stolen.

Urbana! Theft was reported in the

900 block of Springfi eld Avenue around 6 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the victim’s bike was stolen from a bike rack by her apartment.

! Domestic dispute was re-ported in the 1200 block of El-lis Drive.

According to the report, the

offender, who is the victim’s sister, threatened the victim’s life while collecting some per-sonal property.

! Battery was reported in the 100 block of Broadway Avenue.

According to the report, the offender poured beer on the victim’s head and then punched her in the face. The offender fl ed from the scene before po-lice arrived.

University! A 43-year-old man was ar-

rested on the charge of driving under the infl uence of alcohol around midnight Saturday.

According to the report, he was initially pulled over for im-proper lane usage.

! Burglary was report-ed at the Henry Administra-tion Building, 506 S. Wright St., around 12:30 a.m Saturday.

According to the report, a student patrol offi cer reported that someone had broken into the offi ce of the vice president for research. Several items that were taken from the building, including a computer, were dis-covered outside.

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BY ARON HELLERTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SDEROT, Israel — For the fi rst time in years, the children of Sderot can study in peace.

Living under a constant threat of rocket fi re from militants in the nearby Gaza Strip, their schooldays were often interrupt-ed by mad dashes to bomb shel-ters. But on Monday, they started the school year safe from attack in a new, fortifi ed, rocket-proof school building.

The $27.5 million structure features concrete walls, rein-forced windows and a unique architectural plan all designed specifi cally to absorb and defl ect rocket fi re. Notices on the walls of the Shaar Hanegev High School remind the 1,200 students of their new reality: In case of a warning siren, it reads, stay put.

“You can fi nally teach with-out constantly worrying about what to do when there is a rock-et attack,” said Zohar Nir-Levi , the principal of the junior high school inside the complex. “You can concentrate on your studies. It used to be that even before you said hello in the morning you were telling people where to run.”

In the 12 years since rockets began raining down on Sder-ot, less than a mile (2 kilome-ters) from Gaza, residents say life has often been unbearable. Eight people have been killed, hundreds wounded and nearly everyone in the working-class town of some 24,000 has been

traumatized by the frequent wail of sirens and explosions.

Schools were often shut for periods during this time, with parents fearing for the safety of their children. Psychologists treated many kids for trauma. In one memorable incident, a rock-et hit an empty school, sparking demands for better protection.

Alon Shuster, chairman of the regional Shaar Hanegev council , said the decision to build the new school was made as “a strate-gic response to a threat we have been coping with for 12 years.”

The rocket fi re has subsided considerably in the past three years, since Israel carried out a fi erce three-week offensive against Gaza militants in which some 1,400 Palestinians, includ-ing hundreds of civilians, were killed. Gaza’s Hamas rulers have largely halted their rocket fi re at Israel since then, though smaller armed groups continue to attack.

The Israeli military says some 440 rockets have been fi red so far this year. In a fresh remind-er, two rockets fell in the area on Monday, following a similar barrage a day earlier. No one was hurt.

Over the years, authorities have scrambled to protect the town’s schools, reinforcing buildings with concrete bar-ricades and stronger roofs. A heavily fortifi ed elementary school was also built, as was a special indoor playground with a mini-soccer fi eld, video games and bomb shelters, according to

local offi cials.But offi cials say the new high

school takes protection to a new level. The school, built on a sprawling campus, took two years to plan and then two more years to construct.

Each grade has its own col-or-coded building, with color-ful tiles lining the fl oors. It fea-tures concrete shelters in the school yard as well, to allow stu-dents on recess to fi nd cover in the 15-second window they have between the sound of the siren and the landing of the rocket.

A science lab and an auto shop are fortifi ed. Even the angles of the buildings are specially built to defl ect incoming projectiles.

“The walls are thick, the win-dows are very thick too,” said Yuval Gani , the architect who designed the school. “The doors are protected, the roof is pro-tected also. ... The facade of the building, its task is to deviate the missiles.”

Israel is by no means the only place where children come into danger when they go to school. In areas of Colombia wracked

by guerrilla violence, schools have intentionally been located far away from police stations, which often become targets. In Iraq, police patrols stand near schools, and some roads lead-ing to schools are blocked with barbed wire or concrete walls.

The students appear to appre-ciate their new home.

Michael Spitzer , an 11th grad-er, said the protection of the building made him less con-cerned about his younger sister, who also studied there and his mother, who is a teacher.

“I don’t have to worry about them anymore,” he said. “I can just focus on school and not all the other stuff.”

Israeli President Shimon Peres attended the school’s grand opening Monday and praised the children’s resolve.

“I see here a wonderful and strong stance in the face of rock-ets,” he said, seated in a ninth-grade classroom. “This fortifi ed school inaugurated today is the least that can be done for you. In response to the rockets you are making a strong statement.”

BY JORGE RUEDATHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PUNTO FIJO, Venezuela — The death toll has risen to 48 at Venezuela’s biggest oil refi nery, where fi res were still rag-ing on Monday nearly three days after a powerful explosion.

The higher toll was announced by Fal-con state Gov. Stella Lugo in remarks to the Venezuelan radio station Union Radio. About 150 people were injured in the disaster, 33 of whom remain in hos-pitals, Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega said at a news conference at the refi n-ery complex.

“We still don’t have facts to determine the causes of the accident,” Ortega said.

Residents in a neighborhood next to the refi nery say they had no warning before the explosion hit at about 1 a.m. on Saturday.

“What bothers us is that there was no sign of an alarm. I would have liked for an alarm to have gone off or something,” said Luis Suarez, a bank employee in the neighborhood. “Many of us woke up thinking it was an earthquake.”

The blast knocked down walls, shat-tered windows and left streets littered with rubble.

People who live next to the refi nery said they smelled strong fumes com-ing from the refi nery starting between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Friday, hours before the blast, but many said they weren’t worried because they had smelled such odors before.

Then, a cloud of gas ignited in an area with fuel storage tanks and exploded. Some of the tanks were still burning on Monday, billowing black smoke.

President Hugo Chavez visited the refi nery on Sunday. In a televised con-versation with the president, one state oil company offi cial said workers had made their rounds after 9 p.m. and hadn’t noticed anything unusual. The offi cial said that at about midnight offi -cials detected the gas leak and “went out to the street to block traffi c.”

“And later something happened that set (it) off,” Chavez said. “A spark somewhere.”

Energy analyst Jorge Pinon said the accounts of the hours leading up the explosion raise concerns.

“The fact that the gas leak went unde-tected for a number of hours and that there was no evacuation alarm (or) order indicates to me that there is a lack of safety related planning and behav-iors throughout the complex, and most important in nearby communities,” Pinon said.

Amuay is among the world’s largest refi neries and is part of the Paraguana Refi ning Center , which also includes the adjacent Cardon refi nery. Together, the refi neries process about 900,000 bar-rels of crude per day and 200,000 bar-rels of gasoline.

