The Daily Illini: Volume 143 Issue 19

BY TAYLOR ODISHOSTAFF WRITER

Hadiya Pendleton had just tak-en her fi nal exams at King College Prep High School in Chicago. Ear-lier that week, she had performed at President Barack Obama’s sec-ond inauguration with her high school marching band. She was spending time with her friends in Harsh Park when she was shot and killed earlier this year.

Chicago recently surpassed New York in homicides and was named the new murder capital of America, according to statistics released by the FBI.

The National Association of Black Journalists hosted City on the Brink: A Closer Look at Inner City Gun Violence to bring to light the violence that is occurring in Chicago and what changes can be made to make the city safer.

There was a panel discussion

with seven prominent fi gures from Chicago who are working to make these changes, includ-ing Hadiya’s father, Nathaniel Pendleton.

The event began with a presen-tation from photojournalist Mike Locashio from ABC-7 Chicago. It highlighted last week’s mass shoot-ing in Chicago that left 13 people injured, including a 3-year-old boy.

“It’s a story we’re, unfortu-nately, used to covering on a dai-ly basis, and it doesn’t change,” Locashio said.

There was also a discussion about the media’s portrayal of gun violence. Evelyn Holmes, a reporter for ABC-7 Chicago, said reporters are quick to jump to conclusions.

“Black kid, black neighborhood, obviously it must be gang related,” Holmes said. “The fi rst question reporters ask is ‘was he in a gang?’ and that drives me nuts.”

Shango Johnson works with CeaseFire Englewood, a violence prevention program for the youth in the community. He explained that many types of crimes go unreported.

“The ones that are victimized that don’t get shot or killed don’t get any attention at all,” Johnson said.

Johnson was concerned that no one had taken the time or effort to walk around communities like Englewood, which has the high-est crime rate in Chicago, to talk to the people who experience this violence on a daily basis.

The panel also addressed the impact that social media and music have on violence. Virgol Hawkins, CEO of AON Center for Community Arts and Develop-ment, explained why he believes Chief Keef’s term “Chiraq”, coined to describe the violence in Chicago, had been glorifi ed by rappers and the younger popula-tion in the city.

“Our area is infected with post-traumatic stress, and the only way

our kids can get out is through rap,” Hawkins said. “They’re only speaking with the knowledge they have.”

Hawkins said the community must work together to educate Chicago’s youth so they will begin to change the way they speak.

The panel went to great lengths to discuss changes that can be made by community organiza-tions, politicians and the people in the communities.

“A lot of young people feel like they’re invisible, and that’s why they act out in front of us,” said Alderman Walter Burnett, 27th Ward. “We just need to let them know that we care.”

Holt encourages University stu-dents to make a change by start-ing anti-violence community orga-nizations and transferring those changes to Chicago.

“You are the young and the edu-cated,” Holt said. “You are the bridge.”

Taylor can be reached at [email protected]

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Event highlights Chicago violence City on the Brink focuses on ending urban con! ict with youth activism

Pensions, pay concerns for recruitment of facultyBY JOHNATHAN HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER

After undergoing a large exodus of faculty in recent years, the University will try to rebuild by hiring 500 new fac-ulty members in the next fi ve to seven years, including 170 in the upcoming academic year.

Since 2008, the number of tenure-system faculty on cam-pus has decreased from 2,100 to 1,856, and all levels of facul-ty have decreased amid budget and pension uncertainty.

Chancellor Phyllis Wise said this decline had to do with an increasing number of retire-ments, as well as the Univer-sity’s unwillingness to replace professors while facing fi scal uncertainty. Many employees have retired early due to fears of having their retirement bene-fi ts depleted by pension reform. But the campus now believes it is able to replenish its aca-demic staff.

“When faculty left, we did not use all of the money that we were able to save to recruit immediately because we weren’t sure exactly where the budget would be for the next year,” Wise said. “So in collab-oration with each of the colleg-es and some central money, we believe that we can recruit new faculty.”

The Visioning Future Excel-lence Report, which was pub-lished in July, identifi ed six dif-ferent cluster areas for the new faculty members: energy and the environment; health and wellness; social equality and cultural understanding; eco-nomic development; education; and information and technol-ogy. The University will start hiring the 170 faculty members in the fi rst three cluster areas.

Campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler said exactly what these clusters entail is still being for-malized, but “you’ll likely see groups that have humanists and creative artists working along-side engineers and scientists .”

Effect on studentsThe declining number of fac-

ulty has adversely affected stu-dents on campus. Students have had to deal with larger classes, as well as fewer classes taught by faculty. The student-to-fac-ulty ratio, which was hovering around 15.4 throughout most of the 2000s, reached 17.6 students per faculty member in 2012.

Wise said this prompted the University to make a change.

“The University is all about you (the students), and we would not be here if not for our real desire to give you the strongest possible experience here,” Wise said. “Part of that obviously is recruiting the very best faculty. That’s really the foundation of your experience.”

Wise said the academic land-scape has changed over the past fi ve years, and, while the Uni-versity plans to replenish fac-ulty members, it may not do so in the same areas where faculty members were lost.

“What we want to pay real attention to is where is the stu-dent demand? What majors are the most popular? And are we understaffed in those areas? In which case we’ll be recruiting new faculty into those areas,” Wise said.

The College of Engineering is one area where student demand has increased signifi cantly in recent years. The college rose from 7,307 undergraduates in fall 2007 to 10,039 students in 2013. At the same time, the college had 390 tenure-system faculty members in 2007, com-pared to 368 in 2012-13.

Admissions director Stacey Kostell said Engineering has started having larger freshman classes because of a nation-wide increase in demand for engineering.

In ICES forms at the end of each semester, students have continually given faculty mem-bers higher scores than teach-ing assistants, a sign that they

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BY STANTON POLANSKICONTRIBUTING WRITER

When Lynne B. Hellmer looks at the white house at 57 E. Armory Ave., she looks past its boarded up door and chipped paint coating. She does not sim-ply see an old building soon to be demolished. For her, she sees her childhood home and one of the few buildings still intact on the street she lived on as a child in the mid-’50s.

“There’s not much left,” she said. “But a lot of kids used to live there. The girls lived down on the corner — but that’s an apartment building now.”

The house she lived in and the one next to it at 59 E. Armory Ave. will be demolished once the University receives a response from the state regarding how to deal with preservation organiza-tions looking to salvage items in the houses.

Hellmer said the houses are way past their prime, and she has no idea what the University would do with the older buildings now, making them perfect candi-dates for demolition.

Rich Cahill, board member of

the Preservation and Conserva-tion Association, said he wants to keep anything useful or his-toric in the two houses that the University does not want before the rest goes to the landfi ll. The association may gain access soon enough, but not before the Uni-versity hears back from the state.

Cahill said he fi lled out the forms, turned them in to the University and was told that the forms had been sent to the state. But then he found out the forms had never been sent.

In a meeting with Chancellor Phyllis Wise last Tuesday, Cahill and the association presented their case. The demolitions are now on hold.

“This is good, but it shouldn’t have gotten this far,” Cahill said. “... If the University wants to say that it’s sustainable and green, they shouldn’t have anything that can be of use end up in the landfi ll.”

Campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler said she has no idea what the state’s response might be and that each case can vary.

“We’re just trying to make sure materials that might be sal-

vageable do not go to the landfi ll,” Kaler said.

And Hellmer knows from experience that there is a lot that can be used.

“Demolishing it makes no sense if there are people who would like some of the elements around the house,” Hellmer said. “And there’s a lot.”

Inside the boarded up door is an oak fl oor with an exposed oak staircase, Hellmer described. On both sides of the entrance to the

living room are columns that stretch from the ceiling down to a platform. Hellmer remembers kids playing on these platforms. The upstairs has a built-in linen closet.

“They just don’t do things like that anymore,” she said. “It’s just a three bedroom house — every-thing else about it was pretty ordinary. But those touches of oak woodworking really made

University to postpone historic home demolitionAssociation works for preservation before University " nalizes teardowns

COURTESY OF LYNNE B. HELLMERThe Beberman kids pose in front of their house at 57 E. Armory Ave.with the Kiburz kids before a wedding in 1956. The Kiburz familylived at a house where an apartment complex now stands.

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WEATHERPOLICE

Champaign Armed robbery was report-

ed at Circle K, 2315 W. Spring-fi eld Ave., at around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, cash was stolen.

Burglary from a motor vehi-cle was reported in the 100 block of Chalmers Street at around 11 a.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown suspect stole curren-cy, a tool, keys and a backpack from the victim’s vehicle.

Domestic battery and crim-inal damage to property were reported in the 2500 block of W. Springfi eld Ave., at around 4 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, the victim reported the sus-pect broke her phone and spit on her.

University A 19-year-old male was

arrested on the charges of resisting/obstructing a police offi ce and trespassing on state-supported land in the 800 block of S. Wright St., at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, a patrol officer saw the sus-pect walking in the middle of the street. The officer said the suspect was uncoopera-tive when police asked him to leave the roadway and he became combative while being handcuffed.

Theft was reported at the Campus Recreation Center East, 1102 W. Gregory Drive, at 2:30 p.m. Friday.

According to the report, a cellphone, which had been left on the side of a playing court at CRCE was stolen. The esti-mated value of the cellphone is $150.

Urbana Robbery was reported at

Capstone Quarters, 1901 N. Lincoln Ave., at around 9 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender took the vic-tim’s cell phone from his hands while the victim was walking.

An 18-year-old male was arrested on the charge of retail theft at County Market, 1819 Philo Rd., at around 10 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, the suspect entered County Mar-ket and concealed merchan-dise. When the suspect was stopped, he cooperated with security.

Theft was reported in the 900 block of W. Green Street at around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender took the victim’s bicycle, which was locked to a rack, without permission.

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Although students have had to deal with larger classes, under-graduates are also seeing a high-er number of classes with less than 20 students. In 2012-13, 42.1 percent of classes had less than 20 undergraduates, compared to 34.4 percent in 2011-12.

Pensions concerns

Wise and University President Robert Easter admit that the Uni-versity may have trouble attract-ing new faculty members with an uncertain pension program.

“Among our main concerns across all three campuses is the diffi culty in recruiting and retaining faculty and staff with-out a reliable pension component in the compensation-and-bene-fi ts package we can offer,” Eas-ter said in an email. “We’re in a highly competitive employ-ment market, and the people we want to keep and those we hope to attract want an equitable, rea-sonable and reliable pension ben-

efi t in planning their futures. We know that we’ve lost good peo-ple because of the state’s pension instability.”

Faculty members hired after January 2011 are grouped into the Tier II pension system, which requires retirees to be 67 and have 10 years of experience. The Tier I program requires retirees to either be 55 and have 35 years of experience or 60 and have 10 years of experience. The Tier II system also has fewer benefi ts compared with the Tier I pen-sion system, including a lower cost-of-living adjustment and a pension cap. The two major state pension plans, the Cullerton and Madigan plans, both neglect Tier II pension reform, which could hurt the University in attracting new faculty who would fall under the Tier II program.

Wise said, because the plan to hire faculty takes place over mul-tiple years, she hopes the Univer-sity won’t have to worry about pension instability.

“It is our hope that the pension challenges will be solved very soon,” Wise said. “Our faculty have proposed a six-point plan that the legislature is actually considering right now as one of the options because we realize that it puts us at a disadvantage

if we don’t have a stable pension system.”

The Institute of Government and Public Affairs proposed the six-point plan, which has been endorsed by the Senate Execu-tive Committee’s ad hoc Task Force on Faculty Issues and Concerns.

Task force leader Nicholas Burbules said the IGPA plan is the “best of a bad set of options” because it is the only plan to address Tier II pensions.

Going forward, all of the pen-sion reform plans would transfer the cost to universities, though it would be a gradual change. In 2013, retirees from the Uni-versity of Illinois system, which includes all three campuses, will receive $563.9 million in pen-sions, a number that will likely continue to rise in the future.

Christophe Pierre, vice presi-dent for academic affairs, told the Board of Trustees at its Sept. 12 meeting that these increasing liabilities, as well as decreasing revenue sources, make it likely that reallocation of University funds will be necessary in years to come. He said cooperation will be necessary in this reallocation.

“This cannot be done in a vac-uum,” Pierre said. “It has to be done with deans, department

chairs and even more important-ly, with faculty members.”

Faculty salaries

The University has made strides in recent years to remain competitive with its peers in fac-ulty salary.

In Fall 2013, the average fac-ulty member’s salary increased 4.16 percent from a year ago. The raise comes from a Univer-sity-wide salary program that increased salaries 2.75 percent, though many faculty members in the arts and humanities, who had less-competitive salaries, receive extra raises, Wise told the Urba-na-Champaign Senate on Sept. 16.

“Over the last three years, we have made a concerted effort to increasing faculty salaries in order to catch up with our peers,” she said. “We are hoping that with the additional money we put in this year we can catch up and actually be at the median.”

The University has been below its peer median — which com-prises ten of the nation’s top four-year public universities — for at least the past fi ve years, bottom-ing out at 4.9 percent below the median in 2010, and inching up to 1.2 percent below in 2013.

Overall, the Urbana campus is

the 16th-best paying four-year public university for full pro-fessors, 40th-best for associ-ate professors and 10th-best for assistant professors, according to a recent report by the Amer-ican Association of University Professors.

“Again, we are in a competitive employment market and want to provide a merit-based salary program for faculty and staff in order to recruit and retain high-quality personnel,” Easter said. “We’ve been able to do that for a couple of years now, after sever-al years with no salary program and at least one in which many employees effectively had pay cuts as a result of a mandatory furlough. Ideally, we’ll be able to provide a salary program again a year from now.”

Other faculty concerns

The Task Force on Faculty Issues and Concerns gave a pre-sentation to the Urbana-Cham-paign Senate at its fi rst meeting of the year on Sept. 16, rolling out proposed changes that could be instrumental in the retention and recruitment of faculty.

The faculty concerns are not new to the campus; task force leaders Burbules and Randy

McCarthy butted heads at this time last year over whether the faculty should unionize to help address these concerns.

But McCarthy and Burbules put aside their differences in generating this report, which was endorsed by both Wise and Provost Ilesanmi Adesida.

