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INSIDE Police 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Letters 4A | Crossword A7 | Comics A7 | Life & Culture 8A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 3B | Sudoku 3B THE DAILY ILLINI WEDNESDAY September 10, 2014 79˚ | 54˚ WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM 5he independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 143 Issue 011 | FREE @THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINI DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI Salaita supporters walk out BY JOSH WINTERS STAFF WRITER Demonstrators huddled together under umbrellas as heavy rain poured down. Roughly 150 students and faculty gathered on the Quad on Tuesday, Sept. 9 to protest Steven Salaita’s rescinded job offer for the American Indian Studies program. Many had taped paper reading “UIUCStudents4Salaita,” over their mouths and held signs. Student protestors encour- aged others to walk out of their classes at 11:30 a.m. and join together on the Quad. After the Board of Trust- ees meeting on Thurs- day, Sept. 11, they plan to occupy Chancellor Phyllis Wise’s office until Salaita is reinstated. Robert Warrior, director of the AIS program, spoke to Salaita supporters, express- ing his frustration with the Chancellor’s decision. “She never asked me what kind of teacher I had found him to be,” Warrior said. “She had decided based on some email messages...what kind of person that he would be, and I’m afraid that this is the kind of thinking that is getting us into trouble.” Efadul Huq, graduate student in Urban Planning, expressed concern that the decision regarding Salaita threatens academic freedom. “If you’re not able to dis- cuss issues that are conten- tious and ... express view- points ... that the dominant class may feel is disrespect- ful towards them, then the university loses its place as a space where we can con- structively have a dialogue about different viewpoints,” said Huq. When the speakers had fin- ished addressing the protes- tors, the crowd marched to the University YMCA, where Salaita made his first public statement since receiving an email on Aug. 1 from Wise, informing him that his posi- tion would not be forwarded to the Board. Josh can be reached at [email protected]. Students walk out of class to support professor Salaita and his allies fight for reinstatement BY JOSH WINTERS STAFF WRITER Despite recent contro- versy, Salaita confirmed at a press conference Tues- day that he still wants to pursue a teaching position at the University. Hundreds of Salaita sup- porters filled the YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St., where Salaita made his first pub- lic statement. “I reiterate the demand that the University recog- nize the importance of re- specting the faculty’s hir- ing decision and reinstate me,” Salaita said. When asked why he would want to be reinstat- ed to the University, Salai- ta addressed his support- ers, “the answer is in this room.” On Thursday, Sept. 4, Chancellor Phyllis Wise told College of Media faculty that there is no chance he will teach on campus. Anand Swamina- than, an attorney repre- senting Salaita, said that if the board does not approve Salaita, he is prepared to pursue legal action. When asked, Swamina- than said at the moment Salaita was not consider- ing a financial settlement from the University. “(Salaita’s) goal is to be reinstated at the Universi- ty,” he said. Last week, Wise said BY ALEX SWANSON STAFF WRITER Some veterans in Illinois who want to attend college are having difficulty access- ing their full state and feder- al benefits in order to pay for their education. But that may soon change. Sen. Dick Durbin recently sent a letter to the Depart- ment of Veterans Affairs to express his support for a state of Illinois waiver request that could allow vet- erans to more fully access their educational benefits. The waiver request was submitted by the Illinois Stu- dent Assistance Commission (ISAC), the Illinois Depart- ment of Veterans’ Affairs and the Illinois Department of Military Affairs. If approved, the waiv- er would allow veterans to decide whether to apply state or federal educational bene- fits for college and when to do so, based on their educational goals. The waiver would take effect on July 1, 2015, accord- ing to ISAC. Jay Jerman, University alumnus, served in the Unit- ed States Army between 2005 and 2008, and said that vet- eran educational benefits are what allowed him to attend the University. “Any benefit for veterans regarding college is always going to increase accessibil- ity. That’s the reason I was able to go to college,” he said. “Otherwise, if there had been no benefits at all, state or fed- eral, I would not have been able to go without incurring a lot of debt.” To qualify for the Illinois Veterans Grant, you must: QLive in Illinois upon enlistment QReturn to Illinois within six months of honorable discharge QUsually serve one year of active duty To qualify for the Post-9/11 GI Bill, you must: QHave served at least 90 days of active duty after 9/10/01, OR Q Have served at least 30 days of active duty, before being discharged for a service-related disability, after Sept. 10, 2001 Eligibility for Post-9/11 GI Bill: Q 90 days — six months of active duty: 40% Q Six — 12 months: 50% Q 12 — 18 months: 60% Q 18 — 24 months: 70% Q 24 — 30 months: 80% Q 30 — 36 months: 90% Q At least 30 days, before being discharged for a service-related disability: 100% Q At least 36 months: 100% 0RUH LQVLGH Turn to Page 6A for our editorial board’s opinion on the GI bill. DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT The University is now ranked 42nd, moving down one spot from last year, in the U.S. News & World Report’s National University ranking for 2015. The University is in a four-way tie, sharing the position with Boston Univer- sity, Northeastern Universi- ty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of California-Irvine. Last year, the Univer- sity was ranked 41st in a six-way tie with Boston University, Lehigh Univer- sity, Rensselaer Polytech- nic Institute, University of California-Santa Bar- bara and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the category of pub- lic schools, the Univer- sity retained its rank of Durbin endorses education benefits for veterans U.S News undergraduate ranking of the University through the years 2015 National: 42* (-) Public: 11* (=) 2014 National: 41* (+) Public: 11* (+) 2013 National: 46* (-) Public: 13* (=) 2012 National: 45* (+) Public: 13* (+) 2011 National: 47* (-) Public: 15* (-) 2010 National: 39 (+) Public: 9 (+) 2009 National: 40 (-) Public: 10 (-) 2008 National: 38* (+) Public: 8* (+) 2007 National: 41 (+) Public: 10 (+) 2006 National: 42 (-) Public: 11 (-) *Indicates a tie + indicates that the University moved up in ranking - indicates that the University moved down in ranking = indicates the University did not change in ranking SOURCE: U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORTS HISTORICAL UNDERGRADUATE RANKINGS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS UI 42nd in U.S. News list HASAN KHALID THE DAILY ILLINI Students gathered in the pouring rain on the Quad at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday bearing #ReinstateSalaita stickers to support the reinstatement of Salaita’s job offer in the American Indian Studies program. HASAN KHALID THE DAILY ILLINI Steven Salaita spoke for the first time since the University rescinded his job offer at the YMCA on Tuesday. Hundreds of people gathered, chanted and cheered as Salaita spoke on the matter. UIUC ranked rst in civil, bio engineering Inspiring cleaner water A NEW SPIN Hambly, volleyball finds early season success with new offensive system SPORTS, 1B FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINI Dr. Gunaratna Kuttuva Rajarao of the Royal Institute of Technology speaks to a group about water and wastewater treatment during the Inspire in Africa workshop at the Illini Union on Tuesday. SEE VETERANS | 3A SEE RANKINGS | 3A SEE SALAITA | 3A Experiencing the American dream Through a Dept. of State program, 20 international educa- tors get the chance to learn more about American society LIFE & CULTURE, 8A 0RUH RQOLQH For more Salaita coverage including videos and photos, visit us online at www.DailyIllini.com
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Salaita supporters walk out
BY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER
Demonstrators huddled together under umbrellas as heavy rain poured down. Roughly 150 students and faculty gathered on the Quad on Tuesday, Sept. 9 to protest Steven Salaita’s rescinded job offer for the American Indian Studies program. Many
had taped paper reading “UIUCStudents4Salaita,” over their mouths and held signs.
Student protestors encour-aged others to walk out of their classes at 11:30 a.m. and join together on the Quad.
After the Board of Trust-ees meeting on Thurs-day, Sept. 11, they plan to occupy Chancellor Phyllis Wise’s offi ce until Salaita is reinstated.
Robert Warrior, director of the AIS program, spoke to Salaita supporters, express-ing his frustration with the Chancellor’s decision.
“She never asked me what kind of teacher I had found him to be,” Warrior said. “She had decided based on some email messages...what kind of person that he would be, and I’m afraid that this is the kind of thinking that is getting us into trouble.”
Efadul Huq, graduate student in Urban Planning, expressed concern that the decision regarding Salaita threatens academic freedom.
“If you’re not able to dis-cuss issues that are conten-tious and ... express view-points ... that the dominant class may feel is disrespect-
ful towards them, then the university loses its place as a space where we can con-structively have a dialogue about different viewpoints,” said Huq.
When the speakers had fi n-ished addressing the protes-tors, the crowd marched to the University YMCA, where Salaita made his fi rst public statement since receiving an email on Aug. 1 from Wise, informing him that his posi-tion would not be forwarded to the Board.
Josh can be reached at [email protected].
Students walk out of class to support professor
Salaita and his allies fi ght for reinstatementBY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER
Despite recent contro-versy, Salaita confi rmed at a press conference Tues-day that he still wants to pursue a teaching position at the University.
Hundreds of Salaita sup-porters fi lled the YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St., where Salaita made his fi rst pub-lic statement.
“I reiterate the demand that the University recog-nize the importance of re-specting the faculty’s hir-ing decision and reinstate me,” Salaita said.
When asked why he would want to be reinstat-ed to the University, Salai-ta addressed his support-ers, “the answer is in this room.”
On Thursday, Sept. 4, Chancellor Phyllis Wise
told College of Media faculty that there is no chance he will teach on campus. Anand Swamina-than, an attorney repre-senting Salaita, said that if the board does not approve Salaita, he is prepared to pursue legal action.
When asked, Swamina-than said at the moment Salaita was not consider-ing a fi nancial settlement from the University.
“(Salaita’s) goal is to be reinstated at the Universi-ty,” he said.
Last week, Wise said
BY ALEX SWANSON STAFF WRITER
Some veterans in Illinois who want to attend college are having diffi culty access-ing their full state and feder-al benefi ts in order to pay for their education. But that may soon change.
Sen. Dick Durbin recently sent a letter to the Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs to express his support for a state of Illinois waiver request that could allow vet-erans to more fully access their educational benefi ts.
The waiver request was submitted by the Illinois Stu-
dent Assistance Commission (ISAC), the Illinois Depart-ment of Veterans’ Affairs and the Illinois Department of Military Affairs.
If approved, the waiv-er would allow veterans to decide whether to apply state or federal educational bene-fi ts for college and when to do so, based on their educational goals. The waiver would take effect on July 1, 2015, accord-ing to ISAC.
Jay Jerman, University alumnus, served in the Unit-ed States Army between 2005 and 2008, and said that vet-eran educational benefi ts are
what allowed him to attend the University.
“Any benefi t for veterans regarding college is always going to increase accessibil-ity. That’s the reason I was able to go to college,” he said. “Otherwise, if there had been no benefi ts at all, state or fed-eral, I would not have been able to go without incurring a lot of debt.”