The disaster occurred little more than a month before Venezuela’s upcom-ing Oct. 7 presidential election. Opposi-

tion candidate Henrique Capriles said the matter shouldn’t be politicized but repeated past criticisms about the num-ber of accidents at the state-owned oil company.

“Accidents occur for a reason, and we Venezuelans are expecting there to be a

conclusive response, a serious, respon-sible and transparent investigation, in order to see what the situation was,” Capriles said at a news conference.

Capriles has previously been critical of problems in the oil industry.

“Look at how many events have

occurred, how many accidents, how many workers have lost their lives,” Capriles said. He criticized state oil company president Rafael Ramirez for what he called “political maneuver-ing,” saying what’s needed is a serious investigation.

tory of the University because it’s really the fi rst time that we have permanent people, peo-ple without the interim title in front of their title, in about four or fi ve years.

DI: Now that President (Bob) Easter is now settled into his role at the University, how has the administration changed to avoid the same tensions we experienced not more than a year ago?Wise: I have the greatest respect for him. He under-stands and knows this campus very well. He has been spend-ing the fi rst several months of his tenure getting to know Chi-cago and Springfi eld, so that he’ll really know the whole Uni-versity of Illinois. But his sense of shared governance, in this case, between the president and the chancellors is invaluable.

DI: What are actions you can take regarding this campus ... in order to offset the compromises that the University has to make in light of the state’s defi cit?Wise: We’ve taken three tactics. One is to increase our effi cien-cies. We have fewer staff work-ing on issues now than we had before and these issues are just as complex, so we’re fi guring out ways to do this using tech-nology. There’s certain things we’ve decided we just can’t do. Hopefully not the things that touch the lives of the students, but some of the paperwork that we used to do, we just can’t do any longer. The second area is that we have redoubled our efforts in the area of philan-thropy. I’m spending a lot more time getting to know alums and friends of the University and corporations that might be interested in investing in the University. The third thing is tuition. Tuition has risen fairly dramatically over the last ten

years, and we’re really trying to hold that and not be increas-ing anywhere near the rate that we did before. So the philan-thropy, actually, the (Access Illinois) campaign that’s going on right now is the $100 million goal that we’ve set ourselves specifi cally for student schol-arships. ... These are all going to Illinois students, all going to undergraduate students, and it’s all based upon needs because we assume that any student that can get in here is meritorious.

DI: What are your plans to increase the quality of the campus for students academically and otherwise?Wise: We’re looking very care-fully at online learning as a complement to the in-classroom learning, so that students can take courses that they might not be able to get into the class-room because of their own schedules or because of other

things. ... To me, the comple-ment of online and in-class-room learning is one of the biggest innovations in learn-ing techniques and methodolo-gies over the last fi ve years, and I think it’s taking a bigger and bigger role. The pedago-gy shows that the hybrid way of teaching, that is, you teach some of the course in the class-room and then you supplement it with work that’s done online, is probably the best for reten-tion. Some faculty is, what we call, fl ipping the classroom, that is to say, you get your lec-ture work online and you use the classroom as a place where you can ask questions and go into more depth and more breadth in an area.

DI: If it keeps going in this direction, are we going to lose part of what our core educational mission is?Wise: For a university like Illi-nois, I’m not worried about that

because part of the excellent experience you have by getting a degree from here is being able to be here and have that serendipitous conversation with a faculty member that you run into in the hall or you go into his offi ce or her offi ce for their offi ce hours, ... that you cannot have when you’re just online. I think there are a lot of stu-dents (that), just for whatever reasons, cannot get to campus. They have a job, they have a family, but they want an Illi-nois education. And for those we want to make sure they too have access to what you have access to, being on campus. I think what we are doing is we are meeting the needs of a larg-er number of students. It’s all about access. But I don’t feel any threat to not being able to fi ll the classrooms and not being able to fi ll the residence halls with really great students because our niche is still edu-cating the student that comes

out of high school and within the fi rst couple years wants to go to college.

DI: At what point does the tuition for in-state students become too high?Wise: If the state was continu-ing to support us the way it did 20 years ago, I’d do anything to bring tuition back down to where it was 20 years ago. We, in general, if you look at nation-al statistics, the cost of edu-cation has not increased very much at all in the last 20 years, corrected for infl ation. What has changed is who’s paying for it. 20 years ago, most state uni-versities, the cost of the edu-cation was 80 percent on the state, 20 percent on students. And now it’s about 70 percent on students, 30 percent on the state. ... What I won’t let go of is the quality of education that we offer you. I will not cheapen the quality of education that you’re getting.

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ing fully produced, tuition-free courses for anyone with access to the site.

While Tomkin’s course is the fi rst to go live, the University is in the process of preparing nine others to be available on Cours-era this year.

First getting its start in a part-nership with Stanford Universi-ty, Coursera currently lists 120 courses on its website. Four new courses began just this week, and forty more will be in full swing by the end of September.

Tomkin said he felt especially nervous as he prepared his lec-tures and lesson plans. He was

used to writing emails to 30 peo-ple or so, where any vagueness could be easily explained later in person. But now he commu-nicates with tens of thousands at a time.

“When you realize that there’s a thousand times as many stu-dents in the class, you really have to be scrupulous,” he said.

Compared to lecturing before 200 or 300 students, the pros-pect of 26,000 people hinged on his every word isn’t an entire-ly pleasant thought for Tomkin.

“This is far scarier,” he said. “And it’s all in your head, of course, because you don’t see them.”

Tomkin isn’t the only profes-sor wondering about the effects of a huge increase in class size.

Economics professor Jose Vazquez currently lectures about 900 fl esh-and-blood stu-dents and reaches 300 more online. But he was stunned to discover that even with a to-be-determined start date, his micro-economics course has already attracted 8,000 Coursera users.

“We are trying to fi gure out how to learn from Coursera,” he said.

In Vazquez’s opinion, the suc-cess of Coursera’s grand experi-ment will hang on how educators adapt to an unprecedented num-ber and diversity of pupils.

“It all depends on how much the educational value will be hurt by not being able to interact with the instructor on a direct basis,” he said.

For professors not experi-enced in online teaching, like geology professor Stephen Mar-shak , the transition was made all the more challenging by how quickly it happened.

As Marshak tells it, he found out about the Coursera partner-ship at 4:30 p.m. on a Sunday in July. And by the next morning, he was shooting a video pro-mo for his new course, “Planet Earth.”

“It has been an intense peri-od of time,” said Marshak, who has had to adjust to lecturing in a studio with nothing but a cam-era for audience. “It’s a cross between a class and a PBS spe-cial. The production value of the courses U of I are putting out are going to be very high.”

Tomkin had a much smooth-er ride; Even before the Uni-versity partnered with Cours-era, he was already creating his own massive open online course. That is why his course is the fi rst ready for public release, and he’s ready to start teaching on a glob-al scale.

