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BY ELEANOR BLACKSTAFF WRITER

In one of the fi rst steps of Illi-nois’ four-year medical marijuana pilot project, a draft of proposed rules was posted online and has caused contention from medical marijuana supporters.

On Jan. 21, the Illinois Depart-ment of Public Health posted a 48-page draft of the proposed reg-ulations to show the public how the system may be implemented.

Already, some of the proposed rules have been met with com-plaints. The major concerns include the annual application fee of $150, the timeline of the pro-gram’s implementation and the potential decision that will have to be made by qualifying patients with fi rearms.

Though medical marijuana is now legal in Illinois, the pro-gram itself likely will not be ful-ly implemented until next year. Applications for medical marijua-na patients will not be accepted until September.

Dan Linn, executive director of Illinois chapter of the Nation-al Organization to Reform Mari-juana Laws, said the fi rst year of the pilot program will focus on the rule-making and regulation process.

“It’s unfortunate that it takes that long because this is dealing with people’s healthcare and their livelihood, and in all honesty, their survival in some cases,” he said. “Putting the patient applications at the end of the year, I think that gives a little bit more of an hon-

est answer to the patients as to the timeline of this program.”

Claudia Lenhoff, executive director of Champaign County Health Care Consumers, believes that the proposed regulations — particularly the background check — treat potential medical marijuana patients unfairly.

“Those things are just barri-ers, and they basically treat the patient as if the patient may be a criminal,” she said. “The fact of the matter is, there are other drugs currently prescribed now that are far more highly con-trolled that don’t impose those kind of requirements on patients.”

Under the proposed regula-tions, patients must go through a fi ngerprint-based background check in order to apply for a medi-cal marijuana registry identifi ca-tion card. They must pay for this out of their own pocket, and any-one who has been convicted of a drug felony will not be eligible to receive an ID card.

Linn said the strict regulations that Illinois has already imple-mented or proposed were neces-sary to get the bill passed in the fi rst place.

“It was one of those situations where we needed this program to be as restrictive as it is so we could pass this law,” he said. “It’s just now that we have this law, it’s not going to help as many people as it really could have, or help as many people as soon as it could have due to its restrictive nature.”

Both Linn and Lenhoff said dis-cussion surrounding the rule that

would prevent medical marijua-na patients from owning fi rearms has been particularly contentious.

Aleksander Dapkus, senior in LAS, president of Illini on Target, a recreational shooting registered student organization, said the reg-ulation may have come about due

to stigmas attached to marijuana.“I just don’t see why the two

(gun control and medical mari-juana) should be related,” he said. “They seem to be different issues, and I don’t think one has an effect

BY MEGAN JONESSTAFF WRITER

Within three hours, more than 7,000 signatures had amassed in an online petition promoting the cancellation of Monday’s classes, citing the extremely strong wind chill and dangerous conditions to be expected.

“I was looking at my computer screen and every time I reloaded the page there were 100 new sig-natures,” said Matt Hill, Illinois student senator and sophomore in LAS. “It was very overwhelm-ing, and I didn’t expect it to go viral that quickly.”

Hill posted the petition, which currently holds more than 8,700 signatures, on Sunday at 10:46 p.m. It was sent to Chancellor Phyllis Wise, Dean of Students Kenneth Ballom and Vice Chan-cellor for Student Affairs Renee Romano.

“We have such a diverse cam-pus in regards to what location people are from, but I cannot tell you any other time the stu-dents have joined together online for one specifi c cause, besides bringing back the Chief, which I do not support,” Hill said. “We are not lobbying for something controversial, but we are lobby-ing for safety and health of the community.”

The petition spread through

Twitter and several student-run University Facebook groups after originally being posted on the Illinois Student Senate’s Facebook page.

“At fi rst, I thought it was a really good idea because with the cold temperatures being the way they are now, it’s a big danger for students to be exposed to these kind of conditions,” said Janjay Knowlden, freshman in FAA. “I thought closing the school for one day would be just fi ne; it’s not worth the safety of students.”

Though the petition is not endorsed by the Illinois Student Senate, Student Body President Damani Bolden believes it is a great idea.

“(Hill) saw an issue, wanted to address it and went about it in the right way,” Bolden said.

Hill began the petition after Bolden reached out to Romano and Ballom and felt that the voice of students were being ignored.

“They didn’t listen to the stu-dent body president, and our con-cerns were not heard,” Hill said. “Students make up 40,000 people on the University’s campus, and we are the majority and we were ignored.”

Hill chose an online petition as a way to lobby because it is the most “effective, constructive and formal” way to disseminate the case through social media. He said he received several pos-itive messages from students who were glad to not see more negative social media regard-

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A yearly fee of $150 is required to apply for a medical marijuana registry identifi cation card. That fee may be cut in half for patients receiving Social Security disability income. The fee would be $125 for caregivers.

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Patients must undergo an Illinois State Police fi ngerprint-based background check. They must pay for this themselves using a licensed vendor of an inkless electronic fi ngerprinting system – the costs range from $30-$60 depending on the vendor.

In 2014, the application process will be split into two groups: qualifying patients whose last names begin with the letters A through L may submit an application for a registry identifi cation card between September 1 and October 31. Those whose last names begin with the letters M through Z may submit their applications between November 1 through December 31. Applications will be accepted year round, regardless of last name, starting in 2015.

You will not be eligible to receive a registry identifi cation card if you have been convicted of a drug felony.

Qualifying patients and designated caregivers may not possess fi rearms and are not eligible for a Firearm Owners Identifi cation Card or a Firearm Concealed Carry license.

On Jan. 21 the Illinois Department of Public Health released a draft of the proposed rules for the states four-year medical marijuana pilot program.

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Students protest class with petition

Top C-U health offi cials address Affordable Care Act

Marijuana proposal met with contention

Despite opposition, UI offi cials stand by decision

More than 8,000 people signed their support

BY MIRANDA HOLLOWAY AND BRYAN BOCCELLIASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR AND STAFF WRITER

The decision made by Univer-sity offi cials to proceed as nor-mal on Monday despite expected cold temperatures was met with backlash from select students on Twitter. Most of the content tar-geted Chancellor Phyllis Wise after she sent out a mass email to the campus community Sun-day night, notifying everyone that the University would hold classes the next day.

Campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler said the University will never shut down completely because it is a residential cam-pus. There will always be employ-ees around, working in residence halls, on experiments or in police operations.

The Campus Emergency Oper-

ations Committee met and made the decision about 10 minutes before the email was sent, Kal-er said.

“We did not think there was a threat to the safety of our stu-dents if they dressed for the weather and took appropriate measures to get where they need-ed to go,” she said.

Though it is possible for tem-peratures to reach a point that would warrant canceling class-es, Monday’s temperature did not reach that level, Kaler said.

It wasn’t long before the Uni-versity’s decision was quickly shot down by University students via Twitter.

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BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIClaudia Lennhoff, executive director of Champaign County Healthcare Consumers, Robert Rich of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs and Dr. Bruce Wellman, former CEO and president of Carle Foundation Hospital, speak to a group of students at the auditorium in the College of Medicine about the Affordable Care Act.

Graphic Timeline- 9:30 p.m.: A mass email was sent from Chancellor Phyllis Wise stating that classes and operations will proceed on Monday. - 10:35 p.m.: A petition to cancel Monday's classes to "protect (the) campus community" was posted on Senator Matt Hill’s Twitter account and shared on the Illinois Student Senate Facebook page. - 11:20 p.m.: The petition received more than 3,300 signatures. - 2 a.m.: The petition received more than 7,000 signatures.

NATHANIEL LASH THE DAILY ILLINIChancellor Phyllis Wise received much backlash after sending out an email confi rming that classes would be in session Monday.

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On Monday night, the audito-rium at the College of Medicine fi lled up with medical students who still had questions about the Affordable Care Act, which was passed March 23, 2010. Profes-sor Robert Rich, of the Institute of Government & Public Affairs; Bruce Wellman, former CEO and president of Carle Foundation Hospital; and Claudia Lennhoff, executive director of Champaign County Healthcare Consumers, explained the nearly 1,000-page piece of legislation to the stu-dents in two hours.

The act is designed to increase the amount of people with insur-ance and make insurance more affordable, Rich said. Before the act, an insurance company could drop a customer due to pre-exist-ing conditions.

“I can’t tell you how many cas-es I’ve had over the years — one example comes to mind of a lady who had been falling,” Lennhoff

said.After one fall, the lady went to

the emergency room. When she got a CT scan, the doctors dis-covered that she had cancerous brain tumors. After she began her treatments, her health insur-ance provider decided to bail.

“Well then, her insurance company sent her a refund for her last quarterly payment and dropped her coverage,” she said. “She had no place to go — we ended up helping her — but can you imagine being scared for your life and fi nding out your ticket to health care has been canceled?”

Lennhoff, who has a “very rare and aggressive” form of thyroid cancer, said people need insur-ance not only for treatment, but for spotting disease at its initial stages. She said she never would have known she had cancer if it were not for having health insur-ance and access to primary care.

Although the Affordable Care Act expands health insurance

to more people, problems can still fester. Rich said the web-site for applying for health care has been a disaster, and the coun-try is nowhere near its target mark of newly insured Ameri-cans. President Barack Obama also claimed that applicants for health insurance could keep their current plan if they want-ed, but Rich said that is not in his power, as that decision is up to the insurance provider.

And because the growing tide of newly insured Americans will need to be paid for, future gen-erations will have a challenge in funding universal health care.

Still, Rich said the ambitious legislation is a positive move. It’s not a move that has an easy-but-ton to fi x, he said.

“There are no solutions, only trade-offs,” Wellman said.

First year medical student Jennifer Alvarez wondered about how her future as a medi-cal professional would be affect-ed. But Wellman said people

should not steer away from being a doctor or nurse just because of the Affordable Care Act.

“People will need you,” he said. “You’ll be satisfi ed. You’ll be respected.”

Even with the website’s hang-ups and other shortcomings, the act is saving lives that never would have been saved before.

“What we’re seeing is a lot of people coming forward who want health insurance — who are getting it for the fi rst time,” Lennhoff said. “Who are excited about being able to have primary care for the fi rst time. Who are excited about being able to have the problems they have been liv-ing with for a while addressed when they go a doctor. Who feel like they are now a part of the United States and that they mat-ter because they can get health insurance and take care of their families.”

Stanton can be reached at [email protected].

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY It’s important to speak out and contribute this year, and also to get silent and lost in mindless diversion. Balance this to great success. Follow your highest ideals while having fun. Financial gain comes from following your heart. One door closes and another opens around romance after the June 10 eclipse. Care for family and yourself with love.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 19)Today is a 6 — Proceed with caution over the next two days. You may have to make an abrupt decision to save the day. Imagine the problem already solved, and then take the natural steps to arrive there. Keep a secret.

TAURUS (APRIL 20 - MAY 20)Today is a 6 — Go farther than ever over the next two days. Unexpected bills arrive. Reach for something you might normally avoid. Try using the opposite hand that you normally use. Explore culture, philosophy and history. Get adventurous.

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arrested on the charge of retail theft at Bergner’s, 2000 N. Neil St., around 11:30 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the offender took merchandise and concealed it in a stroller and removed it from the store.

Burglary from motor vehi-cle was reported in the 00 block of Main Street around 1 a.m. Sunday.

According to the report, the front passenger side window of the victim’s vehicle was bro-ken and numerous items were taken.

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fi eld Avenue around 3 a.m. Sunday.

According to the report, the offi cer stopped to help the offender who was stumbling and acting erratically. When the offi cer asked for identifi -cation, the offender struck the offi cer, knocking a pen and card from his hand.

Criminal damage to proper-ty was reported at Noyes Labo-ratory at 6:30 a.m. Saturday.

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Criminal damage to prop-erty was reported at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center at 10 a.m. Friday.

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Burglary from motor vehi-cle was reported in the 2000 block of East Rainbow View around 8 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the offender entered the victim’s vehicle and took a cell phone.

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SEC discusses campus safety, pensions

ing Wise. “I decided not to sign the peti-

tion because honestly I didn’t think it was necessary,” said Lizzie Dia-mond, sophomore in AHS. “The University made the decision not

to cancel school, and that’s their decision. We’re all adults. If you think it’s too cold to go outside, then we can make that decision for ourselves and stay home.”

The petition features signatures of people ranging from North Car-olina to Naperville, Ill., in addi-tion to the many University stu-dent signatures.

“Whenever you have student advocacy regarding any issue on campus, it’s good,” Bolden said. “It shows that students are interested in what is happening on campus and that they are fully engaged.”

Megan can be reached at [email protected] and @MeganAsh_Jones.

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From Sunday night through Monday afternoon, more than 400 users posted more than 700 tweets expressing their reactions to Wise’s email using the hashtag #fuckphyl-lis, according to Keyhole, a Twit-ter data tracking website. As of 10 p.m. Monday night, the number of tweets had fallen to 421.

Among those tweets were many that included crude comments about Wise.

Wise spoke at the Urbana-Cham-paign Senate Executive Commit-tee meeting Monday, reiterating that she is not solely in charge of the decision.

SEC chair Roy Campbell said he was dismayed by students’ reac-tions on Twitter.

“I fully support the chancellor’s decision to keep the campus open today,” Campbell said. “I’m fully confi dent that the chancellor was conscious of the issues concerned. I call upon all concerned faculty, staff and students to disapprove

of these disrespectful comments from a few of our students.”