To qualify for the Illinois Veterans Grant, you must:
Live in Illinois upon enlistmentReturn to Illinois within six months of
honorable dischargeUsually serve one year of active duty
To qualify for the Post-9/11 GI Bill, you must:
Have served at least 90 days of active duty after 9/10/01, OR Have served at least 30 days of active
duty, before being discharged for a service-related disability,
after Sept. 10, 2001
Eligibility for Post-9/11 GI Bill: 90 days — six months of active duty:
40% Six — 12 months: 50% 12 — 18 months: 60% 18 — 24 months: 70% 24 — 30 months: 80% 30 — 36 months: 90% At least 30 days, before being
discharged for a service-related disability: 100% At least 36 months: 100%
Turn to Page 6A for our editorial board’s
opinion on the GI bill.
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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTThe University is now
ranked 42nd, moving down one spot from last year, in the U.S. News & World Report’s National University ranking for 2015 .
The University is in a four-way tie, sharing the position with Boston Univer-sity, Northeastern Universi-ty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of California-Irvine.
Last year, the Univer-sity was ranked 41st in a six-way tie with Boston University, Lehigh Univer-sity, Rensselaer Polytech-nic Institute, University of California-Santa Bar-bara and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In the category of pub-lic schools, the Univer-sity retained its rank of
Durbin endorses education benefi ts for veterans
U.S News undergraduate ranking of the University through the years
2015National: 42* (-)Public: 11* (=)
2014National: 41* (+)Public: 11* (+)
2013National: 46* (-)Public: 13* (=)
2012National: 45* (+)Public: 13* (+)
2011National: 47* (-)Public: 15* (-)
2010National: 39 (+)Public: 9 (+)
2009National: 40 (-)Public: 10 (-)
2008National: 38* (+)Public: 8* (+)
2007National: 41 (+)Public: 10 (+)
2006National: 42 (-)Public: 11 (-)
*Indicates a tie+ indicates that the University moved up in ranking- indicates that the University moved down in ranking= indicates the University did not change in ranking
SOURCE: U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORTS HISTORICAL
UNDERGRADUATE RANKINGS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
UI 42nd in U.S. News list
HASAN KHALID THE DAILY ILLINIStudents gathered in the pouring rain on the Quad at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday bearing #ReinstateSalaita stickers to support the reinstatement of Salaita’s job offer in the American Indian Studies program.
HASAN KHALID THE DAILY ILLINISteven Salaita spoke for the fi rst time since the University rescinded his job offer at the YMCA on Tuesday. Hundreds of people gathered, chanted and cheered as Salaita spoke on the matter.
UIUC ranked ! rst in civil, bio engineering
Inspiring cleaner water
A NEW SPINHambly, volleyball fi nds early season success with new offensive system
SPORTS, 1B
FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIDr. Gunaratna Kuttuva Rajarao of the Royal Institute of Technology speaks to a group about water and wastewater treatment during the Inspire in Africa workshop at the Illini Union on Tuesday.
SEE VETERANS | 3A
SEE RANKINGS | 3A
SEE SALAITA | 3A
Experiencing the American dreamThrough a Dept. of State program, 20 international educa-tors get the chance to learn more about American societyLIFE & CULTURE, 8A
For more Salaita coverage including videos and
photos, visit us online at www.DailyIllini.com
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WEATHERPOLICE
Champaign A bike theft was report-
ed on the 500 block of South Third Street around 1 p.m. Monday.
Burglary was reported on the 2000 block of South Neil Street around 12 p.m. Monday.
According to the report, items were reported stolen from a construction trailer at a construction site.
University A 19-year-old male was
arrested on the charge of burglary of a motor vehicle on the 900 block of South Fifth Street around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, a witness called the police after seeing the man ran-domly checking car door handles. When he was stopped, he was in pos-session of $400 and a GPS system.
Urbana Criminal defacement of
property was reported on the
300 block of East University Avenue at 7:30 a.m. Monday.
According to the report, an unknown offender entered a bathroom in the business and wrote a long message on the wall in marker.
Theft was reported on the 1100 block of West Nevada Street around 2 p.m. Monday.
According to the report, the unknown offender stole the victim’s bike from the apartment bike rack.
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The Post-9/11 GI Bill bene-fi ts include funding for hous-ing, books, tuition and fees at public or private post-sec-ondary institutions. In con-trast, state benefi ts can only be used toward tuition and fees at public universities and community colleges.
Currently in Illinois, vet-eran students are required to apply all of their state ben-efi ts before they can access their federal benefi ts such as the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Or, they can choose not to use their Illinois Veterans Grant, IVG, benefi ts, and instead, use only their Post-9/11 GI Bill bene-fi ts. In that case, they could save their IVG benefi ts for further future education.
Students also have the abil-ity to apply benefi ts from both state and federal pro-grams for the same academ-ic term. In this situation, the IVG benefi ts would be applied fi rst, and the Post-9/11 GI Bill benefi ts could cover any addi-tional expenses.
However, an issue arises when a veteran student is not 100 percent eligible for the Post-9/11 GI Bill, due to length of service.
“Under the current system, when both federal and state benefi ts are used in the same academic term, veterans who
are eligible for less than 100 percent of the Post-9/11 GI Bill will not necessarily get the full value of their federal benefi ts,” said Lynne Baker, managing director of com-munications at ISAC. “Cur-rently, in this scenario, vet-erans would have to use their state benefi ts fi rst, and the federal benefi ts would pay for housing and other costs not covered by the state ben-efi ts. However, regardless of how much the federal ben-efi ts cover, students in this scenario would still ‘use up’ the full federal entitlement for that academic term.”
The waiver would allow student veterans to choose what benefi t to apply fi rst, so that they may access the full amount of both their state and federal benefi ts.
If the waiver is granted and a student partially pays for a college education with Post-9/11 GI Bill benefi ts fi rst, and the remaining cost is covered by the IVG, it is unlikely that the IVG ben-efi t would be entirely used. So, a student veteran could save unused funds from IVG benefi ts, which never expire, to later apply toward another higher education degree.
William Hubbard, spokes-man for Student Veterans of America, served in the Marine Corps for eight years and supports the waiver.
“Just because there are
some states who’ve real-ly gone out of their way to really recognize the service of veterans, beyond what the federal government has authorized, that should not be a reason to make it more diffi cult for veterans to use the current benefi ts they’ve already earned,” Hubbard said.
In his letter, Durbin notes that an issue also develops when veteran students need to pay for housing right away but don’t fully qualify for the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Often those students forfeit their state benefi ts to access the feder-al benefi ts to pay for housing or books.
Ryan Yantis, communi-cations manager for the Illinois Department of Vet-erans’ Affairs, said the initia-tive could increase access to higher education benefi ts for many student veterans.
“What Senator Durbin and others are advocating for in the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs is a situa-tion where the GI Bill is equi-tably distributed or available, and student veterans aren’t penalized for using other sources or other grants or benefi ts that they’ve earned through their service,” he said.
Alex can be reached at [email protected].
she thought she had done the right thing when she warned Salaita that his appointment would not be forwarded to the Board of Trustees roughly two weeks be-fore the semes-ter began; Howev-er, Salai-ta said it wasn’t time enough.
“...my fami-ly has no income, no health insurance and no home of our own,” he said. “Our young son has been left without a pre-school.”
Both Salaita and his wife resigned positions from Virginia Tech University, sold their home and “took on considerable expense in preparation for our move here.”
Wise said she did not for-ward the appointment on to the Board of Trustees, which meets Thursday, Sept. 11. It is unclear wheth-er the Board will address Salaita’s appointment.
The YMCA was fi lled with students, faculty and community members who came following a student-led walkout at 11:30 a.m. outside the Illini Union.
Salaita spoke about his tweets, which he believes were “critical of recent Israeli human rights vio-lations,” but which Wise described as “uncivil.”
On the topic of his con-troversial tweets, Salai-ta asserted that labeling his tweets as “uncivil” is “highly subjective” and sets a dangerous precedent for future faculty mem-bers with unconventional beliefs.
“My comments were not made in a classroom or on campus; they were made through my personal Twit-ter account,” Salaita said. “The University’s policing and judgment of those mes-sages places any faculty member at risk of termi-nation if University admin-istrators deem the tone or content of his or her speech ‘uncivil.’”
Salaita also stated that he stood by the language he used in the tweets that stirred up both anger and support from students and faculty nationwide.
“My Twitter messages are no doubt passionate and unfi ltered; they refl ect my deep dismay at the deaths of more than 2,000 inno-
cent Palestinians, over 500 of them children,” Salaita said.
He addressed recent alle-gations against the Univer-sity’s decision being infl u-enced by donors, stating he believes his rescinded position is part of a larger movement by wealthy “pro-
I s r a e l ” individuals and orga-n izat ions to l imit opposition a g a i n s t their politi-cal beliefs.
“ T h i s risks cre-ating a Pal-e s t i n i a n exception
to the First Amendment and to academic freedom,” said Salaita. “The ability of wealthy donors and the politically powerful to cre-ate exceptions to bedrock principles should be wor-rying to all scholars and teachers.”
Salaita concluded his remarks by expressing his gratitude to the University students and faculty who supported him over the course of the last month.
“I am deeply grateful to the many hundreds of peo-ple and prominent organi-zations who have raised their voices in defense of the principles of academ-ic freedom, including the nearly 18,000 individuals who have signed a peti-tion demanding correc-tive action and the numer-ous faculty around the world who are boycotting the University until I am reinstated,” Salaita said in closing. “This is, as we say in my profession, a ‘teach-ing moment.’ We must all strive together to make the most of it.”
Campus Spokeswoman Robin Kaler reaffi rmed the admin-istration’s c o m m i t -ment to W i s e ’ s decision , as well as their ded-ication to p r o v i d -ing stu-dents with a “world-c l a s s ” education.
“While the University stands by the decision not to hire Professor Salaita, we will continue to wel-come all speakers to our campus,” said Kaler. “We remain devoted to foster-ing a campus-wide dia-logue on the most uncom-fortable issues that are vital to our very foundation and will continue to work
closely with our students, faculty and staff to nurture an environment where all issues, including the most complicated ones, can be discussed.”
Following Salaita’s state-ment, Robert Warrior, director of the American Indian Studies program, took to the podium and explained that his depart-ment’s decision to issue a vote of no confi dence in Chancellor Wise was based on his commitment to aca-demic freedom.
“It wasn’t a political decision,” said Warrior. “It was a decision based on our idea that (the University) needs to be a more excel-lent place.”
Warrior discussed his frustration with Wise over her decision, expressing his belief that she may have made a different decision if she had sat down with Salaita herself.
“I hope, Chancellor Wise, that you have a face-to-face conversation with Steven Salaita someday ... because I know that if you ever do sit down with him face-to-face, you will fi nd him to be, as I have known him to be, a person that is engag-ing ... who would never step into a classroom to try to impose an agenda on other people,” Warrior said.
Following Warrior’s remarks, Michael Roth-berg, head of the English Department, spoke on behalf of the Modern Lan-guage Association, MLA, to issue a statement on the organization’s behalf.