“I think what’s really exiting is that this is a great way for Illi-nois to really reach out,” he said.

“(The University’s) mission is to teach people with a really wide variety of background. We’ve done a great job of that in Illi-nois, but this is great opportuni-ty to do that for the whole world.”

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While the trial may be over, Shaw said Samsung may still appeal the decision.

“But now the story contin-ues, right?” he said. “There will be more patent fi ghts and understandably there will be an appeal process, and then every company now will for sure be guided against the patent and very much looking to these intellectual property rights.”

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! his summer, the Univer-sity joined a dozen other universities across the globe by offering free university courses online

on Coursera. It allows Universi-ty professors to teach courses in areas ranging from Android app creation to microeconomics.

The University may be reaching millions online with Coursera, but for those on campuses across the United States, there has been a con-cerning trend toward comput-er-based education.

From a university’s stand-point, online education is quite efficient because you can dispense knowledge to as many as millions in an instant without having to fit all of them in a single classroom.

But fully online cours-es taken on campus seem to be the ultimate compromise between students and a finan-cially strained university: less work for everyone.

Marginal effort is expended in online courses. Rarely is a fully online course taken to reflect a passionate interest in the course material. Inter-acting directly with your peers and your professor, is preferred in cases where pas-sion is the reason for taking a class.

Online classes are benefi-cial to us because of their exceptional ease and flexibil-ity. But from an educational standpoint, we’re selling our-selves short.

The number of academic units taken online two years ago was more than 4 percent of the total, but given cur-rent course offerings, we’re worried that number will increase.

As a dispensary of knowl-edge, an online class is advantageous. That’s what spoke to us about Wise’s vision for higher education for the masses: specific train-ing for a specific skill set. Online options such as Cours-era can educate people who work full-time jobs and can’t afford to take time off for school, people who have oth-er time constraints such as

family and illnesses or peo-ple who are geographically cut off from the university system.

Which is why it’s laudable that even as tuitions continue rising, universities are offer-ing free courses for people to learn. And without concerns of profiteering and cutting costs with this new Cours-era program, this resource being available to the public is enormously beneficial to society.

But is it a replacement for college education? Nowadays, with a plethora of online learning sources — some free, like the Khan Acade-my — we must ask why the University would decide the same model works across the board. For University students, some of whom in the most recent class may pay up to $25,000 for out-of-state tuition, the same thing that makes it effective for the masses is what makes it unworkable for those seeking an education, rather than spe-cific training.

“I really think we should always be aware that we are training people for the work-force, but even more impor-tantly, we’re educating them for their lives,” Chancellor Phyllis Wise told the Editorial Board on Thursday. “There’s a difference between training for a specific thing versus educating people to be better citizens of the world.”

As the University’s mission, particularly as a land-grant institution, it seems more important for the administra-tion to figure out how to use online components to comple-ment the classroom, and not do away with in-class learn-ing entirely.

True, pioneering educa-tors are trying to find ways to better engage students so that the education received online is still useful, but we can’t help but think online will always lag behind class-room learning — particularly learning that utilizes digital resources to the full extent in order to enhance the experi-ence, not compromise it.

! he University is home to one of the most diverse student bodies in the country, hailing at least 8,000 interna-

tional students and roughly 6,000 undergraduates from out of state in Fall 2011. Stu-dents attend the University from every county in Illinois, and the school boasts signif-icant racial diversity and a sizeable LGBT population.

But to what degree can we rely on these numbers to describe our population as diverse?

In an interview with The Daily Illini on Thursday, Chancellor Phyllis Wise said: “The diversity adds to the excellence of this place. I think it’s wonderful when students can get introduced to people they would have never seen in their high school or in their neighbor-hood and learn from them in very much ‘out of the class-room’ ways.”

However, citing results from the University climate survey in 2011, Wise said the University needs to be more assertive in promoting diver-sity to make it a more wel-coming place for students from “far-away places.”

The University’s push to actively seek a richer inter-national student population adds to the diversity of our campus — but only in figures and statistics. Even though our population contains sev-eral students from a variety of ethnic and cultural back-grounds, they don’t necessar-ily mingle and interact with one another.

Arguably, the only place students mix with one anoth-er is in the classroom, but Wise told the board of trust-ees that neither she nor

Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Renee Romano have plans to bolster this activity. Wise said most of the pro-gramming done focuses only on extracurricular activities, instead leaving the faculty on its own to foster diversity in the classroom, where its pur-pose is most crucial.

At that, Wise does not have a concrete plan to foster diversity outside of the class-room either because she said she needs the results of dif-ferent surveying techniques before she can reasonably act on anything. Nor has she begun to focus on captur-ing diversity of sexual orien-tation, even as the push for marriage equality has spread across the nation.

According to a 2011 Inside HigherEd survey of admis-sions council nationwide, more than half of pub-lic research universities have started to increase their focus on recruiting more international students because of their ability to pay for such high tuition. The University tuition for inter-national students is nearly $14,000 more a year than in-state tuition. This in itself is a significant reason for the University to seek out stu-dents from every corner of the globe.

Of course, this University and the chancellor cherish the importance of diversity for its educational purpos-es. But the meaning of diver-sity should not be so limited to race and ethnicity, and the University should begin to embrace the significance of a rich variety in the student body apart from the num-bers to foster a greater sense of welcoming for students of other backgrounds.

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This past week, NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, successfully attempted its fi rst test drive,

three weeks after its wildly excit-ing, highly experimental land-ing. NASA took the opportunity to announce another trip to Mars with InSight, a new craft designed to study the Martian core.

On Earth, the 2,000th Unit-ed States soldier was killed in Afghanistan.

In experiencing these two his-toric moments, I cannot help but be drawn to the disparity between the cost of the space program and what we spend on defense in the United States.

NASA received $1 8.7 billion for their 2012 budget. In contrast, $663 billion was allocated to mili-tary spending in 2009. The Mars rover cost $2.5 billion , the shuttle program $209 billion , whereas the combined wars in Afghanistan and Iraq cost $3.7 trillion, over $12,000 per person.

Looking merely at the monetary cost of these programs, however, provides a disservice to them both. So too must we look at what we buy with that money.

First, investigate the cost of life associated with each program. Since the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 6,590 sol-diers have died, an average of 50 soldiers a month. In that same time, from 2001 to the present, six astro-nauts have died. Looking back over the existence of both programs, NASA has lost 22 astronauts in the 54 years since its conception. Dur-ing Vietnam, the United States mili-tary lost 26 soldiers a day .

Now, clearly it’s unfair to limit analysis to death toll only. One may argue that to be a soldier is a lot more dangerous than to be an astro-naut, though both live in a perpetual state of danger, one from weapons and one from the air. Let’s then con-sider another non-monetary cost.

