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Governor race sets spending record

BY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER

Nearly $100 million was raised in Illinois’ most recent gubernatorial elec-tion, more than double the amount that was raised in the 2010 election.

Republican winner Bruce Rauner contributed more than $27 million of his per-sonal wealth to his candi-dacy over the course of his campaign. Overall, his cam-paign raised nearly $66 mil-lion by Election Day, more than double the Quinn cam-paign’s total of just over $30 million.

“Bruce Rauner’s person-al wealth was probably the key catalyst in this case,” said Brian Gaines, profes-sor at the Institute of Gov-ernment and Public Affairs. “Rauner, because he’s worth ... more than $100 million, and he essentially pledged he wouldn’t be outspent.”

Money from labor and ser-vice unions, political parties and associations and large individual contributors from inside and outside the state poured into the race, mak-ing this gubernatorial elec-tion the most expensive in Illinois history.

“In turn, unions have been kind of lukewarm about Quinn and unhappy with him,” Gaines said. “(They) decided they liked Rauner even less, and they ended up ponying up money, and we sort of entered into this arms race dynamic.”

Kent Redfield, emeritus professor of political sci-ence at the University of Illinois in Springfield, said it was Rauner’s anti-union message during the Repub-lican primary that riled the

DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT A clear winner has yet to

be declared in the race for Illinois state treasurer, where ballots are still being count-ed, mainly in Cook County.

The current results show Republican Tom Cross in the lead with 48.06 percent of the votes. Democrat Mike Frerichs is close behind with 47.79 percent of the votes as of Friday night. The current ballot count places Cross in the lead by a slim 0.27 per-cent, or less than 10,000 votes.

“We’ve known since the beginning that this was going to be a very close race,” said Dave Arkin, spokesman for Mike Frerichs. “It was con-sistently viewed as one of the closest races in the state, and right now it’s looking to be one of the closest races in Illi-

nois history.”According to Illinois elec-

tion law, candidates are allowed to request a recount if the votes are within 5 percent of each other. The recount is considered a “dis-covery recount” and is non-binding, but it can be used as evidence if a candidate choos-es to file an election contest with the Illinois Supreme Court.

All votes are scheduled to be counted by Nov. 18, and the Illinois State Board of Elec-tions will officially announce the winner of the race on Nov. 30.

“Like most people, we’re watching and waiting for all the votes to be counted,” Arkin said. “Right now, it’s extremely close; it can go either way.”

The majority of the votes to be counted are mail-in ballots.

“I think particularly for voters in Champaign, Mike, on election night, went straight to the Brookens

(Administrative Center) where voters were standing in line to make sure they had the opportunity to vote,” said Arkin. “It’s important to him to make sure that not only their votes, but the votes of all the people across the state of Illinois, some who wait-ed until three in the morn-ing to vote, have their votes counted.”

This race is one of the clos-est races in Illinois’ history and both candidates are cur-rently waiting for all votes to be tabulated in order to announce a winner.

Abigale Svoboda and Marijo Enderle contributed to this report.

BY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER

A press conference will take place Monday regard-ing James Kilgore’s employ-ment. The former instruc-tor’s contract is up for renewal and under consid-eration after a series of arti-cles exposing his criminal background were released last spring.

The press conference, hosted by Friends of James Kilgore, will take place out-side the Henry Administra-tion Building, 506 S. Wright St., at 9:30 a.m.

The group anticipates that the University Board of Trustees will reconsider Kilgore’s employment status at its meeting Thursday.

Provost Ilesanmi Adesi-da appointed a committee in April to review Kilgore’s status at the University and advise the Board of Trustees on how to proceed.

Kilgore served six years in prison for his involve-ment in a 1975 bank robbery, where one woman was killed. Kilgore was not the gunman. He was also a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, known for the kidnap-

ping of Hearst Media Com-pany heiress Patty Hearst.

According to Kilgore, the University was fully aware of his past when he was hired in 2011. However, his crim-inal record had not been a public issue until articles about Kilgore were pub-lished in The News-Gazette.

Following the public’s reaction to the Universi-ty’s employment of a for-mer criminal, Kilgore was told his contract with the University would not be extended and was not given an explanation.

A press release stated that Friends of James Kilgore will emphasize the recom-mendations made by the committee, which is chaired by Matthew Wheeler, pro-fessor in Animal Sciences, though the release does not specify what those recom-mendations entail.