Many of the committee’s recommendations focused on making compensation — in the form of salary and other bene-fi ts, such as travel and research budgets — in line with peers.

McCarthy said the University needs to upgrade its facilities in order to maintain a healthy campus and needs reliable funds for upgrades, a recom-mendation that would include a one-time cost of $213 million, in addition to $43 million annually. As the “public face” of the Uni-versity, facilities help attract students and faculty, according to the report.

The committee also recom-mended changes to the review process for tenure-track facul-ty, as well as other measures to help make the University more consistent at all levels.

Johnathan can be reached at [email protected] and @jhett93.

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For many students, getting the chance to study abroad is the opportunity of a lifetime. That opportunity, however, does not come without a price.

Over 2,500 students at the University participate in activi-ties abroad each year. Programs include short-term, semester and academic year-long oppor-tunities. According to the Uni-versity’s Division of Management Information, the participation rate of undergraduate students in study abroad credit programs has declined from 27.7 percent in 2006 to 23.2 percent in 2012.

Bridget Doyle, outreach coordi-nator at the Study Abroad Offi ce, said one of the potential reasons for the lower participation rate is the perception among students that studying abroad is expensive.

“Some programs are more expensive and some are less (expensive),” she said. “There are a variety of ways through which students can pay for their fi nanc-es, including scholarships, loans, fi nancial aid and through their family budget if they plan ahead.”

Doyle said some students also assume that studying abroad will delay their graduation date, but many still graduate in four years.

“Students earn credit toward graduation requirements for most courses taken abroad,” she said.

According to the Native Amer-ican Financial Services Associa-tion (NAFSA), the total number of students studying abroad in the 2010-11 academic year was only 273,996, which is one per-cent of all U.S. students who are enrolled at institutions of higher education. The report states that despite growth in the number of students participating each year, the rate of participation remains small.

Cost of studying abroadThe University has over 400

programs, all of which vary in cost depending on factors like location, duration, type of pro-gram, living cost and cocurric-ular activities. Rajeev Malik, acting associate director of Inter-national Program and Studies, said a variety of scholarships are available from the University and other sources.

“Credit programs are helpful for students to improve their edu-cational skills by taking classes in their major or minor at differ-ent universities around the globe,” he said.

Malik said it is important to introduce more courses that match students’ major require-ments, and the Study Abroad Offi ce is work-ing to add new courses to study abroad pro-grams to make it easier for stu-dents’ credit hours to trans-fer back to the University.

He explained that the reces-sion played an important role in the declining number of student participants in study abroad credit programs.

“With a weak economy, stu-dents tend to go less abroad for studying because they and their parents take it as an extra activ-ity,” he said.

Malik said the ultimate goal of the experience is to introduce stu-dents to the world, so that they have opportunities to learn about any region of the world.

“If students plan their trip (ahead of) time and manage their

fi nances properly, they can save enough to go abroad,” he said.

Study abroad and majors

According to the Study Abroad Offi ce, more than 27 percent of University students study abroad at some point in their college careers. The students who apply for the program belong to all departments across campus.

Typically, the majority of stu-dents who go abroad are in LAS, followed by the colleges of Busi-ness and Engineering. Last year, 35 percent of all study abroad stu-dents were from LAS.

Doyle said the University is working close-ly with aca-demic advisers to encourage more students to have an inter-national experi-ence. She said it is also impera-tive to highlight the importance of studying in a foreign country.

“We need to create aware-ness among stu-dents in order to overcome myths

regarding cost and length of the program,” Doyle said. “Academic advisers can play a key role in it.”

Study abroad and gender

Students from both technical and non-technical backgrounds participate in the study abroad program, but there is a promi-nent gender gap. According to sta-tistics collected from the Study Abroad Offi ce, the number of female students studying abroad is double the number of male stu-

dents who study abroad. In 2011, 64 percent of the students who participated in the program were female, and 34 percent were male.

Adam Heinz, specialist for international projects at the Study Abroad Offi ce, said the reason for this gender gap is because of the higher number of female students in humanities and the reluctance of male students to leave their comfort zones.

“Generally, male students on campus don’t want to leave their fraternities and interest groups,” he said. “This is one of the reasons why there are fewer male stu-dents in study abroad programs.”

He said the University has come up with a number of pro-grams to reach out to students, including those who participate in the University’s Greek system. The University creates awareness by sending out fl yers and reach-ing out to fraternities. He said it is important to expand the pro-gram in order to benefi t students at large.

“The University is planning to increase the number of students in the program and is working closely to help students fi nd programs that best meet their needs and qualifi cations,” Heinz said.

Heinz said one of the benefi ts to studying abroad is that it’s a resume builder. He said recruit-ers look for students who have an international experience and can work in a more diverse environment.

“Students need to articulate their experience properly while applying for jobs,” he said. “They should learn more about new cul-tures, technology and languages in order to be a better candidate for a job.”

Zara can be reached at [email protected].

Illinois 4 Illinois ScholarshipAll University undergraduate students pay $4.59 a semester into the I4I scholarship, which totals about $125,000. It is granted to 130 to 150 students every semester. The amount granted varies on the length of the programs.

$500 for Winter Break, Study Tour, or Summer program

$1,000 for Spring or Fall Semester program

$2,000 for Academic or Calendar Year program

SOURCE: STUDY ABROAD WEBSITE

Study abroad participation rate for credit programs The percentage of undergraduate students studying abroad for credit programs managed by the University represented by year.

2012 — 23.2 percent2011 — 26.0 percent2010 — 25.2 percent2009 — 26.2 percent2008 — 28.1 percent2007 — 26.7 percent2006 — 27.7 percent

SOURCE: RAJEEV MALIK, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM & STUDIES

the house special.”Hellmer described not only the

physical elements of the house that make it valuable, but the events that took place inside the house.

She said her former home is a historical spot on campus because of the work her father, Max Beberman, completed while there. He began working on the New Math, a program in response to Sputnik’s launch, that would change the way math was taught and bring him international recognition.

“He stayed up late at night writ-ing textbooks in that living room,” Hellmer said.

When he died in 1971 at 45 years old, Hellmer said that end-ed the New Math. Time Maga-zine and Newsweek both covered his death.

“By then he was very, very well known,” she said. “And I’m not just saying that because I’m his daughter.”

When Hellmer looks back to a grainy black and white photo of herself and the neighborhood kids posing at a wedding, she fondly remembers the way the street used to be.

She remembers turning the corner on Armory and rushing up a clean, white porch to pick up her lunch. Today, the porch stands out — it needs repairs and the new wood is the only part of the house not painted white.

Over the years, Hellmer has been able to return to the house she once lived in because it would later be used for offi ces.

“And it’s just like I remember,” she said. “But, of course, every childhood house seems to shrink. It’s much bigger in my memory than it actually was.”

And this home will stay in her memory after it is removed.

Stan can be reached at [email protected].

FACULTYFROM 1A

DEMOLITIONFROM 1A Study abroad hopes to increase participation

Perception that programs are expensive deter students, Study Abroad O! ce says

“With a weak economy, students tend to go less

abroad for studying because they and their

parents take it as an extra activity.”RAJEEV MALIK

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Students are more than what they think they are

I stood on a desk in the far-thest corner of the room, looking past the rows of

heads before me. The room was hot and humid as students were herded through the doors like cattle. Heads leaned back and forth looking for tiny gaps between people where they could catch a glimpse of the stage. Despite the crowd and chaos around me, my attention was focused completely on a wooden podium and a man dressed in a snappy suit.