“The MLA calls on Wise and the Board of Trustees to redress what seems to be an unjust decision,” said Rothberg.
Student supporters of Salaita, Rico Klein-stein Chenyek and Eman Ghanayem, spoke follow-ing Rothberg’s statement,
asserting that their a c a d e m -ic growth had been j e o p a r -dized by the Uni-v e r s i -ty’s deci-sion not to hire Salai-ta. Salai-ta a lso answered
questions from the media and reaffi rmed his wish to teach at the University.
“I have lost the great achievement of a scholarly career — lifetime tenure, with its promised protec-tions of academic free-dom,” Salaita said.
Josh can be reached at [email protected].
BY HANNAH HESSMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON — One month after the fatal shoot-ing of Michael Brown in Fer-guson, Mo., the Senate con-vened its fi rst hearing on police militarization.
After watching a suburban street in St. Louis be trans-formed into a “war zone,” complete with camoufl age, armored vehicles and guns with laser sight grips, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., sought answers on how the federal government played a signifi cant role in “enabling” police to obtain the fatigues,
weapons and equipment that were used against protesters.
McCaskill, who called for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs panel hearing during the August recess, focused much of the discussion on civil rights. The two-term senator asked law enforcement witnesses why the gear might be help-ful for the safety of police, but from the outset said she was “confi dent that milita-rized policing tactics are not consistent with the peaceful exercise of First Amend-ment rights of free speech and free assembly.”
Four Code Pink demon-strators staged their own brief protest in the front row of the Dirksen com-mittee room. They waved pink signs that demanded police demilitarize. When the group’s founder, Medea Benjamin, tried to start a second round of protests a few minutes later, one of the three uniformed Capitol Police offi cers in the room stepped up to her chair and whispered that she needed to stop.
McCaskill hopes to use the attention Ferguson garnered from Congress to pass legis-
lation that would put restric-tions on the Defense Depart-ment’s 1033 program that steers surplus equipment to local police departments. She suggested to reporters that Congress could require police departments to fi rst get “community buy-in” and additional training, and “regional access that would provide more accountability as to when this equipment is actually being utilized.”
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., pressed witnesses from the Defense, Justice and Home-land Security departments on alleged abuse of civil lib-
erties and pointed out a spe-cifi c directive that instructs police not to use certain mili-tary gear for riot or protest suppression. He said police militarization had grown “out of control.”
Fellow Republicans on the panel, including Tom Coburn, R-Okla., the panel’s ranking member, asked how the federal government eval-uated the needs of local and state police forces. Coburn wanted more examples of successful counterterror-ism activities and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., focused on the way militarization had
grown from its roots in the war on drugs under Presi-dent Ronald Reagan.
One statistic likely to be revisited came from the Defense Logistics Agency. Approximately 36 percent of the equipment the Pentagon gives away is new, accord-ing to the agency. McCaskill asked repeatedly for an explanation, and expressed concern about the expansion of the program. She prom-ised to revisit the issue dur-ing future hearings, but said she doesn’t expect any legis-lation before the November elections.
DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTLight the Night, an
annual event to educate the public about state laws regarding bicycle lights and refl ectors, will take place on Thursday, Sept. 11 at the Alma Mater, Illinois Street Residence Hall and off-campus at the LiFECykle Bike Shop, 79 E. Beardsley Ave.
Bicycle lights will be distributed and installed, in an effort to ensure the public has a front light
and rear refl ector when riding at night.
From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., vol-unteers and law enforce-ment will install 775 bike lights, educate bicyclists about laws requiring bikes to have lights during night time hours and provide information about safety during both daylight and nighttime riding, accord-ing to a press release from Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District, CUMTD.
Members of the Light the Night Organizing Group include CUMTD, the city of Urbana, the city of Cham-paign, the University and the Champaign Regional Planning Commission.
The organization chose
to distribute the lights now because daylight hours are shrinking and Daylight Savings Time is approaching, according to the release.
Volunteers will only be installing lights to peo-ple with bikes that do not already have lights, and they will only be given to individuals who bring their bikes to the site.
Illinois law requires bikes to have front and rear bike lights, while operat-ing at night. The front light must be a white light vis-ible up to a distance of at least 500 feet, with a red refl ector on the rear light visible from 100 to 600 feet, according to the report.
Light the Night for bike safetyBike lights will be given out to public
Ferguson calls police militarization into question
No further threat in Cali wooden roller coaster fi re
11th, in a tie with Univer-sity of California— Irvine. Last year, the University shared the spot with Uni-versity of California-Santa Barbara and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
U.S. News and World Report ranks national uni-versities each year based on a variety of factors includ-ing freshman retention rate, graduation rate and strength of faculty, according to their website. Academic pro-grams were also ranked, with the University coming in fi rst place for civil engi-
neering, biological/agricul-tural engineering and engi-neering science/engineering physics.
Like last year, the top three schools in the Nation-al University rankings are Princeton University in fi rst, Harvard University in second and Yale Univer-sity in third.
Bookin’ it to college
BOB ANDRES MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE Michelle Obama visits a college fair at Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, along with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, far right, on Monday . Obama joined Duncan to promote the “Reach Higher” initiative to increase the number of college graduates.
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“This risks creating a Palestinian
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“This is, as we say in my profes-sion, a ‘teaching
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BY VERONICA ROCHA AND LAUREN RAABMCCLATCHEY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — Fire-fighters are monitoring damage caused to the clas-sic wooden coaster Colossus at Six Flags Magic Moun-tain after fi re consumed a portion of it, causing a portion of the structure to collapse.
Although the raging fl ames tore through the top of a lift hill, Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Scott Miller said Monday there appeared to be no immedi-ate threat of the coaster fur-ther collapsing.
But fi refi ghters plan to work with Six Flags offi cials to determine the next steps.
No injuries were reported as a result of the fi re, which
Miller said was reported at 1:32 p.m.
Aerial television news footage shows fi re crews extinguishing the blaze around 1:50 p.m. as a portion of the structure collapsed, opening a hole in the track.
Firefi ghters often train at the park, but mostly for res-cues, Miller said.
“It’s not something you see every day,” he said of the fi re.
Sheriff’s offi cials said the fi re was sparked by welders working on the ride, which is under reconstruction.
No park visitors were riding Colossus at the time the blaze broke out _ the 36-year-old roller coaster closed in mid-August.
Less than two weeks ago, the Valencia, Calif.,
theme park announced plans to revamp the ride it into a hybrid wood-and-steel coaster named Twist-ed Colossus, scheduled to open next year. Idaho-based Rocky Mountain Construc-tion, which has converted a number of wooden coasters into hybrid rides with loop-ing inversions, landed the makeover job.
Construction crews were slated to remove the upper level of track from the horseshoe turnaround seg-ment of the ride. Similar-ly, the right spur of track departing from the station is also to be demolished.
In all, more than 3,000 feet of track will be removed from the structure as it transforms into Twisted Colossus.
LAWRENCE K. HO MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEFirefi ghters spray water on a blaze that was damaging the iconic Colossus roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, Calif., on Monday.
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Veterans should be able to effectively use education
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SEHAR SIDDIQUI
Opinions columnist
FAMILIAL FLAILING
Q U I C K COMMENTARY
NFL KNOCKOUT
Dear Freshmen,
On Monday, TMZ released a February eleva-tor security camera video of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking out his then-fiance, now-wife, Janay Palmer. Domestic vio-lence is unacceptable, regardless of an attack-er’s ability to rush. Such behavior is not the kind that should be brushed off with a two-game sus-pension, which is what Rice received immedi-ately following the incident, especially consid-ering the number of boys and men across the country who idolize him. We’re glad the NFL realized the same, as hours after TMZ posted the video Rice was suspended indefinitely.
BREAKING: Tish and Miley Cyrus twerk together while making Saturday breakfasts, apparently. Tish Cyrus, Miley’s mother, says it’s so much fun — but is it sanitary? Does Miley wear a teddy bear jumper while flipping pancakes, too? Better question: Why is this something the Internet thinks we want to read a few-hundred word story about? Best of luck trying not to imagine your own mother twerk-ing beside the pancake griddle.
CALIFORNIANS FIRED UP ABOUT COASTERSAYING GOODBYE TO ONE OF THE GREATSThere’s nothing quite like a good thrill ride,
but what happened at Six Flags Magic Moun-tain in Valencia, California, on Monday was a little too thrilling for our taste. A 100-foot, 60 m.p.h. wooden roller coaster, Colossus, caught fire and part of it collapsed. Fortunately, this roller coaster had been closed down since mid-August and was planning on being replaced, and no one was injured. However, chances are strong that even the toughest daredevils out there (aka the opinions editors) are a little apprehensive to hop on a coaster in California anytime soon.
I want to take advantage of my last column, and the inevitable nostalgia that
accompanies it, by reaching out to all of you freshmen and telling you to savor your first year at the University. You are at the apex of your college experience, even though, at first, it may not seem like it. I know the nerves of your first few weeks can feel overwhelming. You may experience the anxiety of making new friends, the fear of getting on the wrong bus or of embarrassing yourself by being that adorably clueless kid — the one who actually asks to go to the bathroom in the middle of lecture. All of this anxiety seems like it will last an eternity, but it only lasts for a little while.
And once it ends, you will begin to truly appreciate everything the first year of college has to offer.
For myself, getting lost and worrying about ending up on a bus going to Meijer instead of the main library was also a fearful challenge, however, in retrospect, I see that as part of the fun of being a freshman.
After I finally figured out the bus system and how to behave like a college student (or at least fake it), I felt pretty pleased with myself for traversing all those first few week obstacles. Now I know exactly where I’m going, which is a relief, but this sense of campus competence is not nearly as exciting as navigating the bus routes freshman year.
There is something
mysterious and charming about the enormity of a 7.1 square mile university that most of us have never experienced before. The potential for adventure and intriguing pursuits are endless.
Although walking around campus as a senior is still enjoyable, it’s not nearly as thrilling as it once was when everything was brand new.
My message to you freshmen is to — rather than bemoaning the toils of getting on the wrong bus or showing up to the wrong discussion section — savor it. Relish the moments of challenge that you’ve never experienced before. In the rest of your college years, you will never feel this way again.
Experiencing college for the very first time is something you will never get back. You might go on to graduate school or other professional programs, but it will most certainly not be your first time at an institute of higher learning.
I strongly advise you to take full advantage of all the opportunities for exploration there are before you right now. Run around campus at night, climb on the Alma Mater (shh, don’t ask if that’s allowed or not), yell like a crazy person, shout at random people on the streets and play in all the fountains on campus (just don’t let anyone see you).
Take advantage of everything that is new and exciting.
Make sure you take a moment to truly appreciate how wonderful and fresh
everything is. In the blink of an eye, you’ll be walking to your classes without even having to think about where you’re going, and Green Street will suddenly seem tiny instead of humongous.
Don’t get me wrong, your other years will also be amazing. There will be many more new and exciting things waiting for you like your first apartment, getting a job, going on service trips or studying abroad.