Friends of James Kilgore will assert its opinion that by terminating Kilgore’s future employment with the University, the board would infringe on the sovereign-ty of campus governance. They will also claim that the board cannot overstep the current system for hir-ing faculty and staff already acknowledged by University administration.

Abigale can be reached at asvobod2 @dailyillini.com.

BY ELI SCHWADRON AND DRAKE PENACONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Hard hitting, intense, violent. These might be words you use to describe a sport like football or rugby, but there is another sport being played in Champaign-Urbana that is the epitome of these descriptions: wheelchair basketball.

Everything you expect to see when watching basketball can be found in wheelchair play. Cuts, screens, no-look passes, 3-point plays are all there. The Illnois men’s and women’s teams have both been successful historically, securing 15 and 14 national titles, respectively, more than any Illinois varsity sport.

The two teams hosted the Illinois Classic on Saturday at the Activities and Recreation Center.

Game one tipped off with the Illini men squaring off against the Illini women. The two teams were tied after the first half with 20 points apiece, but the men eventually cruised to a 54-39 victory. Gail Gaeng and Helen Freeman were two bright spots for the women, scoring 12 and 11, respectively. For the men’s team Nik Goncin and Tim Nagel paved the way for their team’s victory scoring 18 and 14 points,

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groups to contribute tens of millions of dollars to Quinn.

“Part of that was about the positions that Rauner was taking and Quinn being the opposite of that,” Redfi eld said. “It was also about Illi-nois’ symbolic value, being Obama’s home state.”

Rising levels of money in Illinois’ electoral process is part of a much larger nation-al trend in which record-breaking political expendi-tures are the new normal. Limits on these expendi-tures have been gradual-ly reduced or eliminated over the last three decades, allowing for larger and larg-er contributions to be made.

What does more money in politics mean for democracy?

What is still the subject of debate are the implications that money has on the demo-cratic process.

For example, a candidate may be popular because they raised signifi cantly more money than his oppo-nent, allowing for the pur-chase of more advertising and voter outreach. Con-versely, a candidate could be attracting large donations because they were already

popular to begin with. “Political scientists have

been studying this a long time, and we’re still argu-ing amongst ourselves about exactly how much weight to put on money,” Gaines said. “In most cases, it’s not real-ly the money that’s driving the incumbent winning; the money is as much a signal of the incumbent’s advan-tage as it is the source of the advantage.”

Redfi eld said that rising levels of political spend-ing could have devastating consequences for democra-cy, especially when consid-ering who is making these contributions.

“Another thing that has changed is the concentra-tion of wealth at the top of the economic system,” Red-fi eld said. “You have got a lot more super-rich who are participating in politics. If you look at giving, not just

to campaigns but overall, Rauner contributed about $29 million to Illinois poli-tics, Ken Griffi n about $5.8 million and Richard Uihlein (both Chicago businessmen) about $4 million. You put (Chicago businessman) Fred Eychaner in there, who is on the Democratic side, you’ve got four people putting $40 million into Illinois politics.”

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, in the 2012 election cycle, just 0.4 percent of the population made one or more political contributions over $200, but comprised 63.5 percent of the total value of all individ-ual contributions . If a major-ity of a candidate’s funds come from such a small per-cent of the population, it may inevitably lead campaigns to cater to these donors.

Voters in the 2014 election appear to believe that this is in fact the case. An exit poll conducted by the Associat-ed Press found that nearly two–thirds of the electorate believes that the country’s economic system favors the wealthy .

“There’s a danger there in distorting the political pro-cess by overwhelming the process with money,” Red-fi eld said. “Money is corrupt-ing the electoral process by the distortions that it intro-duces into the process.”

When campaigns or out-side organizations spend

their money on political advertisements, they must disclose whom their donors are so that the public knows where the money came from. However, groups classifi ed as 501(c)4 organizations by the IRS do not have to reveal the identity of their donors, and disclosure laws have come under fi re in the Supreme Court.

“Currently, when these large amounts of money are spent, there has to be a dis-claimer ... and there has to be a disclosure of who is spend-ing the money,” said Steven Seitz, associate professor of political science. “(Jus-tice) Thomas has already attacked those two, and so if the Court turns to that lev-el, there would essentially be no protections.”