Kaler said Wise doesn’t have a Twitter and did not see the student backlash, including the crude com-ments against her.

Within an hour of Wise’s email, Student Body President Damani Bolden sent out his own mass email to the Illinois Student Senate List-serv lobbying for student safety. He said he spoke with the admin-istration and continued to stay in contact with campus administra-tion throughout the night.

“This is a learning moment for us all,” Bolden said. “We need to sit down as a community and look at the inclement weather policy and look at the policy surround-ing when and why we cancel class depending on when it is benefi cial to the students.”

Students have been advised by administrators about the frigid temperature, including an email from University Housing that pro-vided tips on dealing with the cold weather.

“There needed to be a safety email sent out,” Bolden said. “With

the temperatures we are current-ly experiencing, it’s imperative that we focus on the safety of the students.”

Eric Snodgrass, director of undergraduate study for the atmospheric sciences depart-ment, advised students via Twit-ter about the harmful effects this frigid weather can have and how to take the necessary precautions when going outside.

When the windchill is as cold as it was Monday “exposed skin can freeze in about 30 minutes,” Snod-grass said.

These cold temperatures “can lead to frostbite,” he said, “really it’s your fi ngers, your nose and your ears — as long as you keep them covered you’ll be fi ne.”

Monday’s high temperatures were listed at minus 3 with wind chill values between minus 19 and minus 24.

Danielle Brown contributed to this report.

Miranda and Bryan can be reached at [email protected].

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on the other in the real world.”He added that implementing the

rule would deny patients treated by medical marijuana their right to defend themselves.

“Why do they have less of a right to defend themselves than anyone else? That’s sort of what this law does,” Dapkus said. “They’re try-ing to get better health-wise, but in doing that, they must put them-selves at a higher risk.”

Linn also mentioned some aspects of the draft that were posi-tive, such as the medical cannabis advisory board made up of eight doctors and one patient or patient advocate — though he thinks there should be more of a balance — and the time at which the draft itself was released. He said there had been talk that the proposed rules would not be released until late February or early March.

The Illinois Department of Pub-lic Health has opened up the fl oor for the public to make any com-ments or suggestions to the pro-posal, which may help address any issues and concerns.

Though Linn believes IDPH will change very little from what is being proposed, he said there is still a chance for change if enough people take issue with a specifi c rule.

“I think it gives an appearance of transparency, and it gives a mechanism for feedback from

the community and from the state,” said Linn. “You’re going to need a lot of people commenting that something bothers them and they don’t think that should be in there.”

Overall, Lenhoff believes that potential patients for the med-ical marijuana program are being treated in a discriminatory manner.

“If a physician makes a deci-sion working with a patient that this is the best treatment for that person, then why should there be all these things that prevent the physician from being able to treat the patient the best way possible?” Lenhoff said.

Eleanor can be reached [email protected].

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Senate Executive Committee chair Roy Campbell started off the committee meeting by calling for students and faculty to show signs of respect. He fi rst expressed sym-pathy for the University’s neigh-boring Big Ten university Pur-due that had a school shooting this past week, and then dismay for the crude tweets aimed at Chancellor Phyllis Wise sparked by the Uni-versity’s decision to continue nor-mal operation Monday.

The chancellor herself addressed the decision to contin-ue with classes.

“We don’t take (school closings) lightly, and it is not just the chan-cellor who is deciding this,” Wise said. “I will take responsibility for having made the fi nal decision, but I don’t do it alone.”

Campus spokeswoman Rob-in Kaler noted that the adminis-tration weighs both student and faculty safety with the business and research objectives of the University.

“We have to balance the need to continue business with safety, and

our goal is not to take snow days willy-nilly,” Kaler said. “Our goal is always going to be to try to con-tinue business.”

At the meeting, concerns were also raised about when a pension plan is likely to be put into effect and about how much infl uence the University has had in reversing pension legislation that will be enacted by the state June 1.

“I hear of movement interests from some of our premier faculty,” said Educational Policy Commit-tee chair Gay Miller. “If we can get them information that might have an infl uence on their decision to stay, it would be very important.”

University President Robert Easter said a supplemental pen-sion plan will be in place by the implementation date.

“I thought it important to get a signal from the board at the last meeting that this was something that we are taking seriously,” Easter said. “That was part of the intent of the resolution — to ensure our community this is something we are getting serious about.”

Faculty and Staff Benefi ts chair John Kindt proposed University

alumni take a part in infl uencing legislators to make changes to pen-sion legislation.

“It seems to me that if there is an email list of 13,000 (alum-ni) that some of the numbers we heard today about how the new leg-islation makes the University of Illinois pension system non-com-petitive, that in and of itself, com-municated by 13,000 (alumni) to decision-makers could have major impact, regardless of what is going on in the court system,” Kindt said.

The University administration budget was brought up by Easter at the meeting, and he discussed the two main parts of the budget: UA administration and UA programs. Vice President Christophe Pierre is trying to make major changes within these two main parts of the budget, returning funds from the online-education initiative known as Global Campus back into the campus budgets, Easter said.

The administration also plans to reinstate an annual review of cam-pus budgets, which did not occur the past two years.

In addition to budget reviews, Easter also took time to discuss

yearly salary reviews for faculty.“I am fully committed to hav-

ing salary programs year by year,” Easter said. “We see cost of living increases, cost of health increases ... it only makes sense that as we go forward, in order to remain fair, there would have to be an adjustment.”

Easter also said the board and the faculty plan on further defi n-ing the role of the presidency.

“I think the board is anxious, as Chairman Kennedy indicated, to engage the faculty signifi cant-ly in this process,” Easter said. “There truly is a need to defi ne the nature of the presidency.”

Easter, as president, has seen the role take on an “external” nature, working with both the University system and the state.

“There is a role for profes-sional representation and there is a role for the representational leadership,” Easter said. “One of the key roles for the presiden-cy is regular engagement with legislators.”

MaryCate can be reached at [email protected].

Chancellor discusses snow day decisions When Chancellor Phyllis Wise sent out an email to students notifying them that classes would continue as scheduled on Monday, a group of students began tweeting using the hashtag #fuckphyllis, criticizing her for the decision to keep school open. However, the chancellor only plays one part in the process by which the University decides to cancel class. 1. Lt. Todd Short of the University Police Department spoke with national, state and local emergency management offi cials to determine the severity of the weather.2. Short called 27 administrators from the President’s Offi ce, the Offi ce

of the Chancellor, the Offi ce of the Provost, the Offi ce of the Vice Chancellor for Research’s, Public Affairs, Fire Department, Police Department and Student Affairs into a conference call.3. Administrators heard reports that the winds would die down by 6 a.m., and that there would be no new snow in addition to cold weather.4. Administrators balanced the safety of faculty and students and the inconvenience of canceling classes.5. Administrators also made sure they were aware of which nearby institutions were closing. Although Illinois State University shut down, no universities on Interstate 57 were closing.6. The decision was made to keep the campus open and continue with classes as planned.

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true colors online a!er being denied class cancellation

Last March, as many students were re-turning to campus from spring break, nearly one foot of snow blanketed the entire campus overnight.

At 9:30 p.m. Provost Ilesanmi Ad-esida advised students to use caution while driving on the interstates but more important-ly discounted the cancellation of classes. Stu-dents rallied around the possibility of a snow day, and around 1:30 a.m., they finally got what they wanted.

But there were lessons to be learned — by University administrators and students.

Administrators were criticized for their de-layed decision in not canceling classes ear-lier when hazardous conditions were made very apparent. Students held administrators accountable: former Illinois Student Senator Jim Maskeri sent a mass email to the Urbana-Champaign Senate, provost’s office and chan-cellor’s office to express his concerns, and let-ters to the editor and testimonies flooded in from concerned students across campus.

But between Sunday night and Monday morning, things were different.

As students began noticing the absence of positive numbers from the weather forecasts, as well as wind chills plunging temperatures to around minus 20 degrees, they once again rallied around the idea of a snow day. But not in the same way we saw last year.

It started around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, when Chancellor Phyllis Wise told students via a mass email that classes and operations would proceed as scheduled. From there, the hashtag #fuckphyllis quickly garnered widespread use by students on Twitter — more than 1,800 tweets in the span of 12 hours included the hashtag, although some used the hashtag sole-ly to express their disdain.

Memes sprung up throughout Reddit and Facebook, many using Wise’s Asian-Ameri-can background as the theme of the jokes. A BuzzFeed staffer even wrote a post titled, “Af-ter Being Denied A Snow Day, University of Illinois Students Respond With Racism and Sexism.”

Well, University of Illinois students, what did you expect to happen?

See, there’s thinking you’re holding people accountable for their actions, and there’s ac-tually holding people accountable for their actions.

In fact, according to campus spokeswom-an Robin Kaler, the choice isn’t Wise’s alone. The University’s Campus Emergency Opera-tions Committee has the discretion to call a snow day.

Each time hazardous weather conditions oc-cur that could possibly put students in danger, the CEOC holds a conference to discuss fac-tors including current and anticipated weather conditions, whether sidewalks and roadways are clear and passable and whether heating and electricity are functioning throughout campus’ classrooms.

See, there’s being proactive, and there’s be-ing lazy. Proactive would have been emailing campus administrators voicing our concerns as students; proactive would have been us-ing your own individual discretion to decide whether the trek to classes yesterday was safe for you.

Instead, in response to the outright anger over Chancellor Wise’s email, we attacked her and embarrassed ourselves. We attacked her culture, her race, her gender and her history. We attacked everything but the problem itself.

It’s disheartening to realize that as one stu-dent joked about Chancellor Wise’s race, thou-sands of others joined in — and for them, it was completely OK. It’s disheartening to see what “jokes” can evolve into once enough people are in on it.

As students, we are allowed to think that Monday was too cold and too dangerous to safe-ly get to classes. But what we aren’t allowed to do is attack an individual’s character thinking that it would get us one step closer to our goal.

We’re a University that is no stranger to ra-cial controversy. We’re a University that still, to this day, cannot agree on the functionality and representativeness of our former mas-cot, the Chief. We’re a University that want-ed a snow day and spewed undue hatred at the first face we could find associated with it when things didn’t go our way.

We haven’t learned a damn thing except to think that if we complain enough, if we gar-ner enough support and if we’re naïve enough throughout the process, that we’ll ultimately get what we want.

Maybe we all have a little bit of growing up to do.

On Sunday afternoon, I almost wrote a column about the “microaggres-sions” inspired by a post I saw

on Facebook where a Caucasian female wished “her craziest Asian friend” a happy birthday.

The inclusion of the “Asian” qualifier bothered me because such a qualifier would likely never be used for a white friend. This also wasn’t the first time I witnessed such a post on social media.

I eventually decided to write about a dif-ferent issue that seemed more relevant at the time.

Little did I know that, hours later, a per-fect storm of bad weather and an email would bring this issue to the forefront of this very campus.

At 9:32 p.m. on Sunday, Chancellor Phyllis Wise sent a massmail to the campus commu-nity informing us that classes and Universi-ty operations would “proceed as scheduled.” This type of email is not out of the ordinary, but it quickly ignited outrage from the stu-dent body as the forecast called for sub-zero temperatures and extreme winds.

The backlash began with predictable out-rage on social media sites followed by a peti-tion that was circulated by a student named Matthew Hill through Change.org, in hopes of prompting Chancellor Wise to reconsid-er the decision to keep campus in opera-tion. Even if the goal was fruitless, this was a mature way to organize the student body in a grass roots manner. It was spread with the clever social media hashtag “#Wise-2Cancel,” leveraging the Chancellor’s own last name against her decision that students seemingly felt was “unwise” considering the weather forecast.

To this point, the situation had not been exceptionally noteworthy.

Then, it spiraled out of control.Students began using a different hashtag.The hashtag? #FuckPhyllis. Hateful? Yes.

Did it end there? No.It was quickly eclipsed by racist and

misogynistic content that many of the tagged tweets included.

“Phyllis Wise is the Kim Jong Un of chan-cellors #fuckphyllis,” stated one student.

“In a room with Phyllis Wise, Adolf Hitler, and a gun with one bullet. Who do I shoot? #fuckphyllis,” questioned another.

One minute, Chancellor Wise was the focus of a safety-minded petition seeking to reverse a decision she likely made with a team of administrators. Within an hour, a smaller collection of students compared her to the man who led the mass execution of millions of people and the current, suppres-sive leader of North Korea.

Such comparisons are beyond hyperbolic, but the fact that most were rooted in race and gender-based insults was even more troubling.

And remember, it was all over the decision to not cancel classes — which stu-dents can (and often do) easily skip on their own accord.

In that same time, a fake, now-deleted, Twitter account was created that began to spout off an array of inappropriate tweets. It is unclear who was behind the obvious parody account, but they were able to successfully use the Chancellor’s identity to spew venomous words.

For most bystanders, the progression of these events was dizzying and their nature was appalling.

Suey Park, an alumna of the Universi-ty, took note of what was happening and launched a remarkable pushback on the use of the hashtag, drawing attention to the hatred that was transpiring. She was able to do so by using the inappropriate hashtag to call out people spewing vitriolic hatred at Chancellor Wise.

This was followed by a now-viral post on BuzzFeed that justifiably called out the perpetrators.

