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INSIDE Police 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Letters 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Life & Culture 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 4B | Sudoku 4B THE DAILY ILLINI MONDAY November 3, 2014 54˚ | 40˚ WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM 5he independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 144 Issue 040 | FREE @THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINI DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI ISS seeks same-day voting at Illini Union BY ELYSSA KAUFMAN STAFF WRITER Many students may struggle to fi nd the time to take a bus to register to vote on top of their classes, homework and extracurric- ular activities. Any students who missed the Oct. 7 deadline to reg- ister to vote but wants to vote in the upcoming mid- term elections must take a bus ride to the closest reg- istration location at the Brookens Administrative Center in Urbana. The Illi- nois Student Senate is push- ing for a same-day voter registration location to be added to the Illini Union on Tuesday, so that students who missed the deadline still have the opportunity to cast a ballot. “There are a lot of stu- dents who want to vote but don’t want to go through the hassle of running out to the Brookens Adminis- trative Center and there- fore do not vote,” said Stu- dent Body President Mitch Dickey. A new law effective only for the upcoming midterm elections allows Cham- paign County Clerk Gordy Hulten to decide whether to have same-day voter registration. Dickey sent a letter to the Champaign County Clerk on Oct. 10 pushing for same-day voter regis- tration at the Illini Union on Election Day. Hulten said the Cham- paign County Clerk’s office supports same-day voter registration, but said it is unlikely that they will be able to provide all equip- ment needed, such as print- ers, to register voters within a few days of the election. “(The law) appears to give election authorities some discretion as to the location where Election Day registration can be conducted. It is not clear that we have discretion as to the schedule,” Hulten said. “The issue is, I’m not sure if we have the legal authority to do this in one location, for one day only.” Dickey said he disagreed with Hulten’s reasoning behind not allowing same- day registration at the Union. “I think it’s the Cham- paign County Clerk putting up a barrier himself, and that’s just the argument he is going to hide behind to not give us same-day voter registration,” Dickey said. “I see it as him saying that he would rather not give students the fullest oppor- tunity to vote, and I would rather caution on the side of an interpretation of the law.” Matt Hill, vice president external of ISS, believes having a same-day vot- er registration location at the Union would increase the student vote in the elections. “Same-day voter regis- Renovations planned for interior of Altgeld Hall BY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER The deteriorating, green walls of Altgeld Hall remind Matt Ando, head of the mathematics department, of an old battleship. “The University can’t let this building fall apart,” he said. “It hasn’t fallen apart just yet, but Altgeld needs renovating if it’s going to stay standing.” Ando and several col- leagues presented a $90 mil- lion proposal to the Univer- sity that aims to improve accessibility and modernize the building. In addition to added space, the renovations would add updated technol- ogy, such as projectors and screens, and add more col- laboration-friendly learning spaces. According to the propos- al, space would increase for classrooms by 25 percent, research by 150 percent and Mathematics department offices by 20 percent. He said the University is able to commit $30 million of its own resources, but it will need to be confident it can assemble the remaining, nec- essary funds before it moves forward with the project. “Accommodating disabled students well is something the University is known for,” Ando said. “When you have a reputation for doing some- thing well, that’s a powerful thing, but it’s also a respon- sibility and it’s not a reputa- tion we would want to lose.” National Guard officer honors veterans in piano concert BY ANNABETH CARLSON STAFF WRITER Pianist Ian Gindes will always remember his first big audience. It was not in a concert hall, but rather a theater in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, in front of hundreds of young soldiers at a meeting for basic training. Gindes was one of them. It was 2004 and tensions ran high while soldiers were getting deployed to Iraq. The anxious soldiers focused their gaze on a sergeant on stage, who stood beside an old, wooden upright piano with missing keys. Sudden- ly, he asked if anyone knew how to play. Gindes’ hand shot up, and instantly, he worried that he had made a mistake. The sergeant ordered him on stage and asked him what he could play. “Well, sergeant, I play the classics like Beethoven,” he said. So, the sergeant told him to play. He started with one of Beethoven’s sonatas, a song that began simple but soon became complex. The sergeant acted confused and went to the piano and looked into it as if someone had played a trick on him. But it wasn’t a trick. When he finished, the soldiers shot to their feet and applauded. Looking back, Gindes said it was one of the most won- derful experiences of his life. On Sunday, Gindes per- formed a concert called “A Salute to Veterans” at Foel- linger Great Hall, which included patriotic and jazz music from American com- posers. In the past, he has done a soldier’s benefit con- cert and a 9/11 concert. “It’s always been a part of giving back. How can I use my job to benefit the Nation- al Guard while being in it?” he said. When Gindes walked into the dark, cavernous theater, he was wearing a black tux- edo and blue polka-dot bow- tie. A spotlight illuminated the shiny black grand piano on the wooden stage. The scene was very differ- ent from his impromptu per- formance on a beaten-up pia- no in his GI uniform at basic training 10 years ago. But one thing remained the same: he’s still playing for his fellow soldiers. Growing up in Southern California, Gindes’ love for the piano began at the age of seven. His father recognized his talent and he began tak- ing lessons. At Gindes’ first recital, he said he made his musical debut with a song called the “Wig Wam.” By age 11, Gindes said he knew he wanted to make music the rest of his life. He became more advanced and could play Beethoven and Berg. “I enjoyed bringing an audience into what I was feel- ing; that was really impor- tant to me as an artist and even at that young age,” Gindes said. Gindes said he really focused on making a career out of piano during his first year of college at the Uni- versity of Northern Colora- do. After earning a master’s degree in Music, he applied to Illinois to study under Dr. Ian Hobson, a recognized soloist in classical music. He first learned of Hobson because his father had one of his CDs, and he wanted to study under someone who had legitimate authority as a pianist. After Gindes was accept- ed, he immediately moved to Urbana to earn a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. How- ever, after a year of study, his father fell ill and he took a year off to care for him. Gindes also used the year off to build his repertoire. But something was missing. Plans for Tasers to be proposed to Urbana BY FATIMA FARHA STAFF WRITER After facing controversy earlier this year, the Urbana Police Department will again propose the use of Tasers to the Urbana City Council in late November. The Urbana Police Depart- ment is currently writing a proposal with the Civilian Police Review Board that they will present to the coun- cil at the end of the month, which includes guidelines on how to use the device. If granted, the Urba- na Police Department will start training its officers in December on how to properly use Tasers. Patrick Connolly, Chief of Police at the Urbana Police Department, said Tasers would prove to be essential in situations where people are committing a crime or poten- tially harming themselves or others. “My concern is that more and more, I am seeing those types of situations arise where the officer is limited in their ability to respond to a certain event, either in peo- ple harming themselves or trying to harm others,” Con- nolly said. “The Taser would be a perfect tool to be able to address those without hav- ing to resort to deadly force, meaning a firearm.” Connolly said the city’s Cri- sis Intervention Team would be the first officers to car- ry Tasers if the proposal is approved. He said the Tasers would prevent injuries for both offi- cers and suspects in danger- ous situations. After seeing how necessary the use of Tas- ers was becoming, Connolly talked to the Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing, who also supports the use of Tasers. In April, representatives from the Urbana Police Department and the Univer- sity Police Department pre- sented a similar proposal to the city council that was nev- er voted on. The proposal was met with outrage, especially from the African-American community. During the meeting, mem- bers of the NAACP Cham- paign County branch read the names of those killed by Tasers. Patricia Avery, pres- ident of the branch, said the Tasers “could not come at a worse time” and were getting in the way of fixing the rela- tionship between law enforce- ment and the African-Ameri- can community. Instances where the University Police Department used Tasers Q To assist the Champaign Police Department when a mentally challenged woman had trapped herself inside a bathroom with knives Q When a suspect who was allegedly on heroin fought with ambulance personnel on the way to the hospital Q To assist the Champaign Police Department to gain control of a man who had shot his partner and then became suicidal, barricading himself inside a basement Q When dealing with a combative subject during a domestic dispute in Orchard Downs Q When a suspect in a residence hall was high on drugs and combative with the officers trying to take him into custody Q When a suspect was stopped in a vehicle for a traffic violation and refused to follow the officers’ orders after being told he was arrested SOURCE: LT. MATT MYRICK, UNIVERSITY POLICE DEPARTMENT SEE ALTGELD | 3A SEE VETERANS | 3A ZOE GRANT ASSISTANT THE DAILY ILLINI The interior of the Mathematics Library in Altgeld Hall will soon be undergoing renovations. SEE TASERS | 3A PORTRAIT BY SONNY AN Minimum wage needs to be raised Americans need to realize that people are more important than prots. OPINIONS, 4A Coping with cancer UI student talks of her mother’s passing. LIFE & CULTURE, 6A Men and women’s cross-country Both teams competed for the Big Ten title on Sunday. SPORTS, 1B SEE VOTING | 3A 0RUH LQVLGH Turn to Page 4A to read our Editorial Board’s take on the Altgeld Hall renovations.
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ISS seeks same-day voting at Illini UnionBY ELYSSA KAUFMANSTAFF WRITER
Many students may struggle to fi nd the time to take a bus to register to vote on top of their classes, homework and extracurric-ular activities.
Any students who missed the Oct. 7 deadline to reg-ister to vote but wants to vote in the upcoming mid-term elections must take a bus ride to the closest reg-istration location at the Brookens Administrative Center in Urbana. The Illi-nois Student Senate is push-ing for a same-day voter registration location to be added to the Illini Union on Tuesday, so that students who missed the deadline still have the opportunity to cast a ballot.
“There are a lot of stu-dents who want to vote but don’t want to go through the hassle of running out to the Brookens Adminis-trative Center and there-fore do not vote,” said Stu-dent Body President Mitch Dickey.
A new law effective only for the upcoming midterm elections allows Cham-paign County Clerk Gordy Hulten to decide whether to have same-day voter registration.
Dickey sent a letter to the Champaign County Clerk on Oct. 10 pushing for same-day voter regis-tration at the Illini Union on Election Day.
Hulten said the Cham-paign County Clerk’s offi ce
supports same-day voter registration, but said it is unlikely that they will be able to provide all equip-ment needed, such as print-ers, to register voters within a few days of the election.
“(The law) appears to give election authorities some discretion as to the location where Election Day registration can be conducted. It is not clear that we have discretion as to the schedule,” Hulten said. “The issue is, I’m not sure if we have the legal authority to do this in one location, for one day only.”
Dickey said he disagreed with Hulten’s reasoning behind not allowing same-day registration at the Union.
“I think it’s the Cham-paign County Clerk putting up a barrier himself, and that’s just the argument he is going to hide behind to not give us same-day voter registration,” Dickey said. “I see it as him saying that he would rather not give students the fullest oppor-tunity to vote, and I would rather caution on the side of an interpretation of the law.”
Matt Hill, vice president external of ISS, believes having a same-day vot-er registration location at the Union would increase the student vote in the elections.
“Same-day voter regis-
Renovations planned for interior of Altgeld HallBY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER
The deteriorating, green walls of Altgeld Hall remind Matt Ando, head of the mathematics department, of an old battleship. “The University can’t let this building fall apart,” he said. “It hasn’t fallen apart just yet, but Altgeld needs renovating if it’s going to stay standing.”