The military, apart from a col-lection of new weapons, has also developed many of the items used everyday by civilians: canned food, margarine, tissues, the microwave, the Slinky, the Inter-net. NASA too has contributed to the ease of everyday civilian life: invisible braces, scratch-resistant lenses, cordless tools, water fi l-ters, memory foam, long-distance communication.

Clearly both of these organiza-tions have purposes and infl uences beyond the established one. They contribute to how we work in the world, how we view the world, how we communicate across the world and how we get our information.

Information is another important cost that must be considered when looking at both military spending and spending for space exploration. With the money we spend on both of them, the millions, billions, trillions of dollars, what do we get for that money?

Apart from the televised confl icts our military is involved in, the bil-lions spent on the defense depart-ment allow for covert operations purely to fi nd information. Informa-tion gathered under such circum-stances has the ability to not only increase safety and stability world-wide, but improve global relations. It allows the United States to back rebellions such as those in present-day Syria, and to support dictator-ships such as those of 1983-Saddam Hussein, to arm drug dealers in Mexico and to even overthrow dic-tators like Muammar Gadhafi .

When we look at the knowledge the space program accrues, we look at billions of years of history, images sparkling back through the lens of the Hubble Space Telescope. Our exploration into distant plan-ets, solar systems and galaxies, help uncover the make-up of our own planet and ourselves, and answer the question “Why are we here?”

When all of these factors are taken into account, a cost-benefi t analysis of where the majority of our spending should go makes a pretty obvious argument in favor of NASA. To be clear, I am not advocating for a removal of our military or of the defense depart-ment; I merely want to reevalu-ate how we spend our money. The United States spends more on its military than the next 19 highest-spending nations combined , and while we do invest in our space program, it is easy to imagine how much more could be accom-plished if, perhaps, that spending were increased. We may fi nd our televisions fl ooded with images of extraterrestrial life, rather than those of fl ag-draped coffi ns.

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

“Home Sweet Home” is a phrase often embroidered but seldom contemplated. What do you say

when people ask not “Where are you from?” or “Where did you grow up?” but “Where’s your home?”

I’ve traveled to four different con-tinents, lived out of my suitcase and made the pilgrimage each academ-ic school year to campus from eight hours east of Illinois. I always know where I live, if not where I’m about to go. But my home? That’s the tricky part.

One of my best friends has a ter-rifi c relationship with her childhood town, which she effortlessly identi-fi es as her home. Morton, Ill. is not the most glamorous dot on the map, but it is the place she misses profusely when at school. She genuinely enjoys spend-ing time at her parents’ house, visit-ing neighbors of yore and cruising in her car down the endless fi elds of corn and soybeans, which are admittedly 90 percent of the district. Home for my friend is an annual Pumpkin Festival, a campfi re at her grandfather’s farm and horseback riding at the local sta-bles. Norman Rockwell couldn’t have painted something more name-brand homey.

But this is not the image evoked by all college students. For some, home may not be the permanent residence on your voter’s registration, but rather where you spend the most time.

During my fi rst three years at the University, much to my mother’s cha-grin, I called campus “home.” And for nearly all incoming freshman and several upperclassmen this year, the dorms will be a home away from home. Rooms perhaps smaller than linen closets will become mainstays; hallways transform into entire com-munities. The “freedom” that dorm life provided was enough for me to for-sake any lingering high school memo-ries, even if my driver’s license still read Pennsylvania.

Students live in residence halls, yes, but also houses (Greek or otherwise), apartments, lofts, duplexes — the list goes on. There are even four Co-Ops in Urbana for those of you who haven’t

managed to venture past Green Street. No need to step inside a real estate agency or the Tenant Union to under-stand that there are multiple living options, thus different categories for those who defi ne their home as where they sleep — or at least the place they pay rent for.

Then there are those whose home is not a residence or even a country — home becomes more of a feeling, a memory brought on by the senses that becomes more powerful than a geographic coordinate. Musician Phil-lip Phillips won this year’s Ameri-can Idol with his song “Home.” Never once does Phillips give a street name or even a reference to America, yet the single was played at this summer’s Olympic Games as the U.S.’s adopted anthem (second only to the actual one). The argument opposing this notion of “feeling at home” brought on by Phil-lips is, of course, how can you travel to an ambiguous, Mumford-&-Sons-sounding lyric? How can you be at home if home is not a place? And so we return to landmark references.

Can you call a house a home when your feet stick to the Bacardi-soaked fl oor? What about where your parents live? Is home a place you sleep, or a place you go to dream? Is your home even a place at all?

I challenge you to think about where you would hang your grandmother’s cross-stitched plaque of “Home Sweet Home,” and I encourage you to keep challenging your defi nition of what it means to feel “at home.”

Right now, my perception of home falls somewhere in between my friend from Morton and Phillip Phillips. As proud as I am to hail from the city that begot Heinz ketchup and Steelers foot-ball, I do not call Pittsburgh, Pa. home. I could be super artsy, call myself a global citizen and say that the world is my home, but I’m not yet freelanc-ing for National Geographic, nor am I a hipster. I enjoy the vagabond life-style of not staying in one place for too long, but I also like the occasional family dinner. And not all those struck with wanderlust are big on person-al hygiene — I like showers. For now, my home hovers comfortably between a place and a feeling. And wherever that is, I’m of the understanding that there’s no place like it.

Renee is a senior in Media. She can be reached at [email protected].

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Home can be more than just the place you live

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HP, Dell struggle after success of Apple, iPadBY MICHAEL LIEDTKETHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard Co. used to be known as a place where innovative think-ers fl ocked to work on great ideas that opened new frontiers in tech-nology. These days, HP is looking behind the times.

Coming off a fi ve-year stretch of miscalculations, HP is in such desperate need of a reboot that many investors have written off its chances of a comeback.

Consider this: Since Apple Inc. shifted the direction of comput-ing with the release of the iPhone in June 2007, HP’s market value has plunged by 60 percent to $35 billion . During that time, HP has spent more than $40 billion on dozens of acquisitions that have largely turned out to be duds so far. “It has been a case of just horrible management,” ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall said.

HP might have been unchal-lenged for the ignominious title as technology’s most troubled company if not for one its big-gest rivals, Dell Inc.

Like HP, Dell missed the trends that have turned selling PCs into one of technology’s least profi table and slowest growing niches. As a result, Dell’s mar-ket value has also plummeted by 60 percent, to about $20 billion, since the iPhone’s release.

That means the combined mar-

ket value of HP and Dell — the two largest PC makers in the U.S. — is less than the $63 billion in revenue Apple got from iPhones and various accessories during just the past nine months.

The hand-held, touch-based computing revolution unleashed by the iPhone and Apple’s 2010 introduction of the iPad isn’t the only challenge facing HP and Dell.

They are also scrambling to catch up in two other rapidly growing fi elds — “cloud comput-ing” and “Big Data.”