What started as a widely-supported and calm opposition devolved into an embarrass-ing and offensive display of hatred from a small portion of students.

In the process, the ugly truth about an issue that has existed for a long time emerged: the frequent and seemingly “micro” aggressions that students of minor-

ity backgrounds face. Normally, such occur-rences are masked by “humor,” subtlety and a general lack of serious concern for their existence.

The aforementioned Facebook birthday post between friends was a perfect exam-ple of how sometimes people can insult even close friends by inserting race into the discussion. In the case of Chancellor Wise, hateful tweets pertaining to her race and gender (which at no point were small or harmless) became large-scale macroaggres-sions after being broadcast on Twitter for

the world to see.As with any dark hour, a

silver lining has presented itself.

We now have the opportu-nity to turn fresh shock and awareness for this subject into thought, discussion and, eventually, progress.

Ms. Park and the BuzzFeed post were right to call out students who spewed such hateful aggres-sions. Unfortunately, the piece also quoted Ms. Park as she (wrongly) connect-ed the insensitive attacks on Chancellor Wise to the

2011 stabbing of a Sikh law professor at the University. Comparing Sunday’s debacle to a race-based hate crime (fueled by men-tal illness) changes the conversation from being about the all-too-common everyday aggressions minorities face to something it’s not.

Their important message was further diluted with the inclusion of the Change.org petition in their complaints and the insinu-ation that the students in question repre-sent the entirety of this campus. These dis-tortions distract and hinder the meaningful discussion that must now happen.

With that in mind, it is our duty to learn from this and continue these meaningful discussions in our classes, in our homes and, yes, even online.

Chancellor Wise deserves better. Stu-dents of minority backgrounds deserve bet-ter. This University deserves better.

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

Online backlash can be an opportunity for change JOHN BUYSSE

Opinions columnist

Backlash from students reflects cultural intoleranceLETTER TO THE EDITOR

EDITORIAL CARTOON PAT BAGLEY SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

In the wake of the reaction to Phyllis Wise’s response to the possibility of canceling classes, I was quite con-fused. When I received the email that class would

not be canceled and thought about making some sort of snide comment on social media, it did not occur to me to use her gender or her race to question her abilities as an administrator.

I settled on posting a picture of her face pasted on Dr. Freeze from “Batman and Robin,” making an ice pun.

As illustrated by this instance, we absolutely have issues of white privilege on our campus and a general lack of cul-tural tolerance. It is a pretty disgusting mark on our cam-pus’ national presence that individuals of the student body think this way.

At the same time, generalizing a group of people being racist doesn’t accomplish much and, in turn, can reflect some of the same type of hateful language. My friend com-mented on a BuzzFeed article covering the social media fall-out and noted on Twitter that prejudicial behavior was being utilized by both sides.

She received hateful tweets and texts in return. What this incident really has shown me, however, is that

we do not have fully effective policies or programs regard-ing cultural tolerance on our campus for the general student body.

On one end, we have students making disgusting and sex-ist remarks, and on the other hand, we have other students

whose good intentions are invalidated by prejudicial rheto-ric. In between, we mostly have a vacuum. There are many students working as multicultural advocates seeking to resolve these issues in University Housing, and I commend their efforts. Unfortunately, I do not see people listening to these people or taking away something from their efforts.

If this is the first thing that people think of to insult an administrator, then we need a new approach to fostering con-structive conversations about diversity, sexual politics and more.

My experience has been that white people, such as myself, do not want to talk about these issues because they “have heard it all before” in high school and view it as annoying. I admit to rolling my eyes at diversity initiatives, feeling that they were preachy and even patronizing at times.

Even if people have talked about diversity a thousand times, it is clear that they have not listened, and they do not understand the importance of it.

Therefore, we need diversity programming that is real and speaks to our students — something that is real, rel-evant, does not talk down to students and does not seek to blame individuals.

Because if we act like this over cold weather, what else are we capable of?

JONATHAN BRESSLER,senior in ACES

We now have the opportunity to turn

fresh shock and awareness for this

subject into thought, discussion and,

eventually, progress.

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BY ALICE SMELYANSKYSTAFF WRITER

When the wind chill hov-ers around minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit and walking to class becomes a serious workout, it’s perfectly normal to fi nd your-self in hibernation mode. If the idea of leaving a source of heat to brave the icy weather gives you actual chills, then make use of your time and treat yourself with something sweet. With just four ingredients, this recipe for saltine toffee crisps might not really occupy your time. But nevertheless, these sweet and salty crisps are the perfect pick-me-up for unreasonable weath-er and homework assignments.

Four-Ingredient Saltine Toffee Crisps

Ingredients:

1 cup light brown sugar1 cup butter (two sticks)50 saltine crackers (crack-

er amount depends on cookie sheet size)

8 ounces semi-sweet choco-late chips

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

2. In a pan, melt the butter and light brown sugar and bring it to a boil. As it boils, stir for fi ve minutes to create even texture.

3. Take a large cookie sheet and place foil on top for an easy clean up.

4. Line the cookie sheet with crackers, making sure to fi ll in any gaps with crackers.

5. Evenly cover the crackers with the butter and light brown sugar mixture.

6. Place the dessert in the

oven and bake for fi ve to six minutes.

7. Take the cookie sheet out and sprinkle the chocolate chips on top.

8. With a spatula, spread the melted chocolate over all of the crackers.

9. Allow the crisps to cool by placing them in the freezer for a few minutes.

10. Once cool, break the piec-es apart and relish in chocolate-y goodness!

Alice is a sophomore in Me-dia. She can be reached at [email protected].

PHOTO COURTESY OF DAISY RIVERA Dan Manning, Kappa Delta Rho fraternity member and junior in LAS, DJs at KAM’S at night. Manning has been a DJ for the on-campus bar for a year and a half.

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began mixing music. He then downloaded a free DJ program, Virtual DJ, on his computer, and learned the basics.

“I picked it up as a hobby and got the hang of it really quickly,” he said. “I have a huge music knowledge now, and you have to have that to be a good DJ.”

According to Manning, meeting DJ Trentino , a DJ from Chicago who specializes in Electro House and dubstep, only heightened his passion. Manning added that Trentino was not as popular as other famous DJs, such as Avicii or

Skrillex, but was someone he looked up to.

“He is my idol. I want to be like someone like him,” Manning said. “The best DJs in the world aren’t really that famous.”

Manning added that his status as a brother of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity has also infl uenced him to become a DJ.

“Before I started playing at the bars, I was playing at our events,” Manning said. “The way I feel is that if I’m going to be there, I’d rather DJ than just stay there and party.”

Manning added that controlling the music for his fraternity events also made him become comfortable with an audience.

“Playing for my frat gave me a lot of confi dence, and I wasn’t nervous to start playing at the bars,” Manning said. “I could handle it.”

Manning competed in his fi rst DJ battle last semester at The Red Lion. Although he did not win, Manning is looking forward to his next battle this semester: WPGU’s “Frattle of the DJs,” which will take place later this semester.

“I’m looking up for Frattle,” Manning said. “I’m in it to win it.”

The next time Manning will DJ at KAM’S will be Thursday, Jan. 30, from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Christine can be reached at [email protected].

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BY CHRIS O’BRIENLOS ANGELES TIMES

Apple Inc. reported iPhone sales Monday that fell well short of analyst estimates, sending the stock falling in after-hours trading.

Apple said it sold 51 million iPhones in the fi rst quarter of its 2014 fi scal year, which end-ed Dec. 28. That’s a new record, and up from 47.8 million last hol-iday season. But it didn’t meet analysts’ expectations that the company would sell 55 million iPhones in the quarter.

“We are real-ly happy with our record iPhone and iPad sales, the strong perfor-mance of our Mac products and the contin-ued growth of iTunes, Soft-ware and Ser-vices,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive. “We love hav-ing the most satisfi ed, loyal and engaged customers, and are con-tinuing to invest heavily in our future to make their experiences with our products and services even better.”

Overall, a slew of updated gad-gets, including new iPads and iPhones, drove Apple to record revenue over the holiday quar-ter, though profi ts remained fl at.

Apple reported earnings on

Monday that showed revenue increased to $57.6 billion from $54.5 billion one year ago. That slightly beat analyst estimates of $57.46 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.

Profi t was the same as a year ago at $13.1 billion.

Thanks to its increasingly aggressive stock buyback pro-gram, even though profi t was stagnant, the company’s earn-ings per share rose to $14.50 per diluted share from $13.81 per

diluted share a year ago. Wall Street analysts had expect-ed Apple to post earnings of $14.09 a share, accord-ing to Thomson Reuters.

The disap-pointing sales of iPhones came as a particular surprise for several reasons.

This was the fi rst full quarter that both the iPhone 5S and 5C were available. There had been some chatter that the iPhone 5C was not doing well with consum-ers. And there was some question about whether Apple was able to meet demand for the new iPhone 5S.

In addition, these new iPhones were available in China at the same time as the rest of the world. Apple didn’t start selling the new iPhone 5 in China until

late December 2012, making for a favorable comparison this year.

So, was this a good quarter? Did expectations run too far ahead of reality?

“While earnings may be fl at, most companies would kill for their fundamentals,” said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. “Their products are high quality, their customers love them, and they are sitting on an obscene amount of cash.”

Moorhead added: “Fifty-one million phones is an incredible number in itself.”

In a note to clients, Piper Jaf-fray analyst Gene Munster wrote that “iPhone units were disap-pointing,” though he applauded higher average selling prices and higher gross margins.

The company sold 26 million iPads in the fi rst quarter, up from 22.6 million last year. That tops analysts’ consensus estimates of 24.6 million iPads in the Decem-ber quarter.

That reverses three straight quarters of declines, thanks to the help of the new iPad Air and the new iPad Mini with Retina display that debuted midway through the quarter.

Apple sold 4.8 million Macs, compared with 4.1 million in the December 2012 quarter.

Apple’s stock closed up $4.43, or 0.8 percent, to $550.50 at the end of trading Monday in antici-pation of earnings being released after the bell. In after-hours trading, the stock fell 7 percent.

“While earnings may be fl at, most companies would

kill for their fundamentals.”PATRICK MOORHEAD

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BY BRIDGET HYNESSTAFF WRITER

For college students in Champaign, Wednesday night can mean attending karaoke night at a local bar on campus.

“It’s a different option — a way for us to be even more crazy than usual and have some fun,” said Blake Quinlan, freshman in Business. Quinlan said his favorite karaoke experience was at White Horse Bar and Grill when he and some friends sang Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” and got the whole bar singing with them.

Jamie Norton, who DJs karaoke night at Firehaus Bar and Grill in Champaign every Wednesday night, said he witnesses the good and bad of karaoke singing on a regular basis.

He sometimes jumps in with another microphone to help people when they lose track of the beat of the song. The only time he will not jump in and help are when people “bite off more than they can chew” and sing songs that not even he can handle — like Macklemore. He did help someone out with Eminem the other night though — he can do Eminem.

After being a karaoke DJ for 12 years, Norton said he understands why students, and people in general, are attracted to singing karaoke.

“I think it’s everyone’s chance to be a rock star for four or five minutes,” Norton said. “It’s their moment in

the spotlight. They’re blowing off steam from the week, from tests or whatever they have going on. This allows them to forget about all of that for a few minutes and have everyone cheer them on.”

He said he was most surprised by the amount of Disney songs that students request to sing, like “I’ll Make a Man out of You” from “Mulan;” “A Whole New World” from “Aladdin;” or “Just Can’t Wait to be King” from “The Lion King.”

“I was expecting the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, but not the Disney songs,” Norton said.

Along with the Disney songs, Norton said some other crowd-pleasers are Billy Joel’s “Piano Man,” Don McLean’s “American Pie,” Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and any boy band songs.

Alyssa Lies, junior in Media, said she and her friends used to go all the time to White Horse to sing karaoke and would actually sing girl band songs, such as the Spice Girls.

She said one night when they asked a stranger to videotape them singing, some of his friends ended up jumping on stage with them to join in the singing.

“That’s the fun part, when random people join in with you,” Lies said.

Ninos Baba, sophomore in FAA, said he lives in an apartment on Second and Green streets near Red Lion. During the fall, he said he often would hear people do a mass sing-a-

long of Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” at Red Lion before the bar closed at 2 a.m. Although this is not karaoke, he said the fact that people are singing at the bars shows why karaoke works on a college campus.

“It’s a change from just dancing. You go somewhere, you sit down, have a few drinks, embarrass yourself and have a good time,” Baba said. “It’s a change from what we usually see. We’re here for four years and sometimes it can get a little repetitive, so karaoke is a good break.”

Baba himself said the worst karaoke song he has ever sung was “Survivor” by Destiny’s Child because he didn’t do the song enough justice.

Justin Gilles, manager at Firehaus, said that from what he has seen, crowd-pleasing songs generally have a part in the song where the crowd can sing back, like “Shout” by the Isley Brothers.

Gilles loves karaoke night so much that he specifically asks off every

Wednesday night so that he himself can attend karaoke night. He said he first sang karaoke when he was stationed in the Airborne Infantry at Ft. Bragg, N.C.

“There was a tiny karaoke bar right outside of Ft. Bragg, a stones throw away from where we were,” Gilles said. “We walked in there one night not knowing what it was, and my buddies and I just fell in love with it. We ended up going there every weekend.”

He has been working at Firehaus since December 2012 and has seen his share of karaoke songs.