Ando and several col-leagues presented a $90 mil-lion proposal to the Univer-sity that aims to improve accessibility and modernize the building. In addition to
added space, the renovations would add updated technol-ogy, such as projectors and screens, and add more col-laboration-friendly learning spaces.
According to the propos-al, space would increase for classrooms by 25 percent, research by 150 percent and Mathematics department offi ces by 20 percent.
He said the University is able to commit $30 million of its own resources, but it will need to be confi dent it can assemble the remaining, nec-essary funds before it moves forward with the project.
“Accommodating disabled students well is something the University is known for,” Ando said. “When you have a reputation for doing some-thing well, that’s a powerful thing, but it’s also a respon-sibility and it’s not a reputa-tion we would want to lose.”
National Guard offi cer honors veterans in piano concert BY ANNABETH CARLSONSTAFF WRITER
Pianist Ian Gindes will always remember his fi rst big audience.
It was not in a concert hall, but rather a theater in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, in front of hundreds of young soldiers at a meeting for basic training. Gindes was one of them.
It was 2004 and tensions ran high while soldiers were getting deployed to Iraq. The anxious soldiers focused their gaze on a sergeant on stage, who stood beside an old, wooden upright piano with missing keys. Sudden-ly, he asked if anyone knew how to play.
Gindes’ hand shot up, and instantly, he worried that he had made a mistake.
The sergeant ordered him on stage and asked him what he could play.
“Well, sergeant, I play the classics like Beethoven,” he said.
So, the sergeant told him to play. He started with one of Beethoven’s sonatas, a song that began simple but soon became complex. The sergeant acted confused and went to the piano and looked into it as if someone had played a trick on him. But it wasn’t a trick. When he fi nished, the soldiers shot to their feet and applauded.
Looking back, Gindes said it was one of the most won-derful experiences of his life.
On Sunday, Gindes per-formed a concert called “A Salute to Veterans” at Foel-linger Great Hall, which included patriotic and jazz music from American com-posers. In the past, he has done a soldier’s benefi t con-cert and a 9/11 concert.
“It’s always been a part of giving back. How can I use my job to benefi t the Nation-al Guard while being in it?” he said.
When Gindes walked into the dark, cavernous theater,
he was wearing a black tux-edo and blue polka-dot bow-tie. A spotlight illuminated the shiny black grand piano on the wooden stage.
The scene was very differ-ent from his impromptu per-formance on a beaten-up pia-no in his GI uniform at basic training 10 years ago.
But one thing remained the same: he’s still playing for his fellow soldiers.
Growing up in Southern California, Gindes’ love for the piano began at the age of seven. His father recognized his talent and he began tak-ing lessons. At Gindes’ fi rst recital, he said he made his musical debut with a song called the “Wig Wam.”
By age 11, Gindes said he knew he wanted to make music the rest of his life. He became more advanced and could play Beethoven and Berg.
“I enjoyed bringing an audience into what I was feel-ing; that was really impor-
tant to me as an artist and even at that young age,” Gindes said.
Gindes said he really focused on making a career out of piano during his fi rst year of college at the Uni-versity of Northern Colora-do. After earning a master’s degree in Music, he applied to Illinois to study under Dr. Ian Hobson, a recognized soloist in classical music.
He fi rst learned of Hobson because his father had one of his CDs, and he wanted to study under someone who had legitimate authority as a pianist.
After Gindes was accept-ed, he immediately moved to Urbana to earn a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. How-ever, after a year of study, his father fell ill and he took a year off to care for him.
Gindes also used the year off to build his repertoire. But something was missing.
Plans for Tasers to be proposed to UrbanaBY FATIMA FARHASTAFF WRITER
After facing controversy earlier this year, the Urbana Police Department will again propose the use of Tasers to the Urbana City Council in late November.
The Urbana Police Depart-ment is currently writing a proposal with the Civilian Police Review Board that they will present to the coun-cil at the end of the month, which includes guidelines on how to use the device.
If granted, the Urba-na Police Department will start training its offi cers in December on how to properly use Tasers.
Patrick Connolly, Chief of Police at the Urbana Police Department, said Tasers would prove to be essential in situations where people are committing a crime or poten-tially harming themselves or others.
“My concern is that more and more, I am seeing those types of situations arise where the offi cer is limited in their ability to respond to a certain event, either in peo-ple harming themselves or trying to harm others,” Con-nolly said. “The Taser would be a perfect tool to be able to address those without hav-ing to resort to deadly force, meaning a fi rearm.”
Connolly said the city’s Cri-
sis Intervention Team would be the fi rst offi cers to car-ry Tasers if the proposal is approved.
He said the Tasers would prevent injuries for both offi -cers and suspects in danger-ous situations. After seeing how necessary the use of Tas-ers was becoming, Connolly talked to the Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing, who also supports the use of Tasers.
In April, representatives from the Urbana Police Department and the Univer-sity Police Department pre-sented a similar proposal to the city council that was nev-
er voted on.The proposal was met
with outrage, especially from the African-American community.
During the meeting, mem-bers of the NAACP Cham-paign County branch read the names of those killed by Tasers. Patricia Avery, pres-ident of the branch, said the Tasers “could not come at a worse time” and were getting in the way of fi xing the rela-tionship between law enforce-ment and the African-Ameri-can community.
Instances where the University Police Department used Tasers To assist the Champaign
Police Department when a mentally challenged woman had trapped herself inside a bathroom with knives When a suspect who was
allegedly on heroin fought with ambulance personnel on the way to the hospital To assist the Champaign
Police Department to gain control of a man who had shot his partner and then became suicidal,
barricading himself inside a basement When dealing with a
combative subject during a domestic dispute in Orchard Downs When a suspect in a
residence hall was high on drugs and combative with the offi cers trying to take him into custody When a suspect was
stopped in a vehicle for a traffi c violation and refused to follow the offi cers’ orders after being told he was arrested
SOURCE: LT. MATT MYRICK, UNIVERSITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
SEE ALTGELD | 3A
SEE VETERANS | 3A
ZOE GRANT ASSISTANT THE DAILY ILLINIThe interior of the Mathematics Library in Altgeld Hall will soon be undergoing renovations.
SEE TASERS | 3A
PORTRAIT BY SONNY AN
Minimum wage needs to be raisedAmericans need to realize that people are more important than pro! ts.
OPINIONS, 4A
Coping with cancerUI student talks of her mother’s passing.
LIFE & CULTURE, 6A
Men and women’s cross-countryBoth teams competed for the Big Ten title on Sunday.
SPORTS, 1B
SEE VOTING | 3A
Turn to Page 4A to read our Editorial Board’s
take on the Altgeld Hall renovations.
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WEATHERPOLICE
Champaign Criminal damage to
property was reported in the 700 block of South Lo-cust Street around 1 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, an unknown offender dam-aged the victim’s vehicle.
Theft of a motor vehicle was reported in the 00 block
of East John Street around 8 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, an unknown offender stole the victim’s scooter.
University Two University stu-
dents reported that a masked person approached them near Foellinger Au-
ditorium, 709 S. Mathews Ave., around 6 a.m. Thurs-day.
The offender was car-rying what appeared to be a long knife . The students ran to the Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., and called po-lice. Compiled by Miranda Holloway
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Today’s BirthdayThis is your year for fun at work! Expand professionally. A new personal phase began with the New Moon Solar Eclipse in your sign (10/23). After 3/20, begin a new adventure. Romance entices, and family gets fun. Play full on, setting aside quiet time for planning and introspection after 4/4. Do what you love and everything grows.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)Today is a 7 — Make an investment (of time or money) for your family’s future. Plant a tree, maybe. You have the con! dence for action today and tomorrow. Collaborate with your team. Travel or send someone else ahead. Reach out.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)Today is an 8 — The intensity could seem to increase. Slow down and contemplate, over the next two days. Conclude arrangements and plans. Teamwork is a given. Acquiesce with a partner. Clarify your direction with friends. You gain the upper hand.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)Today is an 8 — Team projects go well over the next two days, and community participation provides satisfaction. Consolidate your position by handling what you
said you would. Your friends are your inspiration. Set up meetings. Together, get a pleasant surprise.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)Today is a 9 — Focus on your career. The next two days are good for decisions and transformations. Get clear on your aim. What’s the result you want to produce? What’s the most fun you can imagine having? And with whom?
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)Today is an 8 — Dream big. Make an interesting discovery about love. Family comes ! rst. Today and tomorrow favor study and research. You’re very persuasive now. Grasp an opportunity, or take a trip. Provide leadership. Speak out.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is a 9 — Pay bills and handle ! nancial matters over the next two days. Wheeling and dealing may be required, or a decision. Provide well for family. Your communications get farther than expected. Talk about love.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)Today is a 9 — Go along with a decisive person who agrees with you. Together, you can commit to what you want, despite fears. Your money goes farther today. Negotiate for the long run. Listen graciously, and study the situation. Secrets get revealed.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)Today is an 8 — It’s action packed, today and tomorrow. Lurch ahead suddenly.
Get back to work, big time. Provide great service, and invoice for it. Imagine where you see yourself in ! ve years, in your perfect fantasy. Nurture health.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)Today is a 7 — Plan some fun for today and tomorrow. Friends offer good advice. Your loved ones encourage you to take on a new challenge. Play around with it, consider from many angles, and choose one. You’re gaining wisdom.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)Today is an 8 — Home calls to you today and tomorrow. Get into a domestic project. Use the grapevine to ! nd connections. Pay back a debt. Store resources, and nurture what you have. Play in the garden, and invite friends.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is a 9 — You can absorb and report facts well over the next few days. Clear communications come easily. Hone your persuasive skill. Practice something you love to do. Imagine the professional status you’d like. Romance your competitor and learn.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is a 9 — The next two days could get busy and pro! table. Pay expenses, and stash savings. Invest in your career. Travels or studies can take you farther than imagined. Discovery, exploration and adventure calls. Add it to the budget.
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He said he believes the University will risk failing that reputation if Altgeld is not renovated.
The building, which was added to The National Reg-ister of Historic Buildings, was originally construct-ed in 1897 to serve as the University’s library and administrative building. In 1927, Altgeld became home to the College of Law until 1956 when the Mathemat-ics Department moved in. The math department has not left, nor has the build-ing been systematical-ly renovated, since then. The department has grown so much over the past 58 years that it now calls three other locations on campus home: Illini Hall, the basement of Coble Hall and the Oil Chemis-try building.
“We had to ship some graduate students off to Siberia for this. Well at least Oil Chemistry sounds like Siberia,” Ando joked while on a tour of the build-ing. Jokes aside, Ando believes the math depart-ment needs more space and hopes to gain it from the proposed renovations.
Currently, there are many classrooms on the Quad-side of the build-ing that are not accessible to handicapped students, including the undergrad-uate advising offi ce. The elevator does not reach two of the building’s fi ve fl oors and is hard to fi nd.
Susann Sears, act-ing director of Disability Resources and Education-al Services, confi rmed Alt-geld’s inaccessibility has been an issue in the past. When the elevator broke one year, classes had to be moved to accommodate disabled students, and the relocation ended up creat-ing an “avalanche effect.”