There are very few stan-dards for campaign fi nance corruption, Seitz said. By the time the Supreme Court ruled on McCutcheon v. FEC, which eliminated the aggregate limits for politi-cal expenditures, the only standard remaining was the notion of “quid pro quo” cor-ruption, which defi nes cor-ruption very narrowly, Seitz said.

“If the slow erosion of checks on (political) expen-ditures continues, how they got into Congress is going to become very, very impor-tant,” Seitz said.

What motivates a political donor?

Seitz said an individ-ual citizen’s reasons for contributing to a candi-date for offi ce can often be vastly different from what motivates a corporation or PAC to make a political expenditure.

“You’ve got motivation on the part of ordinary people to give to causes they like, or something like that, and that is typically motivated

by no expectation of return except that particular issue or that particular policy,” Seitz said. “A corporation is going to expect a lot more than that.”

Corporate donors, Seitz said, have an ideological ori-entation as well, but it does not drive them as much as it does for an ordinary citi-zen. Corporations who con-

tribute large sums of mon-ey to campaigns or PACs, he said, view their money as an investment and expect to see a return.

“If buying a candidate suc-ceeds, or if being able to get the candidate on the ballot, if I can succeed in doing that and eventually get more peo-ple into Congress, I’m going to have essentially Congress now defi ning problems the way I want them to defi ne them,” Seitz said.

Offsetting the infl uence of large corporate and private donors may be a challenge, but not outside the realm of possibility. Redfield said that maintaining and expanding donor disclosure laws along with increasing political participation could be a potential solution.

Gaines said that gerry-mandering can have an even greater infl uence over the outcome of elections than large contributions, a prac-tice that both political par-ties have engaged in across the country.

“In the end, I think redis-tricting is more important,” Gaines said. “Once the map is drawn, there are a bunch of races that are predeter-mined by the shape of the district, and in turn, the money follows the likely winner.”

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respectively. Goncin also dished out six assists.

The Illini men fi nished the weekend with a record of 1-3 in the preseason tournament. The women lost both of their games, both of which were against male competition.

The Illini men fell twice to the Milwaukee Wheelchair Bucks of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association by scores of 76-38 and 88-51, and lost once to the Rehab Institute of Chicago Hornets, 58-46.

The men’s third matchup of the day, a 3:15 p.m. tip against the Bucks, started off neck-and-neck before Milwaukee jumped out to a 48-28 halftime lead. Goncin fi nished with 23 points for

the Illini. Jacob Counts and Nate Hinze led the way for the Bucks, dropping 23 and 22 points, respectively.

According to sophomore Martinez Johnson, the annual Illinois Classic gives the Illini an opportunity to prepare for the season by facing teams composed of former college players and Paralympians.

“That’s why the level of competition is so good,” Johnson said.

Men’s head coach Matt Buchi said he isn’t concerned with Saturday’s results and that he looks at these games as a tune-up for the ones that truly matter.

“We’re kind of planning on using all of these games as warm-up games to get ready for Nationals,” he said. “We’re not really worried about the outcome, it’s just what we use them for.”

Despite the loss to the men’s team, women’s head coach Stephanie Wheeler was still pleased with the way her team played against its male counterparts.

“There were some places and moments where we played really well,” Wheeler said.

Game two was a different story for the women. The Illini lost to the Rehab Institute of Chicago with a fi nal score of 53-34, and Wheeler was not as pleased with her team’s second showing as she was with the fi rst.

“We let some things get to us and distract us from doing the things we know we can control,” Wheeler said.

The Illini kept it close at halftime, with a score of 28-17, but two games against male competition took its toll, and in the second half the team was outscored 34-19.

Christina Young led the Illini in scoring with 10, Freeman grabbed six rebounds, scored nine points and dished out an assist.

The Hornets played a tough, defensively sound game with fi ve members on the team recording at least one steal. Offensive rebounding was also a key factor in their victory, with the Hornets having a 17-9 advantage on the offensive glass.

“In the fi rst game we played much better. ... We put ourselves in position to be successful,” Wheeler said when comparing the two games.

Both teams will start their regular seasons in a tournament from Nov. 21-23 in Whitewater, Wisconsin.

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Big Ten student leaders plan green association to unite affi liated schools BY CHARLOTTE COLLINSSTAFF WRITER

Students at the Universi-ty of Maryland are trying to create a sustainability association to unite schools across the Big Ten.