He said he thinks college students like karaoke so much because “it gives them the excuse to DJ the party they’re at. It also gives guys an excuse to go up there and sing Backstreet Boys and not have to admit that they like it.”

One of his favorite moments at karaoke thus far came the other night when one of their regulars got up to sing Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On.” Gilles said he and another man carried another bar patron around with his arms spread out in the famous “titanic pose” during the song.

Regulars like this are common for karaoke, Gilles said. He said he figures every karaoke bar has about five to 10 regulars who come every Wednesday.

He said the best reactions usually come when guys get up there and sing girls’ songs, like “Call Me Maybe,” where no one even expects them to hit the notes.

He said he has noticed that more guys than girls sing at karaoke, and when girls sing it’s usually in big groups.

“I honestly think they should charge maybe five bucks for people to sing ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ — that or ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ — because no one can sing them; they’re tough songs,” Gilles said.

However, Gilles said regardless of your ability level, the most important part is getting up there, committing and having fun with it.

Throughout his 12 years as a karaoke DJ, Norton has seen his share of competitive karaoke and has worked gigs where most people sit back and like to judge the singers. Here on a college campus, he said it’s different.

“Everyone is ready to do it, ready to go with the flow, where a lot of other places people just want to sit back and judge the singers a little bit more,” he said. “On campus, it’s a little bit more lighthearted.”

Bridget can be reached at [email protected].

BY CHRISTINE OLIVOSTAFF WRITER

At KAM’S, Dan Manning is not known as “Dan” but rather DJ “D-Mand.”

For Manning, an active member of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity and junior in LAS, mixing and listening to music is more than mere entertainment — it is a passion and hobby that he believes will be an important part of his life for years to come.

Manning has been DJing at KAM’S for a year and a half. Pradeep Chawla,

University alumnus and friend and mentor to Manning, believes the DJ’s personal style is what makes him stand out on campus.

“Dan is able to switch up genres really well, which is something you don’t see from some DJs on campus,” Chawla said. “He has an open-format style and knows what songs to play for the crowd to have a good reaction. He is one of the better DJs on campus.”

Manning said he enjoys playing 90s music, and “stuff people will want to sing along to and know every word to.”

“But I also like mixing old music with new music,” he said.

Manning also said he is willing to take song requests and make himself available to his audience.

“With Dan, I feel like he actually will listen to people’s requests,” Chawla said. “He’s easy to approach while DJing ... He’ll take a couple of seconds to see what’s up.”

Leroy Ekechukwu, booking manager of KAM’S and graduate student, said Manning’s friendly personality is one of the main reasons

why he hired him to DJ at the bar.“KAM’S had one of the DJs I

regularly schedule (working) upstairs, and I believe a private party going on downstairs,” Ekechukwu said. “I went down there to listen to the DJ, who happened to be Dan. I liked the music he was playing and his attention to the partygoers.”

Ekechukwu added that Manning is professional and easy to work with, making him an asset to the KAM’S staff.

“I’ve never heard a complaint about

him, which makes my relationship with KAM’S less stressful,” Ekechukwu said. “He’s also open to constructive criticism, which tells me he is always trying to better himself as a DJ. Without using the microphone, Dan can pack a dance floor, and that’s a pretty impressive thing to be able to do.”

Manning first became interested in DJing when his friend, a student at Columbia College in Chicago,

Kappa Delta Rho’s DJ ‘D-Mand’ entertains at KAM’SGREEK OF THE WEEK

The following bars on campus all host “karaoke night” every Wednesday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.:

Firehaus Restaurant and Bar708 S. 6th St., Champaign

White Horse Inn501 E. John St., Champaign

Papa D’s Bar and Grill401 E. Green St., Champaign

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINICustomers at White Horse Inn sing Michael Jackson’s “Billy Jean” early Thursday morning. The John Street bar hosts “Karaoke Night” every Wednesday at 10 p.m.

Singing away some college blues

“It’s a different option — a way for us to be even more crazy than usual and have

some fun.”BLAKE QUINLAN

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Campustown proves to be prime location for karaoke enthusiasts

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BY SEAN HAMMONDSENIOR WRITER

The Illinois men’s basketball team wasn’t able to turn things around against Indiana on Sunday, but Ray-vonte Rice was. In the midst of a six-game losing streak, it’s easy to focus on the negatives. While head coach John Groce knows his team needs to improve, he did point out some posi-

tives when speaking with the media Monday.

One was getting the Illini’s leading scorer back on track. After a trio of subpar games and a scoreless outing at Ohio State on Thursday, Rice put in 20 of Illinois’ 46 points against the Hoosiers. It was his highest total since scorching the same Hoosiers squad for 29 points in an 83-80 overtime victory on Dec. 31.

“I thought (Rice) did a great job yesterday,” Groce said. “It was a big step from what he was Thursday at Ohio State. He needs some help. I don’t think there’s anything else he can do.

We need some other guys to be more consistent with their scoring and their shot-making.”

Rice’s 0-for-8 performance against the Buckeyes was the fi rst scoreless outing of his collegiate career, includ-ing his two seasons at Drake — a span of 85 games. It was only the second time this season he failed to score double-fi gures.

Groce knows his players better than anyone, and he is right, it can’t just be Rice scoring. He said the Illini need everyone to be hitting on all cylinders if they’re going to compete in the Big Ten.

While Rice didn’t score against Ohio State, Joseph Bertrand picked up the slack with 19. With Rice’s performance Sunday, it was Bertrand who faded, fi n-ishing with only two points on 1-for-11 shooting.

It’s been a consistent theme through the losing streak. One player might be clicking — Rice, Bertrand or Tracy Abrams — but the Illini can’t seem to get everyone to play well on the same day.

“The margin for error is small,” Groce said. “Players make plays,

Illinois’ offensive woes continue

Former D-I players fi nd home on club teamBY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER

Dodging loose balls and weaving between the remain-ing basketball players in Gym 2 of the ARC, the members of the Illinois women’s club volleyball team warm up to a mix of chat-ter and the voice of Vic Mensa coming through the speakers. The last of the basketball ath-letes clear out as the volleyball team starts its practice in prep-aration for hosting its fi rst ever Big Ten tournament at home on Feb. 1.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Sunday, and the gym atmosphere is a far cry from the 6 a.m. practices sophomore and B-team mem-ber Shannon O’Brien used to

attend when she played Divi-sion I at Cornell last year. O’Brien is one of four team members who played Division I volleyball at other universi-ties but, since transferring to Illinois for fi nancial reasons, has joined the club volleyball team. But it was more than just fi nancials that caused the four of them to transfer.

“Those morning workouts were the worst because I’d have to wake up at 4:45 a.m.,” O’Brien said. “There were some mornings where I’d just get up and throw up. I was just exhausted. The academics were crazy, so I’d get to bed at mid-night after all my schoolwork and wake up four hours later.

I was in a haze basically all of last year.”

Though the transition from Division I to club seemed daunting, O’Brien and the oth-ers have weathered it with ease. Playing volleyball to them feels more like a passion again, not just a job.

“There’s no coach, so I wasn’t how sure it was going to be,” said Cami Beghou, a sophomore on the A team who played Divi-sion I with Lafayette College before transferring this year. “But I think it makes us closer as a team as opposed to wor-rying about our own personal goals. You have to be mature

Success for golf team no small feat

Before this year, the SEC had won seven straight BCS National Championships in

football. The SEC comprises 14 schools, most of them located in warm, southern climates. Their streak of BCS dominance was broken this season by Florida State, another southern team. Not since 2002 has a school that endures anything resembling a winter season won the title, when Ohio State defeated Miami.

There seems to be a correlation here. Schools located in warm climates enjoy more football success than their cold-weath-er counterparts, as evidenced by the SEC. It makes sense. Football is an outdoor sport, and warm-weather schools reign.

Predictably, the same pattern is seen in other outdoor sports, such as baseball and golf, which makes Illinois men’s golf coach Mike Small’s success with the Illini even more impressive.

The nation’s best golf teams are supposed to be in warm cli-mates. Go fi gure. Pleasant weath-er means more time for out-door practice, nicer courses and an attractive recruiting pitch. The warm-weather advantage is refl ected in the NCAA top 10:

No. 1 is Alabama, followed by Georgia Tech, California, Okla-homa State, Georgia, Illinois ...

Illinois?Apparently no one told Mike

Small about his geographical disadvantage.

Small is the leader of fi ve-straight Big Ten Champion golf teams here at Illinois.

His Illini squad was the nation-al runner-up last year in the NCAA Championships. Three of his former golfers — Joe Affrun-ti, Luke Guthrie and Scott Lang-ley — are currently on the PGA Tour. He has won the Big Ten Coach of the Year award six times. The Illini have had three straight individual champions at the Big Ten Championships. Small has built a golf oasis in the middle of a barren, frozen landscape.

The success of Illinois golf is comparable to Butler reaching two straight National Champion-ship games in basketball. It’s as surprising as the United States winning the World Cup. Illinois golf is the classic example of a program that no one suspects to be capable of such success.

At this point, Small’s success at Illinois is not new. It’s sustained. It’s reminiscent of another coach building another unlikely power-house program in another sport.

Everyone knows about head

DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Rayvonte Rice attempts a layup during the game against Michigan State at State Farm Center on Jan. 18. Rice is Illinois’ leading scorer this season.

5. Ohio State

11. Nebraska

Editor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini basketball staff ranks the basketball teams in the Big Ten 1-12 and compiles the lists into its own Big Ten power rankings.

The Wolverines take over the top spot in the rankings after their win at Michigan State on Saturday. Despite not

meeting nonconference expectations, Michigan is the only undefeated team in Big Ten play, thanks largely to the play of sophomore Nik Stauskas, who is averaging 19.0 points per

game in conference play.

2. Michigan State After starting the season 15-0, the Buckeyes lost four straight games before getting back

on track Thursday with a win over Illinois. Still, Ohio State didn’t look particularly impressive in the win and needs more offensive fi repower to

compete in the conference.

10. Illinois

3. Iowa

Power rankings

1. Michigan

7. Indiana 12. Penn State

DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT

The Nittany Lions were poised to move up after they picked up their fi rst conference win Thursday against Nebraska, but the Cornhuskers collected their second Big Ten win against Minnesota on Sunday, leaving Pat

Chambers crew at the bottom of the conference.

4. Wisconsin

9. Northwestern

6. Minnesota

8 Purdue

A team that many predicted could go winless in Big Ten play has already picked up three conference wins, but Saturday’s (non-)showing against Iowa

illustrates the still-large gap between Northwestern and the conference elite.

ALEX ROUX

Illini columnist

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Groce: Rayvonte Rice ‘needs some help’ with scoring

Small able to succeed despite disadvantage of northern teams

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIThe Illinois women’s club volleyball team gathers during a break in its practice on Monday.

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Freshman goaltender proving valuable

D-League could serve NBA as farm system

BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER

After the Illini hockey team’s 6-1 win over the Chicago Jr. Bull-dogs, defenseman Austin Zima yells for reporters to ask fresh-man goaltender Zach Danna what his nickname is before he emerg-es from the locker room for an interview.

“Call him Cherry!” Zima calls out again, as Danna emerges, laughing.

“Cherry?” Danna repeats. “Yeah, that’s thanks to my team-mate Austin Zima.”

Danna said he received the nickname “Cherry” from Zima after his first game at Fenwick High School, where the two played together. Thanks to Zima, Danna’s nickname followed him all the way to Illinois.

“It doesn’t bother me at all,” Danna laughed. “I remember when he gave it to me, he called me ‘Cherry Danish’ because I’m soft in the center and don’t give up any rebounds.”

As Danna becomes more com-fortable inside the Illini locker room, he’s already finding his comfort zone between the pipes.

Danna recorded his first col-legiate win against Chicago with 29 saves on 30 shots and has only given up one goal in 80 minutes in net this season.

“When a guy plays like that, it’s hard not to notice,” said Illini head coach Nick Fabbrini, who also coached Danna and Zima at Fenwick High School in the northwest suburbs of Chicago for a season. “I know what he’s capa-ble of. It’s just a matter of getting

an opportunity.”Danna has proved himself,

sporting a 0.75 goals-against average with a 97.22 save percentage.

Although he’s played fewer minutes than the other goalten-ders on the team, no other net-minder has fewer than a 3.00 goals against average or higher than an 88.61 save percentage.

“Stepping up to this level, the game’s a little bit faster — not only passes and shots, but every-one skating,” Danna said.

Fabbrini said he’s happy to see the freshman growing into a role on the team and making the most of the opportunities given to him through more ice-time. But it wasn’t long ago when Fabbrini inadvertently knocked Danna out of a few games himself.

During Danna’s junior year at Fenwick, Fabbrini broke the goal-tender’s finger with a hard shot in warm-ups before the Chicago Catholic Hockey League (CCHL) playoffs.

“I mean, I’ve got a bomb, but...” Fabbrini laughed. “I was just warming him up, and it was a freak thing.”

Despite joking about it two years later, Fabbrini said the two haven’t talked about the incident since it happened.

“I actually felt really bad about it when it happened,” Fabbrini said. “We didn’t really have much of a chance without him in the playoffs, and we ended up hav-ing to play a freshman in net. In college, it’s not that big of a deal, but in high school, it’s a huge dif-ference between an 18-year-old

and a 14-year-old.”But now Danna’s the freshman

in net and he’s already proving himself worthy to his head coach and the Illini fans, who gave him a standing ovation and began bowing to him after his first col-legiate save on Dec. 13 against Northern Illinois — an impres-sive glove save on a rocket from the high slot.