Sears hopes the Univer-
sity is mindful of ensur-ing that alternate loca-tions are accessible during renovations. Additional-ly, she wants renovators to remember that adding accessibility doesn’t mean losing the building’s histor-ic charm.
“Updated renovations can be aesthetically pleas-ing,” Sears said. “I think there is this myth when building accommodations for people in wheelchairs or with mobility disabil-ities, that it has to look strange or sterile, and that is just untrue.”
In addition to mak-ing Altgeld more accessi-ble, the renovation would be aimed at also mak-ing the building more collaborative.
“Right now, our class-rooms are most suitable for someone to stand up in front of the room and lec-ture,” Ando said. “And we really need spaces where students can meet and interact and collaborate on solving problems.”
Muhammad Yousuf, sophomore in LAS, had not heard about the proposed renovation, but agreed that more collaborative space would be welcomed. You-suf takes Math 241 in Alt-geld and said that the build-ing seems “dilapidated.” Yousuf said he has always been impressed with the architecture, but it is not striking enough to distract him from Altgeld’s many fl aws. He noted that there is sharp metal sticking out of old lecture chairs and that the windows don’t insulate classrooms well. Despite the building’s many fl aws, Yousuf does appreciate Altgeld.
“I do like the main lec-ture hall, how it’s circular,” Yousuf said. “It is real-ly conducive to learning, especially in a large lec-ture. It does really help the fl ow of the lecture.”
Ando said the renova-tions would encourage the
fl ow of discussion in lec-tures and outside of class.
“We want to give them a cheerful space so students can say, ‘Let’s go to the lab now. That sounds like a fun place to work and relax.’” Ando said. “We don’t really have any space where stu-dents want to go.”
Ando said, if anything, the building’s library is the best place to work, but even that has it’s downfalls.
“It really feels to me like a classroom and a library for a university out of the 19th century, in the best sense of the word,” Ando said.
The renovation will bring the library back to its original architecture and restore the library’s glass dome ceiling. Ando said the dome leaked dur-ing World War II, but the University couldn’t afford to repair it, so instead just covered it up.
The renovation would leave the exterior of the building relative-ly unchanged because of its status on the National Register.
“People will get excit-ed about taking a marvel-ous building like this, with all kinds of wonderful fea-tures, and helping it realize its potential,” Ando said.
Abigale can be reached at [email protected].
ZOE GRANT ASSISTANT THE DAILY ILLINIAltgeld Hall renovations will cost $90 million and will include improved accessibility and modernization efforts.
BY ANGELICA LAVITOSTAFF WRITER
A Champaign County family will soon have a new home thanks to the Habi-tat for Humanity of Cham-paign County. Volunteers are working to construct the fi nal home in Cham-paign’s Taylor Thomas Subdivision.
The single-family home is Habitat for Humanity’s fi fth home in the two-block affordable housing neigh-borhood, said Sheila Dodd, executive director of Habi-tat for Humanity of Cham-paign County.
“The city had been try-ing to market homes for several years and were having diffi culties for a variety of reasons,” Dodd said. “They reached out to Habitat to see if we would be able to build it follow-ing their subdivision guide-lines, and so that’s what we’re doing.”
Volunteers will help
build a majority of the house, but professionals are hired by Habitat to complete projects such as electrical and plumbing work. With winter around the corner, Dodd said vol-unteers are working to complete as much of the project as they can.
Over the next few weeks the University chapter of Habitat for Humanity will help make the house watertight in preparation for winter, said Alex Dowd, president of Habitat for Humanity’s UIUC Chapter.
Dodd said the Universi-ty chapter is a “huge help” to Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County.
“I think a lot of people have the mindset of cam-pus where campus is self-suffi cient and we’re in a bubble,” Dowd said. “You get out in the community and it’s completely differ-ent. There are a lot of tough areas in Champaign, and
it’s nice to get awareness.”A family is lined up to
purchase the home. Habitat for Humanity works with the families chosen to occu-py the homes they build to ensure they can manage homeownership. Families are selected based on their ability to pay a mortgage, willingness to partner with Humanity and need.
“Once the house is com-pleted, we sell it to the part-ner family, and they make a mortgage payment just like you and I do,” Dodd said.
The completion of this home will mark the comple-tion of the Taylor Thomas Subdivision that has under-gone change since 1998. Susan Jones, a Champaign community development specialist, said a restoration project began around 2000 to redevelop the area, which was formerly home to Man-sard Square Apartments.
“Things went pretty quickly until about 2006
or 2007, when the econo-my started slowing down,” Jones said. “The city took over. The developer want-ed out. So the city took back the project and built the last three houses. The last one, we had a hard time fi nding someone to build there because it was hard to fi nd people who qualifi ed fi nancially.”
For Jones, watching Hab-itat for Humanity complete the fi nal home in the sub-division shows a remark-
able transition of a former-ly run down area. She said it also provides families who would not be able to pur-chase a home on their own the opportunity to do that.
“You see a transition for people who think they have nowhere to go,” Jones said. “You’re giving them a way to achieve something they didn’t think they could achieve.”
Angelica can be reached at [email protected].
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He said since he was a child, he loved adventure. It was Gindes’ father who suggested he join the National Guard.
“I always was fascinated by fi refi ghters and being a hero in that sense, when you are young you want to get out there and do everything and have adven-ture, and the cool thing with the National Guard is you do part-time adventure stuff. You go to your adventure and then you come back to civilization basi-cally,” he said.
But after basic training, Gindes was not deployed. He was listed as a combat engineer and returned to Illinois to fi nish his doctorate. He came to the ROTC department and began offi cer school as well.
Gindes said it was hard to bal-ance going to school for a doc-torate and becoming an offi cer simultaneously.
“We had to get up Monday, Wednesday, Friday at fi ve in the morning and you do two miles in -20 degrees,” he said.
Despite this, Gindes loved the bonds he formed in the process.
“The coolest thing about it is ... having people to look after you. I have guys who will be at this con-cert to look after me. They trained me, they made sure I became a very effective offi cer and I was very lucky ... to be in their envi-ronment it changes you. It makes you very resilient,” he said.
It was also around this time that he met his wife, Ann Gindes, in 2005 at a church retreat through St. Johns Catholic Newman Cen-ter. They were married on cam-pus in 2007. He said that she has always been supportive of his professions.
“She’s been through all of it — me being at home, me being at the airport, and it’s hard to go away,” he said.
Ann said that being married to a pianist is always a fun, exciting adventure.
She promotes Gindes’ piano career by taking his photos and working on his website and Face-book page.
Now, Gindes focuses on fur-thering his piano education. He
is getting a pedagogy credential which will allow him to teach college students piano. He also does some individual teaching for the experience. For the National Guard, he must do a PT exam with a two-mile run, push-ups, sit-ups and weapon qualifi cation. He also holds meetings and runs ceremo-nies. So far, his extent of service has not landed him in deployment.
Gindes has also entered various competitions, and in 2011, he won the Bradshaw and Buono Interna-tional Piano Competition.
Gindes said at the time, he had entered 15 competitions and was getting tired of rejection, so he did not expect to win. The fi rst prize was performing at Carn-egie Hall in New York. He pre-pared for the concert so much that he could perform with his eyes closed. However, he was still so nervous that he could not remem-ber how to put his bowtie on and had to look up how to do it on You-Tube. Nevertheless, he said that the concert went well.
But Gindes said messing up is part of the business.
“You just keep going ... and let the music fl ow ... you are playing 1000 notes you are bound to get one wrong.”
Gindes said the most challeng-ing part of being a pianist is put-ting himself out there.
“Pianists are babies, we wor-ry about what people think about what we do and the reason is when we perform in front of people not only are we expressing what the composer felt, but we are express-ing ourselves,” he said. “But there are two different kinds of pia-nists: one who can play precise, and there’s the other who will put themselves on the line and take risks and show who they are. You can tell the difference, too,” Gindes said.
Gindes also said that life is rough for aspiring musicians but they should keep working hard.
“You have to come to the deci-sion: do you like music? If you love music, you’ll keep going and the only thing that can get in your way is yourself because you’re the one who decided to quit,” he said. “Just keep going and keep trying.”
Annabeth can be reached at [email protected].
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Habitat for Humanity completes subdivision
MARIAH MATTHEWS THE DAILY ILLINIThe University chapter of Habitat for Humanity sets up wooden frames for a future home last Monday. They’ve nearly fi nished building and renovations in the Taylor Thomas Subdivision. The homes they build will go to people who otherwise couldn’t afford to buy their own home.
The history of Altgeld Hall Originally constructed
in 1897 The existing building
is composed of the original structure and four additions made in 1914, 1919, 1926 and 1956 Named after John
Altgeld, former Illinois governor Originally contained
the University library and administrative offi ces Housed the College of
Law from 1927 to 1956 In 1956, the
mathematics department moved in and has remained there since Added to the National
Register of Historic Buildings in 1970 Installed a chime
tower in 1920 as a gift from the classes of 1914 to 1921 The architects, Nathan
C. Ricker and James M. White, attended the University
SOURCE: THE DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Many Urbana residents raised concerns about the dangers of Tasers, while rep-resentatives from the police departments claimed the Tasers would be more effec-tive and emphasized that offi -cers would be trained to use them properly.
Alderman Diane Marlin, Ward 7, said many of the concerns stemmed from
stories around the country of when Tasers were mis-used by police offi cers. Mar-lin said there were also con-cerns with how Tasers would be used against people who should not be exposed to them, such as pregnant wom-en and the elderly.
She said the city council decided to take more time and think about this propos-al while the Civilian Police Review Board worked with the police department to develop a set of guidelines for
the use of Tasers. By the end of November, the city coun-cil will have the set of guide-lines and will make a deci-sion about the proposal after reviewing those guidelines.
“A subject like this, you take your time and you think about it, and you take very deliberate steps so we get it right,” Marlin said. “I think we are going to have a good policy and one that protects the lives of the citizen and protects the lives of police offi cers, and that’s the goal
of it.”The University Police
Department has been using Tasers since January 2011, said University Police Lt. Matt Myrick.
Myrick said the Tasers allowed for more protection for both offi cers and sus-pects. With Tasers, the sus-pects are more likely to com-ply voluntarily without being harmed, he said.
“The Tasers are a tool. It’s not the end all, be all. It isn’t going to solve every situation,
it isn’t appropriate in every situation. It’s just another tool we have available to us,” Myrick said. “It’s not fool-proof, but it certainly causes less injuries to the offi cer and suspect and allows us to de-escalate and control a situa-tion much better.”
Other tools such as pep-per spray and batons are not always effective and cause more harm than necessary, Myrick said.
Connolly also said the Tas-ers would allow for a safer
campus community because there have been situations when University students were involved in disputes that could harm themselves and those around them.
Both Connolly and Myrick stressed that Tasers allow police offi cers to do their jobs without seriously harm-ing anyone involved and serve the community more effectively.
Fatima can be reached at [email protected].
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tration would make reg-istration and voting very accessible,” Hill said.
Hill believes the regis-tration is legal, based on the Illinois State Board of Elections. He also said the Union is the universal loca-tion for early voting in the county and would be a con-venient place for students to register.