Last week, the University buzzed with excitement to see and listen to actor Giancar-lo Esposito. As he spoke of his various experiences and offered up some inspiration-al advice, he said something that really resonated with me — you are more than what you think you are.

And this completely clicked.As students at this Univer-

sity, we are all ten steps ahead of many people in life in terms of our education and opportu-nities. We are lucky. We are

told we carry promise - that we can be somebody and bring something to society. But, to me, that’s not enough. That is just the first step.

Many of us are pretty well oriented with our majors and have at least some inkling of an idea of what we want to do after college. Or maybe we don’t. But regardless, we have an immense amount of pros-pects in front of us.

However, I feel like many of us are so structured in our thinking that we settle for the idea of getting a degree, hav-ing a job and that’s it. But like Esposito said, we are so much more than that.

We are more than a future employee. We are more than an accountant, a teacher, a doctor, a whatever.

Often times, I think it can be really hard for us to see our full potential. It is hard to see ourselves as more than who we already are or beyond what we are already doing. Some of our greatest traits and talents are never fully explored. Maybe it is because we never find the right out-let to express them. Maybe we don’t know what to do with them. Or maybe we don’t know we have them at all.

But if people never pushed themselves beyond their lim-its, we wouldn’t see all of the amazing and life-changing things that people have done in our world. There are people who have fought and overcome tremendous battles, created inventions that have saved lives, made discoveries that have changed the way we live and think about our world. And I don’t think these things happened because a person is born knowing they are going to change the world. It is a process of learning, experi-encing and growing up.

If people never take chances and simply settle for who they are and what they do, then they will never see improve-ment. We need to constantly re-evaluate ourselves because we are always changing and are affected by new people and new experiences. And not even in terms of what we do, but who we feel we are. Essen-tially, our lives require as many updates as the iPhone.

There are so many instanc-es where I have limited myself from doing something because I thought, “I can’t do that. That’s not me. That’s not who I am.” And because of that I was never able to find out what

I was capable of. More recent-ly, I have started going after things. I’ve taken on challeng-es that I never thought I would be able to handle. And let me just say, it feels good.

With all of this in mind, I urge students to dig deeper in their experiences here. We need to go beyond this mind-set that we are here so that we can walk out with a job. While that is definitely a nice outcome and it is important in our long-term success, I think we need to push our-selves a little further. Being here is a platform for us to do something bigger and hope-fully learn something more about ourselves. It would be a waste if we did not walk out of this campus as differ-ent people and with a differ-ent perspective than when we walked in.

Never settle for what you think you know about your-self. Keep driving in direc-tions you didn’t know you could go and push your boundaries every so often.

You are more than what you think you are.

Nicki is a junior in Media. She can be reached at [email protected].

Here’s some reality: Gay cul-ture is becoming increas-ingly more accepted as

the lifestyle is becoming more common in pop-culture and in everyday life. Abortion remains a highly contentious topic that will likely never reach a legal resolution any time soon. Con-traception is part of a healthy lifestyle for those who engage in sexual intercourse.

Pope Francis’ bombshell announcement last week that Catholics have become obsessed with gay marriage, abortion and contraception sig-naled to me that this pope is taking the church in the right direction.

For me, religion is meant to provide spiritual guidance so you have a way to model your life and grapple with life’s pro-found questions. It should not be used as a vehicle for pushing your ideals onto others.

The Pope’s undermining of some of the most hot-button social issues directs the focus of the church back to its funda-mental virtues of universal love and service to those in need.

The Pope phrased this in an elegant metaphor: “I see the

church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seri-ously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.”

The Pope’s words sought to unify the more liberal branch of Catholics who were more or less ignored during the previ-ous two papacies.

Granted, it aggravated some of the more conservative Catho-lics who feel the need to cru-sade against marriage equality and a woman’s right to control her own body. But this is for the better.

The church’s conservative branch, particularly those who are very outspoken about their opposition to gay rights, abor-tion and contraception, are behind the times. Thus it tends to push young people away from the church, instead of drawing them in with the good that spirituality has to offer.

This can be illustrated by the numerous religious dem-onstrators that come to cam-pus and camp out on the Quad, advocating a host of extreme convictions, in some cases telling students that they are going to hell. These demon-strators receive a lot of atten-tion, but not from students who are looking to join a religious congregation (it’s usually just hecklers or curious observers).

If anything it makes students more hesitant to take up any faith at all.

Instead the church should focus on the value that the Gos-pel can bring to young people.

Being happy depends on striving for a healthy bal-ance of monetary freedom and interpersonal relation-ships. While students on cam-pus are very keen on address-ing the first part through resume build-ing and their inherent con-sumerism, they often miss out on the fact that no matter how much money you make or how high you rise on the corporate ladder, you can nev-er really be happy unless you have the other side strongly in place.

The stories that the church teaches contains valuable les-sons in handling these rela-tionships, by exhibiting love and compassion for every-one in the face of contentious pride and injustice. This is the message that would make people want to join a religious institution, not the dogmatic rules that command them to abide by certain behaviors.

His statement can also be seen as representing the social progress that has been made in recent years, particu-larly in regard to gay rights.

A growing portion of the world opposing the church’s insistent focus on these con-tentious issues may have been the motivation for him to back off on them. This would indi-cate a world shifting toward

tolerance, which is the precursor of peace. And peace is some-thing that any denomination can support.

The Pope’s statement along with his other actions thus far have rep-

resented what a religious leader should be: an inspiring voice that speaks to the real-ity of the human spirit, not an untouchable old man in a high tower who conveys the same tired messages. It cer-tainly changed my outlook on the church, and I can only pray that such progress will continue.

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

Parkland saved Aviation, but what about other at-risk

programs?

THE DAILY ILLINI

EDITORIAL

ANDREW HORTON

Opinions columnist

NICKI HALENZA

Assistant opinions editor

T he closure of the Institute of Aviation in July 2011 was one of the most hotly contested topics of the 2010-11 academic year. At the time, administrators believed

closing the institution would help make up for the millions owed by the state to the University, but students and faculty saw the institute as an integral part of the campus and its mission.

Then, last week, Parkland College adopted it, a move that has been years in the making. The college will assume the facilities and academic units associated with the University’s institute over the next three years.

Fortunately, for students that both want to fly and earn a four-year degree, the University and Parkland will offer degrees concurrently.

Even more fortunately, the institute’s revitalization comes at a time when the airline industry predicts an enormous shortage of commercial pilots as the baby boomer generation continues to retire.

Coupled with new Federal Aviation Administration regulations regarding flight training and resting and an increased demand for pilots over the next 20 years, airlines’ demand for pilots will increase exponentially.

While we are happy to see the institute carry on, let’s not forget that at the same time of debates about the Institute of Aviation’s survival, the University also considered closing down the Police Training Institute.

Both the Institute of Aviation and the Police Training Institute are more or less trade schools. They both have seen the chopping block, although the PTI remained open when no other viable alternative was available and legislators pressured the University to keep it open.