Cloud computing refers to the practice of distributing soft-ware applications over high-speed Internet connections from remote data centers so that cus-tomers can use them on any device with online access. Big Data is a broad term for hard-ware storage and other servic-es that help navigate the sea of information fl owing in from the increasing amount of work, play, shopping and social interaction happening online.

Both HP and Dell want a piece of the action because cloud com-puting and Big Data boast higher margins and growth opportuni-ties than the PC business.

It’s not an impossible tran-sition, as demonstrated by the once-slumping but now-thriving IBM Corp., a technology icon even older than HP. But IBM

began its makeover during the 1990s under Louis Gerstner and went through its share of turmoil before selling its PC business to Lenovo Group in 2005. HP and Dell are now trying to emulate IBM, but they may be making their moves too late as they try to compete with IBM and Oracle Corp., as well as a crop of young-er companies that focus exclu-sively on cloud computing or Big Data.

A revival at HP will take time, something that HP CEO Meg Whitman has repeatedly stressed during her fi rst 11 months on the job. “Make no mistake about it: We are still in the early stages of a turnaround,” Whitman told analysts during a conference call last week

Although cloud computing and Big Data look like prudent bets now, HP and Dell probably should be spending more money trying to develop products and servic-es that turn into “the next new thing” in three or four years, said Erik Gordon, a University of Michigan law and business pro-fessor who has been tracking the troubles of both companies.

“It’s like they are both stand-ing on the dock watching boats that have already sailed,” Gor-don said. “They are going to have to swim very fast just to have chance to climb back on one of the boats.”

Survey says majority of Americans think taxes on wealthy are too lowBY HOPE YENTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — As the income gap between rich and poor widens, a majority of Amer-icans say the growing divide is bad for the country and believe that wealthy people are paying too little in taxes, according to a new survey.

The poll released Monday by the Pew Research Center points to a particular challenge for Republican presidential candi-date Mitt Romney, whose par-ty’s policies are viewed by a wide majority as favoring the rich over the middle class and poor.

The poll found that many Americans believe rich people to be intelligent and hardwork-ing but also greedy and less hon-est than the average American. Nearly 6 in 10, or 58 percent, say the rich don’t pay enough in tax-es, while 26 percent believe the rich pay their fair share and 8 percent say they pay too much.

Even among those who describe themselves as “upper class” or “upper middle class,” more than half — or 52 percent — said upper-income Americans don’t pay enough in taxes; only 10 percent said they paid too much. This upper tier was more likely to say they are more fi nancial-

ly secure now than 10 years ago — 62 percent, compared with 44 percent for those who identifi ed themselves as middle class and 29 percent for the lower class. They are less likely to report problems in paying rent or mortgage, los-ing a job, paying for medical care or other bills and cutting back on household expenses.

The fi ndings come at the start of this week’s Republican Nation-al Convention and as both Rom-ney and President Barack Obama seek to appeal to a broad swath of fi nancially struggling voters who identify as middle class. Romney supports an extension of Bush-era tax cuts for everyone includ-ing the wealthiest 2 percent, and says his policies will benefi t the middle class by boosting the economy and creating jobs.

“The fact that Romney may be viewed as wealthy doesn’t nec-essarily pose problems for his candidacy,” said Kim Parker, associate director of Pew Social & Demographic Trends, noting that people see the wealthy as having both positive and nega-tive attributes. “The challenge for Romney lies more in the fact that large majorities say if he is elected president, his policies would likely benefi t the wealthy.”

The results reinforce a tide

of recent economic data show-ing a widening economic divide. America’s middle class has been shrinking in the stagnant econo-my and poverty is now approach-ing 1960s highs, while wealth concentrates at the top. A sepa-rate Pew survey earlier this year found that tensions between the rich and poor were increasing and at their most intense level in nearly a quarter-century.

In fact, well-off people do shoulder a big share of the tax burden. Households earning $1 million annually pay 20 per-cent of all federal taxes that the government is projected to collect this year. The Ameri-can income tax system has long been designed to be progres-sive, meaning higher earners are expected to pay a greater share of their income than those mak-ing less. In this year’s tax bat-tle in Washington, Obama wants to let the current top rate of 35 percent for high earners rise to 39.6 percent next year. Congres-sional Republicans would reduce the top rate to 25 percent, while Romney would reduce it to 28 percent. Romney and GOP law-makers have said they would eliminate some deductions to pay for the rate reductions, but have not specifi ed which ones.

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A man tries out the enhanced version of International Business Machines Corporation’s personal computer, which was unveiled March 8, 1983. Now the PC business is faltering; HP’s market value has plunged by 60 percent, to $35 billion, while Dell’s market value has also plummeted by 60 percent, to about $20 billion.

some cases, the student will be rewarded a certifi cate at the end of the course.

“There will be animated slides and examples; however, most of the learning happens when stu-dents engage with the material and interact with it,” said Law-rence Angrave, senior instruc-tor in the computer science department .

He will be offering “Cre-ative, Serious and Playful Sci-ence of Android Apps,” a course that teaches concepts in how to develop applications for Android platform.

“We are also putting together a development department so (stu-dents) can see these things hap-pen as they are developed and get a feel for what it means to be an

Android developer,” Angrave said.The range of courses currently

offered is very broad, from com-puter science and programming, to health and medicine, to history and economics. This University has already provided 10 cours-es including Android program-ming, organic chemistry, and microeconomics.

To make learning easier, Cours-era cuts lectures into short seg-ments and offers online quizzes, which can be auto-graded, to cov-er each new idea as the material is presented. “It’s all asynchro-nous; you can go on and watch the lectures whenever you want, and your time and my time are independent of each other,” Evans said.

Angrave agrees and adds that it will work very well for students who are self-motivated and dem-onstrate an early interest in a par-ticular subject. But like Evans, he

doesn’t think this can replace the traditional model of teaching, at least not any time soon.

“It’s not going to take away or remove the need for face-to-face teaching or people meeting on site. Instead, I see it as a wonder-ful supplement as part of cours-es at other universities and high schools,” Angrave said.

Overall, this new initiative still has some uncertainties and will depend on how students respond to it and how valuable it becomes. The one thing that is certain; how-ever, is that it will get the Univer-sity’s name out there on a larger platform.

“It’s still pretty new, even for the faculty,” Evans said. “Hav-ing the ability to have thousands of students critique our stuff is amazing because that will help us make the course better both for the Coursera students and the ones who take it on campus.”

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Coursera provides access to college courses online for freeBY MOHAMED ELRAKHAWYSTAFF WRITER

In today’s digital age, every-thing is online and available with a few keystrokes or fi nger swipes. The Internet has bridged gaps in communication between people, and education is another avenue where online technology makes it easier than ever to get many peo-ple learning in the comfort of their homes. The latest player in this new wave of education is Cours-era, a startup founded by Stan-ford computer science professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng , that will make courses from top-

tier universities available online, at no charge, to anyone with a com-puter and Internet.