But when I think back to my favorite memories of college, they’re from my freshman year, my year of firsts.
Ever since last year, my junior year, I’ve envied the incoming class of freshmen because they get to experience the novelty that jump started one of the most exciting four years of my life.
All the apprehension and anxiety that ran through my head the first night I laid in my dorm room bed was only a precursor to all the exciting and wonderful things that were waiting for me.
In the famous words of Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once and awhile, you could miss it.”
Sehar is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].
Last Thursday, Hollywood lost another bright star. At age 81, the famous comedian, actress, TV host and fashion guru, Joan Rivers, passed away after complications during a recent throat operation. Her wit and great sense of humor gave laughter to many, and we highly enjoyed her stabbing fashion critiques. Rivers was one of a kind, and funny to a point where she was even able to joke about her own funeral saying, “At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.”
C ollege is expen-sive, and unfor-tunately for us, higher educa-tion costs have
only continued to rise in re-cent years.
As students, we have a va-riety of costs to cover oth-er than tuition. We have our housing, our textbooks and other learning tools for our classes and any extra Uni-versity fees.
For veterans, though their college costs are fully cov-ered by the state of Illinois, paying still comes with dif-ficult choices.
Under the current sys-tem in Illinois, veteran stu-dents must use all of their state benefits before they can have access to their Post-9/11 GI Bill, or federal benefits, if they want to use the two benefits during the same academic term. Then the federal benefits can be used to cover any excess expenses.
Otherwise, those veterans can make the choice not to use their state benefits and only use their Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, in which case they can save their state benefits for future educa-tion purposes.
This is an issue because those two benefits can be used to cover different costs. Federal benefits can be used to pay for housing, tuition, books and fees at any public or private insti-tutions, while state benefits will only cover tuition and fees at public universities and community colleges.
Veterans should be able to choose which of their ben-efits they can use first while still getting the most out of them.
These benefits could make the difference between vet-erans being able to afford attending college, which is what the benefits are sup-posed to provide for them. Veterans should not have to make such a difficult choice when they’re trying to get an education that was sup-posed to be given to them for their service.
Illinois hopes to change the system by having insti-tutions of higher education apply the Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits to students first, that way they can pay for the aforementioned costs like housing and books. The students would then be able to use the state benefits for remaining costs like tuition and fees or future educa-tion purposes.
This could prove benefi-cial to our state’s veteran students by allowing them to take full advantage of the benefits given to them for their service. Having ac-cess to more benefits may also mean that more veter-ans are able to attend col-lege because they can ap-propriately pay for the costs.
We support this fight to al-low student veterans full access to their benefits. It is only right that those who have fought for our rights are able to pay for their ed-ucation. We should give back to those who have risked so much for us.
My message to you freshmen is to — rather than be-
moaning the toils of getting on the wrong bus or showing up to the wrong discussion section — savor it.
JACK THE RIPPER IDENTIFIED WAY BACK WEDNESDAY
Today is the 43rd anniversary of the very first Quad Day at the University! However, unlike how we celebrate today, the first Quad Day featured a talent show, rock concert and various other festivities, and the event lasted until 1 a.m. Clearly, students back then knew how to party. Meanwhile, our current Quad Day is complete with uncomfortable crowds, blazing heat and overwhelming energy spewing from the presidents of various resident student organizations. However, we hope you all will take advantage of this momentous day in University history and lay on the rain-drenched grass on the Quad and soak in the fact that University students had much more fun in 1971 than we do today.
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After over 125 years, the infamous Jack the Ripper, a killer who committed up to 11 murders in Whitechapel, England, start-ing in 1888, has finally been identified. An expert in historic DNA, Dr. Jari Louhelain-en, used a shawl from one of the victims to crack the case. The real name of the notori-ous killer? Aaron Kosminsky, a hairdress-er from Poland. While we are glad to know the name of the notorious murderer, we hope that no one held their breath waiting for this information.
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followed by a discussion in the afternoon. Participants took trips to Springfield, Ill., as well as Amish country, Washington D.C., San Fran-cisco, Boston and Chicago.
“My home life is far dif-ferent from that of the U S.,” Toure wrote. “Life is very hard because of lack of social amenities ... but we take life to be simple. In my home, we show much concern for one another, which is not the same in America.”
Toure also noticed that the U.S. has a large amount of car traffic, something he wrote is “not respected” in Guinea.
Noni Hartanto Ledford, chief information officer for University Administra-tion, volunteered with her husband to be a host family for the program. Combined, the couple has visited more than 80 countries but no lon-ger has the time to travel as much.
“We would like to bring the world to us,” Ledford
said. “When I travel to other countries, I experience a lot of good hospitality from the local people. I want to give back to people who travel here so hopefully they will do the same thing in the future.”
Ledford hosted a barbeque at her home and also invit-ed the participants to swim in her pool. The party was such a success that they told the educators they were wel-come to come swim again anytime they wanted — an offer they took up on the Fourth of July.
“I had other people coming to the party as well, so they got to meet some other local community members,” she said. “A lot of our friends are also international, so it was an interesting evening for them to be able to celebrate the U.S. Independence Day with people from the commu-nity who are also from other countries.”
Penny and Len Lopez, retirees who lives in Urbana, also hosted the participants, who were commonly referred to as students, throughout the six weeks. Their first host family experience was near-ly five decades ago, and now they host students whenever possible.
“When we first arrived here in town, we were taken
under the wing of the Fallon family, and they helped us find groceries, housing and many other things,” Penny said. “I simply have recog-nized that when you wel-come someone, their vis-it is more comfortable and memorable.”
Penny met the participants at their first picnic and kept in contact with about half a dozen, she said. During the Fourth of July parade, a woman, an English teacher from Iceland, joined Penny and helped a team of ten that was holding a large blue and white balloon.
“The participant from Ice-land had never worn shorts before. She had never heard of thunder and lightning,” she said. “There were many firsts ... The gentleman from the Ivory Coast had never been out of his village; he had never been on an airplane.”
When the students vis-
ited the Lopez home, they shared desserts like fruit, cake, brownies and ice cream pie, and discussed every day occurrences in their countries.
“It was an amazing pro-gram because of the expo-sure of many of those par-ticipating,” Penny said. “The camaraderie and teaming with participants from 19
other countries was instan-taneous and incredible. It will always be a summer to remember.”
After the group’s first trip to Boston and Washington D.C., Penny said they spoke of the comfort they felt in Champaign-Urbana.
For Toure, he wrote that he is confident he experienced the American Dream.
“The American Dream is a belief by Americans that free-dom is a must that includes the opportunity for pros-perity and success, and an upward social mobility that can only be achieved through hard work,” he wrote. “I have experienced the respect of rights, cultural diversity, freedom to practice his/her religion and the awareness to pursue happiness.”
Brittney can be reached at banadle2@ dailyillini.com.
“I think lots of people should really get involved with this. It doesn’t really occupy a lot of time but it teaches you an awful lot — everybody is exactly the same person. ... We don’t understand in this climate how all this stuff around the world can happen, we just want serenity. We want to learn about each other, we want to laugh. It’s just a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful thing to share, your life and their life.”- Pam Olson, host for Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) participants and Urbana resident
“I have certainly acquired an educated overview of how the American Dream functions as an ideal that traverses all American institutions. It has also become clear to me that, because of its diversity and for historical, political, economic and other reasons, the U.S. culture and society relies on the American Dream as one of its founding principles.”- Despina-Alexandra Constantinides, English teacher in the Second Experimental (Laboratory) Junior High School of Thessaloniki in Northern Greece and SUSI participant
“I work as a high school teacher on an island off the coast of Norway. My working life is quite similar to that of many American high school teachers — we face many of the same challenges — but we have nowhere near the levels of poverty or segregation that many American schools struggle with, and most of our schools are smaller.”- Oddbjoern Larsen, high school teacher from Norway and SUSI participant
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‘Yoga in the Gallery’ class brings zen to Illini UnionBY STEPHANIE KIMSTAFF WRITER
For the first time, stu-dents will be able to gaze at portraits in the Illini Union Art Gallery — while doing yoga.
The Illini Union Board, in collaboration with Cam-pus Recreation, will pro-vide a free yoga class with a certified instructor from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. The class is a part of the three-week long series, with two more classes being taught Sept. 17 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and Sept. 24 from noon to 1 p.m. Students are to bring their own mats.
The purpose of the event is to help students relax and release stress from school and everyday affairs, said Dasha Patton, arts director of the Illini Union Board and senior in business with a concentra-tion in entrepreneurship.
“It’s Zen. It’s peaceful. It’s quiet,” she said. “And it’s a great way for the art-ists to be seen and to get people in there who don’t know that the Art Gallery exists.”
The Art Gallery is locat-ed on the main level of the
Illini Union in the north-west wing and features different artwork every month.
The current exhibit is “The Portraits Project: A Portrait of Cancer Across America.” The exhibit is a collection of photos that were collected during an annual cross-country bike ride by the Illini 4000, a registered student orga-nization, which is also a nonprofit organization that raises money for cancer research and services. Erin Molloy, graduate student in Engineering, will be the instructor for the class on Wednesday, as well as on Sept. 17, while Pat Casey, a group fitness instructor for Campus Recreation, will be leading the class on Sept. 24.
As an instructor for three classes with Campus Recreation, Molloy said that she is excited to teach in a space without mirrors and external distractions.
The routine will consist of gentle hatha yoga, which is a traditional style that incorporates flowing poses and will be directed toward those who do not have
a regular yoga practice.“We’ll do gentle poses
and then we’ll build into strengthening into pos-es with longer holds,” she said. “Then we’ll conclude the practice with restor-ative poses and relaxation. “
But more than relax-ing, Molloy said she believes the environment will help the participants keep focus and even find inspiration.
“Yoga is a wonder-ful practice for healing, and being surrounded by survivors of cancer who obviously have done a lot of healing will be very inspiring,” she said.
With this, she said she hopes the event will give students newfound energy.
“Whenever you have a ton of people practicing yoga together, there’s a lot of energy,” she said. “I hope that everyone who participates leaves re-energized and restored and basically can use it to find what they need go for-ward in their day.”
Stephanie can be reached at skim108@ dailyillini.com.
Yoga shown to improve physical healthHealth bene!tsResearch shows that yoga is just as good, if not better than, exercise
in improving physical indicators such as heart rate variability, cholesterol, menopausal symptoms, as well as mental health indicators like fatigue, stress and quality of life.
Misconceptions“Some people think of yoga as a religious practice. Yoga is more of a mind-body and spiritual practice.”
Recommendation“It might be a good idea to mix up your workout routines with aerobic exercise as well as a mind-body activity like yoga.”
SOURCE: NEHA GOTHE, PH.D., ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN
KINESIOLOGY, HEALTH AND SPORT STUDIES AT WAYNE STATE
UNIVERSITY AND A FORMER RESEARCH ASSISTANT AT
THE UNIVERSITY’S EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY LABORATORY
COURTESY OF DESPINA-ALEXANDRA CONSTANTINIDES . Despina-Alexandra Constantinides traveled from Greece to visit Champaign-Urbana as part of the program this summer.