The University said that budget considerations prompted serious conversations about the closure of both institutes. When the University Board of Trustees voted 6-2 (all three student trustees voted to keep it open) to close the Institute of Aviation, then interim Chancellor Robert Easter estimated it would save up to $750,000 per year. PTI would have saved $900,000 per year. Mind you, at that time, the University was owed more than $400 million by the state, so the closure of either of these was only a minor fraction of the overall deficit.

The state has brought that deficit down to $200 million as of Sept. 12.

We bring these numbers to light because in the deal with Parkland College, the college will lease the aviation institute’s facilities for $1 a year — yes, you read that correctly. Of course, the University will also transfer $3 million to the college through upgrades to the fleet at Willard Airport and other expenses. For $3 million, students can rest happy that it will not end in August 2014 as intended, and the University no longer has to assume responsibility for it.

But for $3 million, the University will lose its ability to contribute to an industry that benefits everyone. It has lost another route to provide a track toward viable careers for its students. A trade school it may be but, like the PTI, it was a great service to University students who continue to struggle to find careers within more traditional disciplines.

But when another program is up for cutting, will someone be there to save it?

Pope Francis’ actions promise future of progress

The University of Illinois’ health services are overall amazing. I have had mar-

velous experiences with a physi-cal therapist and my preferred doctor.

In sharp contrast, the Uni-versity Counseling Center is severely lacking in its student support. To book an appoint-ment with a counselor at the Counseling Center, an indi-vidual must call at 8 a.m. on the day they want to visit a counselor. They cannot make

appointments for another day. You don’t want to call after 8 a.m., as the available appoint-ments are typically fully booked.

To make scheduling an appointment even worse, there is usually only one secretary answering the phone, so stu-dents must wait on hold for several minutes. This is dis-turbingly inconvenient. Many students start work or class at 8 a.m., so it is impossible for them to schedule an appoint-

ment; particularly if they do not want their classmates or colleagues to know about their mental health issues.

Scheduling appointments for other health services is sig-nificantly easier. The Univer-sity is full of hardworking and ingenious staff, faculty and students. There must be a way to provide better counseling services for students.

KATHLEEN BECKERgraduate student in LAS

I read your editorial, “Pope revisits Church doctrine in new light,” and while I don’t

mind your simple statement of moral philosophy — “love the sinner, hate the sin” — I believe you have missed something important in what Pope Francis is saying.

Certainly, he is criticizing the way some have spoken on behalf of the Catholic Church. When he says, “... it is not nec-essary to talk about these

issues all the time,” I think it is implicit that he knows that peo-ple have made that mistake.

But what is being short-changed if sexual morality is being overemphasized? It is not other aspects of morali-ty, but Christ Himself and the good news about Him. Pope Francis wants Catholics to go back to the basics of evangeli-zation: “Proclamation in a mis-sionary style focuses on the essentials, on the necessary

things: this is also what fasci-nates and attracts more, what makes the heart burn...” The only reason that Pope Francis would downplay some aspects of church teaching would be to push more for the central mis-sion: Christians must say, “The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”

BRANDON BIAGIOLIgraduate student in Law

Instead the church should focus on the value that the Gospel can bring to young

people.

Counseling center very difficult to make appointments

Pope Francis is pushing for central message of Christianity: Forgiveness

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Not long after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan in 2011, washing whole towns out to sea, concerns grew that huge amounts of debris could wash up on California’s coast.

But as an estimated 70,000 Californians prepare to partici-pate Saturday in the state’s annu-al coastal cleanup, the question remains: Where is it?

Very little tsunami trash has reached California, or oth-er Pacifi c coastal states, even though the disaster happened 2 years ago.

Federal offi cials have con-fi rmed only 35 objects from the tsunami that have come ashore in the United States and Brit-ish Columbia, ranging from two large chunks of docks that washed up in Oregon and Wash-ington state last year to a soccer ball found off an Alaskan island and traced back to a Japanese schoolboy.

The only verifi ed tsunami object found in California was a barnacle-encrusted fi shing boat that hit the beach in April south of Crescent City, near the Oregon border. Through hand-painted characters on its side, the boat was traced to Takata High School in Rikuzentakata, a Japanese town devastated by the tsunami. The boat is scheduled to head back to Japan later this month courtesy of a large ship-ping company.

And the rest of the fl oating debris?

“It’s possible that a great deal of it sank or broke up,” said Dian-na Parker, a spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmo-spheric Administration.

“Marine debris can become waterlogged and sink or be dam-aged by storms and wave action,” she said. “It’s also possible that

we’ve seen the majority of it wash ashore that we’re going to get. If more continues to wash ashore, we’re prepared.”

The magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake in March 2011 was the largest recorded in Japanese history. It killed 15,833 people, destroyed 129,000 buildings and triggered a meltdown at the Fuku-shima nuclear plant.

Afterward, the Japanese Min-istry of the Environment estimat-ed that 5 million tons of debris - everything from smashed homes to drums of chemicals to tires to millions of plastic toys, bottles and pieces of furniture ended up in the ocean, but that 70 percent of it sank in the fi rst few weeks.

Scientists say the debris is not radioactive, because it washed out to sea before the nuclear power plant melted down. Satellites were able to track the debris for the fi rst month, but then much of it scattered.

Six months after the tsunami, a

Russian ship reported fi nding a TV set, refrigerator and other fl oating Japanese debris off Midway. Lum-ber, Styrofoam and other debris also came ashore in Hawaii and Alaska in the past year.

In California, more than 100 pieces of trash with Japanese writ-ing have been found on beaches this year. But it’s impossible to say whether they came from the tsunami.

The National Oceanic and Atmo-spheric Administration requires serial numbers, writing or oth-er identifi cation to confi rm with Japanese Consulate offi cials that objects defi nitely came from the disaster.

“Especially on the north coast, up near the Oregon border, we are getting reports of odd stuff,” said Eben Schwartz, marine debris manager with the California Coastal Commission. “It’s hard to say it is defi nitely from the tsuna-mi, but we are getting unusual things happening.”

Be honest with your-self: How much time do you really take

to appreciate what the father fi gure in your life has done for you? Probably not much. Between homework, exams, meetings and a social life, you barely have time for sleep these days.

So this Dads Weekend is an opportunity to turn it all around. It is your chance to take a few days and remem-ber why your dad deserves this weekend getaway. And, in case you need a few remind-ers, the words of these Holly-wood father-fi gures remind us why we should salute our Illini dads:

1. They build us up even when our best efforts come up short. Maybe you didn’t hear it in a football locker room, but sometimes Dad’s message may sound like the words of “Remember the Titans” Coach Herman Boone:

“You boys are doing all that you can do. Anybody can see that. Win or lose... We gon-na walk out of this stadium tonight with our heads held high. Do your best. That’s all anybody can ask for.”

2. I’ve never raised one

myself, but I have to imagine that a child presents you with a whole lot of problems that just seem to come out of left fi eld. And we have to respect the guy who has been there through it all, the one who knows how to put a smile on when things just don’t go according to plan. Who better exemplifi es this than Clark Griswold in “Christmas Vacation?” Take, for instance, the scene when his cousin-in-law Eddie shows up to his old-fashioned family Christmas:

Eddie: “You surprised to see us, Clark?”