Dickey said he will con-tinue to speak to the Cham-paign County Clerk and push for same-day voter registration for next year as well.
“I am really still hoping we will get same-day vot-ing registration, and there is no indication from our County Clerk that it is going to happen, which is very unfortunate,” Dick-ey said. “Hopefully in the future we will be able to get grace period registra-tion and have these conver-sations way in advance, so there is no excuse about whether it is legal.”
Elyssa can be reached at eskaufm2
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I have many obsessions: Net-flix, Diet Coke, music — the list continues. But the chief
among them is Mindy Kaling.I love everything about
her. Her television show, late-night interviews, Twitter feed, words of wisdom about body image and everything else.
So, in 2011, when her book, “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Con-cerns)” came out, I bought and read it within about a day. I reread it in the same time frame this past summer when I was looking for ways to kill time during slow waitressing shifts.
If you read my column a few weeks ago, you should know how highly I value reading. Leisurely reading is impera-tive for college kids, and yet, we rarely pick up a book for fun anymore.
But when books in the same vein as “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)” come out, people flock to them and read them in seconds.
The latest examples are Amy Poehler’s “Yes Please,” and Lena Dunham’s “Not That
Kind of Girl.” Fans of Dun-ham and Poehler somehow carve out time for their auto-biographies. They are the exception to the “no time to leisurely read” rule — simply because people are invested in the authors’ lives. Dunham’s book has been on the New York Times Bestsellers list in various categories since its release — people just can’t get enough.
There are other examples, too. And not just autobiogra-phies. Take, for example, B.J. Novak’s “One More Thing,” a collection of fiction akin to David Sedaris. James Franco has also penned fiction, as has my girl M. Kaling. The topic matters, but here, the author matters more.
While the autobiographies seem to be the most anxious-ly awaited, fans and haters alike all seem interested in what these people can come up with. People we normally see acting on our televisions relaying stories other people have written for them are now relaying stories they them-selves have written for us.
These books have almost turned into the saving grace of leisurely reading. The book you read for fun when you haven’t picked up a book in ages.
The autobiographies are like the People Magazine for
those who would otherwise be featured in Rolling Stone. But they’re better than that. Mostly because these seem to be the types of celebrities that are down to earth and realize there is more to being famous than the David Bowie version of “Fame.”
These are men and women who speak more about social issues than who they’re sleep-ing/fighting/making up with that week. Not that that’s a problem, but they draw differ-ent crowds and send different messages.
The former is composed of these authors. People we look up to. People who will provide us with entertainment and life lessons. Plus, if their shows are entertaining, we think their books will be, too — and they are.
Still, fans might not know a lot about these celebrities’ lives, especially in a way that does not concern salacious gossip or speculated rumors.
The intrigue lies in the interesting stories we wouldn’t know without them telling us and what they have to teach us. They’re telling us first-hand accounts of how they got to where they are and how they deal with it at pres-ent. Something that we can actually learn from.
There’s nothing “speculato-ry” about it.
And if we spend our time wishing we were more like Amy Poehler, reading her book becomes a source of advice — an answer to WWAD (What Would Amy Do?).
Their compartmentalized nature makes for easy read-ing if we want to pick it up for a bit and put it back down. But if we get stuck in it, like I found myself with “Is Every-one Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns),” it tends to go fast enough that not too much time has been spent away from “homework.”
All of these people — and books — are what I look up to. If I have to set down a maga-zine or my phone for a bit to finish these books, it’s worth it. I can close a book and arti-ficially feel like Mindy Kaling is my best friend who has also taught me about life — and also about how to start work-ing on a television show.
Let’s hope that our favor-ite stars keep writing books that inspire us and books that we can obsess over. Wheth-er works of fact or fiction, the person is what keeps us read-ing. If we’ll read about them, hopefully, it can serve as a springboard to reading about other things as well.
Emma is a sophomore in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Wages should be livable
Today, it’s nearly impossi-ble to have a conversation about the United States’
minimum wage without flar-ing up some sort of tension.
Those who favor business and profit seem to think rais-ing the minimum wage would lead to a rise in costs of manu-facturing and would be detri-mental to the economy, while others tend to argue for the millions of minimum wage workers across the country who can’t live off of their pay. This contentious issue isn’t eased by the time of year, with politicians’ chatter and attack ads both focusing on the topic.
In fact, both of Illinois’ Gov-ernor candidates have been especially intent on men-tioning alteration’s to Illi-nois’ $8.25 per hour minimum wage, with Pat Quinn call-ing for a raise to $10 an hour and Bruce Rauner calling for a reduction in the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.
At first, I was not surprised — Rauner, a venture capital-ist CEO, thinks the minimum wage is too high. What a shock — next they’ll tell me the Pope is Catholic. But upon thorough
examination, lowering the minimum wage seems like the furthest thing from helpful.
What is so striking about the argument to lower the minimum wage is that even at its current level, the minimum wage in Illinois isn’t a living wage throughout the state.
The living wage, as calcu-lated by Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology, is the amount of money required to meet minimum standards of living. Thus, it is not mere-ly a flat number across the country but varies accounting for food expenditures, health care costs and transportation, among other things.
Cost of living also varies across Illinois’ counties, with some being much more expen-sive than others, and, more times than not, the minimum wage is not enough to live off of.
Here in Champaign County, for example, the living wage for one adult sits firmly at $8.30 an hour — just five cents above the state-wide mini-mum wage of $8.25. While this seems reasonable, Champaign County is also one of the more affordable places to live in the country.
In Chicago, the living wage for one person jumps to $10.48 an hour. In New York City, the living wage is $12.75 where the minimum wage is $8.00 an hour.
These figures are startling. This means that a worker who is employed at a full-time job at minimum wage in these expensive areas can’t make enough money to adequately live off of, instead requiring them to turn to government welfare programs or work extreme amounts of overtime.
What’s even more fright-ening, is that once a child is added in the equation, living wage nearly doubles, soaring further out of reach for those who lack beneficial education-al opportunities or have other limitations.
I’m not an economist, and I’m sure a fast spike in mini-mum wage would certainly change the way a lot of busi-nesses operate, but, as Ameri-cans we need to realize that, at the risk of sounding like a bleeding-heart liberal, peo-ple are more important than profit.
Bottom line: Everyone who works a standard, full-time job should be able to earn enough to live off of.
I don’t mean to seem ridicu-lously patriotic, but there is no excuse for this when we live in the United States of Ameri-ca, arguably the most devel-oped country in the world. The economy is ripe with problems outside of my personal realm of understanding, but the fact that someone can work 40 hours a week at a job making
minimum wage and then still can’t live off of the money is a problem for another era.
In a country that prides itself in its strong workforce and its status as a global lead-er, the fact that the minimum wage does not translate to a living wage for so many citi-zens is a travesty. All workers should be entitled to living, regardless of the circum-stances they have encountered along the way.
We, as Americans, can no longer accept a minimum wage below the living wage as a soci-etal norm, because even if we don’t rely on those minimum wage jobs, millions of people do, and they deserve just as much of an opportunity at life as me, you or anyone else.
I’ll be going to the polls this Tuesday just like thousands of voters all over the state, but what I will be sure to remem-ber is that at a time when so many Americans are strug-gling to get by on minimum wage, Mr. Rauner and his ideas on wage cuts couldn’t be more out-of-touch.
Workers don’t need their wages cut right now — they need the opposite. They need to be able to live off of a mini-mum wage — anything else is shameful.
Boswell is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected].
HALLOWEEN RECAP
W e’ve all heard the chime from Alt-geld Hall and gazed up at
its tall bell tower. The build-ing is an iconic part of the University and it is arguably the most aesthetically pleas-ing building on campus — at least we sure think so.
With its old, time-worn brown bricks and its large, fantastical tower, reminis-cent of something out of a fairy tale, we can all appre-ciate the beauty — visual-ly and aurally — of Altgeld Hall.
However, despite the ap-preciation we hold for Alt-geld, few of us have prob-ably taken the time to acknowledge the history of the building. Understanding Altgeld’s history is impor-tant and in line with why we are glad to see that renova-tions are finally happening to the building.
Built in 1896, it served as the University library. Then in 1927, it became home to the College of Law and after that, in 1956, it changed pur-pose again to house the de-partment of mathematics.
As such, thousands upon thousands of students and faculty, both past and pres-ent, have walked through the doors of this building and used it to further their suc-cesses at the University.
And if you have ever taken Statistics 100, which is like-ly since a healthy majority of students take it as one of their general education re-quirements, you might have your class or taken your exam there.
Since the building’s pur-pose changed in the 1950s, though, not much change has been made to the building.
Though the math depart-ment has grown, Altgeld hasn’t, so the department is also housed in three other buildings on campus.
The building is also not the most accommodating for students with physical hand-icaps. We look forward to changes so that Altgeld can help maintain the Universi-ty’s first ranking in disabili-ty friendliness across United States campuses.
With students and Univer-sity faculty coming in and out of the building for class-es and exams, it would be beneficial for everyone if the building was given more space and more accessibility, as proposed.
It will cost an estimated $90 million to complete the renovations needed, but that money would be well spent on preserving this building, which is listed on the Nation-al Register of Historic Plac-es.
Restorations throughout the building, including the glass dome ceiling in the li-brary, are also planned. For those students who spend their time working in the Altgeld library, they will no doubt appreciate it being brought back to its full po-tential.
Situated between Alma Mater and the Quad, Alt-geld holds an important lo-cation on our campus, and its unique architecture adds to its memorability. We look forward to the renovations that will allow Altgeld to maintain its prominent, re-gal place on our campus.
Halloween is over and there are 53 long, cold days until Christmas — not that we are counting or anything. But what we can look forward to in the meantime are 30 days of hairy-faced splendor. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, No Shave November is back in action. Not only does it aim to raise cancer awareness, but the month allows for a certain level of laziness for men, who don’t have to pick up their razors, and many of us simply enjoy the rugged appeal of a nice looking beard. Let the hair growing commence.
Lauren Hill played her first basketball game for Division III Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati on Sunday. It will also likely be her last, as the freshman is fighting inop-erable brain cancer. Hill was diagnosed with the disease soon after she committed to the university during her senior year of high school, and doctors have given her months to live. While Hill’s story is unique and tragic, it’s also inspi-rational. The 19-year-old wants to continue living life to the fullest for as long as she can, something everyone should do but that many don’t. Let’s let Hill be our reminder.
That’s a wrap for Halloween 2014, and we are sad to see it go. For many students, the weekend was filled with tricks, treats and annoyingly cold walks across campus from par-ty to party — but, like, really though, because it was windy and freezing and we hated it. In fact, many sported their superhero footie pajamas as costumes just to stay warm. We also saw many creative costumes this weekend, including homemade puns and popular TV characters. But, of course, in addition to that there were about a thousand cats, Super-mans, girls with sugar skull makeup and sexy cops — and yes, by “sexy cops” we are referring to the costume.
It’s the happiest place on Earth — until the attraction you waited an hour to ride catches fire. On Saturday, an exte-rior portion of the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train in Walt Dis-ney World ignited, likely because of fallen embers from the Magic Kingdom’s nightly firework show. Luckily, those on the ride while the incident occurred sustained no injuries, and the roller coaster suffered minimal damage. In fact, it was up and running again within two hours. It’s probably safe, but, personally, we’re going to pass that one up on our next trip to see Cinderella’s castle.