The University is currently the only land grant university in a group of 16 colleges providing content to the site, joining the likes of Duke, Rice and Johns Hopkins University. So far there are 120 courses starting this fall, with many more to be developed as a part of making world-class lec-tures and assessment available across the globe.

“It provides access of informa-tion to a very broad group of peo-ple,” Chancellor and Vice Presi-

dent Phyllis Wise said. “It could be high school students who are look-ing around and seeing what the best universities are offering and becoming interested in the Uni-versity of Illinois ... Maybe even an older person with a job and wants to be promoted and their work says if they take a course like this they will be better quali-fi ed for promotion.”

Wise also said Coursera might be helpful for college students to explore a new topic before they enroll in a university course.

Mike Evans, organic chemis-try instructor , said that another

big target is international stu-dents who don’t have access to high-quality educational content but want to learn material for jobs or hobbies.

There are some downsides of having enrollment in the thou-sands, such as credentials and accreditation. With some cours-es, the student has the option of buying a certifi cate at the end of a course as a record. However, Evans said it currently would not be something that could replace a campus course, but perhaps with better technology and assessment something could be worked out in

the future. “Instructors can’t grade every-

thing that comes through the pipe-line, and Coursera has realized this right off the bat,” Evans said.

A peer assessment program trains students to grade their peers, with the instructors check-ing in on a random sampling basis to make sure things are graded fairly.

Coursera joins other already established online educational tools, including Khan Academy, MIT’s OpenCourseWare project and the University of California at Berkeley’s Webcasts. The dif-

ference, however, is that Coursera courses will require deadlines, evaluations, discussions and, in

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UNTANGLE YOUR NEW APARTMENT

F or my third year on campus, I’m celebrat-ing with the freedom that every college stu-

dent waits to experience — I am living in my very fi rst apartment. Yes, Mom, I am offi cially a grown-up. Good-bye summer savings and hello rent money. Little did I know, my lack of handy skills and spending money would give my housewarming a bumpy start. My hope is for my strug-gles to serve as a learning experience for not only me, but for all apartment dwellers.

Sifting through an electrical jungle:

Living in an apartment unfortunately comes with the daunting task of setting up the oh-so-elusive internet con-nection. Attempting to install the jungle of white cords that would soon consist of my wireless Internet quickly became a frustrating event in unit 119. After a half hour sit-ting cross-legged on my fl oor,

cardboard boxes askew, my roommate called Comcast and gave them a piece of her mind. Yes, the “easy” self-installa-tion would save us $30, but would it compromise our san-ity? Maybe. My suggestion to all students: Spend the money, have someone come and save yourself from mind-blowing frustration. After stretching, prying, connecting and recon-necting every wire and outlet in our apartment, my angel of a roommate plugged in my laptop, and ‘tada,’ Gmail then proceeded to slap me in the face with 200 unread emails.

Basking in the tundra air:Being the savvy mon-

ey-saver I am, convincing my roommate to install our Internet was only the begin-ning. Because air condition-ing seems to add exponential-ly to the electricity bill each month, we collectively decid-ed we were strong enough to do without. After my fi rst few days on campus I found that my ratio of air conditioning to showers is very positively related, meaning the mon-ey I saved via cold air would come back in my water bill. A walk around Quad Day for two hours only to come home to a

sauna broke my spirit. Hello, air conditioning, you are wel-come in my home any time. Sacrifi cing a few dollars each month on a savior from the heat is well worth the money, but keep in mind -- the costs can be lowered by turning off the A/C when you leave your apartment.

The monster behind the mysterious door:

My fi rst morning in my shiny not-so-new apartment began with some utility trou-bles. I awoke feeling rest-ed and ready to conquer the Quad, only to set my feet down on a sodden carpet. My fi rst thought was that I had spilled a beverage, lazily dropped a towel down to cover it and continued with my day. Flash forward fi ve hours: I enter an apartment smelling complete-ly of mold. I look down at the fl oor and fi nd that the clos-et, conveniently placed next to my bed, is leaking water into my room. After tinker-ing around behind the tiny door that hides my nemesis, the water heater, I realized my technological skills had no power there. The back-to-school clothes stacked in my closet immediately vis-

ited the laundry room and a few angry messages were left for my apartment manager. I feel that, in general, problems with basic utilities are better dealt with by professionals. For speedy service, I suggest speaking to your apartment manager in person, rather than electronically submitting a maintenance request.

Caffeine necessity:I must begin by letting stu-

dents know that once I’m hooked to the Internet and Google Chrome is up and run-ning, my ability to surf the World Wide Web deserves a gold medal. Unfortunate-ly, no matter how many tabs I opened, I was unable to read the hieroglyphics on my ancient coffee maker. Alas, my fi rst day of classes would begin with no coffee. Blame goes to my mother for pack-ing up my family’s heirloom of an appliance and sending it off to school with me. Instead of sifting through your fam-ily’s storage closet, take a stroll down the appliance aisle at Wal-Mart and look for cheap items that will make it through the year.

Becky is a junior in Media.

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Editor’s note: The following is a partial transcript from an Illini Drive interview with Illinois volleyball head coach Kev-in Hambly.

Illini Drive: You got the fi rst loss out of the way. So you don’t have to wor-ry about when the fi rst loss is going to come. ... What did you take away from the opening weekend?

Kevin Hambly: We’re young. I’ve said all along that we’re going to take our losses early. I’m a little disappointed we lost 3-0 (to Dayton and Pepperdine). That’s probably the only thing that dis-appoints me. My wife asked me as we were leaving, ‘What do you expect?’ And I said: ‘We could go 0-3 because the teams are that good. We could go 3-0 because I think we have that kind of poten-tial. We probably go somewhere in between.’ I was just disap-pointed with the two 3-0 losses just because we were more ner-vous than I thought we would be. We made more mistakes because of that and didn’t put ourselves in a position to win.

ID: It seemed over the weekend that passing was the main problem. How would you assess that?KH: It was the problem. ... It was hard to gain any offensive

rhythm because of passing. As the young players struggle, the kids that have done it in the past like (libero Jennifer) Beltran, who’s been the only one who passed for us that we had out there, was trying to pass every ball and she struggled.

ID: It’s one thing to replace your two outsides, your All-American tal-ents (Colleen) Ward and (Michelle) Bartsch . But how do replace some-one with the intangible talent that Rachel Feldman had?KH: Those things are developed. Rachel didn’t come in with that.

She developed it because she was put in some situations where she had to develop it. And she found a way to have an impact on matches not every kid could have. So we need to develop that.

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BY DANIEL MILLER-MCLEMORESTAFF WRITER

Most volleyball programs wouldn’t consider a No. 19 ranking a new low, but in the Kevin Hambly era of Illinois volleyball, that’s the case.