Clark: “Oh, Eddie ... If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am now.”

3. Let’s give Dad the bene-fi t of the doubt here and admit that he may have actually been as cool as his glory day stories imply. He had fun, went to col-lege parties and lived on the edge. And he gave that up for soccer practice, bedtime sto-ries and a full-time job to sup-port a family. That’s a pretty serious sacrifi ce — something that we appreciate, especial-ly since we now know what it’s like to only have to take care of ourselves. We should always take time to appreciate those dads who, even though they may seem frustrated at times, are so selfl ess that they actual-ly don’t regret trading in kegs and late night drunk food for raising a family. We might as

well call them Mr. Incredible:Mr. Incredible in “The

Incredibles”: “I’m sorry. I’ve been a lousy father, blind to what I have. So obsessed with being undervalued that I undervalued all of you. So ... caught up in the past that I ... You are my greatest adventure.”

4. If you’ve ever had a father fi gure to encourage you, then you know that his supportive words have been as important to your suc-cess as Christopher Gard-ner’s words in “The Pursuit of Happyness:”

“You got a dream ... You gotta protect it. People can’t do somethin’ themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want somethin’, go get it. Period.”

5. And then there’s this infamous line, where we are reminded of how wise our dads actually are. In one of his last conversations with Peter Parker (a.k.a. Spider-man), Uncle Ben reminds him:

“Remember that with great power, comes great responsibility.”

If we have been lucky enough to have an amazing dad or father fi gure in our lives, we have the responsibil-ity to appreciate and celebrate him. Happy Dad’s Weekend.

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

Celebrate your dad with quotes from the greats

2011 tsunami debris oddly scarce on California coast

MAGGIE O’CONNOR

Staff Writer

ERIKA SCHULTZ MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEAt his rural home in the woods, long-time Forks, Washington resident John Anderson is photographed with hundreds of buoys used in Japanese oyster farms, March 7. Since the tsunami, he has seen a big increase in the number of Japanese buoys washing up on Olympic Peninsula shores.

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University tradition for over 90 years, Dads Weekend brings many fathers of Illinois students to campus to enjoy a weekend full of fun events.

“Tradition is very popular throughout this campus,” said Rebec-ca Salzman, assistant to the director at the Illini Union Parent Programs Office. “The University recognizes the conser-vation of parents and families, so it has been encouraged to be continued.”

Salzman said the tradition of Dads Weekend began when Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity members invited their fathers to campus in 1913. The Illini Union Parent Programs then continued the tradition after being founded Nov. 6, 1922.

The Program planned many Dads Weekend events this year, many of which are already sold out.

J.B. Bailey, the Illini Union Parent Programs Adviser, gave a rundown of the events that will take place during Dads Weekend. The events will include the Dads Weekend Welcome Reception, Illini volleyball, the pre-game barbecue, football, the Rock Band Concert and the Dads Weekend Brunch.

On Friday, the Dads Weekend Wel-come Reception will occur at the Illini Union. During the reception, King Dad will be announced, based on previous-ly submitted essay-based nominations written by students who wished to show appreciation for their father figures.

Tony Smaniotto, president of the University Dads Association, said the crowning of King Dad is his favorite part of the weekend.

“(We are) proud fathers, and we like to be able to help our young students,” Smaniotto said.

Once King Dad is crowned, he pre-sides over many of the weekend events.

He is given a crown and scepter and can sit with Chancellor Wise at the foot-ball game.

The same night, the Illini volleyball team will play against Iowa in the State Farm Center at 7 p.m. It’s the third time that the team has played in the center, and Smaniotta said that over 500 $7-tick-ets have already been sold.

On Saturday morning, the annual, sold-out pre-game barbecue will take place in the ARC, offering the usual pulled pork sandwiches with scalloped potatoes and green beans. Smaniotta said that since they never know when the game will start, they always stick to the same food, no matter the time of the game. After the barbecue, attendees can head to the football game. Kickoff is at 11 a.m. at Memorial Stadium, and Illi-nois will play Miami University of Ohio.

On Saturday at 8 p.m., American Eng-lish, a Beatles tribute band that dress-es up like the Beatles, will perform in the Rock Concert at Foellinger Audito-rium. This will be the second year in a row that the band has played at Dads Weekend. Tickets are $15 and $25 for multiples of two.

Bailey said the American English is one of the few bands that cover the entire Beatles repertoire, from the early Mop Top days and Sgt. Peppers to the Abbey Road Sessions.

Bandleader Eric Michaels does all of the Paul McCartney parts of the Bea-tles songs. He is even left-handed like McCartney. Michaels has been a mem-ber of the band for about 20 years and said that the wide spread love of the Beatles is what brings them all over the U.S. Michaels said that performing last Dads Weekend was one of the highlights of the band’s year, and they are excited to be back this year.

“Every concert is special in its own

way; this one is more special,” Michaels said. “The excitement will be there, I can feel it already. It’s gonna be a good fun time for everybody, I guarantee it.”

Along with all of the scheduled events of Dads Weekend, many central build-ings on campus will be offering free tours. The ARC, Altgeld Bell Tower, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, National Center for Supercomput-ing Applications and the Undergradu-ate and Main Libraries will offer tours throughout the weekend. Each of these tours are first come, first serve, with the exception of the Altgeld Bell Tow-er Tour, which requires a reservation. More information regarding tours can be found on the University Parent Pro-gram’s Dads Weekend website.

On Sunday at 11 a.m., there will be a sold-out brunch in the Union. This is the final planned event for the weekend, but many family members stick around to see the rest of campus and spend time with their family.

Sam Giglio, sophomore in Fine and Applied Arts, plans to tailgate with his dad at the Evans Scholar House before going to the football game with his dad and roommate. After the game, he and his dad plan to go to dinner.

Julia Hector, sophomore in LAS, said both her mom and dad are coming to campus this weekend. They will par-ticipate in Alpha Gamma Delta’s bags tournament and then attend the volley-ball game. On Sunday, she plans to take them to brunch.

Illini Union Parent Programs and stu-dents alike plan to make Dads Weekdend memorable, whether it involves tailgat-ing, attending the Rock Concert or tak-ing a tour of the Altgeld Bell Tower.

Olivia can be reached at [email protected].

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For the No. 24 Illinois volley-ball team, this weekend will be different.

Not only will the Illini play at State Farm Center, the team’s fi rst home game outside of Huff Hall in four years, but they will also shift from their preconference schedule into more diffi cult con-ference games.

With eight schools in the top 25 including Illinois, the Illini will have their hands full this year in the Big Ten. Illinois will begin action Friday at 7 p.m. in State Farm Center with a match

against Iowa before playing No. 12 Nebraska at 4 p.m. on Saturday.

“Every year there’s never real-ly an obvious weak link or an obvi-ous team that’s going to take the title,” senior defensive special-ist Courtney Abrahamovich said. “There’s teams clawing and fi ght-ing for that title and every night you have to be on.”

The Illini will start the week-end against the Hawkeyes, a team that is coming off wins in three of its last four matches. Illinois head coach Kevin Hambly said Iowa is an extremely well-rounded team.