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departed. Later in the eve-ning, they will light candles and sing by their loved one’s grave.
For those who can’t make it out to the graveyard, they create altars at home.
These altars traditionally include staple items such as flowers, food, sugar skulls, photographs and candles. Nowadays, a lot of altars have evolved to include elaborate displays of artwork. Many have been used for political purposes.
In the past, student organi-zations on campus have cre-ated altars dedicated to 9/11 victims and victims of bul-lying. Thursday’s event fea-tured an altar that commem-orated victims of violence at the borders.
“People have definitely branched from just honoring their family members and commemorating their fam-ily members to really using the altars as a way to make a political stand or an activist stand or a social justice stand versus some of the injustic-es that happen in our society and some of the deaths that have come out of those injus-tices. So they definitely vary, but traditionally, it was very much family members, com-munity members and that sort of thing,” Sanchez said.
The holiday allows people to honor the dead, in their own way.
“It’s like Christmas, you know, everybody has their own Christmas tree dur-ing the holiday season. We have a table with pictures, candles and stuff like that,” said Yadira Ramirez, secre-tary of the Mexican Student Association and sophomore in LAS.
Ramirez’s earliest mem-ory of creating an altar on Dia de los Muertos is that of her great grandfather’s altar. Because her family migrated from Mexico to Chicago with-out bringing many posses-sions, they resorted to using his picture, candles and some other staple items such as the marigold flowers and tradi-tional Mexican bread.
“I think it’s important to keep a connection with my culture in order to provide the same cultural experience for my future kids and keep it ongoing through genera-tions,” Ramirez said. “I think it’s very important, and it’s a part of who I am.”
Becky can be reached at [email protected].
Nicole remembers very lit-tle during the months leading up to and following her moth-er’s death. She said it was as if her mind went numb for an entire year. The day of her mother’s passing was just one day after Nicole’s birth-day, which also happened to be Easter Sunday of that year.
“Everyone has a different experience following the death of a loved one,” Nicole said. “I didn’t truly start to realize how permanent it was until months later. You can survive without seeing your family and your loved ones for a week, a month, even a c o u p l e m o n t h s but even-t u a l l y you get to that point where it has been too long and the truth of the mat-ter sets in.”
Initially, Nicole said she and her sister, Cassie Cri-fase, 20, were living in denial about their mother’s passing. They didn’t talk about their mother, they didn’t want to go to therapy and they “just wanted to ignore the pain.” This, Nicole said, was main-ly because of how young they were (Nicole was 12 and Cassie was 10) and their inability to understand the magnitude of the situation.
“To be honest, this whole time period is very hazy for me,” Cassie said. “I don’t remember too many emo-tions. I don’t remember cry-ing. Nicole picked up a mater-nal responsibility as a coping mechanism and our family has grown close ever since.”
Today, Nicole copes with her loss by saving meaning-ful quotes; her favorite being, “Dear Mom, Your life made me strong. Your passing made me stronger.”
“The quotes remind me to appreciate the time I got to spend with my mom because I was lucky to have spent 12 fun, inspiring, memorable years with her,” she said.
On harder days, Nicole said talking about her moth-er helps the most. Whether that be showing photos to friends, reminiscing by her-self or listening to stories from her dad or sister, Nicole
said that talking about her mom is the best way to keep her memory fresh and alive.
“The hard part came when I got to college,” Nicole said. “At U of I, no one knew my history. So, I had to try and make it a point to tell my new friends that my mom passed away. Every time someone asked about my mom, it was an opportunity to explain how incredible of a woman she was.”
Nicole’s father quit his job following his wife’s death to return to school to become a teacher and have the same hours as his daughters. As a newly single parent, he had to adopt a more maternal par-enting style.
“Her cancer forced me to change my life dra-matically. It forced me to become a mom and a better dad. It forced me to decide what our legacy would be as a family, which made me realize that I did not want oth-
ers to raise my children for me. ... Her cancer made me realize that life isn’t a dress rehearsal; if you don’t live for the moment, the moment will pass you by.”
While Nicole said there have been many different stages of grieving, she said she considers her impending graduation without her moth-er by her side and the 10-year anniversary of her mother’s passing as new milestones she will have to face. Gradu-ating in May with a degree in Spanish and planning to work for a publishing company or as a translator after, Nicole said her mother instilled in her a sense of responsibility that inspires her to do well.
“Nothing could stop my mom and even though can-cer ended her life, I promise that it didn’t stop her voice from living on in the minds, thoughts and opinions of all the people that she knew,” Nicole said. “There’s a quote by a modern artist named Robert Montgomery that goes, ‘The people you love become ghosts inside of you and like this you keep them alive.’ I truly believe this and I think that my mom lives on through my dad, my siblings, her friends, our family and me.”
Anna can be reached at [email protected].
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AKRON, Ohio — The University of Akron is join-ing the ranks of the Snug-gie, OxiClean and Ronco Spray-on Hair.
Yes, UA has entered the fast-talking, quirky world of infomercials.
And it’s hoping funny videos urging students to graduate on time are just as effective as selling off-beat products.
So far, it is.The cheesy videos, being
shared with students via email and crafted like low-budget infomercials, are part of the universi-ty’s larger Finish In Time (F.I.T.) effort.
UA is urging students to take at least 15 credit hours each semester, noting that it’s the same price as tak-ing 12 and leads to on-time graduation. On top of that, students save money.
In the second UA vid-eo hitting campus recent-ly, co-hosts Chris Stimler and William “Willy” Koll-man channel their best Billy Mays and Ron Popeil as they dance awkwardly, raise their voices and make goofy comments while drilling home the serious message about the benefits of graduating on time.
Or as the infomercial puts it:
“You’ll experience, over
time, side effects such as ...” says Kollman, UA’s associate director of alum-ni relations.
“More cash in your pock-et. Less college debt,” interjects Stimler, assis-tant director of admissions.
“And a craving for an extremely large burri-to,” Kollman finishes as a large burrito wrapped in foil magically appears in front of them. “So join the masses and schedule your classes today.”
They say all this while standing in front of what looks like cereal boxes plastered with the F.I.T. brand and, of course, the phrase “As Seen on TV.”
The infomercial lasts a mere 1 minute, 30 sec-onds. Both videos are avail-able at http://tinyurl.com/nyajcn2 and http://tinyurl.com/pljo5yr.
The marketing cam-paign, which began last school year, includes post-ers and the videos play-ing on internal message boards. It’s also backed by advisers who are rec-ommending the same idea with students.
“We really pushed that heavily last (school) year,” said Stacey Moore, UA associate vice president for student success. “We presented it at every new student orientation. We
talked to all the parents. We showed them very spe-cifically to the penny how much money they will save — both now and at the end. We show them exactly the lost salary potential.”
It appears the approach is working.
There was a 28 percent increase in first-time, full-time freshmen taking at least 15 credit hours this fall compared to the same period last school year.
Today, more than 50 per-cent of UA freshman are on track to graduate on time.
A survey released last year by Complete College America, an Indianapolis nonprofit, concluded that 52 percent of full-time stu-dents nationwide were tak-ing fewer than 15 hours, the standard that would lead to graduating in four years.
“The University of Akron is on track to be a national leader when it comes to increasing the number of students taking 15-plus credits a semes-ter,” said Blake Johnson, spokesman for Complete College America. “By the progress you’re seeing in your first-time freshmen, you are taking big steps to change culture. Most of your freshman are on track to graduate on time. That’s a big deal.”
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2. Nicole’s mother, Darcie Crifase, at age 21, the same age as Nicole is now.
3. Nicole’s family vacationing in Hawaii in 2004. After her mom was told that she was not going to beat her cancer, she said she wanted to go on a vacation to Hawaii because she had never been there before. Nicole’s older brother, Steve, is not pictured.
4. Nicole, age 11, and her mother in Hawaii making leis.
BY ANNA HECHT CREATIVE DIRECTOR
icole Crifase remem-bers sitting in the bath-tub, clutching her knees
and trying to comprehend what had just happened. It was March 27, 2005, and her mother, Dar-cie Crifase, had just lost her battle against breast cancer. To the senior in LAS, life without her mother seemed completely unfathomable.
With this coming spring mark-ing the 10th anniversary of her mother’s death, Nicole said she views this year as a turning point in her grieving process.
“My mom was diagnosed with
breast cancer in 2003 at the age of 38. About a year later, she went into remission. But a few months following, the cancer had come back full force and she died only a few months after that,” Nicole said. “When she passed, I remem-ber being so afraid and confused as to what was happening. I kept trying to rewind time and go back to 5 minutes earlier, when she was still alive.”
Just 12 years old at the time of her mother’s passing, Nicole said no one could forget her mother’s “caring and brave spirit, willing-ness to help others, and her sassy side.”
“Everyone loved my mom and
when I say everyone, I actual-ly mean everyone.” Nicole said. “The entire town and the towns over showed up to her wake. It was like this because my mom (was a nurse) and had the biggest heart (for helping people) of any-one I know.”
Nicole said her father, Nicho-las Crifase, remembers his wife in a similar light.
“I remember her infectious personality. She had a gift for making the mundane so much more enjoyable,” he said. “She was sassy; I never knew what she might say next. And her smile — it always warmed my heart.”
Nicole said her favorite sto-
ries about her mom include the ones of her nursing others back to health — both at her work as a neonatal nurse and in the commu-nity — and even the time she cre-ated a “mini hospital” for Nicole and her sister’s pet hamsters.
“My mom worked with prema-ture babies and she used to bring me along to home health visits,” Nicole said. “At one point, she was working with a family who didn’t speak English very well so rather than asking for an inter-preter or giving the family to a different nurse, she decided to teach herself Spanish.”
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“I remember her infectious per-sonality. She had a gift for making the mundane so much more enjoyable.”NICHOLAS CRIFASEFATHER TO NICOLE CRIFASE
Dia de los Muertos celebrates life, honors dead
2.8 millionThat’s the amount of women in the U.S. who have a history of breast cancer. With about 1 in 8 women expected to develop invasive breast cancer in their life, it is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer for U.S. women.
BY BECKY NGUYENSTAFF WRITER
La Casa Cultural Latina, Uni-versity YMCA and La Casa Alli-ance of Student Organizations came together to celebrate Dia de los Muertos on Thursday at the University YMCA. Latzer Hall’s perimeter was aligned with altars in commemoration of loved ones and colorful banners to liven up the dim room.
There was music, snacks and children running around with their faces painted to resemble sugar skulls, the symbol of Dia de los Muertos.
“The face-painting is not put-ting on a costume, but it’s more so a lot like the honoring and the welcoming back,” said Berenice Sanchez, assistant director for La Casa Cultural Latina. “Really, it’s like a homecoming for those who have passed. So them coming back home and getting to recon-nect for the days that they have.”
Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is two full days of cel-ebration and always takes place on Nov. 1 and 2.
The first day is dedicated to commemorating children and the second is for the adults who have passed away. It’s believed that on those days, the souls of those who have passed away come back to Earth to reunite with their fami-lies, according to Sanchez. The holiday dates back to the Aztec Empire and relies on bright, col-orful celebrations to honor the deceased.