“I feel like I’m starting to get in a groove,” Danna said. “That’s thanks to the guys on the team in practice who are going hard and making sure I’m pushing myself. I feel like every day I’m getting better as a goalie and a teammate.”

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

Kobe Bryant’s next professional basketball game should be for the Los Angeles D-Fenders.

Yes, you read that right. The D-Fenders, not the Lakers. The Los Angeles D-Fenders are the Lakers NBA D-League affiliate.

I understand that Kobe Bryant is still one of the greatest players of this generation and maybe of all-time. The statistics do not lie. Bryant is a 16-time All-Star, former MVP, five-time NBA Champion, two-time NBA Finals MVP, has scored 31,700 points; the list goes on. There are two other numbers that require mention-ing as well, 35 and 18. That is his age and number of seasons played. I’m not even going to include his interna-tional experience with the Olympic team.

The fact is that Bryant is not the young, springy athlete he once was. The age and the injuries are add-ing up. His six-game stint before his latest injury was less than impres-sive. After the Achilles injury, Bry-ant sat out for a while before being allowed to participate in on-court activities. He practiced for a bit with the team and then was thrown to the fire. That’s the typical rehab process for all the NBA athletes, all of them except Rajon Rondo. Rondo actual-ly opted to go to the D-League prior to returning to action for the Boston Celtics. He cited his reason as want-ing to have some in-game action without interrupting the team’s rou-tine by scrimmaging on an off-day.

The D-League is in no way shape or form comparable to the compe-tition level of the NBA. What the D-League does offer are NBA-capa-ble players that will provide a good challenge for rehabbing players. D-League players arguably play harder because they are fighting for a contract in the league.

Before considering it a slap in the face to send Bryant and other play-ers to the D-League before allowing them to return to action, let’s ana-lyze the benefits. It is not uncom-mon to send big-name players to a minor league-type system in other sports. The MLB uses this practice faithfully. It is not only accepted but expected. There is no name too big to be assigned to the minors. Last year, Alex Rodriguez was a member of the Charleston Riverdogs.

If the NBA uses the D-League in this fashion, it would definitely work to its favor.

Sending players to the D-League initially is a great way to assess the injury after the player has been cleared. Evaluations of how the play-ers’ bodies respond to in-game situa-tions can be completed. There would also be a chance to determine if there were any complications during the healing of the injury before plac-ing them back into an NBA lineup.

D-League assignments will help the players. Basketball is as much about timing and rhythm as anything else. Instead of wasting a number of NBA games to regain this timing and rhythm, D-League games can be used to get the player back in game situations and regain some of their confidence. Playing at real-game speed helps with regain conditioning, as well.

General managers also have the opportunity to find a hidden gem in the D-League. How often do D-League players have an opportu-nity to prove themselves against a proven Hall of Famer? If a D-League player can hold his own against the likes of a Rondo or Kobe, he’ll likely be able to find a roster spot on some-one’s team.

Rondo’s decision could be a blip on the radar or the spark of a great idea. Just don’t be surprised if you see Kobe in a different purple and gold uniform.

Spencer is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected].

SPENCER BROWN

Sports columnist

Illini women’s basketball falls to No. 19 Purdue 80-68

Sherman glad about effects of his memorable interview Dialogue about race ensues a!er outburstBY BARBARA BARKERMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Richard Sher-man wouldn’t change a thing about the last seven days.

He wouldn’t change his spirited postgame rant against 49ers receiv-er Michael Crabtree after the NFC Championship Game a week ago Sun-day. Nor would he delete a single one of the tweets and messages that he received from fans and media types, even the most negative and hurtful.

A week before playing the biggest football game a player can play, Sher-man made it clear that he believes there are some things that are bigger than football. He believes his rant and reaction helped open up a dialogue about race.

“I do think I have had some effect on opening the channels of communica-tion, conversation and dialogue,” the Seahawks cornerback said last night at a news conference at the NFC hotel. “I want everyone to understand that people should be judged by their char-acter and who they are as a person, not by the color of their skin.

“That’s something we’ve worked on to get past as a nation and a country, and we’ll continue to work on it. It’s healthy.”

“All the people who sent messag-es and tweeted what they tweeted. It ends up turning around to be a pos-itive because it opens back up the discussion.”

Over the past week, Sherman has become a household name as videos of his rant went viral on YouTube. Sher-man has proved to be a player who loves a big stage, and there is none bigger than the one he is stepping on this week as the Super Bowl is being

played in the country’s media capital for the first time.

Sunday, at his first news appearance here, about 100 reporters were jos-tling for position around Sherman’s podium at any given time, making it perhaps the first time in NFL history that a defensive back has drawn more attention than a starting quarterback.

Over the past seven days, Sherman has appeared on national television and his agent has said that interest in the cornerback for endorsement pur-poses has exploded. CNNMoney has

estimated that he is poised to make more than $5 million in endorsements because of the 15-second rant.

Sherman, who had a 4.2 grade-point average in high school and attended Stanford, said his biggest hope is that his trip to the Super Bowl will inspire young kids.

“This is the culmination of every-thing I’ve worked for,” said Sherman, who recorded eight interceptions this year. “They can understand that you can come from humble beginnings and get out of the inner city.”

“Stepping up to this level, the game’s a little bit faster — not only passes and shots, but everyone skating.”ZACH DANNAHOCKEY GOALTENDER

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jacqui Grant shoots the ball against Purdue at State Farm Center in Champaign.on Monday. Grant had 22 points and seven rebounds.

PAUL KITAGAKI JR. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNESeattle cornerback Richard Sherman bats ball away from San Francisco wide receiver Michael Crabtree during the NFC Championship Game in Seattle on Jan. 19.

BY STEPHEN BOURBONSTAFF WRITER

A return home was not so sweet after all for the Illinois women’s basketball team.

After three consecutive road games, Illinois (9-11, 2-5 Big Ten) returned home to an 80-68 loss against No. 19 Purdue (15-5, 5-3). The Illi-ni never led but kept within striking distance throughout the game, although the team couldn’t get over the hump.

Boilermakers sharpshooter Courtney Moses led the team with 22 points, including four 3-pointers. The senior came into the game leading the Big Ten in three point percentage (47.7 percent) and ninth in the conference in scoring (15.3 points per game). April Wil-son chipped in 15 points, eight rebounds and five assists on six-of-nine shooting for Purdue.

“If you look at (Wilson’s) stat line, it’s one of the best stat lines I’ve seen in a long time,” Purdue head coach Sharon Versyp said. “Our three guards, if you look at the scoring with only six turn-overs, and the rebounding, those three really did a phe-nomenal job.”

Jacqui Grant led the Illi-ni with a career-high 22 points, seven rebounds to go with four blocks and two steals. Alexis Smith paced the offense with 13 points and six assists, while playing the entire game.

Ivory Crawford contin-ued her productive play for the Illini early in the game. Crawford notched 10 points and eight rebounds in the first half alone, but foul trou-ble limited her playing time. The junior picked up her sec-ond foul with 5:48 left in the half and sat out for a short break before picking up her third with just under three minutes to go.

Crawford returned in the second half, only to pick up

her fourth foul almost imme-diately. Crawford was whis-tled for an offensive foul with 18:28 left in the second half. The Illini thrived in her absence, however, going on an 18-11 run to pull within two with 9:29 left.

When Crawford reentered the game, however, the Boiler-makers ripped off a quick 7-0 run, forcing an Illini timeout. After that point, the lead was never less than nine. After her stellar first half, Craw-ford was held to 2-6 shooting and only one rebound in the final half.

“When you get in close, you can’t stop there,” Illinois head coach Matt Bollant said. “You’ve got to be able to take the lead and keep the momen-tum going.”

Purdue entered the game third in the Big Ten in scor-ing offense at 75.1 points per game and carved up the Illi-ni with crisp ball movement early in the game. Five of Purdue’s first seven baskets came via assists and the Boil-ermakers tallied 38 points in the first half. The Boilers had multiple chances to pull away early — pulling ahead 20-9 and 31-20 — but Illinois had an answer for every run to keep the game close.

The Illini played its zone defense through most of the game, though it didn’t slow the Boilermakers’ offense. Purdue shot 46.9 percent from the field and 37.5 percent from beyond the arc. Illinois averages +6.5 turnover dif-ferential for the season, but the two teams were even at 16 giveaways apiece.

Point guard Sarah Hart-well left the game and didn’t return after a hard fall in the second half, but Bollant said she could’ve returned if necessary.

Stephen can be reached at [email protected] and @steve_bourbon.

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DULUTH, Minn. — With his prac-tice session complete, John Shuster left the ice at the Duluth Curling Club and tucked his 8-month-old son, Luke, into his car seat for the ride home. The three-time Olympian gathered up the last of the baby gear and slipped it into a navy-blue backpack with a USA logo. “Pretty cool diaper bag, huh?” Shuster said, zip-ping up the knapsack issued to Ameri-can athletes at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.

He can smile at it now, having shed the emotional baggage of that ill-fated Febru-ary. After winning a bronze medal at the 2006 Olympics as part of Pete Fenson’s team, Shuster returned four years later as the American skip in Vancouver, where his team’s ugly 2-7 fi nish turned him into a punchline. More than 18 months lat-er, Shuster couldn’t watch video of those Olympics without his heart racing and his nerves fraying.

Those memories gradually faded with the help of a new team, whose gathering strength has given him a rare and pre-

cious opportunity: an Olympic-sized sec-ond chance. The skip who took so much heat in Vancouver proved his cool late last year, when he and three fellow Min-nesotans vanquished a stacked fi eld at the Olympic trials, then clawed their way through a tough Olympic qualifi er in Ger-many to earn a berth in Sochi.

Shuster, 31, dismisses the assumption that he is driven by the ghosts of Vancou-ver. “My motivation is that I’ve been doing everything I could my entire life to win a world championship and a gold medal for our country at the Olympics,” he said. “My motivation really comes from trying to be the best and having teammates that do the same.”

Those teammates, however, also want to write a happier ending to his second turn as an Olympic skip. “We all saw what happened last time,” said John Landstein-er, 23. “The past is not our focus, but he took so much criticism. We want to win for our country and for ourselves, and to give John a better result.”

The Duluth Curling Club is particular-ly proud of Shuster, who used to tend bar there. There are photos of him and his

teammates tacked up on bulletin boards, near the schedules of the Monday night mixed league he plays in with Sara and the Tuesday men’s league he plays in with some friends. “Everyone is excited for him,” said St. Louis County Sheriff Ross Litman, who proudly notes that he and teammate Sammy Perrella — owner of local landmark Sammy’s Pizza — lost to Shuster for the club championship last year. “It’s fun for all of us.”

Sara, a pharmacy resident at a Duluth hospital, and Luke will follow Shuster all the way to Sochi. Some of the memories of his last Olympic experience will come with him, too, but they won’t be unwel-come baggage.

Four years later, Shuster said, he can fi nd value in what happened there, in the place where he chose not to let defeat defi ne him. He will get another backpack/diaper bag just for being on the team, but he feels prepared to bring home a more valuable souvenir, too.

“I’m excited to show people how great a team I have,” Shuster said. “I have to pinch myself a little bit. I’ve been blessed with an incredible opportunity.”

BY MARK GONZALESCHICAGO TRIBUNE

CHICAGO — Darwin Barney was one of the fi rst patients at the spring training offi ce of Bill Mueller and Mike Brumley this winter in Mesa, Ariz., and the Cubs’ struggling second baseman believes he might have found the remedy to cure his hitting struggles.

“Their ideas are simple,” Barney said of the Cubs’ new hitting coach and his assistant. “Let’s stabilize the base and release some tension, and let’s be the same

every at-bat. That’s a simple version of what they’re trying to do with me. I real-ly believe in it, and I feel good in moving forward. Hopefully things work out for our offense this year, and I think they will.”

In his fi rst duties, Mueller is serving more as a psychologist, watching tapes and conducting brief conversations with each player before watching each player in the batting cage and offering a diagnosis.

From Barney’s penchant for abandoning a compact swing to Starlin Castro’s pitch selection to Anthony Rizzo’s struggles with

runners in scoring position, Mueller faces several ailments he’s in charge of curing.

But Mueller, obviously aware that Pres-ident Theo Epstein emphasizes a single voice in sending a message to the hit-ters in the wake of last year’s struggles, stressed the importance of listening to his pupils’ feelings on their preparation, their approach at the plate, and the level of stress they feel in a specifi c situation.

“We can’t get too far into anything until you get in the (batting) cage,” Mueller said. “I don’t think it’s fair to them to throw out

what we’re all about out there — me, Mike and (quality control coach) Jose Castro.

“Maybe it’s a little fair for Barney or someone we’ve worked with because he has the understanding of what we’re all about, what we’re saying, how we’re say-ing it, what we’re saying and where we place our value, too. Then it’s fair for them.

“But for everyone else, I don’t think it’s right for me to be talking all the time at this point. It’s the players who play the game, win the games and execute and that’s ulti-mately where you will fi nd what the phi-

losophy is and what he’s incorporating.”General manager Jed Hoyer said many

of the prospects who attended the devel-opmental program last week opened their eyes when they saw a videotape of Mariano Rivera allowing a game-tying hit in Game 4 of the 2004 American League Champion-ship Series and later realizing the hitter was Mueller, who had a lifetime .373 on-base percentage and .282 mark with run-ners in scoring position during an 11-year career with the Giants, Cubs, Red Sox and Dodgers. — who spoke to the prospects.