Following a 1-2 opening weekend that included two three-set losses to No. 11 Dayton and No. 13 Pepperdine, the Illini plunged 12 spots in the coaches poll. Illinois fell from its preseason No. 7 spot to No. 19, the team’s worst ranking since Hambly took over as head coach in 2009.

Prior to Monday, the lowest Illinois had been ranked during Hambly’s tenure was No. 15 on Sept. 22, 2009. The drop doesn’t fi gure to bother Hambly, though, who stated his apathy toward the rankings last week before the season opener.

Blockbuster trade pushes America’s attention toward baseball

Volleyball coach Hambly recaps 2-loss weekendDespite record, coach sees players’ potential

Volleyball falls 12 spots in rankingsSquad now at lowest rank in Hambly’s tenure

I know it’s late August and all you can think about is the repeated crunching of foot-

ball pads and the always daunt-ing task of cheering for the Illini football team, but bear with me. One of the most incomprehensi-ble trades in MLB history went

through on Saturday, and its implications are numerous.

In case you missed it, the Bos-ton Red Sox traded fi rst base-man Adrian Gonzalez, starting pitcher Josh Beckett, maligned outfi elder Carl Crawford and, um, Nick Punto to the Los Ange-les Dodgers in return for a hand-ful of the Dodgers’ top prospects and the languishing carcass of James Loney .

That’s nearly $260 million in salary the Red Sox dumped on the Dodgers almost a month

after the MLB trade deadline, which appears to be a fl imsy formality at best in this trade’s wake. The Dodgers now boast a star-studded lineup that could vault them into World Series con-tention and the Red Sox are giv-en new life after a year of bitter controversy.

Isn’t this the most American trade ever?

In the U.S. of A., we love our baseball. And we love our self-made heroes, which is almost certainly the narrative the Red

Sox will pursue in the ensuing years. They will rebuild from within by re-signing all-around good guy MVP Jacoby Ellsbury and relying on a solid stable of prospects to blossom under less scrutiny. Manager Bobby Val-entine will get to oversee a ball club on a post-beer-and-fried-chicken Sox team that won’t be conspiring to put him out of a job. Maybe they will compete with the Yankees again, and we’ll root for them because we Americans uniformly despise

the Yankees.But deep down to our cores,

we love our affl uence. We love total domination and throwing money at a situation until we attain that dominance. So we love this new-look Dodgers team, even if we’ll never admit it aloud.

Endearing stars like outfi eld-er Matt Kemp and Cy Young-winner Clayton Kershaw are surrounded by a motley behe-moth of talented players that were deemed unfi t to serve on previous baseball teams. The

Miami Marlins jettisoned Han-ley Ramirez to the Dodgers after Hanley feuded with Ozzie Guil-len all summer . Then the Dodg-ers acquired Gonzalez, Beckett and Crawford on Saturday — all underperformers who spent most of this season strapped to a George Foreman grill while both Boston fans and media alike sizzled them for keeping the Red Sox out of contention.

And now they are all under

BY CHAD THORNBURGSTAFF WRITER

Graham Pocic is listed as the starting center for the Illinois football team, but come Saturday,

that may not be the case.The offensive line’s veteran

leader has played all over the fi eld since head coach Tim Beckman took over the program this spring.

“From the start of camp to now, he’s played from left tackle all the way across to right tackle,” quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase said. “Graham helps our offensive line out so much, not just from an experience standpoint, but from being able to play every single position.”

The 6-foot-7, 310-pound lineman

started all 13 games at center in both his sophomore and junior seasons, and he was named to this year’s watch list for the Riming-ton Trophy, which is given to the nation’s top center.

Pocic said he is comfortable at every position on the line and has even bounced around at different positions within single practices

during the offseason.“The coaches are doing a great

job preparing me for it and I’m ready for whatever happens in the game,” Pocic said.

Beckman said depth is a major concern for the offensive line , adding that having a player like Pocic, who can play multiple posi-tions, can help cover up those

concerns.As the depth chart stands, Hugh

Thornton will line up at left tack-le, Alex Hill at left guard, Pocic at center, Ted Karras at right guard and Michael Heitz at left tackle. Jake Feldmeyer fi lled in at center when Pocic shifted to other posi-

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Illinois’ Graham Pocic calls out Ohio State’s defense at Memorial Stadium on Oct. 15. Pocic was named starting center but played all fi ve offensive line positions in the offseason.

Center played 5 positions in camp; 2 players out for Saturday’s opener

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Kevin Hambly speaks to the Illini Drive on Monday . The volleyball coach discussed the team’s 1-2 weekend.

More online: To listen to the full audio version of this interview with

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Some kids have the potential.ID: Is that someone like Jack-ie Wolfe or (Courtney) Abrahamovich ?KH: Or Julia Conard , who

got some time and I think had some special intangible things. It also could be a kid like Ali (Stark ) that plays a different role as an attacker. But can bring some of those same thing, It doesn’t nec-essarily have to be the same position. But we do need some

people to step up. We still have to see.ID: So to use a Kevin Ham-bly term, is this all ‘part of the process?’KH: If anything’s going to be a defi nition of a process, it’s going to be this year because the expectations for us are

that we are going to struggle early. And we are going to fi g-ure it out. And by the end of the year, we’re going to be a really good volleyball team because we have the talent.

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“Rankings mean nothing to me,” Hambly said. “I’m on the group, they ask me to vote so I vote. But it’s peoples’ opinion. I care about how we play. That’s all I care about.”

Illinois defense improves over weekend

While Hambly may not have liked much of what he saw over the weekend, the Illini did show defensive improvement in each game.

Dayton dominated with a scorching .402 hitting percentage and outblocked Illinois 7-2 in Friday’s opener. The Illini held the Waves to a .272 hitting percentage in Saturday morning’s loss against Pepperdine before finally breaking through for their fi rst win against Ohio. In that victory, Illinois recorded 16 blocks and limited the Bobcats to a .199 hitting percentage. The improvements left Illinois with at least a few positives to take away from the weekend.

“In the third match, against Ohio, we did just fi nd a way to win,” said redshirt freshman Jocelynn Birks, who led Illinois with 44 kills on the weekend. “And I think we started stepping into our roles and learning what we actually have to do to play at this level because a lot of us are young. Obviously, there’s going to be things to improve on every match, but I was just glad that we fi gured out how to win the last one.”

Familiar facePepperdine’s Jazmine Orozco

got the better of her former Illini teammates in the Waves’ 25-15, 25-21, 25-20 victory. The junior outside hitter posted a double-double against Illinois, recording 11 kills and 10 digs.

Orozco played a signifi cant role for the Illini as a freshman in 2010 but saw reduced action last season as she battled post-concussion symptoms. During the offseason, she transferred back to her home state.