“It is not a day that’s for wor-shipping death. It’s a day in hon-oring life. You’re honoring the people that come before us who are no longer here in this realm, but we honor them by remem-bering them and keeping them in our memories. That’s what Dia de los Muertos is about, not about gloom, sadness or scariness. It’s supposed to be a joyous time,”
said Eric Garcia, who was the guest speaker from the Nation-al Museum of Mexican Art at Thursday’s event.
At the event, Garcia gave an in-depth presentation of the his-tory and tradition of Dia de los Muertos.
“There are people that believe that the spirits come back and there are people that believe the spirits don’t come back,” he said. “The thing about Dia de los Muer-tos is that it’s a special time of year where we get together with our loved ones and we converse and we talk and we remember.”
Dia de los Muertos is celebrat-ed differently depending on the country and region, Garcia said.
Usually what happens is fami-lies go to the graveyard on Nov. 1 and may bring sugar skulls, fresh marigolds and other favor-ite foods or possessions of the
SARAH PINA THE DAILY ILLINISisters Luciana, 6, and Valentina Grant, 14, participate in the Dia De Los Muertos Celebration held at the University YMCA on Thursday. The holiday dates back to the Aztec Empire and honors the dead.SEE HOLIDAY | 5A
BY ALEX WALLNERSTAFF WRITER
IOWA CITY, IOWA — The Illinois women’s cross-country team battled under tough conditions at the Big Ten Championships on Sun-day in Iowa City, Iowa, but fi nished ninth of 14 teams.
No. 1 Michigan State and No. 8 Wisconsin fi nished fi rst and second, respectively.
The fi nish might not have been what the team wanted, but it was a building experi-ence nonetheless.
“I defi nitely think we can build off this,” junior Aman-da Fox said. “We can use any frustration we had as fuel
for regionals.”Sophomore Hanna Winter
fi nished fi rst for the Illini and 38th overall, while Fox finished 46th. Michigan State’s Leah O’Connor won the individual title and Wis-consin’s Sarah Disanza fi n-ished second.
Winter started the race conservatively and felt at around the 3K mark she started to “kick it into gear” and move up into a better position.
Winter’s finish really helped her gain more con-fi dence knowing she can run with the top runners on the team. Head coach Scott
Jones called her fi nish a big breakthrough for her.
“She’s been steady, but I think there’s been more there and she demonstrated that today,” Jones said. “She certainly outperformed my expectations and hopefully this is just a springboard.”
Jones went on to add that with her confi dence growing and her continuing training, she will improve even more going forward. These will be two necessities the team will need over the next two weeks as the Illini prepare for regionals.
BY MATT GERTSMEIERSTAFF WRITER
IOWA CITY, IOWA — Disappointed expressions lurked on the Illinois’ men’s cross-country team’s fac-es after its sixth place fi n-ish at the Big Ten Confer-ence Championship meet on Sunday.
With a chance to beat four ranked Big Ten oppo-nents, Illinois came into the conference championship hoping for a top-fi ve fi nish.
“The goal was a little bit higher,” head coach Jake Stewart said. “We felt as though fourth, fi fth, some-where around there was a reasonable goal and I think for the most part we put ourselves in position to go out and fi nish in that range, we just didn’t close out as well as we would have liked to.”
Illinois fi nished behind No. 6 Wisconsin, No. 14 Michigan, Penn State, No. 20 Indiana and No. 22 Mich-igan State. Wisconsin soph-omore Malachy Schrobil-gen fi nished fi rst overall for a second year in a row.
Illinois senior Jan-nis Toepfer’s goal was to improve his sixth-place Big Ten fi nish in 2013 and com-
pete with Schrobilgen for the top spot. Sunday, how-ever, did not go as planned for him.
Toepfer finished first overall for Illinois and 23rd in the meet, complet-ing the race in 24 minutes, 14 seconds.
“That was not what I was looking for,” Toep-fer said. “It was a huge disappointment.”
Throughout the ear-ly going the 105 runners stayed in a close pack. The four-kilometer mark was when runners began to break away from the group and it was also when the race began to take a toll on Toepfer.
“I got out fine, right where I wanted to be,” Toepfer said. “Once we went back up that hill again for the second time, sud-denly I just felt my legs
getting really heavy and the race started moving and I couldn’t move.”
Finishing exactly one second behind Toepfer in 24th place was Illini junior Ian Barnett, who fi nished with a time of 24:15. Seniors Bryce Basting and Bren-dan McDonnell took 30th and 38th place, respec-tively. Junior Paul Zeman came in 45th place while junior Liam Markham, sophomore Will Brewster and freshmen Garrett Lee and Alex Gold all fi nished beyond 50th place. Despite the team not meeting its expectations, Barnett was content with his individual performance, as he felt it was one of his better races of the year.
“Personally it was nice to be out there and be
BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER COLUMBUS, OHIO — The expectations were low, but Illinois’ 55-14 loss to No. 16 Ohio State was nothing less than a one-sided affair.
The Buckeyes’ offense trumped the Illini, gain-ing 545 yards and putting seven touchdowns on the scoreboard.
Ohio State forced four turnovers, including two interceptions thrown by Illinois quarterback Reilly O’Toole.
The senior’s fi rst inter-ception of the game came on Illinois’ opening drive, when a defl ected pass through the middle was caught and returned for 26 yards by Ohio State linebacker Dar-ron Lee.
“We didn’t do a very good job at bouncing back from those mistakes,” O’Toole
said. “We kept digging our-selves in a bigger hole.”
Freshman running back Curtis Samuel ran for a 23-yard touchdown on Ohio State’s third play of the game after starting the drive at Illinois’ 38-yard line.
Illinois head coach Tim Beckman said he felt the game was decided “pretty early.”
Ohio State began eight drives inside or within one yard of midfi eld.
“You can’t win football games if you’re giving the ball to them on the plus side of the 50,” Beckman said. “I don’t think I’ve been involved in a game like that before. That’s defi nitely not ‘winning football.’”
The Buckeye’s offense was working quickly, even putting together a 14-second scoring drive at the end of the fi rst half to make it 31-0.
“It’s hard to fi nd any sil-ver linings,” defensive coor-dinator Tim Banks said. “We obviously have to coach better and play better.”
Illinois’ composure didn’t help out early either.
Illinois had fi ve penalties in the fi rst half — one can-celed out by an Ohio State fl ag. Even Beckman was assessed a 15-yard unsports-manlike penalty late in the fi rst half.
All four Illini player pen-alties came on the offensive line.
“Anything that could go wrong, went wrong,” offen-sive coordinator Bill Cubit said. “It was just one of those games.”
Illinois’ initial scoring drive came as a result of an Ohio State penalty that allowed the Illini to convert on a fourth-and-3 inside the Buckeyes’ red zone. Anoth-er facemask penalty made it fi rst and goal before run-ning back Donovonn Young reached the end zone on a 3-yard rush to end the shut-out late in the third.
Ohio State continued to
extend its lead in the sec-ond half, adding three more touchdowns and a fi eld goal to extend its lead to 55-14.
“This isn’t the way we expected this to go at all,” said Illinois lineback-er Mason Monheim, who forced a fumble late in the game — one of the few bright spots on a dim night for the Illini.
Monheim echoed the “for-get about it and move on” attitude Illinois players have expressed all season following losses — some-thing they’ve had to do after fi ve of their last sev-en games.
“You go back to your win-ter workouts, your spring ball, your summer work-outs, and you say, ‘Did I do all that to dwell on a loss?’ No, I did that to win ball games,” Monheim said. “And dwelling on a loss isn’t going to get you a win in the next game.”
Sean can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @neumannthehuman.
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FOOTBALLILL AT OSUSAT: OSU 55, ILL 14Columbus, Ohio
VOLLEYBALLILL AT MSUFRI: ILL 3, MSU 1ILL AT MICHSAT: ILL 3, MICH 2
SOCCERILL VS. WISCFRI: ILL 0, WISC 0 (2OT)ILLINOIS SOCCER STADIUM
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SWIMMINGILL AT ILL ST.SAT: ILL 197, ILL ST. 102ILL AT SIUSAT: ILL 207, SIU 91.5
WEEKEND ROUNDUP:MEN’SCROSS-COUNTRYBIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPSSUN: 6TH OF 12Iowa City, Iowa
WOMEN’SCROSS-COUNTRYBIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPSSUN: 9TH OF 14Iowa City, Iowa
FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIOhio State’s Curtis Samuel carries the ball during the game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday. The Illini lost 55-14.
PHOTO COURTESY OF KEN MORELANDIllinois’ Jannis Toepfer (159) runs in the Big Ten Championships this weekend in Iowa City, Iowa. Toepfer placed fi rst for the Illini and 23rd overall.
PHOTO COURTESY OF KEN MORELANDIllinois women’s cross-country placed ninth at the Big Ten Championships in Iowa City, Iowa, this weekend. Michigan State fi nished fi rst and Wisconsin fi nished second.
Volleyball defeats Michigan, extends streak to 7A! er losing " rst 2 sets, Illinois rallies for the win
Penalties and turnovers derail Illini in blowout
Illini runners struggle, fail to meet expectations
BY STEPHEN BOURBONSENIOR WRITER
Last season, the Illinois volleyball team faced a 2-0 defi cit against Michigan on the road, only to improba-bly win the match in fi ve. The victory spurred a six-match winning streak that propelled the Illini to the NCAA tournament.
The two teams faced off in Ann Arbor on Saturday and it was deja vu all over again.
Illinois (18-5, 10-2 Big Ten) again quickly fell behind 2-0 against Michi-gan but came back to claim the match in fi ve sets for the Illini’s second win of the weekend and seventh in a row. Illinois also topped Michigan State in four sets on Friday in East Lansing.
“Any win on the road is tough, they’re important. Especially with where we are and we control our own destiny in the conference,” head coach Kevin Hambly said.
The Illini were led by Jocelynn Birks and Alex-is Viliunas, who each post-ed double-doubles against Michigan. Birks recorded 26 kills and 13 digs, while Vili-unas tied a career-high with 20 digs to go with 53 assists.
Michigan’s Abby Cole had 20 kills and Adeja Lambert put down 16 kills with 17 digs. Illinois forced 32 hit-ting errors from Michigan and held the Wolverines to a .185 hitting percentage for the match. The Illini outblocked the Wolverines on the match, 12-7.
The Illini had a 21-16 lead in the second set before the Wolverines rattled off nine consecutive points to steal away the set.
“We just couldn’t put a ball away and we really struggled,” Hambly said. “For the fi rst time in a long time, I saw a fracture in the team.”
After halftime, however, the Illini were focused and would lead for the majority of the third and fourth sets before taking the fi fth set
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“You go back to your winter workouts, your spring ball, your summer workouts, and you say, ‘Did I do all that to dwell on a loss?’ No, I did that to win ball games.”MASON MONHEIMILLINOIS LINEBACKER
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I could try to give some profound analysis of Illinois’ loss to Ohio
State in Columbus on Sat-urday night, but what’s the point?
The Buckeyes are good at football, and Illinois got spanked. Shocking, I know.