New Cubs hitting coach Mueller has many ailments to fi x in 1st season in Chicago

Sochi gives curler Shuster a 2nd chance

JOE RIMKUS JR. MCCLATCHY TRIBUNEUSA’s Shawn Rojeski, center, delivers a stone during the ninth end as teammates John Shuster, left and Joe Polo sweep during the USA’s 8-6 victory over Great Britian in Penerolo Palaghiaccio, Italy, on Feb. 24, 2006, to win the bronze medal in men’s curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

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Broncos’ Manning questioned on playing in coldBY JEFF MCLANEMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Fact or fi ction or a little of both, Peyton Manning can’t escape questions about his poor record in cold-weather games.

With this year’s Super Bowl being played outdoors at near-by MetLife Stadium, the Denver Broncos quarterback was sure to be asked about the wintry con-ditions — rain, sleet, snow and a below-freezing temperature at kickoff — in the forecast for this Sunday’s game against the Seattle Seahawks.

In fact, it took all of three ques-tions before the topic was broached during the Broncos’ fi rst news con-ference aboard the Cornucopia Majesty docked at the Hyatt Jer-sey City on Sunday. But the ques-tion focused more on Manning’s positive feelings after last year’s frigid, double-overtime loss to Bal-timore in the playoffs than on his 4-7 mark when the temperature at kickoff is below 32 degrees.

“I needed to face different cir-cumstances with my new sur-roundings, with my new physical state,” Manning said, referencing his recovery from neck surgery

and his leaving the Indianapo-lis Colts. “In two years I feel like we’ve seen a lot as far as on-the-fi eld situations, weather, crowd noise, you name it, with this team ... so I do feel comfortable.”

Manning was hardly the reason the Broncos were knocked out in the divisional round of the play-offs a year ago, but he wasn’t his typically accurate self either. He completed 28 of 43 passes for 290 yards and three touchdowns with a Denver game-time temperature of 13 degrees. But he also tossed two interceptions, including one in overtime.

However, Manning considered the game a bit of breakthrough because he had only just started wearing a glove on his throwing hand. He even went so far a day later as to look ahead to this year’s Super Bowl and how the experi-ence of that loss could buoy his confi dence if the Broncos were to advance as far.

And they did, after Manning’s record-setting run through the regular season and victories over the San Diego Chargers and New England Patriots in the postsea-son. He did it wearing a glove the entire way. He did it winning his

fourth game in subfreezing con-ditions when Denver spanked the Titans, 51-28, in December and Manning threw for 397 yards and four touchdowns.

“Whoever wrote that narra-tive,” Manning said on a Denver radio station after the game, “can shove that one where the sun don’t shine.”

Someone from Sunday’s media corps even asked Manning how he could use the winter weather to his advantage and he seemed dumbfounded.

“I’m not real sure,” he said. “I don’t really know the answer to that one.”

The Broncos, who will practice at the New York Jets facility in Flo-rham Park, N.J., already seemed tired of the Manning cold-weather narrative that should get plenty of attention this week.

“I’ve seen him throw for a lot of yards in bad weather,” Bron-cos wide receiver Wes Welker said.

Coach John Fox said he hadn’t yet decided if he would have his team practice indoors or outdoors this week. He mentioned the fi eld conditions being the primary fac-tor. But Manning said the Broncos practiced outside in Denver all last

week “and I would think that would be the plan this week.”

Manning played at MetLife in Sep-tember when the Broncos handled his brother, Eli, and the New York Giants, 41-23. But the weather wasn’t a factor that day. Manning said he has had conversations with Eli about playing at his home fi eld in diffi cult conditions.

A win Sunday would give Man-ning as many titles as his brother (two), but for some, it would settle any debate that he was the greatest NFL quarterback of all time.

Some have even wondered if Man-ning would walk off into retirement with another ring. He mentioned two players — Broncos executive and for-mer quarterback John Elway and for-mer Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis _ as two all-timers who were able to walk away after a Super Bowl win.

“They couldn’t play anymore. That was all they had to give,” Manning said. “They truly left it all out there. I’ve certainly had a career change two years ago with my injury, with changing teams, so I truly have been kind of a one-year-at-a-time basis. So I really have no plans after this game.

“I certainly want to continue to keep playing.”

Seahawks’ Carroll returns to New York for Super Bowl BY TOM ROCKMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Twenty years ago this month, Pete Carroll was named coach of the Jets. Nineteen years ago this week, he was fi red from that job.

Now he returns to the city where he got his fi rst shot at running an NFL team, with a chance to win a Super Bowl. It’s hard to imagine that symmetry did not cross his Zen-like thoughts as the Seahawks’ charter plane swooped down and landed at Newark Liberty Interna-tional Airport last night.

Carroll insisted it did not. At least not at that time. He has given some thought to it, though.

“I always loved playing in New York,” Carroll said. “To have a chance to be a head coach in New York is an extraordi-nary honor because of the history and the following and all that goes along with that. Unfortunately. it didn’t last very long.”

Carroll was a defensive coordinator for four years with the Jets before he was promoted to replace Bruce Coslet. And he often needs to remind people that he had the Jets winning and nearly tied for fi rst place late in the season. They were comfortably ahead of the Dolphins in a late November home game, and a win

would have put them atop the AFC East.So what happened?Just one of the most notorious plays in

Jets lore. The fake spike.Dan Marino pretended to throw the

ball into the turf to stop the clock, but instead threw a touchdown pass to give the Dolphins the win. The Jets still had four games left. They lost all of them and fi nished 6-10. Carroll was fi red (although he may have gotten some vindication by being replaced by Richie Kotite).

“It didn’t have to be,” Carroll said of that game — that play — being the defi n-ing point of his fi rst season as a head coach. “It just kind of went south on us.”

Carroll learned two lessons that day. First and most obvious: Don’t ever assume that a quarterback is going to spike the ball.

Second?“It was a moment,” he said. “It showed

you how fi ne the balance was. It could have been entirely different had we won that game.”

Carroll went on to coach the Patriots for three years and then became head coach of Southern Cal, where he won one BCS title and two AP national champi-onships. In 2010 he left there to become head coach of his third NFL team, the Seahawks. He’s been in Seattle as long

as he was at his fi rst two head-coaching jobs combined, and has found success now that he’s been able to have a voice in picking players and defi ning charac-teristics of his team.

Carroll joked last week that he was lit-tle more than an interim head coach with the Jets, having replaced Coslet while the rest of the staff remained intact.

“It happened very suddenly, without any preparation for that to occur,” he said. “Sometimes I think it kind of looked like that.”

Asked if he would do anything differ-ently during his fi rst spell with the Jets, Carroll smiled and said, “I’d do what I’m doing now.”

In some ways, he gets a chance. The stadium where the fake spike took place was demolished a few years ago, but Super Bowl XLVIII will be played in the same metaphysical space, at MetLife Stadium. And he’ll be spending the next week preparing for the game in a state — and near a city — that was, for fi ve years of his life, home. Before it threw him out.

“It still was a great experience and I remember it well,” he said of his brief tenure. “I’m really proud to come back here and coach a game like this, of this status, in a place where we lived and worked. It’s a special honor to do that.”

we’ve got to make a few more of them.”

Putting the ball in the basket is an easy concept, but it isn’t always easy to do. Illinois simply has not made shots when it need-ed to. During the six-game los-ing streak, the Illini have scored 70 points just once — in a 95-70 loss to Wisconsin on Jan. 8.

Their problems Sunday had nothing to do with shot selec-tion — players just didn’t exe-cute when they were open.

“We’ve got to shoot the ball better than we’re shooting it now,” Groce said. “I thought we had some pretty good looks. Some of them will snap out of it.”

Illinois is shooting 36.2 per-cent from the fi eld through eight conference games, ahead of only Northwestern.

Illini catch a breatherMonday was the fi rst of fi ve

days off for Illinois, the longest such stretch the Illini will see for nearly a month. It’s a much-

needed breather with eight Big Ten games down and 10 still to go.

Illinois had four days off between games against Mich-igan State on Jan. 18 and Ohio State on Thursday. Groce said those days were used to get back to “old-school, fall-type practices” last week and it wouldn’t be surprising if that’s how the Illini handle the idle stretch this week.

In addition to practice time, it’s an opportunity to let banged-up bodies recover. Rice appears to have recuperated from a strained adductor mus-cle in his hip suffered Jan. 12 at Northwestern, but Sunday, it was Abrams who was held to just 13 minutes of play because of persistent back spasms.

It’s unclear yet whether Abrams will be 100 percent healthy by Saturday’s match-up with No. 15 Iowa. The Illini face the Hawkeyes on Saturday and then follow it up with No. 14 Wisconsin on Tuesday.

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

and step up. But you still get play and have that team vibe.”

With 26 women split between an A team and a B team, both teams have played well this year using the mix of club and collegiate careers to their advantage. The A team is ranked fi fth overall in the National Collegiate Vol-leyball Federation (NCVF) after plac-ing in the top three in all their fall tour-naments. The B team is ranked 10th in their division of the NCVF.

“We’re all doing this because we want to,” said Maureen Stroka, a senior and the team’s president. “It’s more about playing the game we love and less of an obligation.”

The tournament, which is the fi rst of the season at home, will include a mix of about 20 A teams and B teams from the Big Ten conference and will begin about 8:30 a.m. on Feb. 1 in Gym 1 of the ARC.

The team uses scrimmaging at the end of almost every practice to gain a better grasp of game situations and improve as a team. Sometimes, however, the inspi-ration for the drills run in practice can come from an unlikely source.

Junior Caitlin Ori is not only a mem-ber of the A team but has also held a

team manager position with the Divi-sion I Illinois volleyball team since last February. Attending every practice and home game, Ori has become an integral part of their team.

Balancing playing on the club team and managing the Division I team, she has made friendships with both sets of girls while fi nding ways to intermix the two along the way.

“I’ll come into practice sometimes being like, “Oh, (the Division I team) did this one drill, and I know that’s what we need,” Ori said. “It clicked with me that we need to work on that, too.”

The hours of practice and layers of insight are all in preparation for the NCVF Collegiate Club Volleyball Cham-pionships in Reno set for April 3-5.

Though it still proves to be a balanc-ing act between the schoolwork, social functions and extracurriculars, volley-ball has been an ever present and, as the women hope, ever future aspect in their lives.

“There are days I’d think, ‘Is this what I’d want my college experience to be remembered as?’” Ori said. “But then I go to the practices and I’m just like: ‘Absolutely.’ I couldn’t imagine my life any different.”

Charlotte can be reached at [email protected].

coach Mike Krzyzewski at Duke and his suc-cess with the Blue Devils’ basketball pro-gram. However, not as many people know about Duke’s mediocrity in hoops before Coach K took over in 1980. Before Krzyzews-ki, as sportswriter and Duke alum John Fein-stein put it, “Duke was bad.”

Krzyzewski eventually began to win at Duke. Once he won, he stayed, and he won a lot more. He has now won more than 900 games and is the poster-child of sustained success in college basketball after turning a small private school in North Carolina into a basketball powerhouse.

This is Coach Small’s 14th season at Illi-nois. He graduated from the University in 1988. He’s a loyal Illini if I’ve ever seen one. Ex-Illini track coach Tonja Buford-Bailey left her alma mater to coach at Texas last summer. It was an understandable move, but a move that makes you appreciate the job Small is doing that much more.

We may very well have our own golf ver-sion of Coach K in Small. He’s turned his program into a perennial national contender, despite the obstacles and elements.

That’s no small feat.

Alex can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @aroux94.

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MARK REIS MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEDenver Broncos’ Peyton Manning smiles at the bench before kneeling down for the conclusion of the AFC Championship Game in Denver on Jan. 19 .

JOHN LOK MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNESeattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll reacts after running back Marshawn Lynch scores a touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., on Oct. 17. The Seahawks will face the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Sunday.

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BY REEMA ABI-AKARSTAFF WRITER

Writing cover letters may not be everyone’s favorite task, but they can make or break an internship or job application. Instead of just being a chore, a cover letter can serve as a snapshot of a student’s skills and personality — valuable assets that a company is looking for. Michele Plante, career services coordinator for FAA, weighed in on these seven tips for writing a memorable cover letter.

1. Customize your cover letter based on the job

“The most important thing is to write a different letter for each application,” she said.

Companies can tell if an applicant is using a standard cover letter instead of one written for a certain job. It is important to highlight the skills that are most relevant to the position at hand.

2. Do research on the company

Anyone applying for a position should be well-versed about what the organization or company does, what the work environment is like and other major details. It is necessary for a student to know what he or she is applying to and be knowledgeable about the company during an interview.

3. Make sure to respond to the specifi c job listing

“You want to make it clear to (the company) that you are replying to the ad and that you’re really delivering to them what they need,” Plante said.

She recommends making a checklist of the job qualifi cations and tasks, and checking them off while writing the cover letter.

4. Do not just create a carbon copy of your resume

“Some people make the mistake of just repeating their resume — you’re basically handing in two copies of your resume,” she said. “It also says that you’re not a good communicator.” So instead of just saying “I have great communication skills,” make sure to demonstrate those skills by describing your experiences and accomplishments.