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BY BRITTNEY NADLERSTAFF WRITER
Abdoul Gassim Toure had never been to the United States before applying to take part in Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) 2014. The course boldly stated it would give educators from around the world the opportunity to experience the tantalizing American Dream .
“My friends and family thought it was a dream that came true,” Toure wrote via email.
Born in Faranah, Guinea, and raised in the West African coun-try’s capital, Conakry, Toure had expectations for the course after hearing about it from the U.S. Embassy in Guinea. He wasn’t wor-ried. Instead, the English as a for-eign language (EFL) teacher wrote that he knew it would be “wonderful to participate in a social, cultural,
educational and economic debate in an American society.”
Along with 19 other educators, Toure spent six weeks touring the country as well as discover-ing Champaign-Urbana through the Global Institute for Secondary Educators , one of three secondary educator programs in the country, according to Jeffrey Friedman, academic director of the program.
“For us, it’s a great way for exchange and outreach to the com-munity,” Friedman said. “We focus on diversity and the idea and ideolo-gies that unite our diverse country.”
Participants arrived from all over the globe, from New Zealand to Uruguay to Kazakhstan, and stayed in Presby Hall, located at 405 E. John St. in Champaign. Fam-ilies in the community volunteered to be hosts and show them around
town, Friedman said.Getting accepted into the pro-
gram was not as easy as applying and fl ying to the U.S. — hundreds of applications were received as the Department of State adver-tised the program in any country where a U.S. consulate is located.
“This is the most popular of all the Department of State institu-tional programs,” he said. “(For) a country like Nepal last year, you’d get well over 200 applicants for a single position. It’s highly competitive.”
The consulate of each country chooses fi nalists and ranks them, before the Department of State in Washington, D.C., decides which countries can take part. Friedman said they look for applicants who have a high level of English liter-acy and are “innovative teachers
who will go back home and inte-grate what they learned into their lessons.”
For Toure, the trip appealed to his teaching interests in wanting to meet fellow professionals.
“I wanted to take part because I have had the pleasure of meeting a group of outstanding United States lecturers and teacher trainers,” Toure wrote. “I was so impressed by their friendliness, positive con-tributions and their descriptions of teaching in an American context.”
On an average day, Toure wrote he attended discussions, semi-nars and fi lms, and went on tours to experience multiple aspects of American culture, such as social, economic, religious and political ideologies.
Friedman said days typically began with a seminar or workshop
BY SAHER KHANSTAFF WRITER
B y now, nearly all of the Internet is familiar with the ALS Ice Bucket Chal-lenge. Various media outlets have inaccurately cited Pete Frates, a former Boston College baseball player diagnosed with ALS in 2012, as the originator of the viral phenomenon; however, ALS had nothing to do with the Ice Bucket Challenge’s beginnings.
Freezing under a splash of cold water for the sake of charity is not an entirely new concept. The Polar Plunge, an event where participants race into cold lake waters to raise money for charity, is something people have been participating in for years. The Ice Bucket Challenge is just a variation of that original concept. But what made it an Inter-net sensation?
It had all the right ingredients for going viral. The concept is simple: One person challenges three and those three people accept and challenge another three, etc. Arielle Padres, a writer for VICE, called the millennial generation’s involvement with the challenge, “narcissism masked as altruism.” It dis-cussed how Hashtag activism and “slacktivism,” both terms referring to people supporting or rais-ing awareness on a social cause via the Internet with minimal effort, spread this campaign like wildfi re.
But while the Ice Bucket Challenge had its many critics, the fad did in fact raise over $100 million for ALS, according to International Business Times , and inspired other social causes and charities to harness that viral formula to hopefully make a difference elsewhere.
Saher can be reached at [email protected].
The Ice Bucket Challenge eventually reached Pete Frates, a former Boston College base-ball player diagnosed with ALS in 2012. Frates did the chal-lenge on July 31 and challenged some friends and celebrities (including NFL quarterbacks Tom Brady and Matt Ryan) to take the Ice Bucket Challenge to “strike out ALS.” After this, many mistakenly credit Frates as the creator of the challenge.
From Aug. 1 to 29, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge went viral. According to Similar-Web, the ALSA.org website traffi c increased by 7,775 per-cent between Aug. 5 and 23 . From Aug. 12 to 25, the ALS Association had received $88.5 million dollars in donations.
A group of pro athletes started a game of Internet tag early this summer. They challenged one another to dump a bucket of ice on themselves or donate $100 to the charity of their choice. It was coined as the “Ice Bucket Challenge.” On June 23, pro-fessional motocross rider Jeremy McGrath did the Ice Bucket Challenge, then called out golfer Rickie Fowler to do the same. Fowler called out golfer Keegan Bradley, who kept the chain going by calling out others, and the chain began to spread. Matt Lauer, the host of NBC’s “Today Show,” did the challenge on July 13 and donated money to the Hospice of Palm Beach County.
Chris Kennedy, a professional golf-er in the West Florida’s minor league, was challenged. A relative of Ken-nedy’s is diagnosed with ALS. Ken-nedy completed the challenge on July 14 and said he would donate to ALS. Kennedy then challenged his relative, who followed him in donating to the ALS foundation, and the people she nominated followed suit.
Ohio University Student Sen-ate President Megan Marzec was challenged to the Ice Bucket Chal-lenge. On Sept. 4, video circulated on the Internet of Marzec dump-ing a bucket of simulated blood on her head instead of ice water to raise awareness about the num-ber of innocent Palestinian lives lost in the recent Israeli-Pales-tinian confl ict in Gaza. Marzec is one of many who have piggy-backed off the success of ALS and used the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness for various social causes and charities. The Rice Bucket Challenge is sweeping India, where people give a buck-et of rice to someone in need of food. In West Africa, the Lath-er Against Ebola Challenge has taken hold and many are dousing themselves with soapy water and handing out three bottles of hand sanitizer to raise awareness about Ebola prevention.
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The Illini Union Art Gallery will host three yoga classes in the coming weeks beginning Wednes-day afternoon. Turn to Page 7A to learn more about how yoga can create a new perspective.
COURTESY OF ABDOUL GASSIM TOUREAbdoul Gassim Toure spent six weeks touring the country this
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BY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER
On Saturday, the read was perfect.
Free safety Taylor Bar-ton made an interception grab that would lead to a touchdown to give the Illi-ni a two-possession lead.
It was a play they had worked on before. But that play did not always go according to plan in practice.
Barton admitted to mess-ing up his read on that play before. This time though, after numerous runs, the play was executed perfect-ly on game day.
“It was man-coverage and my guy went away,” Barton said of his fourth quarter interception. “So I
BY STEPHEN BOURBONSENIOR WRITER
While the Illinois vol-leyball team returned six of seven starters from last year’s squad, this year’s team looks very different on the court.
For the first time under head coach Kevin Hambly, the Illini (3-2 on the year) have switched from a 5-1 offense to a 6-2 attack. The notation “5-1” indicates there are five available attack-ers on any given play, with one setter used for all six rotations, while “6-2” pro-vides six available attack-
ers with two different set-ters. Despite the name “6-2,” there is still only one setter on the court at a time.
With transfer Allison Palmer joining the squad, Hambly felt as though he had to get both Palmer and incumbent setter Alexis Vili-unas in the rotation. For the Illini, Viliunas takes three rotations at setter in the back row before being replaced by Palmer for three rotations.
“I’ve never been diametri-cally opposed to (running a 6-2). We just didn’t have the people for it,” Hambly said after a victory over North
Carolina. “We have them now.”
The 6-2 puts a setter in the back row at all times, while the other “setter” position in the front row is replaced with an opposite side hitter, typically providing the team with better attacking and blocking near the net. Illi-nois wanted to maximize its attacking capabilities with an opposite hitter always in the game, either Ali Stark or Liz McMahon.
In last year’s 5-1 system, Viliunas played all six rota-tions and was the only setter Illinois used. In a 5-1, when
the setter is in the front row, it allows the setter to attack and “dump” the ball over the net instead of setting up a teammate. This would be illegal in the 6-2 because a back row player can’t attack in front of the 10-foot line. Viliunas was very adept at this last season, hitting .317 on such plays, while Palmer hit .342 in 2012 with Arizo-na State.
Some coaches prefer the 5-1 system because one set-ter consistently acts as the “quarterback” of the offense, rather than splitting time between two setters.
Another main change has been the play of Stark. Last year, she was relegated to the back row rotations for fellow right-side hitter Liz McMahon. With the set-ters always being in the back row, Stark has found a home at the net this sea-son. The junior already has more kills than last season and has improved her hit-ting percentage from .044 last year to .219 this season.
With Stark and McMahon on the block against oppos-ing outside hitters, it cre-ates a stiff block for teams to combat. With the Big Ten
being a grind-it-out, defen-sive league, having a top-notch block was another reason Hambly made the switch.
“People talk about what the 6-2 does offensively, but I love what it does for us defensively,” Hambly said prior to the season.
So far, it’s paid dividends. The team’s hitting percent-age, assists per set and blocks per set are all up from last year’s numbers.
Stephen can be reached at [email protected] and @steve_bourbon.
Barton learns much from film
Volleyball moves to 2-setter rotation
Even if Sky lose in Finals, future looks bright
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Taylor Barton (3) attempts to stop a Western Kentucky touchdown during the game at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Barton later intercepted a pass and returned it for a touchdown.
Main differences between 6-2 and 5-1:
6-2 offenseTwo different setters each play three rotations in the back row Setter can never attackAlways have three attackers in front row Three attackers provide for better blockingSetter must play back-row defense
5-1 offenseMost common offense in college volleyballOne setter plays all six rotationsSetter can attack when in
the front rowOne setter brings consistency to teamSetter must block for three rotations and defend for three rotations
Team stats:
2013 (5-1 system) .210 hitting percentage11.77 assists/set2.35 blocks/set
2014 (6-2 system).261 hitting percentage 12.53 assists/set2.59 blocks/set
2014 (5 games)34 kills2.0 kills/set.219 hitting percentage.53 blocks/set
STARK CONTRAST: Ali Stark’s numbers this season compared to last year
2013 (33 games) 24 kills
.19 kills/set.044 hitting percentage
.17 blocks/set
The Chicago Sky began competing in their first-ever WNBA
Finals this past Sunday, but there aren’t too many people who care, espe-cially with the NFL start-ing back up at the same time. Besides, why should anyone care when the Sky were blown out by the Phoenix Mercury 83-62 in Game 1?
While I do care that the Sky have come this far, I honestly don’t care as much as I’d like to. Ideal-ly, I’d like to say I’ve been following Chicago’s season very closely, but I haven’t. I honestly couldn’t even say I’m a die-hard Chi-cago sports fan, because I’m really not. I’m sim-ply a die-hard Bulls fan that’s also a mediocre Bears, Blackhawks, Sky and White Sox fan, but that’s never stopped me from continually trying to develop a stronger com-mitment to other teams.