It’s the same old story. Illinois has lost its last 12 games against Ohio State and Wisconsin, the last win over either happening in 2007. Illinois is simply out-matched when it faces the top teams in the Big Ten.
There’s really not much more to say at this point. I could write the same old column I write pretty much every week about Illinois football disap-pointing everyone on cam-pus again, but, like I said, what’s the point?
I don’t know that Illinois fans gained anything from watching the 55-14 thrash-ing. Be honest, if you’re a University student on cam-pus this weekend, did you even turn on the TV at sev-en to watch the game?
With a nationally tele-vised primetime game on Halloween weekend, few students in Champaign cared. Illinois football fans don’t even get ner-vous before a big game these days because no one expects the Illini to win.
Students have so many
other things they could be doing. They were probably off doing those things. It’s too bad. It would be nice to experience whatever it is those Ohio State students experience on a gameday when more than 100,000 people show up to a game against Illinois.
Buckeye fans watched their team accumulate 545 total yards of offense and force four Illini turnovers. The game was predictable; Illinois trailed 24-0 mid-way through the second quarter.
Head coach Tim Beck-man didn’t have much to say after the game but
really there’s not much he can say. The man doesn’t have the answers. I don’t know that anyone in his
position has those answers.But, as he said after the
game, Illinois goals are still attainable. The Illini have three games remain-
ing and need two wins to reach a bowl game. No Little Caesars Pizza Bowl would ever taste so good, should the Illini reach it, or any other low-level bowl.
All signs point to quar-terback Wes Lunt return-ing for the Illini after next week’s bye. That’s a positive, but it won’t mean much unless the Illini can hold their next three oppo-nents — Iowa, Penn State and Northwestern — to manageable scores.
The Illinois defense isn’t going to shut anyone out, but if it can keep things manageable, Lunt and the
offense will have a chance.If you’re an Illinois fan
and you haven’t already blacked out the Ohio State game from your memory, go ahead and do so. The score was predictable, and the game forgettable. But the next three games are what is important. Each is winnable, and you’ve got to like Illinois chances against the Hawkeyes fol-lowing the idle week.
Sean is a Senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @sean_hammond.
Although the fi nish was not what Jones had want-ed, there were positives that the coach took away from the meet.
“The performances of Winter, Fox, Britten Petrey, Chloe Schmidt (were all positives),” Jones said.
Jones said the condition of the course didn’t real-ly have an impact on their fi nish. Jones believed run-
ning with cooler tempera-tures actually helped the team more than warm temperatures.
He also pointed to the course saying it was one that runners needed to man-age differently due to the different style.
“The course was one that I think was a fair course,” Jones said. “There were some ups and downs and there were some challeng-ing parts that took its toll on people that went out too fast.”
The Illini now have two weeks to prepare for the NCAA Midwest Regional that will be held on Nov. 14 in Peoria, Illinois.
“We’ll learn the lessons from today,” Jones said. “Take away the positive, use the negative in a con-structive way and get ready to race as well as we can at the regional.”
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competitive again,” Bar-nett said. “At the (Roy) Griak (Invitational) I had a very rough race, Wisconsin (Adidas Invite) I was pret-ty far back, farther back than I would have liked to been, and this one it was nice to be towards the front for a while and be able to be competitive and be with Jannis and move up.”
Barnett also felt that the team can take away some
positives from Big Tens.“At the end of this race,
looking at the results, our one-to-fi ve gap I think was second out of all the teams so that’s really good to see everyone move up from the back and kind of fi nish together,” Barnett said.
Up next for Illinois is the NCAA Regional Champi-onships in Peoria, Illinois. Stewart wants to see his team move past Big Tens and focus on improving.
“It’s not the end of the world,” Stewart said. “We have to continue to put some work in next week, get our legs under us and go to regionals and try to move up a couple spots into that meet. That’s about all we can do.”
Matt can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @MattGertsmeier.
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SCHEDULE
Aug. 30 Youngstown State — W 28-17
Oct. 11 @ Wisconsin — L 38-28
Sept. 20 Texas State — W 42-35
Nov. 15 Iowa — TBA
Sept. 6 Western Kentucky — W 42-34
Oct. 25 Minnesota — W 28-24
Sept. 27 @ Nebraska — L 45-14
Nov. 22 Penn State — TBA
Sept. 13 @ Washington — L 44-19
Nov. 1 @ Ohio State — L 55-14
Oct. 4 Purdue — L 38-27
Nov. 29 @ Northwestern — TBA
BIG TEN STANDINGS
ILLINOIS — OHIO STATE
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The Illini offense had four turnovers Saturday
Illinois is two for six on fi eld goals this season after missing another Saturday
Illinois had four penalties in the loss to Ohio State
llinois’ offense only managed 243 yards
Saturday after averaging 390.5 this season
Eight Ohio State drives started inside or within one
yard of midfi eld
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GAME TO FORGET: ILLINI OFFENSE
Illinois’ offense didn’t look good Saturday. The Illini had four turnovers while gaining just 243 yards of offense. The offensive line also had four penalties in the fi rst half while
allowing three sacks and 11 tackles for losses.
ON A LIGHTER NOTEOhio State’s backup quarterback Cardale Jones had
trouble releasing the ball on a pass and threw it directly into the ground, which was picked up as a presumed fumble recovery by his former high school teammate and Illinois defensive back V’Angelo Bentley. On the brief return, the backup quarterback close-lined Bentley for an impressive
tackle, after which the two laughed it off on the fi eld.
GAME TO REMEMBER: MIKE DUDEK
The Illini receiver broke the program’s record for freshman receiving yards on Saturday. Dudek leads the team with 639 yards, putting up the best debut season by any Illini
receiver in program history, averaging 79.9 yards per game.
QUOTE OF THE GAME“You go back to your winter workouts, your spring ball, your summer workouts, and you say, ‘Did I do all that to dwell on a loss?’ No, I did that to win ball games. And dwelling on a
loss isn’t going to get you a win in the next game.”
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Indiana
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4-0 7-1
3-2 6-3
2-3 4-5
1-4 4-4
1-4 5-4
0-4 3-5
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4-1 8-1
3-1 6-2
3-1 6-2
3-1 6-2
2-3 3-5
1-4 3-6
1-4 4-5
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FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIOhio State’s Curtis Samuel scores a touchdown during the game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday. Samuel scored two touchdowns for Ohio State. The Illini haven’t beaten the Buckeyes since 2007.
As expected, Buckeyes roll over Illini in blowout win
BY ERIK PRADOSTAFF WRITER COLUMBUS, OHIO — Though the Illinois offense was virtually nonexistent in the team’s 55-14 loss to Ohio State, freshman wide receiver Mike Dudek broke the Illinois single season record for freshman receiving yards. It was a record he didn’t even know he broke at the time.
At the 6:47 mark of the first quarter and with the Illini down 10-0, offensive coordinator Bill Cubit dipped into his bag of trick plays to spark a stagnant offense.
Quarterback Reilly O’Toole was in the shotgun formation with two block-ers flanking him, one wide-out outside the hashmarks and one offensive line-man five yards in front of him. The remaining five linemen were lined up to O’Toole’s right. Behind them was Dudek.
O’Toole quickly fired a pass to Dudek who, with the convoy of blockers, took it upfield for a 56 yard gain.
“It was just another thing we throw out there, just got to throw some stuff at the wall. A lot of times, it works,” Cubit said.
Dudek said the team had executed the play through-out its practice week. The play also succeeded because Ohio State’s for-mation was one the Illini liked.
“That was an awesome play for me, when you’ve got all those big linemen in front of you and you’ve just got to make one guy miss,” Dudek said.
Despite being in a sta-dium that seats nearly 105,000 patrons, Dudek could not hear, nor see, the fans all that well as he
made his way towards the south end zone.
“After I made that first guy miss I looked up at the screen, and I could see the two guys coming,” Dudek said. “So then, I don’t know what happened but I just covered the ball up natu-rally. And they got me.”
Before kickoff, he only need 38 yards to break Arrelious Benn’s previous record of 636 receiving yards, set in 2007.
Though Dudek enrolled at Illinois in January and impressed coaches ear-ly on, Cubit did not think Dudek could break the record. But Dudek and injured starting quarter-back Wes Lunt immedi-ately displayed a rapport, especially when the fresh-man hauled in eight passes for 200 yards in a loss to Purdue . Both are highs in his young career.
Cubit said Dudek’s opportunities have recent-ly dwindled because of the style of offense the team has adapted in wake of Lunt’s injury. Yet, he has still hauled in passes no matter who has been under center.
“That’s a credit to him,” said Cubit, who also added that Dudek is just a “super kid who loves football.”
For Dudek, the record was one of three goals he set for himself at the beginning of the season, though he said he could not be happy about it fol-lowing the loss.
As for the other two goals he set for himself:
“One of them was to be All-Big Ten. And then the other one was to win the Rose Bowl,” Dudek said.
Erik is a senior in media. He can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @e_prada.
Still same story for Illinois
Dudek breaks single season record at OSU
SEAN HAMMOND
Sports editor
wire-to-wire.In Friday’s match against
Michigan State, the teams split the fi rst two sets but the Illini gained control again after halftime to take the match in four sets. The Spartans didn’t hold a lead in the fi rst or third sets.
Against the Spartans, Birks and Viliunas each recorded double-doubles
again, but it was Morganne Criswell who led the Illini with 19 kills.
“They carried us,” Ham-bly said of Criswell, Birks and Liz McMahon, who add-ed 12 kills. “We didn’t play our best.”
Before the matches, Ham-bly said the Michigan week-end road trip is always one of the toughest of the year. This marked the fi rst time Illinois has swept the road trip since 2003, the fi rst time Hambly had been a part of a sweep of the two
teams, although he was hesi-tant to make a big deal out of the results.
“Everyone is bringing stats about what we have done and what we haven’t done. The thing that I like is that we’re unfi nished,” Hambly said. “I’m not real-ly happy with the way that we’re playing, but we’re fi nding a way to win.”
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Soccer forces draw in final regular season match
Wrestle-offs determine lineup for upcoming season
BY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITER
As a part of Senior Night, Illinois soccer honored its two seniors, forward Megan Green and midfielder Noelle Leary, before what would become a highly emotional final game at home.
Illinois (10-7-2, 5-6-2 Big Ten) mustered a scoreless draw against No. 11 Wiscon-sin (15-2-2, 9-2-2) in the final match of the regular season on Friday.
“It was definitely bitter-sweet,” Green said. “I’ve been dreading this day pret-ty much for the last couple months, but it was an awe-some day. My teammates, coaches and everyone did a great job of making us feel special.”
Green and Leary were in the starting lineup together for the first time this sea-son, and head coach Janet Rayfield thought they pro-vided a spark for the rest of the Illini.
“It was inspirational to this team tonight to play for those seniors who have invested four years of their lives into this program,” Rayfield said. “Certainly I think this team played for
them tonight.”On a night when wind
speeds reached 37 miles per hour, the Illini needed all the inspiration they could get. Playing with the wind in the first half, Illinois built an 8-3 shot advantage over Wis-consin, but couldn’t capital-ize on any of their chances.