“They’re balanced,” Ham-bly said. “They always compete

really hard and they play great defense. They dig a lot of balls and they create a lot of swings.”

Illinois will continue its week-end against Nebraska. The Corn-huskers are coming off a fi ve-set contest against No. 5 Texas in which Nebraska almost beat last year’s national champions at home. Illinois also played Texas to fi ve sets, but Hambly believes the Cornhuskers are currently playing at a higher level than the Illini.

“They’re really athletic and they have swag,” Hambly said. “They come in expecting to win everywhere they go and they’re

playing really good volleyball. They’re playing better volleyball than us right now, we’re going to have to step up our game.”

Aside from the change in com-petition with the start of Big Ten play, Illinois will also be dealing with another difference this week-end: playing in a new venue. The Illini will play the Hawkeyes at State Farm Center as a practice run before Illinois possibly hosts regionals in a few months.

Despite the size of State Farm Center, Abrahamovich feels the fans are still a big part of the action. She added that support from Illini fans on Friday may help bridge the gap between Huff and State Farm Center.

Illinois has struggled to score points at times this season. To counter the slight drop in points, junior Morganne Criswell said the Illini have been working on “creat-

ing swings” this week in practice in order to make offensive oppor-tunities out of every possession.

“Whenever the setter takes the fi rst ball, we’re working on hav-ing good hands so we can get a swing or create offense off a hit,” Criswell said.

When the Illini take the court against the Hawkeyes, they will be looking to stop a four-game losing streak dating back two weeks. In order to turn the streak around, Criswell said the team will rely on its preparation.

“The work we’ve put in is what’s going to get us our wins,” Criswell said. “We’ve put in the time, we’ve put in the effort and I think build-ing off of that will help keep our confi dence up.”

Nicholas can be reached at [email protected] and @IlliniSportsGuy.

New court, new opportunity

Uh-oh, guess what time it is? Guess what time it is! No, it’s not hump

day, nor is it gameday — my apologies to the Geico camel and Reilly O’Toole for getting their hopes up.

It’s the start of confer-ence play.

Across the board, Illi-nois teams are gearing up for the long and grueling stretch of games that make up the Big Ten portion of the schedule.

Teams leave the realm of, sometimes, subpar com-petition and say goodbye to cross-country road trips. From here on out it’s all Midwest, all the time. Well, at least until Rutgers and Maryland join the Big Ten contingent in 2014 because lets face it, New Jersey lacks that Middle America charm.

Conference play is just more exciting. As fun as it was to watch soccer beat up on Florida Internation-al, it’s more intriguing and meaningful to see the team play familiar teams, rival teams.

Last weekend soccer opened its Big Ten slate with Ohio State. After two overtimes the game ended in a 1-1 draw, Illinois’ only goal coming from junior forward Jannelle Flaws in the sixth minute.

This was a much-antici-pated matchup as the last time these two teams met, Ohio State clinched the Big Ten Tournament by beat-ing the Illini 2-1. Play-ing the same teams year after year means there will be instances where some games mean more. Brag-ging rights are on the line. The respect of the con-ference hangs in the bal-ance. A draw against a good Ohio State team isn’t

Big Ten play right around the corner

BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER

And so it begins.Illini hockey (2-0) has looked

impressive early in the season, starting the year with a four-game win streak and outscoring opponents by 20 goals (28-8) and scoring an average of seven goals per game.

But, after two weeks of tune-up games, No. 7 Illinois enters the bulk of its schedule this week-end, starting off with hosting the defending ACHA Division-II National Champion Michigan State.

Though technically in a divi-sion below Illinois, Michigan State is the best team in that division, and Illini senior goaltender Nick Clarke is no stranger to the tough competition the Spartans bring.

“They should be no easy oppo-nent, and we have to come out and treat it just like any other game,” Clarke said. “We usually start the

year off playing them and we know what to expect.”

The Spartans have 17 players returning from their national championship team and look to be strong contenders to retain their title come March, just as the Illini are poised to go after the ACHA’s Division-I National Championship.

While Illinois remains focused on this weekend’s series against the Spartans, the team is fully aware of what’s right around the corner on the schedule.

After this weekend’s games against Michigan State, the Illi-ni must battle through one of the toughest schedules in the nation, playing No. 9 Iowa State, No. 2 Arizona State, No. 8 Robert Mor-ris, No. 3 Lindenwood and then-No. 5 Ohio, all in a row.

“Michigan State is the best Division-II team in the nation,” captain Austin Bostock said. “These games are important, but

they’re no Iowa State and they’re no Arizona State.”

While being pitted against some of the best teams the ACHA has to offer, the Illini players have been working towards eliminat-ing small, individual mistakes every week in order to make the team’s on-ice performance fl ow properly.

After giving up four goals against Northern Illinois, a Division-II team, Illini head coach Nick Fabbrini said he was upset with the team’s defensive performance.

But while fi xing that problem last Friday by shutting out South-ern Illinois on the way to a 6-0 win, the Illini saw a number of minor roughing penalties handed out to each team.

The Illini have already racked up 64 penalty minutes in their fi rst four games, meaning the

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BY LANRE ALABISTAFF WRITER

There was a void created in Illinois Soccer and Track Sta-dium at the end of last season.

With the graduation of goalkeeper Steph Panozzo, the Illini were missing a sol-id foundation for their season. Panozzo’s infl uence during her time couldn’t be understated, as the Illini qualifi ed for two Big Ten Tournament fi nals with her in goal. Panozzo left the school tied with current assistant coach Leisha Alcia for most single-season saves in school history with 111 in her last year.

“Steph was always a great role model,” senior Lauren Par-kin said “I never minded play-ing behind her because she was just such a great leader.”

Illinois soccer started out its 2013 preseason with no knowl-edge of who its starting goal-keeper would be. Parkin, Lizzi Sanscrainte and Claire Wheat-ley were the choices in front of head coach Janet Rayfi eld. Although the trio’s experiences differed, Rayfi eld judged her candidates by their consisten-cy to give an equal chance at getting the job. The discus-sion was tight up until the season opener in which Pan-ozzo’s backups Parkin and San-scrainte lost out to the fresh-man Wheatley.

The competition in pre-season was a precursor to the diffi cult times Wheatley would face early in her colle-giate career. In the fi rst week-end of the Illini’s regular sea-son, Wheatley conceded eight goals. In the fi rst fi ve games, she had an average of 2.5

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MICHAEL BOJDA THE DAILY ILLINISenior goaltender Nick Clarke prepares to make a save Friday night against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville at the Illinois Ice Arena. Clarke got a shut out in the fi rst game of the season, with the Illini winning 6-0.

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The Illinois women’s tennis team begins its 2013-14 season Friday with a weekend sched-ule that spans the length of the country.

Head coach Michelle Dasso is taking four of her players to the West Point Invitational in West Point, N.Y. Meanwhile, rough-ly 3,000 miles away, assistant coach Ric Mortera will oversee senior Allison Falkin and junior Melissa Kopinski as they com-pete at the Riveria/ITA Women’s All-American Championships in Westwood, Calif.

Although her team will be split up across the country, Dasso isn’t worried about communi-cation between coaches. She is confi dent in Mortera and antici-pates a frenetic weekend of ten-nis updates between head coach and assistant.