It’s at this time, more than ever, that I’m trying to give my attention to the Sky, and the rest of Chica-go should be trying too.
The unquestionable star of the Sky, Elena Delle Donne, holds her team’s fate in her hands, but her persisting lower back problems could very well prevent Chicago from achieving success in the Finals. Delle Donne only played 10:24 in Game 1, going 1-for-4 from the field.
Heading into the third quarter, Indiana held a 42-20 lead, but Chicago held its own to finish the game with a 42-point sec-ond half. Obviously that wasn’t enough, but it just shows what kind of team the Sky is.
It’s still likely that, in a best-of-five series, the Sky will fall short of winning a championship, but the future still looks bright.
For one, having Delle Donne has been a huge game-changer for Chica-go. The Sky proved to be a decent team before her arrival, with 2011 Defen-sive Player of the Year Sylvia Fowles and All-Star
guards Epiphanny Prince and Courtney Vandersloot. Then, in the 2013 WNBA Draft, Chicago was fortu-nate enough to select Delle Donne out of the Univer-sity of Delaware with the No. 2 pick, and it would mark the start of a histor-ic season for both the Sky and Delle Donne.
In her first season, Delle Donne was Chicago’s lead-ing scorer at 18.1 points per game and the unani-mous choice for Rookie of the Year. Not only that, but the 6-foot-5 guard/for-ward also managed to fin-ish third in MVP voting.
Chicago’s 2013 cam-paign featured its best regular season in fran-chise history at 24-10, good enough for the best in the Eastern Conference and second best in the league. That success also led to the Sky’s first play-off appearance ever, and they did so as the East’s top seed; however, hav-ing the top seed proved insufficient, as the Sky were swept by the Indiana Fever in the first round of the playoffs.
This year, the Sky fin-ished the regular season
at 15-19, but weren’t at full strength. Delle Donne, two-time All-Star and 2013 Rookie of the Year, was out for 17 games due to Lyme disease. Vandersloot had a knee injury that kept her out for half the season.
Despite that, Chicago managed to make it past the No. 1-seeded Atlanta Dream in the first round of the playoffs. The Sky then proceeded to defeat the Fever in the Eastern Con-ference Finals, the same team that ended their sea-son a year ago.
The Sky have come a long way in a matter of just two seasons, from earning their first playoff berth to making it to their first championship series. They’ve quickly built momentum and improved upon each season. This may or may not be Chi-cago’s year. No one knows yet. But one thing’s for sure: the Sky have some-thing going for them.
Ashley is a sophomore in Media. She can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @wijangco12.
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CHUCK MYERS MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEChicago Sky forward Elena Delle Donne (11) hits a three-point shot over Washington Mystics center Emma Meesseman (33) at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C.
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BY K.C. JOHNSONMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
BARCELONA, Spain — Despite Derrick Rose’s shooting woes, Team USA kept waiting for a break-out game from the Chicago Bulls point guard.
Tuesday’s quarterfinal against Slovenia could’ve been it.
Rose attacked early and often as Team USA advanced to a Thursday semifinal against Lithua-nia by pulling away in the second half for a 119-76 victory.
Rose finished with 12 points and five assists in 18 minutes, 2 seconds, repeat-edly attacking the basket and playing much more aggressively offensively.
“It’s not getting to me,” said Rose, downplaying his 21.6 percent shooting enter-ing the game. “I’m going to go out there and play the way I normally play, take the open shots. I’m not going to let anyone force me into playing the way I don’t normally play.”
Klay Thompson’s 20 points led Team USA, which led just 49-42 at halftime.
Rose scored shortly after checking in at the 5:13 mark of the first quarter, putting back his own miss after explosively driving to the bas-ket. Lat-er in the q u a r t e r , he scored on a left-h a n d e d drive.
In the s e c o n d q u a r t e r , Rose add-ed anoth-er left-h a n d e d drive on a fast break but missed badly on two 3-point attempts.
In the second half, Rose scored on two cuts to the
basket for right-handed layups and added a jump-er and alley-oop to Thomp-son in transition for a dunk. Every player on Team USA scored.
Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski has praised Rose’s defensive inten-
sity but ack nowl -e d g e d Rose can be to o unselfish at times in his back-up role b e h i n d K y r i e Irving.
“A lot of time when he is in the
game we have a lead, and I think he’s trying to get everyone else involved,” Krzyzewski said. “He looks for his stuff not just
fifth sometimes but sixth or seventh on the court. We need him to look at it like he’s one or two on the court, and when he’s mak-ing a play, look to make plays for people, but try to make plays for your-self, too.
Rose said he tweaked his jumper after Monday’s practice but also will con-tinue to balance his scor-ing and playing a more tra-ditional point guard role.
“Here, teams are going under (screens) on me. In the NBA, I would shoot every time,” Rose said. “But here, I have to give the ball up and try to give guys touches. ...You got to get guys in rhythm, make sure guys touch the ball, at least get an attempt up so they can get the rust or jit-ters out too. Those are lit-tle things I think of when I play.”
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BY PAUL SULLIVANMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
It has been a crazy sea-son for Jeff Samardzija, who managed to escape the sinking Cubs ship on July 5 to join the best team in baseball in Oakland.
A’s general manager Bil-ly Beane was recertified as a genius after sacrificing two of his top prospects, shortstop Addison Rus-sell and outfielder Billy McKinney, for two quality starters in Samardzija and Jason Hammel.
It was a gamble that pro-pelled the A’s from post-season contenders to World Series favorites, and the addition of Jon Lester from the Red Sox three weeks later only sealed that opin-ion in everyone’s minds.
But things don’t always go according to plan, and two months after the block-buster trade, the last-place Cubs are talking about the light at the end of the tun-nel, while the rapidly fad-ing A’s are trying to avoid an epic collapse.
The A’s began Monday’s action at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago seven games
behind the division-lead-ing Angels and were cling-ing to a slim lead in the AL wild-card hunt, with the Mariners and Tigers only two games behind. Their best-case scenario is like-ly to be a one-game wild-card playoff game against one of those teams, a far cry from Aug. 9, when the A’s were flying high at 28 games over .500.
Samardzija, who starts Wednesday against the White Sox, can’t be fault-ed for the meltdown. But heading into the four-game series, the A’s were only 27-29 since the deal with the Cubs.
“These last few weeks have been tough on us,” Samardzija said, adding: “These things happen, and to be honest, it kind of hap-pened at a good time. We still have (20) games left.”
As for the team he left, the Cubs went into Mon-day with a 26-33 record since the trade and have begun promoting top pros-pects like Javier Baez and Jorge Soler.
Russell turned out to be as good as advertised, hit-
ting .294 in 50 games at Double-A Tennessee with 12 home runs and 36 RBIs, while McKinney hit .301 in 51 games at Class-A Day-tona, with a .390 OBP and 36 RBIs.
“That was definitely an honor being traded for big leaguers like that,” McK-inney said.
“I called Addison right when the trade happened
and talked with him a lit-tle about it. We were like, ‘Wow, let’s go get it.’ ”
Samardzija said he still follows the Cubs, and the youth movement that has been heralded since Theo Epstein took over as presi-dent in 2011. He likes the talent but pointed out that chemistry matters too.
“You’ve got to piece it all together and become a
team,” he said. The Cubs were able to
replace Samardzija as staff ace with Jake Arrie-ta, who is 8-5 with a 2.81 earned-run average, and they also brought up rookie Kyle Hendricks, who is 6-1 with a 2.02 ERA. They still need starting pitching to take the next step but are expected to go strong after Lester, who will become a
free agent his winter.Samardzija said he main-
tains a good relationship with Epstein and the Cubs front office and wouldn’t close the door on a return when he becomes a free agent after 2015.
But the Cubs are unlikely to re-sign him, so Samardzija will prob-ably get his big contract elsewhere.
Samardzijatrade proves great for Cubs
BY MATT MURSCHELMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
ORLANDO, Fla. — Dust billows and heavy machin-ery echoes through the con-struction site on the corner of Church Street and Rio Grande Avenue.
It’s the home of one of the city’s top reclamation proj-ects, a $207 million renova-tion of the 78-year old Flor-ida Citrus Bowl.
But a ribbon-cutting to unveil the remodeled sta-dium won’t quickly be fol-lowed by a college-foot-ball national-championship game in Orlando. There’s elite competition from cit-ies that have hosted Super Bowls for college football’s premier game, making it far from a given Orlando will one day host the event.
And there are other hur-dles as well.
Florida Citrus Sports leaders face the challenge of needing to raise mil-lions of dollars just to bid on the championship, plus a requirement to go back and upgrade the just-refur-bished stadium.
To meet minimum requirements set by the Col-lege Football Playoff com-mittee, the Citrus Bowl will need to add 27 additional luxury suites. The suites would cost $8.5 million and were approved along with other stadium funding on the condition they would only be added if the Citrus Bowl were hosting a nation-al-championship game.
In addition to the expand-ed seating costs, bowl offi-cials would need at least $15 million for a proposed operating budget to stage the championship game.
Florida Citrus Sports Chief Executive Officer Steve Hogan said his group will raise the funds need-ed to fulfill the title-game requirements.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said the framework for the premium seating is in place and was something accounted for by local offi-cials during the planning of the renovation. Orlando opted not to invest in luxu-ry suites that would be rare-ly used, but instead to add
that premium seating once the right to host a marquee title game was secured, which would be 2018 at the earliest.
“The way we designed and constructed the Citrus Bowl was to have it accommodate exactly what we’re hosting now, which is a 61,000-seat stadium. ... The number of seats and club seats and everything that we have is perfect,” Dyer said. “We also created some space that can be enhanced if we need to add some additional pre-mium spaces ... for a nation-al-championship game.
“It’s the amount of premi-um seating that we don’t need e x c e p t once every 10 years — say, if we got into that r o t a t i o n and we’re going to host the game once every 10 years.”
O t h e r cities com-peting to host the national-title game are setting aside about $15 million operating budgets for the game. The budget includes giving the Col-lege Football Playoff up to $10 million to help host the event.
It’s a price Orlando offi-cials are willing to pay, according to Dyer.
When Sun Life Stadium in the Miami area hosted the BCS National Champi-onship Game in 2013 before the shift to a new postsea-son format, the estimated economic impact was close to $250 million in revenue. That doesn’t include the pub-lic-relations impact of hav-ing South Florida mentioned repeatedly by TV and print media covering the game.
Bowl officials who want to bring that revenue to Central Florida are optimistic they can make it happen despite going up against cities with new venues and experience hosting Super Bowls.
“The reconstruction of the Orlando Citrus Bowl is
certainly going to make it possible for us to bid for the ... championship game, and it’s a natural fit for our com-munity,” Dyer said.
Local officials began talk-ing about the possibility of hosting a national champion-ship back in 200,1 but quick-ly realized it would only be possible if the aging Cit-rus Bowl went through a massive overhaul. Despite roadblocks and an economic recession, the stadium ren-ovation finally began this year.