5. Think about it as a conversation

Talk about yourself by using stories and giving specific examples of your experiences. For example, if the job ad asks for experience in research and communication, describe a research project you did in class and talk about how you

presented it. These stories show your personality and may single you out from several other qualifi ed candidates.

6. Talk up the organization

“Tell them how much you like their company and why. Don’t tell them what their company is; they are familiar with their company already. Instead, emphasize what you both have in common,” Plante said.

Explain what led you to apply there and why you believe their company stands out from the rest. This shows that you have done research and that you are enthusiastic about the position.

7. All work experience can be applicable

“I’ve had a lot of students tell me that in their job interviews, interviewers have said they like to see experience with sales or waiting tables, because it shows the student has dealt with customers before, which can translate to client experience later in their career,” Plante added.

So don’t dismiss a job in a restaurant or in retail just because you believe it is irrelevant.

Reema can be reached at [email protected].

BY JED LACYSTAFF WRITER

While still in college, students can work tirelessly in prepa-ration for the day they fi nally enter the “real world” and begin their careers.

Fortunately for University students, Illinois is known as one of the top academic institu-tions in the country and serves as an ideal training ground for students to learn the skills nec-essary for success in their pro-spective professions. However, despite the University’s efforts to prepare its students as best as it can, even higher education has its limitations.

As a result of the complex

nature of the job market, there is no way for universities to teach students everything they will need to know for their future careers. The reason for this is simple: There is no sub-stitution for fi rsthand experi-ence, and that can’t be taught in a classroom.

This is precisely what Chessa Kilby found out when she grad-uated from the University in 2012 with a degree in MCB and began her fi rst job as a neurosci-ence technician at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

“There was defi nitely a learn-ing curve at fi rst. I had a lot more responsibilities than I

ever had in undergrad,” she said. “During college, my main focus was to just complete my coursework, but at Beckman, I was required to be in charge and manage people.”

Kilby’s experience at Beck-man refl ects the importance of human interaction in the work-place and, in particular, the responsibilities that go with leadership. While it is possi-ble to improve one’s teamwork skills by participating in extra-curricular activities or organi-zations, at the end of the day there is no substitute for learn-ing how to interact and lead your fellow co-workers in a pro-fessional environment.

Perhaps the closest alterna-tive to gaining real work experi-ence before beginning a career comes in the form of an intern-ship. One way to think about an internship is to liken it to a fi rst date. While the internship may not be the exact job a student wants to stick with forever, it serves as a valuable learning experience to better understand what works for him and what does not. For Patrick Schultz, junior in LAS, it was love at fi rst sight when he began work-ing as an intern for the health informatics company Intelli-gent Medical Objects this past summer.

“Everyone I worked with

at my internship was great. I would tell them about what I had learned about in school and how it applied to the work we were doing, and they would just sit there and smile at me,” Schul-tz said. “They were extremely helpful and did a wonderful job of making me feel welcome as a newcomer.”

Aside from internships, undergraduates can increase their chances of being hired by cultivating skills that are benefi cial to have, no matter an individual’s academic disci-pline. According to The Career Center’s Associate Director for Assessment and Research Julia Makela, the skills employers are

really looking for are not nec-essarily skills specifi c to a par-ticular major, but rather general skills that all members of the workforce should have.

“It doesn’t matter where you’re coming from on campus. There are certain skills that are important to employers across all disciplines,” Makela said. “Some of these general skills include being able to actively engage in problem solving, com-municating effectively with co-workers, having strong techno-logical skills and being able to work well in a team.”

Jed can be reached at [email protected].

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Find the right lengthThe pants of the suit are one of the more

difficult parts to get perfect. For all suits, the pants hem should have one break in them when the pants hit the top of the shoes. Another difficult aspect is the length when sitting, as a man’s leg should never be exposed. Therefore, this creates anoth-er area of personalization: socks. Dress socks can be found in a variety of colors and patterns, which allow some personal options for the man.

Shoes should compliment the suit The pairing of a suit and the correspond-

ing shoe color can make or break the final look. For black shoes, one should be wear-ing a black, light grey, navy or charcoal suit, but for brown shoes one should be wearing either a brown, navy or light grey suit. But one must always remember to have their shoes and belt match.

FOLLOW IN SUIT

BY ALICE SMELYANSKYSTAFF WRITER

It’s that dreadful moment you thought would never creep up on you again. You look in to an over-stuffed closet and find nothing to wear. It’s the day of your potentially life-changing interview, and you are about to leave your room wearing fuzzy slippers and a bathrobe because that’s less stressful than finding an outfit.

Don’t let yourself time-travel back to a teenage-angst phase. With just a few simple pieces, you can stock up your closet in time for internships, resume reviews and other career “make-or-break” moments. Here are some options on and near campus to help you find just the right busi-ness-appropriate clothing with-out spending that precious bar cover money:

Where to find affordable clothingSuits can be costly, but inexpensive options exist

Salvation Army 2212 N. Market St., Champaign

If you don’t want to break the bank, then thrifting will allow you to still dress the part. At the Salvation Army on Market Street, you’ll find more than the essentials from your grand-mother’s closet. A woman’s suit is $5.75 on average, according to Store Manager Tammie Wil-liams, and if you’re willing to go through the racks, you could combine a few items to create multiple looks.

“Here you could get an entire business suit for less than $10, right down to the shoes,” Wil-liams said.

ModDeals.com

Walking down aisles in search of the cutest clothing is a hob-by and addiction for some. But if you would rather find your go-to interview outfit from the convenience of your home, then typing ModDeals.com into your search bar might be the better choice for you. Many of the tops are $10 on average, and the clothing categorized under “Work Clothing” on the site is all $18 and under.

Kohl’s 109 Convenience Center Rd., Champaign

Whether you are looking for a suit, dress, button-down shirt or blazer, the woman’s depart-ment at Kohl’s contains a huge assortment of business clothing. Online, you can find suits from Tahari-Levine Co. ranging from $40 to $80 per piece, as well as Apt. 9 button-down shirts from $20 to $30.

“They have a wide variety of reasonably-priced business clothing,” said Elissa Hadro, assistant store manager at Kohl’s location on 109 Conve-nience Center Rd. “Personally, I usually just go for business slacks with a blazer and nice shirt underneath. I would rec-ommend Apt. 9, ELLE, Daisy Fuentes and Lauren Conrad.”

Fira Boutique700 S. Gregory St., Suite E., Urbana

For those who don’t want to sacrifice fashion sense for the office place, Fira, a new fash-ion boutique on campus, can help you out. Storeowner Anne Ragle brings in the latest trends from L.A., including Jack by BB Dakota.

“We have a tweed crop jacket with a high-waisted pencil skirt look that could work,” Ragle said. “Or you could do a crop pant and include a pop of col-or underneath a ruched sleeve blazer. People like to get some-thing versatile, for work and play.”

Ragle recommended saving money by shopping for tops that one could easily wear to the bar at night, and pair with a blaz-er or cardigan the next day for work.

F rom the Rat Pack and James Bond to Barney Stinson and Don Drap-er, the suit has been the trademark of the professional man in both pop

culture and everyday life. After four years of wearing jeans and sweatpants to class, a suit can be vital to transition into the profes-sional world for college students. But it is the finer details that can make or break a suit.

Though owning a suit is a rarity on a col-lege campus, it is a necessity. Jason Swenson, a first-year graduate student in Engineering, said his black and thinly grey striped suit is an essential asset for approaching the job market.

“It brings a certain level of confidence to an individual when they apply for a job,” Swenson said. “Obviously, the point of col-lege, in the end, is to get that job, so if you have the suit, you have the swag.”

Swenson said that he believes first impres-sions are vital to the level of success in a job interview, which can be led by one’s confi-dence in his suit.

Brian Neighbors, a senior assistant direc-tor for employer development with The

Career Center, said he believes the expec-tations for owning a suit on campus differ by the department and the job one is apply-ing for.

“Any job interview you are going to go for that (is) a business — it is a brick-and-mortar building, there are offices, and it is a formalized business — that is when the suit is going to come into play,” Neighbors said. “If you are a certain type of engineer … and your interview is going to be on sight at a construction yard, if you show up in a suit there, you will get mixed emotions when everyone else is in jeans, work boots and a hard hat.”

Neighbors said that for most students, there is one rule to always abide by in a pro-fessional setting.

“The rule of thumb is that you want to dress one level up from what everybody else is doing,” Neighbors said.

Even the students who do own a suit may not realize the untold success in wearing one right. These tips can help students perfect the look that has been mastered for years.

Buying a jacket off the rack As one of the more difficult choices to

master, an off-the-rack suit can either hin-der or be a lucky charm for some men. If you can’t find a well-fitting suit, don’t force it.

“I don’t think it has to be tailored like Barney on ‘How I Met Your Mother,’” Neighbors said. “I think that something you can buy cheaply off the rack is fine. ... Instead of wearing a frumpy suit or some-thing that is oversized, if you have slacks, a button-up and a tie that fit you well, … I would recommend you go with that.”

Button up The middle button, for a three-button

jacket, and the top button of a jacket should be equal to a man’s navel ideally; however, it can be above the navel as well.

Link your cuffs For a French-cuffed shirt, the sleeve

cuff is a place for personalization with the cuff links. Everything from function-ing watch cuff links to sports team’s logos, the sleeve cuff is a place for a man’s per-sonal mark. Optimally, the cuff of a sleeve, French cuff or not, should be exposed a half an inch from the jacket sleeve.

Know how to tie a knot According to Doug Conant, assistant

manager at Men’s Warehouse in Cham-paign, the knot of the tie, particularly a half or a full Windsor knot, is dependent on the width of the collar.

Pick the right tie sizeThe size of the tie should always match

the width of the jacket’s lapel, meaning that a thinner tie should join a thin lapel and a wider tie should be used with a thick-er lapel. The width of a lapel is a prefer-ence selection, according to Conant; how-ever, most men determine their lapel width by their age. The younger men wear a thin lapel with a thin tie and older men wear a wider lapel and a wider tie. The wider tie and lapel is a look that is commonly asso-ciated with the suits of the 1900s, whereas the thinner approach is more modern. On the other side of the tie, the very tip of the tie should always aim to hit the belt buckle.

Color match Unless the colors of the shirt and tie

contrast, the color of a tie should always be darker than the shirt’s color, accord-ing to Conant.

Alice can be reached at [email protected].

BY DECLAN HARTYSTAFF WRITER

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Tackling college and main-taining a professional repu-tation may be a struggle for

some University students. While working to create a positive fi rst impression on professors and potential employers, college stu-dents are simultaneously fac-ing enormous amounts of stress, deadlines, exams and homework. When under incredible amounts of pressure, the anxiety of col-lege can make appearing profes-sional on a daily basis seem alto-gether impossible. Below is a list of tips for appearing and acting professional every day.

1. Allow yourself time to de-stress and relax at least once a day

Whatever it is that you enjoy, make time for it — even if it’s only for a few minutes. Wheth-er it’s going to the gym, tak-ing a walk, cooking a nice meal or reading a few inspira-tional quotes, do it. The rest of your day will feel less forced once you have collected your thoughts. And you will look and feel less frazzled as you go about your day.

2. Plan out your days

To appear punctual and orga-nized, be sure to fi rst consider how long it takes for you to get from point A to point B in the morning and in between class-

es. By arriving a few minutes early to class, you’ll have time to get organized and take a deep breath. Not to mention, your pro-fessors will notice and appreci-ate your timeliness and dedica-tion to the course, especially as those last few straggler students are still slipping through the door after the start of class. In the end, punctuality goes hand in hand with professionalism.

3. Participate in class

Once you’ve proven your-self to be a punctual and put-together student, your profes-sors will likely be your greatest resource when in need of rec-ommendations for internship and job applications. But being on time to class isn’t always enough to guarantee a fi ve-star

letter of recommendation from the professor of your choice. As irritating as some students may fi nd classroom participation, it’s important to ask questions and share your opinions about the subject matter. Bottom line: An “A for effort” really does go a long way in college.

4. Keep your social media professional

When outside the classroom, it’s important to keep a handle on your Twitter handle, as well as all other social media outlets. In other words, the less “selfi es,” bikini shots and drunk party pics out there, the better. If you are having trouble deciding wheth-er to post an entire album of last night’s shenanigans, it’s probably best to hold off.

One good rule of thumb is to think of yourself as your potential employer and let that be your Facebook fi lter. If you wouldn’t hire yourself based on your social media presence, then your potential employer probably wouldn’t, either.

5. Dress your best for interviews

Finally, an interview is the ultimate time to appear professional. For your inter-view to go well, it’s impor-tant to take pride in yourself and your appearance and to act confi dently. Unfortunate-ly, many people will not get the job of their dreams. And it may not be because they didn’t have the necessary skill

set; it’s because they didn’t show the interviewer that they were the best fi t for the job.

An interview is your chance to sell yourself, and to prove that you are the best candi-date, not just an adequate candidate.

When prepping for an inter-view, pick out your best busi-ness professional attire and update your resume to high-light the experiences that relate most to the job for which you are applying. As the interview proceeds, be confi -dent in speaking about your accomplishments because your hard work deserves to be recognized.