Forward Jannelle Flaws took all four of her shots in the first half before being moved to the midfield in the second half to help keep possession. She was held scoreless for the third consecutive match, her lon-gest scoring drought since the beginning of the 2013 season.
“Because of the wind, especially when we were going against it, we really wanted to keep possession and that was kind of what we needed to do,” Flaws said. “I had to take away from my usual getting-in-from-behind mentality and just come back and try and win the ball and keep it for us.”
Even with extra help from Flaws, the Badgers outshot the Illini 13-3 in the second half, and Illinois couldn’t get anything going against the wind. However, sophomore
goalkeeper Claire Wheatley kept the Illini in the match by notching five saves in the second half and using her strong leg to keep the ball out of Wisconsin’s attack-ing zone.
The game remained scoreless at the end of regu-lation, and the Badgers con-tinued to put pressure on the Illini defense with 10 more shots in the two overtime frames. Wheatley had four more saves in the overtime periods, though, including a diving stop with seconds left in the final overtime to seal the draw. She ended the night with 10 saves.
After the game, Rayfield praised her goalie’s ability to battle through the tough conditions.
“Claire made a couple really good saves where the ball was kind of float-ing in and you didn’t know what the wind was going to do,” Rayfield said. “I think she did a great job tonight of adjusting to the wind and doing what she needed to do to keep the ball out of the net.”
Illinois is locked in as the seventh seed in the Big Ten Tournament, while Wis-
consin remained the sec-ond seed after Michigan tied its final game on Sun-day. That means Illinois and Wisconsin are set to face off again on Wednesday in Indi-ana in the first round of the tournament.
After her strong perfor-
mance Friday, Wheatley said she thinks Illinois is primed for postseason play.
“Obviously, these games are really important, and I think we’ve shown that we can compete, and I think we can play any team in the Big Ten,” Wheatley said. “The
Big Ten Tournament is a whole new game, and I’m looking forward to whom-ever we play.”
Joey can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @joeyfigueroa3.
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Megan Green passes the ball during the game against Wisconsin at Illinois Track and Soccer stadium on Friday. The match ended in a tie after two overtimes.
BY ETHAN SWANSONSTAFF WRITER
In its opening event of the season, Illinois wrestling established a tentative start-ing lineup and allowed the wrestlers to see their first action on the mats in a true competitive, match-like set-ting. The wrestle-offs were held Sunday afternoon in the wrestling room located on the top floor of Huff Hall.
The starting spots in question, at 157, 174 and 197 pounds, were all claimed over a series of hard-fought
exhibition matches. Red-shirt freshman Isaiah Mar-tinez came out victorious in the 157 pound weight class, easily achieving the 15 point maximum in his match against fellow redshirt freshman Kyle Langender-fer. Redshirt sophomore Zac Brunson overcame a group of Illini at 174 pounds to remain the starter this season. Head coach Jim Heffernan not-ed that redshirt junior Jeff Koepke, who was a reserve at the weight in 2013-14, would see the most action at 197 this
season. Koepke did not par-ticipate in a match Sunday.
Not all matches had such serious implications for the two competing. Some return-ing starters stepped onto the mat Sunday simply to bet-ter prepare for the upcom-ing season. Redshirt Junior Christopher Lopez beat red-shirt freshman Brooks Black 3-1 in a heavyweight match Sunday. Two-time national champion and three-time All-American Jesse Delga-do wrestled in a match for the first time since winning it all
in Oklahoma City last spring. Delgado looked poised for another title as he defeated redshirt junior Dominic Oliv-ieri with little difficulty, 15-6.
“I thought a couple guys were aggressive,” Heffernan said after the exhibition. “It’s a difficult thing when you’re competing against guys you train with everyday. It was good to get them out of the practice room and into a dif-ferent situation.”
Although Heffernan saw positives in his squad’s over-all performance, he realized
they still need to improve to be successful.
“I think we need to score more points,” Heffernan said. “We need to be more aggressive. We’re still wait-ing for someone to really step up and become the true lead-er of our team.”
Illinois’ first meet with teams not wearing orange and blue will be the Illini Quad on Sunday at Huff Hall. There, the Illini will square off against Rider, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville and Northern Illinois. As the
Illini start their true sea-son, Heffernan said he has the same mindset regarding his team as always.
“They need to work on proving themselves to us and gaining our trust,” Hef-fernan said. “It’s a long time to March, but they better be excited. They should be excited.”
Ethan Swanson can be reached at erswans2 @dailyillini .com or on Twitter @EthanSwanson88.
BY DANIEL COLLINSSTAFF WRITER
Horton Pool became a pool for firsts on Saturday.
Competing against in-state opponents Southern Illinois and host Illinois State, the Illinois swim-ming and diving team notched its first two vic-tories of the year, defeat-ing the Redbirds, 197-102 and the Salukis, 207.5-91.5. Five pool records were set in the process.
The first two records were broken during the 200 yard medley relay by the team of Alison Meng, Samantha Stratford, Sar-ah Sykstus and Gabrielle Bethke. Meng broke the record for the 50 yard backstroke during her leg of the relay.
Meng also swam a sea-
son best 2:03.95 in the 200 back and was also victo-rious in the 100 butter-fly, swimming the race in:56.79.
“We executed really well on the goals we set,” said senior Meng. “We stayed focused knowing the atmosphere and pool we were coming into.”
From that point on, the Illini rolled through the meet, winning 11 of 14 swimming events.
“One of the things we wanted to do was get off to a quick start, set the tone early and get the momentum and never let it go,” head coach Sue Novitsky said. “I think we did a great job with that.”
Finishing first in the 200 freestyle, 100 but-terfly and 200 individ-
ual medley, Stratford continued an impressive start to her freshman campaign.
Her efforts in the 100
butterfly and in the 200 IM set pool records.
The double-dual meet was the first of Strat-ford’s collegiate career.
“It’s a good stepping
stone for future meets,” Stratford said of her records. “It was a real-ly good learning expe-rience. I got to race in a new situation and I swam in more events than I usually do.”
The fifth pool record was recorded by sopho-more Gabbie Stecker in the 500 freestyle. Stecker also recorded a victory in the 200 butterfly.
Adding to a day of firsts, freshmen Nelly Casas and Bethke picked up their first individu-al collegiate wins, with Casas winning the 1000 freestyle and Bethke emerging victorious the 50 free.
“It’s good to see some freshmen getting in there and getting their hands to the wall first,”
Novitsky said.In the three swim
events they were not vic-torious in, the Illini fin-ished second.
“It was a group effort today and that was great to see because it was one of our focuses going into the meet,” Novitsky said.
The Illini will return to action on Nov. 8 when the head to Lawrence, Kan-sas, to take on the Kan-sas Jayhawks.
The Jayhawks are on a three meet winning streak, recently defeat-ing North Dakota and Texas Christian in a dou-ble-dual meet over the weekend.
Daniel can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @chisports2.
Summary: Illinois won 11 out of 14 swimming events and recorded five top six finishes in the diving events.
Key performer: Samantha Stratford, set two individual pool records in the 100 butterfly (56.79) and 200 individual medley (2:04.95), one relay pool record in the 200 medley (1:45.12) and finished first in the 200 freestyle.
Quote of the game: Stratford — “It was a really good learning experience. I got to race in a new situation and swam in more events than I usually do.
Hidden Stat:The Illini finished one-two-three in the 100 and 200 butterfly.
Up next: Kansas Jayhawks, 1:00 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, Lawrence, Kansas.
Illinois swimming bags its 1st 2 victories of season
“It was a group effort today and that was great
to see.”SUE NOVITSKY
HEAD COACH
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Illini swept in series against Lions BY DANIEL DEXTERSTAFF WRITER
After starting the season out strong, the Illinois hock-ey team now fi nds itself in a slump.
The Illini were swept for the fi rst time this season against Lindenwood — los-ing 5-0 and 2-1 on Friday and Saturday, respectively.
Friday’s loss marked the team’s largest margin of defeat this season. The Illini fell behind midway through the fi rst period when Lindenwood’s Peppi Sipila scored a shorthanded goal. The Lions fi nished the game with their fi rst shutout of the season.
Head coach Nick Fabbri-ni was disappointed in the Illini’s effort on Friday and believes that the team gave away four of the fi ve goals scored in the game.
“I thought we were pret-ty awful on Friday,” Fabbri-ni said. “We didn’t have a lot of energy and we made too many mistakes. We just didn’t even come close to executing the game plan. We didn’t really have any jump in our step at all.”
On Friday, the Illini were missing goalie Joe Olen, who had started the last eight games. He was sus-pended for the leaving the bench against Ohio and was replaced by sophomore Zev Grumet-Morris.
Fabbrini said that miss-ing Olen was not an excuse for the team to play poorly on the road against a divi-sion opponent, and Grumet-Morris made some big saves that gave the team enough chances to stay in the game.
Senior forward Jacob Matysiak said the team looked at the fi nale of the series as a must-win game for the Illini. Matysiak believes the formula for the team to be successful is to
sweep at home and split on the road.
The team showed improvement on Saturday despite ending the fi rst peri-od down 2-0. Fabbrini said the team came out with more energy and the players were skating well, which is usually their strength. The Illini got their chances on the offensive side of the ice, but were not able to capi-talize on their opportunities aside from a goal scored by left wing Eric Cruickshank in the second period.
“On Saturday night, I thought that we out-chanced them even though they out-shot us,” Matysiak said. “I thought we had more chances, but we just didn’t capitalize.”
While the players were hard on themselves for their mistakes, Fabbrini blamed himself for the team getting outshot in both games over the weekend. Fabbrini said he will be looking to make line changes in hope of giv-ing his team more opportu-nities to score.
The team will have a week to prepare for another tough matchup against NCAA Division III opponent Auro-ra University. Matysiak said the team will need to main-tain its focus throughout the week if it wants to prove it can play with an NCAA opponent.
“Three losses in a row is not something that we want to happen again,” Matysiak said. “We have got to realize that the way we have been playing is not good enough. We just have to do better. We’ve got a sour taste in our mouth, and it will turn into something positive.”
Daniel can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @ddexter23.
Hockey swept by Lions
Lindenwood 5 Illinois 0Summary: The Lions scored a shorthanded goal in the fi rst period and maintained the lead throughout, blowing out the Illini 5-0.Key performer: Lindenwood’s Peppi Sipila scored a shorthanded goal in the fi rst period.
Quote of the game: Head coach Nick Fabbrini: “I thought we were pretty awful on Friday.”
Lindenwood 2 Illinois 1Summary: Illinois fell behind 2-0 in the fi rst period and couldn’t overcome the defi cit.Key performer: Left wing Eric Cruickshank scored the only
goal of the game for the Illini.Quote of the game: Head coach Nick Fabbrini: “We had a ton of chances to tie and potentially win the game, but we just weren’t able to capitalize.”Hidden stat: Illinois has now been outshot in its last four games.
Up next: vs. Aurora University 7:30 p.m. Friday at Illinois Ice Arena
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Eric Cruickshank maneuvers himself toward the goal at the Illinois Ice Arena on Sept. 27. Cruickshank scored the only goal of the weekend for the Illini, as they were swept in two games against Lindenwood.
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