“I think people are going to realize that it was the right thing to do,” Hogan said. “Not only the business
that we have, but what’s pos-sible in the immediate future.”
F a n s will get their first look at the stadi-um during the Flor-ida Clas-sic on Nov. 22. And
though the Citrus Bowl won’t be complete until closer to April, the facility will operate as normally as possible while hosting the 2014 state high-school-foot-ball championship games and the Russell and Capital One bowls.
Hogan said that, although the stadium will be part of the equation, the city itself offers a lot to those deciding whether to play a national-title game in Orlando. From the international airport to the multitude of hotels and tourist attractions, he sees Orlando as a destination that can’t miss.
He’s also quick to point out the stadium renovation will bring far more to Orlando than just the chance to host a national-championship game. He said the overhaul was critical to attracting oth-er high-profile events, such as popular neutral-site reg-ular-season college-football games and international soc-cer matches, along with keep-ing current bowls in Orlando.
Citrus Bowl trying to get in mix for playoffUS beats Slovenia with
great play from Rose
RAY CHAVEZ MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEPitcher Jeff Samardzija was traded from the Cubs to the Oakland Athletics in July. What started as a great turnaround for the A’s has now turned into a rough patch, whereas the Cubs are playing with a 26-33 record since the trade.
BY CHRIS VIVLAMOREMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Hawks general manager Danny Ferry has no imme-diate plans to resign fol-lowing racist comments he claims to have read during a conference call regarding potential free agent Luol Deng in June.
Hawks co-owner Michael Gearon Jr. wrote a letter to majority owner Bruce Levenson calling for him to ask for Ferry’s resigna-tion or fire him for cause if he refused several days after the conference call with ownership and management.
In the call, which was recorded by Gearon Jr., Ferry was discussing pos-itives and negatives of Deng and said “He has a little African in him. Not
in a bad way, but he’s like a guy who would have a nice store out front but sell you counterfeit stuff out of the back.” The letter states that Ferry completed the slur by describing the player as “a two-faced liar and cheat.”
The statement led to an independent internal inves-tigation. During that pro-cess, an inflammatory email that Levenson wrote to Fer-ry, in part about the lack of whites at Philips Arena, was discovered. The email led to Levenson announcing Sun-day that he would sell his interest in the team.
Ferry issued a statement Tuesday morning and said he spoke with Deng about the matter.
“In regards to the insen-sitive remarks that were used during our due dili-
gence process, I was repeat-ing comments that were gathered from numerous sources during background conversations and scouting about different players. I repeated those comments during a telephone conver-sation reviewing the draft and free agency process. Those words do not reflect my views, or words that I would use to describe an individual, and I certain-ly regret it. I apologize to those I offended and to Luol, who I reached out to Mon-day morning.”
As the Hawks search for a buyer for Levenson’s shares of the team, it is unclear how the organiza-tion will function with a co-owner that has called for the termination of its gen-eral manager.
No plans to resign for Hawks’ GM Ferry
NUCCIO DINUZZO MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEDerrick Rose (1) of the Chicago Bulls releases a shot over Jeff Adrien (4) of the Charlotte Bobcats during the first half at the United Center in Chicago on Nov. 18, 2013.
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BY PETER BAILEY-WELLSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
NCAA/ITA All-American rankings were released this week and the Illini men’s tennis team made several appearances in both the sin-gles and doubles rankings. These preseason rankings are released in prepara-tion for the ITA Men’s All-American Championship, which begins on Sept. 27 and is going to be hosted by Tulsa.
Two Illini were ranked in the top 10 in singles: junior Jared Hiltzik at No. 6 and senior Farris Gosea at No. 10. Hiltzik drops two spots from his No. 4 preseason ranking from last season but is up from last year’s
final regular season rank-ing of No. 12. Reigning Big Ten Men’s Tennis Player of the Year Gosea finished last season ranked No. 20 in sin-gles. Senior Tim Kopinski was the third Illini ranked, starting the season at No. 44.
Kopinski and fellow senior Ross Guignon fin-ished last season ranked No. 6 in doubles and begin this year at No. 2 in the country, the pair’s highest ranking to date.
Last year, Kopinski and Guignon were the Illini’s first doubles pair to be named All-Americans since 2007. Hiltzik and Gosea were both All-Americans in singles. Gosea was the first Illini to be the Big Ten Play-er of the Year since 2007, when Kevin Anderson won the award.
Peter can be reached at [email protected].
BY TIM GRAHAMMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Terry and Kim Pegu-la have struck a definitive agreement to purchase the Buffalo Bills, the team con-firmed this afternoon.
The purchase price is believed to be in the neigh-borhood of $1.1 billion.
In a statement, the team said, “Subject to the approv-al of the NFL owners and the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, the defini-tive agreement calls for the Pegula family to acquire all of the interest in the Buffa-lo Bills franchise from the (Ralph C.) Wilson trust. The parties intend to submit the agreement for approval by the NFL owners at their meeting in New York City on October 8.
Mary Wilson, controlling owner of the team, said, “This is a very important day in the history of the Buf-falo Bills franchise. Ralph brought professional football to Buffalo in 1959 and it was his life’s passion. He loved his team and he cherished the fans and his legacy will remain for all-time. Ralph would have been pleased with the sale of the team to the Terry Pegula family, who has been so committed to Buffalo and the Western
New York region.”“I sincerely wish Terry
and Kim Pegula all the best with the Buffalo Bills and I’m happy for all Bills fans. Our hope is that this great fran-chise brings them as much excitement and joy as it did for Ralph and that they bring home a Super Bowl champi-onship for Bills fans every-where. Go Bills!”
Terry Pegula also issued a statement this afternoon, saying: “Kim and I are hum-bled and honored that the Wilson family has chosen us to be the second owner of the Buffalo Bills. Pend-ing the NFL approval pro-cess, being the next owner of the Buffalo Bills would be a great privilege for our family. Ralph Wilson left an indelible mark on our community and we will strive every day to honor his legacy.
“Our interest in owning the Bills has everything to do with the people of Western New York and our passion for football. We have knowledge-able, dedicated fans here and along with our ownership of the Buffalo Sabres, it is grati-fying to reassure these great fans that two franchises so important to our region are both here to stay.
“We now look ahead to the
NFL review process in accor-dance with league policy. If awarded final approval, we will be driven to achieve a singular goal: To win a Super Bowl for our fans.”
Binding bids were sub-mitted Monday to Morgan Stanley, the financial advis-ers representing the Wilson trust.
Runners-up include bil-lionaire developer Donald Trump and a group fronted by rock star Jon Bon Jovi with financial backing from Maple Leaf Sports and Enter-tainment Chairman Larry Tanenbaum and Rogers Com-munications heir Edward Rogers III.
A source close to the Bon Jovi bidding group, who spoke on condition of ano-nymity, said the group bid $1,050,000,000 for the Bills and could have gone higher but felt that amount matched the team’s value. The source also said media reports that the rocker had split apart from the two Toronto inves-tors were incorrect.
The source added that Bon Jovi and his group signed a waiver during negotiations that they would not move the team to Toronto or any other city and that the group was engaged in talks with uniden-tified entities to build a new
stadium in Western New York.
Bon Jovi issued a state-ment saying, “On behalf of Myself, Larry Tanenbaum and Edward Rogers, we wish Terry and Kim Pegula all the best as they continue the legacy and tradition of the Buffalo Bills and the Wil-son family.”
Trump issued a statement saying, “It was my great honor to have the opportu-nity to bid on the Buffalo Bills football team. A large part of the reason for my bid was to ensure that the team remained in Buffalo. I would like to congratulate the Pegu-la family on what will be, I am sure, a wonderful pur-chase. I would also like to congratulate the fans of the Buffalo Bills in that, I have no doubt, that the team will now remain in your wonder-ful city.”
The news of the sale to the Pegulas brought cheer and relief to Bills fans, the majority of whom regarded Team Pegula as the strongest ownership candidate and the one most likely to guarantee the Bills a long-term future in Buffalo. The bid also had the backing of Sen. Charles E. Schumer, who contacted influential NFL owners to voice support.
!ree Illini in top 50; 2 doubles pairs ranked
KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINI Illinois’ Farris Gosea is ranked No. 20 in the nation after winning the Big Ten Player of the Year award last season. Gosea is one of three Illini ranked.
BY MICHAL DWOJAKASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
The Illinois women’s golf team tied for third at the Col-onel Wollenberg Ptarmigan Ram Classic hosted by Colo-rado State, which wrapped up play on Tuesday.
The Illini had a final score of 881 (17-over-par) in their first tournament of the season. The team card-ed rounds of 297, 289 and 295, respectively. The sec-
ond-round score tied the seventh-lowest team round in team history. The Illini spent the round forced to fight wind gusts as strong as 45 mph.
Freshman Dana Gattone tied for seventh individu-ally to lead the Illini. She shot rounds of 72, 72 and 73 to finish 1-over on the tour-nament. On the 15th hole to start the second round, Gat-tone nailed a hole-in-one to
set the Illini’s lowest round.Stephanie Miller carded
the second-highest finish for Illinois, with a final score of 220 (4-over), good for 16th individually. The sophomore was responsible for 11 of the team’s birdies.
In a press release, head coach Renee Slone shared that “all of the freshmen responded very well (to their first collegiate tour-nament) and all had at least
one strong round.”Illinois tied Colorado for
third place both finishing with a total score of 881. San Diego State took home the title at 6-over while UNLV grabbed second place hon-ors at 14-over. Gonzaga rounded out the top-five at 18-over.
Michal can be reached at [email protected] and @bennythebull94.
Women’s golf ties for 3rdFreshman ties for 7th in 1st tourney of season at Colorado State
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As the country was reacting to Mon-day’s news of Ray
Rice’s cut and indefinite suspension from the NFL, the NCAA ended Penn State’s four-year postsea-son ban.
It felt like the NCAA took advantage of the Rice situa-tion and said, “We’re going to put this news release out here, hopefully no one real-izes what we’ve done, and by Thursday, everyone will be talking about something else.”
Maybe the NCAA was going to release the news on Monday no matter what. Or maybe it licked its lips like a dog spotting a juicy steak, knowing it would avoid the backlash it would ordinarily receive for such a horrible decision.
Both the news, and the way it was announced, left a bad taste in my mouth. It reflects the way the NCAA is run as an organization and has shown how dys-functional the organization has become.
Penn State is bowl eligi-ble this season after serv-ing only half its four-year postseason suspension. The NCAA also announced that the football program would
regain all 85 of its schol-arships for next year. The school will still have to pay a $60 million fine, forfeit 111 wins under Joe Paterno and one win under interim head coach Tom Bradley, and the program will still be monitored.
The decision to reduce the punishment that some called “worse than the death penalty” was a result of the university making progress. According to the NCAA, the university com-plied with 115 of the 119 recommendations made by former FBI director Louis Freeh.
Some might argue that current Penn State athletes and coaches shouldn’t have to pay the penalty for a crime they weren’t involved in. But that’s the whole point of having the penal-ty. No penalty on an NCAA program is ever about the people at the school now. It’s always about the people who were there before.