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

I think every child has had at least one ridiculous dream of what he or she aspired to be

as a grownup. In kindergarten, when teach-

ers would hand out those work-sheets titled, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” we casually and confi dently wrote down answers such as “a rockstar,” “my dad,” “Michael Jordan” or “a NASCAR driver.” If you are still reading this and you didn’t answer anything of a similar caliber, you were prob-ably that one boring kid who has wanted to be an accoun-tant since the age of 5. Kudos to you, Jimmy.

Either way, at that age the career possibilities were end-less and our parents were ever supportive, no matter how cra-zy our career goals may have been.

While I had many career goals as a child, my most mem-orable and most ridiculous was my dream of one day simulta-neously being the fi rst woman president and the fi rst woman priest in the Roman Catholic

Church. Yes, you heard that right. At the tender age of fi ve, I could not foresee the strug-gle this dual-career would pose: the juggling of church and state. I attribute this dou-ble aspiration to two things that dominated my child-hood: listening to NPR from my car seat while my parents ran errands, and having to sit through some bad homilies at church. I fi gured I could do a decent job — maybe even bet-ter than the Clinton guy they were always talking about on the radio or those priests whom I never could seem to understand.

Obviously, some time passed and I moved on to more rea-sonable careers of “balleri-na,” “artist” and “singer.” Then more time passed and I real-ized that maybe I should look into other careers. I’m still in the process of fi guring out what I want to do.

Stephanie Fessler, senior in Social Work , attributes this “moving on” phase to an increased awareness of the world.

“As a kid, you have this list of jobs people can be in your head. You know there is a job called fi reman, singer, artist; no one grows up saying they want to be an electrical engi-

neer,” Fessler said. She said that she has want-

ed to be a variety of things, including a brief stint when she wanted to be president of PETA after she witnessed calves being lassoed at the rodeo when she was 5.

“The calf was not hurt at all in this process, but as a fi ve-year-old, I freaked out that this was animal abuse. And so I’m screaming hysteri-cally at the rodeo about how I was going to write a letter to the president to stop the rodeo from ever happening again,” Fessler said.

Since that day, she has moved on from her dream of being the president of PETA, and now instead of having a career in animal rights, she said she wants to be involved in the rights of children — as a child welfare specialist.

Figuring out what you want to do with your life career-wise can be frustrating, but I think it’s important to remem-ber that fi nding a profession you love is a process of trial-and-error. Even if our child-hood career dreams haven’t quite panned out as we wanted them to — for example, I am not in the seminary nor do I have any major political aspi-rations — I think we should still hold on to that feeling of confi dence and invincibil-ity we had as kids. We truly believed we could be anything we wanted, and our own hap-piness was at the forefront of that decision.

Danielle Moyer, freshman in Media, is a perfect exam-ple. She said she wanted to be a farmer and live on a farm with just dogs.

“My dad’s family is from Nebraska. I always visit-ed there growing up, and I thought it was a really glam-orous place for some reason,” Moyer said. “It quickly faded when I realized that would be a very lonely lifestyle.”

Vikram Reddy, junior in Engineering, also saw glam-our in the mundane. He wanted to be a garbage man as a kindergartener mainly because he liked their trucks and uniforms, which were both blue, his favorite color.

“As a kid, it looked exciting. You got to hop on and off the truck,” Reddy said. He would wait every morning by the window to watch for the gar-bage man to pull up.

Like most of us, Reddy even-tually decided not to pursue his childhood dream career, and now wants to go into busi-ness consulting.

To those of you who real-ly did pursue your childhood dream, I am impressed and inspired. For the rest of us, no need to worry, we have not grown up yet. As kids, we set our goals high and planned to do what made us happiest. Why should that be any differ-ent now?

Bridget is a freshman in Media. She can be reached at [email protected].

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Stephanie can be reached at [email protected].

Mark Van DorenBachelor’s degree in College of LAS (1914), Master of Arts in College of LAS (1915), deceased

Born in Hope, Ill., the Doren brothers found similar success throughout their lives. While they attended the University, they actively served in differ-ent clubs and class committees and held staff positions at the Illio Yearbook and Illinois Mag-azine. In 1915, Mark Van Doren was voted “The Most Respected Man” in an Illio contest.

After graduating, they both earned a doctorate degree from Columbia University in New York City, where they worked as professors for more than 20 years. In 1939, Carl Van Doren received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for “Benjamin Franklin.” One year later, Mark Van Doren received the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for “Collect-ed Poems 1922–1938.”

Betsy BrandtBachelor’s degree in College of FAA (1996)

These alumni have offered their talents to popular TV shows. Nick Offerman plays the role of Ron Swanson in the com-edy television series, “Parks and Recreation,” which NBC recently renewed for a sev-enth season. He also appeared in fi lms such as “We’re the Mill-ers” and “21 Jump Street.” Bet-sy Brandt is best known for her role as Marie Schrader in the American crime series “Break-ing Bad” and currently appears on “The Michael J. Fox Show” as Annie Henry, the wife of Mike Henry, who is played by Michael J. Fox.

Max AbramovitzBachelor’s degree in College of FAA (1929), deceased

Max Abramovitz was part of the Tau Epsilon Phi frater-nity, the Pierrots drama club, and the Architectural Society while he studied at the Univer-sity. Years later, he eventual-ly designed the Krannert Cen-ter for Performing Arts and the State Farm Center, which was one of the fi rst edge-sup-ported domes in the world. He is best known for his work on the Avery Fisher Hall (former-ly known as the Philharmonic Hall) and the United Nations complex in New York City, as well the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Lang-ley, Va.

Jeremy StoppelmanBachelor’s degree in College of Engineering (1999)

In 2004, Jeremy Stoppelman founded the popular review-ing website “Yelp” with Rus-sel Simmons, creating a com-pany that serves to help users fi nd reliable businesses. Earlier in his life, Stoppelman was the vice president of engineering at PayPal and attended Har-vard Business School for one year.

Steven ChenAttended through 1999 in Col-lege of Engineering

Roger EbertBachelor’s degree in Col-lege of Communications (now called College of Media) (1964), deceased

Remembered as one of the country’s greatest fi lm critics, Roger Ebert revolutionized the art of fi lm review. When attend-ing the University, he was the editor-in-chief of The Daily Illi-ni, belonged to various honors societies, and participated in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Illini Forensic Association. He became the fi rst fi lm crit-ic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and created the iconic thumbs-up, thumbs-down rat-ing system. In 1999, he founded the Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival in Champaign-Urba-na to honor fi lmmakers, fi lms and actors who didn’t receive “deserved” recognition the fi rst time around.

Dave EggersBachelor’s degree in College of Communications (now called Col-lege of Media) (2002)

From the late 1980s to the ear-ly 90s, Dave Eggers attended the University but did not receive his bachelor’s degree in journal-ism until 2002. During his atten-dance, he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and worked for the Daily Illini as an editor for various sections. Since then, he has become a best-selling author, Pulitzer Prize-fi nalist, and impacting philanthropist.

His most acclaimed works include “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” and “Zeitoun.” Additionally, Eggers founded the publishing company McSweeney’s and launched the nonprofi t organization 826 Nation-al, which provides educational opportunities for students. He was inducted in the Illini Media Hall of Fame in 2007 and received the TED Prize in 2008, which is awarded to those who have poten-tial to change the world.

Francine PattersonBachelor’s degree in College of LAS (1970)

For 30 years, Francine Pat-terson has been teaching Koko the gorilla how to communicate through sign language, using 1,000 gestural words. This is the longest interspecies com-munication study, and it has yielded the greatest results with a nonhuman. She also established the Gorilla Founda-tion to help and raise awareness about gorillas living in captiv-ity and those living in the Afri-can rainforest.

Jawed KarimBachelor’s degree in College of Engineering (2004)

After leaving PayPal, Steven Chen and Jawed Karim creat-ed a successful video-sharing website with former colleague Chad Hurley: YouTube. One year later, Google bought You-Tube for $1.65 billion in stock. Apart from YouTube, Chen and Karim have continued to gain success. Karim became the University’s 136th commence-ment speaker in 2007, and Chen co-founded AVOS Systems with Hurley and recently donated $1 million to the Illinois Math and Science Academy in November 2013.

BY STEPHANIE KIMSTAFF WRITER

In need of inspiration? Take note of Illinois alumni who have found success after graduation. The featured individuals do not encompass the success of Illinois alumni in their entirety; however, their accomplishments serve to picture the diversity and level of infl uence alumni have made. From Pulitzer Prize winners to notable business entrepreneurs, these alumni have a defi ning characteristic: the ability to make an impact through their innovation and achievements.

Ang LeeBachelor’s degree in College of FAA (1980)

Filmmaker Ang Lee has received awards from the Oscars, Golden Globes and the Academy Awards for direct-ing fi lms such as “Crouch-ing Tiger,” “Hidden Dragon,” “BrokeBack Mountain” and “Life of Pi.” He also won the Directors Guild of America Award multiple times.

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Many graduates say that col-lege goes by in the blink of an eye. One minute, you’re an eager freshman, and the next, you’re graduating and thrown into the real world.

Because of the seemingly short time spent at the Universi-ty, the need for a speedy answer to the questions “What should my major be?” and “What can I do with that degree?” may creep up on you.

Experts say that while there is no need to rush into picking a major or career path, students can start thinking about it as ear-ly as freshman year.

“We try to encourage stu-dents to keep an open mind while choosing and exploring careers and utilize a variety of people and resources in order to make this decision,” said Zelda Gard-ner, senior assistant director at the Career Center. “They should get excited and motivated.”

Gardner said that while there is no specific time when students should choose their major, they should start exploring their options as soon as possible. She recommended that students meet with their academic advisers and career counselors at the Career Center starting freshman year.

“As you identify with your interests, it helps to compile a

list of professional opportuni-ties which can help you make a plan of attack,” she said. “Hav-ing conversations with people (about your interests) can help you think of options to consider.”

Gardner also recommended getting involved in clubs and vol-unteering opportunities on cam-pus, as well as part-time jobs and internships, to gain experience and market themselves to future employers.

“Students should get out there and be exposed to as many things as they’re interested in,” Gardner said. “They should see how they feel in different environments.”

Terry Cole, Jr., Office of Minority Student Affairs grad-

uate mentor for DGS, starts help-ing students pick their majors by asking them what they are pas-sionate about outside of school, with questions as personal as what kind of movies they like to watch.

“That’s what will help them to get the most out of their college experience,” he said. “I push kids to pick a major or classes to line up with what they’re interested in and enjoy doing.”

Cole, Jr. thinks that the time to focus on a career path depends on the student, since each stu-dent has unique interests.

“It’s always important for stu-dents to keep in mind that one of the reasons to go to college is

to find a career that’s not work,” he said.

He urges students to steer clear of saying, “I know exactly what I want to do when I grad-uate.” He said that he doesn’t think it’s fair for a 18- or 19-year-old student to have to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives yet because they haven’t had enough expe-rience. However, he said that they should have an idea for the future somewhere in their minds.

According to the U.S. News and World Report’s article “5 Ways to Pick the Right College,” it is advised to wait until col-lege to pick a major. The article

suggests that students try tak-ing diverse classes during their freshman and sophomore year before officially declaring their major. By junior year, students will likely have a better idea of their interests and what they are most passionate about.

Some students know their major from the moment they start college, but for some, it takes awhile to decide. If you’re still undecided, there are many opportunities at this Universi-ty and plenty of time to explore.

“Start as early as you can, but it’s never too late,” Gardner said.

Abby can be reached at [email protected].

BY VICTORIA PAISTAFF WRITER

A common follow-up to the “What’s your major?” question is the dreaded “What can you do with that?” And while the ques-tioner may be well-intentioned, the implication remains: Majors should be chosen for their intend-ed job outcome.

However, Rebecca Diaz, assis-tant director at The Career Cen-ter, takes a different approach when advising students. The Career Center focuses on inter-ests first, then choice of major

and then the work experienc-es students gain in the course of their college careers. Diaz believes using interests first to find a career is better than to sim-ply enter into a field because it is the path most common.

“What you major in today may not have anything to do with your career in five years,” Diaz said. “It’s not linear. Just because you major in one particular major doesn’t mean you have to go into one career path.”

Much like one’s own interests, careers evolve over time and are not limited by one’s degree. While it can be daunting to think about the job market competi-tion, networking is one way to get ahead, no matter the job. Kara Porter, specialist for internation-al projects at the Study Abroad

Office, found that she was able to attain a job directly after she graduated when she focused on networking the year leading up to graduation.

“Instead of using my major to decide my career, I used my job,” Porter said.

Porter suggested that students make as many connections in col-lege as possible, even if they are irrelevant to one’s major.

While some majors are spe-cifically catered to a job mar-ket, many are too broad to have a clear path. Students may think being in a broad major is risky and challenging, because instead of having an expected tradition-al way paved for them, they are tailoring their own education to their interests.

Professor Kate Grim-Feinberg,

academic adviser in LAS, said she believes broad majors actu-ally have many advantages.

“In a broad major, you can develop your skills and knowl-edge in a specific way rather than in the same way as every-one else,” Grim-Feinberg said. “Throughout your college career, choose courses that will help you develop skills that will lead to jobs you’re interested in.”

Deciding on a future career is a goal that seems to have no beginning and no end. But keep-ing the focus on personal inter-ests and networking growth can allow more confidence and ulti-mate success, no matter one’s choice of major.

Victoria can be reached at [email protected].

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