“We’ll be talking nonstop everyday I’m sure, keeping each other in the loop,” Dasso said.

This weekend’s tournament scheduling came about under unique circumstances. Sopho-more Audrey O’Connor is among the four Illini competing at West Point, and she will not be the only member of her family competing among the 17 teams represented.

“My sister’s on the team (at West Point),” O’Connor said. “I’m actually a twin.”

Coach Dasso was aware that Audrey’s twin, Haley, was on the United States Military Acade-my’s women’s tennis team. Dur-ing the scheduling process, she made sure to enter the Illini into the West Point Invitational for the O’Connor family.

“I contacted the coach (at

West Point) and explained to him that we’re trying to get out there,” Dasso said. “I knew that would be something that would be super special for Audrey and her family and mean a lot to them. The whole O’Connor clan is going.”

Audrey O’Connor appreci-ates Dasso’s scheduling efforts. Besides having a twin in the Army, she also has a brother in the Air Force who will be in attendance along with her par-ents. This weekend provides the opportunity for an O’Connor reunion.

“My whole family is close and we don’t get to see each other a lot,” O’Connor said.

Family ties led Dasso to sched-ule West Point, but she also want-ed to play the tournament to seek new competition. The Illini have never competed at the West Point Invitational, and eastern teams such as Connecticut and future Big Ten foe Rutgers are included in the fi eld. Junior Julia Jamie-son, sophomore Emily Baretta and freshman Alexis Casati will play alongside O’Connor at West Point.

“I’m looking forward to see-ing how they do in competition,” Dasso said. “It’s (against) a lot of teams we haven’t seen, which is nice.”

The individual tournament begins Friday on Army’s cam-pus at the Lichtenberg Tennis Center.

At the Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American Championships in California, Ric Mortera will be coaching in his fi rst tournament as an assistant coach at Illinois since his departure following the 2011-12 season to become an assistant at Purdue. He was

a volunteer assistant for Dasso at Illinois for two years prior to last season. The No. 89 ranked Allison Falkin and the No. 102 ranked Melissa Kopinski get the chance to compete against the “cream of the crop” at the Riv-iera tournament, according to Mortera.

“It’s kind of the fi rst big, major tournament of the year,” Morte-ra said. “The best players in the country are going to be there.”

The best players in the coun-try competing include No. 1 ranked Sabrina Santamaria of Southern California and No. 2 ranked Robin Anderson from UCLA. Santamaria also makes up half of the top-ranked doubles tandem in the nation, alongside USC’s Kaitlyn Christian. San-tamaria and Christian ended the Illini’s run in last season’s NCAA Doubles Championships when they defeated the duo of Kopinski and graduated senior Rachael White.

Kopinski and Falkin will com-pete in both singles and as a dou-bles tandem at the Riviera tour-nament. Pre-qualifying rounds are Sept. 28-29 in Westwood before the tournament moves to Pacifi c Palisades, Calif. for the qualifying rounds and the main draw. Kopinski and Falkin both competed in singles at the tour-nament last year and Kopinski hopes to use her past experience to her advantage.

“I now know what to expect,” Kopinski said. “I’m hoping to do better in singles this year, so to have a good showing would be great.”

Alex can be reached at [email protected] and @aroux94.

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a disappointment, but it’s not the desired result either. It’s a starting point.

Volleyball begins Big Ten play against Iowa on Friday night at 7 at State Farm Center. Home turf, a night match and a conference rival are the ingre-dients for an electric atmo-sphere, and after dropping con-secutive matches last weekend to Duke and No. 14 North Caro-lina, the team is looking for a spark.

That new life the Illini are searching for could come in the form of beating Iowa. That momentum is precious when the very next day No. 12 Nebraska comes to town.

Including Illinois, eight of the 12 teams in Big Ten vol-leyball are ranked in the top

25. Penn State claims the No. 1 spot in the AVCA poll, and is scheduled to come to Huff Hall on Oct. 18.

Going through conference play is like running the gaunt-let. There’s tough competition around every corner just wait-ing to knock you out.

Hockey is also gearing up to start its Central States Col-legiate Hockey League sea-son. The CSCHL is a Division I club conference made up of 10 teams, including ACHA power-houses Lindenwood, Ohio and Robert Morris.

The Illini welcome No. 9 Iowa State to Champaign the weekend of Oct. 4 to start CSCHL play.

This conference is stacked. Four teams claim at least one ACHA national championship, Ohio with four,and Illinois and Lindenwood with two apiece. Iowa State won the ACHA’s

fi rst national title back in 1992.There will be a lot of coach-

speak in the coming days about how “every game is the same” and “we treat all teams equally when preparing”, but playing conference teams just means more. Yes, beating Florida International and say, Nebras-ka, 4-0 is the same result, but which would you rather? Which do you think Jannelle Flaws and Vanessa DiBernardo would be more proud of?

Conference play is a magi-cal time. It’s when competition seems to start in earnest.

So I ask, who’s more excited than a camel on hump day or Reilly O’Toole on gameday?

Answer: the Illini at the start of conference play.

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

team’s disciplinary issues have forced them to play over an entire game’s worth of time with a short-ened bench.

Fabbrini said the Illini need to keep their discipline in-check if they expect to bring home the ACHA Division-I National Cham-pionship they’re working toward.

Despite minor blemishes throughout a dominating fi rst two weeks of hockey, the Illini players already feel that they’ve improved as a team.

Rookie goaltender John Olen commended the team’s defense during his second victory of the season, saying they made his job between the pipes easier than it should have been.

“We have to keep getting better and better before we play better teams,” Olen said. “We just have to take it one week at a time.”

Sean can be reached at [email protected] and @Neumannthehuman.

goals allowed per game.“I think it’s about getting used to

the college game,” Wheatley said. “I grew a lot in my self-confi dence and confi dence in my team.”

In the games since, she has earned her fi rst shutout of the sea-son and has a goal allowed ratio of just one per game. The former Pla-no West Senior High School stand-out has cemented her spot in the team by leading the Big Ten with 42 saves.

Wheatley has steadily improved her stats but her newfound form is obvious on the fi eld. She has more control of the penalty area, and she is more vocal. She has become less fearful about coming out for the ball and starting attacks from the back. Wheatley has become the centerpiece for an improving defense.

“With each problem she solves, she continues to grow in her confi -dence in what she’s saying and how she’s saying it,” Rayfi eld said. “Her presence is getting bigger and her

decision making getting better and that is certainly helping us.”

Wheatley said she had to adjust to the college game and pace as well as campus life. She had jug-gled sports and academia all her life, but being in a college in the Midwest added a lot more to the basic plot. She had to prioritize more in her life outside the sport to settle down on the fi eld.

Currently Wheatley is the in-form goalkeeper but she is not just settling for dominance right now. She continues to motivate herself to get better, but her running mate Parkin takes a hand in that pro-cess. Wheatley and Parkin have forged a closer bond in their time together. Their friendship is based on mutual respect and competi-tion as teammates vying for the same spot.

“Since it’s only two of us now, it’s easier to push her and encour-age her,” Parkin said. “We push each other and I help her get her mind set right just like I need to get mine right.”

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