It’s important to remem-ber why the program received such a steep pen-alty. All of this was a result of the scandal that broke in 2011 that involved assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, who sexually assaulted 10 boys, and top university officials, who either tried to cover up the incident or failed to tell authorities. This wasn’t giv-ing illegal gifts to an athlete or signing unapproved auto-graphs — these were inde-
scribable acts that will for-ever affect the lives of the victims and their families.
At the time when the pen-alty was announced, NCAA President Mark Emmert said, “In the Penn State case, the results were per-verse and unconscionable. No price the NCAA can levy will repair the griev-ous damage inflicted by Jerry Sandusky on his vic-tims.” Yet two years later, the NCAA decides that four years is too harsh for the “grievous damage inflicted” to the victims. Two years might seem a long time for many, but for the few whose lives were changed forever, it will never be enough.
Another factor that con-tributes to my uneasy feel-ing about the situation is that the NCAA has nev-er gone back to review or revise its punishments on schools. If we want to com-pare scandals — something that I hate doing — then according to the NCAA, this scandal is the same as the USC football scandal. Both programs were suspended from postseason play for two years, and wins were vacated.
Southern Methodist Uni-versity received the “death penalty” in 1987, where the NCAA canceled the school’s whole season—SMU canceled its 1988 sea-son as well. The most seri-ous offense that occurred in this scandal was a slush
fund for “under the table” payments to players from the mid-1970s through 1986. The program wasn’t able to recover from this penalty for nearly 20 years.
Penn State is the first pro-gram to have its punish-ment ended prematurely.
The NCAA’s decision puts no fear into programs. If a university only receives a two-year ban for the awful events that occurred, then what’s to prevent teams from violating rules in the future? Nothing. Even if the
NCAA catches a school in a rules violation, that school can point to Penn State’s two-year ban as an example of why the NCAA should be lenient.
So yes. I am happy for the students, who will get a chance to celebrate the team Penn State has now. I am happy for the players who chose to stay when they could’ve easily left, and for head coach James Franklin, who has the Nittany Lions heading in the right direc-tion. I am happy for the
loyal fans who had to suffer through the mistakes that were made by some admin-istrators. But I am left with a discouraging feeling. An organization that claims to keep order in college sports is instead trying to sneak around behind my back. They hoped I wouldn’t notice.
Michal is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him at @bennythebull94.
BY MIKE JENSENMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
When football recruiting experts, real or imagined, attach a ranking or stars to a recruit, they’re really set-ting odds.
The more stars, the better the odds of a payoff for the school that lands the recruit.
That’s all it is. In football, more than most sports, eval-uating 15- and 16-year-olds, trying to figure what kind of player they’ll be at age 21, is a tough and risky business.
In addition to the inherent physical danger of the sport, that’s why Division I football teams get so many scholar-ships. It’s why the NCAA’s restoration of scholarships at Penn State is even a bigger deal than lifting the bowl ban.
You don’t get to the big bowls, into the Rose Bowl or the new four-team nation-al playoff, without your full allotment of scholarships.
When the NCAA originally announced sanctions against Penn State in the Jerry San-dusky scandal, it was those scholarships that then-coach Bill O’Brien and his staff focused most on. It wouldn’t
be a shock if the scholarship reductions had O’Brien ques-tioning his own commitment to Penn State. He was sudden-ly the coach at a place that wasn’t “supposed to win it all.” That’s the retribution NCAA honchos had in mind.
Obviously, NCAA presi-dent Mark Emmert and the board that approved the orig-inal sanctions understood the consequences. They intended them to be severe, which is why they allowed Penn State players at the time to trans-fer and become immediately eligible anywhere else.
Renowned for his recruit-ing prowess, James Frank-lin and his assistants sud-denly don’t have to make as many tough choices between players, with the scholarship limit moving up from 75 to 85. Odds are, one of the play-ers who gets added to Penn State’s list will wind up being a starter.
Franklin’s star player at his last stop, Vanderbilt, receiver Jordan Matthews, is now with the Eagles. You think Matthews would have ever gotten out of his home state of Alabama if the Crim-
son Tide or Auburn had cor-rectly forecast what he would become?
That may even be more true when it comes to line-men. Sure, the big-time schools get first shot at the blue-chippers. But look at this list of schools of all the offensive tackles drafted this year, in order: Auburn, Texas A&M, Michigan, Tennessee, Nevada, Alabama, Missouri, Virginia, North Dakota State, Michigan, Stanford, Purdue, Marshall, McGill, Kansas State, Portland State, Geor-gia State, Miami, Boise State.
That’s 19 players, virtu-ally all of whom would have accepted scholarships from Power 5 leagues if they’d been offered. When Portland State ends up with a higher-graded guy than Oregon, it’s all a crapshoot of sorts.
All this is intentional. The big-time schools get 85 schol-arships. The next level down, at FCS (or I-AA), they get 63.
There’s a side issue here, maybe a minor one. The NCAA wasn’t just sticking it to Penn State when it reduced scholarships. It was taking away scholarship opportu-
nities for a certain number of football players who nev-er had anything to do with Penn State. The ones who didn’t get offered by Penn State after the scholarship reductions still would end up at a Division I school, maybe in the Big Ten. Then there would be trickle-down _ the Big Ten kid would end up at a Mid-American school, the MAC kid would go to I-AA, etc. Eventually, a number of
players would end up with no scholarship at all.
Just as big as the bowl res-toration is a chance to play in the Big Ten champion-ship game. In the scheme of things, that game is even big-ger than most bowls. There’s no arguing that being bowl eligible and Big Ten-title eligible will greatly impact recruiting, too
Getting to the big games that Penn State is now imme-
diately eligible for, you don’t do it through smoke and mir-rors or even X and O genius. You need players, every last one of them, four stars and two stars, blue-chipper Chris-tian Hackenberg and walk-on Matt McGloin.
As of Monday, the Nitta-ny Lions are back in the col-lege football game that really counts. You don’t have to be a recruiting expert to see their odds just improved.
BY JOE JULIANOMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rutgers is excited to make its Big Ten Conference debut Saturday night against Penn State. But for some of the Scarlet Knights’ Pennsylva-nia players, the opportunity is absolutely exhilarating.
“I’m pretty excited about this game,” fifth-year senior offensive tackle Taj Alex-ander, a Downingtown East graduate, said Monday. “I’ve been around Penn State fans my whole life. I hadn’t had a chance to play that team in the four years I’ve been here, so it’s pretty exciting to play a team you grew up around.
“I have a lot of friends who are saying, ‘Penn State’s going to whip your butts’ and things like that. I just laugh. They’ve been talking about the game ever since it came up on the schedule.”
Alexander’s high school teammate, redshirt junior tight end Tyler Kroft, said he knows about 100 former high school classmates who are now at Penn State, and some have texted him that they’re trying to get tickets to the game.
And yes, the trash talk-ing, at least from their side, is underway.
“They’re telling me that it’s our first year” in the Big Ten, Kroft said. “But I don’t really listen. None of them are really football experts and know what we do on a day-to-day basis. So I just kind of laugh it off.”
Three Pennsylvanians — Alexander, Kroft and redshirt sophomore guard Chris Muller (Boyer-town) — are starters on this week’s Rutgers depth chart. Sophomore Desmon Peoples (Archbishop Wood) backs up star tailback
Paul James (Glassboro).Alexander, Kroft and
Muller all had contact with coaches on Joe Pater-no’s staff during their high school recruiting period. Muller said he was “always a fan” of Paterno but didn’t watch much college football when he was younger.
Muller said he considered Penn State because “I knew a lot of students that went there and I liked the tradi-tion there, just like I like the tradition here.”
But when it came time to choose, he took the Scarlet Knights.
Muller already had com-mitted to Rutgers and was visiting on campus when he hosted offensive line-man Brendon Mahon of Randolph, N.J., during his Mahon’s visit to Rutgers. Mahon eventually chose Penn State and is the team’s starting right guard.
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Penn State decision shows NCAA’s flaws
Penn State gets scholarships back
Rutgers players ready for 1st Big Ten game
MATTHEW SERVEN THE DAILY COLLEGIANPenn State students celebrated in the streets Monday night after the NCAA’s reduced sanctions on the Nittany Lions football program, making the team bowl eligible this season.
NABIL K. MARK MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEPenn State head coach James Franklin walks to the Beaver Stadium media room before talking about the NCAA sanctions being reduced during his weekly press conference on Tuesday in University Park, Pa.
MARK MIRKO MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNERutgers’ Quron Pratt heads downfield after a reception against Connecticut in Nov. 2013. Rutgers will play its first Big Ten game against Penn State on Saturday night in Piscataway, N.J.
become the free guy, and at that point, I just read the quarterback and he took me right to it. After that I saw green grass and just kept running.”
Barton would keep run-ning for 77 yards and a touchdown.
“You just make sure you’re running fast and make sure no one catches you from behind,” Barton said. “You just see green grass and keep running. Eventually, at that point,
you peek back and make sure no one’s coming up behind you.”
While the execution of that play looked effort-less on the field, the labor behind it has been two and a half years in the making.
Barton, a redshirt soph-omore, played in 11 games during his first season, recording 34 tackles. In just two games this year, Barton already has 21 tackles.
“Last year was my first time playing in the col-lege level, so everything was moving faster,” Bar-ton said. “I think the sec-ond year coming around,
things slow down for you and you can kind of analyze things better, it’s a slower game now.”
The game may have slowed down for Barton, but according to his coach-es it’s a combination of fac-tors that have contributed to his success.
One of the biggest factors is his study of game film.
“As a group, our sec-ondary studies extremely hard,” defensive coordina-tor Tim Banks said. “Those guys are in there, going from formations to any sit-uational part of the game. Those guys are now playing
at a higher level because of their preparation.”
Barton has made it a pri-ority to watch game film, learning how to study it properly.
“Now I’m not just watch-ing film, looking at it,” Bar-ton said. “Now I know how to actually analyze it and study it, breaking it up into formation, situation first down, third down, stuff like that. He (Banks) has taught us that well. I think now that we’re watching in that way, we’re actual-ly learning stuff instead of just watching film to watch film.”
In combination with the mental aspects, Barton has been actively working on his body.
According to 247 Sports, Barton weighed 180 pounds coming out of high school. He’s since bulked up and now weighs in at 215 pounds.
The work has paid off for Barton and the coach-es alike.
“I’ll tell you, I can’t be more impressed, probably the biggest stride on our football team has been Tay-lor,” head coach Tim Beck-man said. “His speed, he’s worked tremendously hard
on trying to become a full player and he studies the game extremely hard. You see him in our office all the time studying the game. But he’s been able now to take his body, create himself to be a faster football player and he’s become more phys-ical. His body has gotten stronger and those types of things. It’s good to know he’s only a sophomore, a redshirt sophomore, you really have three football seasons left with him.”
Charlotte can be reached at [email protected] and @charlottecrrll.
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MICHAL DWOJAK
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