No. 4 Nebraska defeats No. 1 UCLA

For the second time in two years, Nebraska has toppled a No. 1-ranked opponent. The then-No. 4 Cornhuskers defeated the defending NCAA champion Bruins in fi ve sets Saturday, winning the fi fth set 15-13. Last October, Nebraska beat then-No. 1 Illinois in four sets.

This weekend’s win was part of a big stretch for the Cornhuskers, who began the season as favorites to repeat as Big Ten champions. They went 3-0, also picking up victories against St. Louis and Notre Dame. After the weekend, Nebraska moved to the top spot in the rankings.

In addition to having the nation’s top-ranked team, the Big Ten also boasts other top-10 teams in No. 4 Penn State and No. 7 Purdue, which both started the season 3-0.

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In spite of tallying its fi rst loss of the season over the week-end, No. 22 Illinois showed pos-itive moments when it trans-ferred what it does in practice to the game.

The only goal scored by the Illini this weekend was from a play that started from a throw-in. Interim head coach Jeff Freeman was pleased that the women made the connection.

“I was happy we were able to score on a set piece,” Free-man said. “It’s something we have been working quite a bit on. Kristen Gierman got on the end of the throw-in, and Shayla Mutz crashed right in the box fi nishing our opportunity.”

The goal was Mutz’s fi rst of the season and Gierman’s fi rst collegiate assist.

Though it was tallied at the beginning of the match, the goal was the only one scored throughout the game against UC Santa Barbara, leading the Illini to their second victory of the season.

Mutz makes smooth transitionThe new chemistry the Illi-

ni have developed this year has allowed the players’ minds to be at ease when transitioning from offense to defense.

Mutz played in the forward posi-tion last year but is now playing on the backline because of the four-back formation change this sea-son. Mutz rarely hesitates when an opportunity arises for her to step off the backline and into the attacking part of the fi eld.

“I wasn’t expecting many goals this season playing in the back, but it shows the attacking-mind-edness of our team that we were up that far in the box,” Mutz said. “It’s nice knowing that I can go up and not have to worry about it because I know Christina Farrell , Tailor Smith and Kassidy (Brown) are dropping back for me. They give me the confi dence to go up.”

Three freshmen earn starting spots

The transfer from high school to collegiate soccer usually takes

awhile for a freshman player, but this season the Illini have three freshmen who are starting.

“I couldn’t be happier with our freshman class,” Freeman said. “They are talented, they fi t into what we do here at Illinois, and they really fi t in well with the team. We have a great blend of upperclassmen and underclass-men right now that are pretty exciting to watch.”

Tailor Smith is one of the fresh-men in a pressurized defensive position sitting on the four-back line. With the formation change, Smith has brought her defensive prowess and become part of the Illinois adaptation.

Nicole Breece plays on the attacking side of the fi eld and has already tallied her fi rst collegiate goal, scored in the 1-1 tie against Illinois State on Aug. 19. Breece has continued to contribute goal attempts this season. The third starting freshman for the Illini is Taylore Peterson , whose position is center midfi elder, where Vanessa DiBernardo can usually be found. Peterson has tallied three shots so far, two of them on goal.

Hard work pays off for senior Gierman

Along with the new addition of a freshmen class, senior Kristen Gierman was named one of the captains for the Illini this season. Gierman didn’t see much time on the fi eld during her freshman or junior years and didn’t see any action in the 2010 season. Step-ping into a leadership role this season has been an easy transi-tion for Gierman with the help of fellow upperclassmen.

“I don’t think it’s really any more responsibility besides logistics,” Gierman said. “(It’s about) making sure people are in the right places at the right times. ... There are people that will step up in different situ-ations, and I don’t think any responsibility falls too much on Shayla or myself. It’s most-ly putting people in places. Oth-erwise, I defi nitely rely on my teammates a lot just to make sure that the team does what it needs to succeed.”

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one roof thanks to new Dodg-ers ownership that is admittedly fearless when it comes to spend-ing and incurring the wrath of the luxury tax. When asked at a press conference about his boss-

es’ — owners Mark Walter and Magic Johnson — ideas about the luxury tax, Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten responded, “Mark and Magic don’t even ask me about that.”

So the Dodgers brass has a blank check to win at whatev-er cost and the Red Sox a blank slate to move past the biggest

collapse in baseball history and a clubhouse that seemed per-petually at each other’s throats. It won’t be apparent who “won” this trade — if that’s discern-ible at all — until years down the road, when the bloated con-tracts of Gonzalez and Crawford are off the Dodgers’ books and the new Red Sox prospects work

their way to the majors.But add that to the pile of

baseball’s ongoing myster-ies and America’s fascination with the sport. A 20-year-old in Mike Trout might win AL MVP, the Nationals are rac-ing toward a pennant behind another 20-year-old and a trade where $260 million

changed hands just went down at the end of August.

Football might be America’s favorite sport, but baseball is still its pastime.

Thomas is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @ThomasBruch.

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Nick Punto, right, talks with Los Angeles Dodgers president Stan Kasten, left, and co-owner Mark Walter after a news conference to introduce him, Josh Beckett and Adrian Gonzalez as new Los Angeles Dodgers players. The Dodgers acquired the three former Red Sox in a $260 million trade.

tions during the summer.“We’ve got to make sure that

we as coaches can adapt and we as coaches can make sure that our ‘A’ players get in the game on Sat-urday,” Beckman said.

Tight end Davis expanding roleThe Illini lost last season’s

leading pass catcher, A.J. Jen-kins, to the NFL and the coach-ing staff will be looking elsewhere to replace Jenkins’ 90 receptions, 1,276 receiving yards and eight touchdowns.

But some of Jenkins’ produc-tion could be made up from out-side the receiving unit.

The tight end group of Jon Davis, Eddie Viliunas, Evan Wil-son and Matt LaCosse fi gure to be a central piece of the Illinois offense. Davis, a sophomore, is listed as the top tight end on the depth chart.

“I get to do a lot of different things on offense to show my ver-satility,” Davis said. “The coaches are trying to put me in position to make plays and that’s what I’m trying to do.”

Davis caught 22 passes for 187 yards and one score last season and hopes to build on those num-bers in Illinois’ new up-tempo spread offense.

“Hopefully the defense can start respecting me and seeing where I’m at all times,” he said.

Missing timeSenior defensive end Justin

Staples will miss Saturday’s sea-son opener while serving his one-game suspension.

Staples was arrested on Feb. 9 for a DUI in Champaign and served a two-week suspension in winter workouts following the incident.

Junior Tim Kynard will start against Western Michigan in Sta-ples’ place. Kynard appeared in 11 games as a sophomore, recording eight tackles, three for a loss, and one sack.

Beckman also said Monday that offensive lineman Simon Cvja-novic will miss Saturday’s game, but declined to elaborate.

“He just won’t be playing in this football game,” Beckman said.

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