University of Maryland junior Ori Gutin wanted to bring together representa-tives from green-oriented RSOs from each Big Ten school to promote various types of environmentally conscious and zero-waste programs, which would make the Big Ten the fi rst athletic conference to boast such an association.

“The idea is to bring together a body of students from all across the Big Ten that cares about sustainabil-ity to share ideas, collabo-rate, get feedback on the ideas as to programs we’re implementing on our own campuses to be more suc-cessful,” Gutin said.

He said the association will be able to work together on programs that affect indi-vidual Big Ten universities and programs that affect the conference as a whole.

“There’s a possibility of lobbying on the federal level for sustainability issues as well,” Gutin said.

Matt Hill, the vice presi-dent-internal of the Illinois Student Senate, said he is looking forward to being a part of the potential associa-tion. Illinois is one of 11 Big Ten schools to have commit-

ted to the notion of an all Big Ten green association.

Hill said the association could enhance the commu-nication and collaboration of ideas of student sustainabil-ity organizations across the conference.

“One of the things that really identifi es the Big Ten is our athletics. One of their big ideas is the carbon neu-tral athletics program, cre-ating something where our athletic air emissions will drastically go down across the Big Ten,” Hill said.

Brianna Alston, chair-woman of the environmental sustainability subcommittee on ISS, said that the associa-tion is in its beginning stag-es and is currently working on communication between the schools.

“We’re trying to brain-storm different ideas about what can we do to connect with other universities,” Alston said. “This is the fi rst year for it, so they’re still trying to fi nd how to get everybody involved and connected.”

Charlotte can be reached at [email protected].

BY ALI BRABOYSTAFF WRITER

Illinois passed the fi rst constitutional amendment on crime victims’ rights 22 years ago, but Tuesday marked a resounding yes to another amendment to enforce those rights for citizens.

The referendum on the Illinois midterm election ballot received 77.9 per-cent of votes in favor, meet-ing the required three-fifths supermajority to add the amendment to the constitution .

Previously, some vic-tims faced restrictions to these rights, including the inability to make a victim impact statement and to obtain important informa-tion regarding the defen-dant, such as whether the individual obtained bail.

Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins, director of Marsy’s Law for Illinois, has been involved in the fi ght for crime vic-tims’ rights for many years. Bishop-Jenkin’s sister, her sister’s husband and their baby were murdered in Chi-cago in 1990.

She said the day before the hearing for the sentenc-ing of the murderer, she received a call that told her the court would not be tak-ing a victim impact state-ment, which would have allowed to her speak dur-ing the hearing.

Bishop-Jenkins said she was deeply affected and giving the statement would

have given her and her fam-ily some resolution.

“I didn’t know at that time that that was a violation of actual rights,” she said. “We actually had a right to make that statement and that we were being denied that right.”

While the Crime Victims’ Rights amendment was fi rst added to the Illinois consti-tution in 1992, limiting laws did not allow crime victims to appeal if their rights were violated.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s offi ce held round-tables in 2008, in which crime victims and advo-cates discussed the chal-lenges that occurred in the criminal justice sys-tem . From the roundta-bles, these members gath-ered documentation that showed there were many violations of crime victims’ rights, Bishop-Jenkins said.

After the gatherings, a coalition of groups against violence began advocating to amend the constitution, she said.

In May 2008, Oregon amended its constitution to allow victims to appeal to higher courts , leaving Illi-nois as the only state to con-tain language barring the enforcement of crime vic-tims’ rights.

Kerri True-Funk, execu-tive director of Rape Advo-cacy, Counseling, and Edu-cation Services in Urbana, said she had attended a roundtable held by Madi-

gan’s offi ce in 2008. The Rape Advocacy,

Counseling, & Education Services group has advo-cated for the amendment to pass by distributing yard signs and performing out-reach programs to educate people in the area about the amendment, True-Funk said.

She said the next step is to educate survivors and their families, so they can understand how their rights will now be affect-ed. She said they will pro-vide resources so victims can recognize if their rights are being violated.

“It’s a real showing of the voters’ understanding that victims of crime deserve to be protected and to have their rights respected,” True-Funk said.

Bishop-Jenkins said she doesn’t believe viola-tions were usually inten-tional, but rather occurred because a member of the justice system was over-loaded with work or had forgotten an important aspect in a case regarding the victim.

Bishop-Jenkins said she met individuals in 2009 involved with Marsy’s Law for All in California, a group who successfully worked to bring rights to crime victims in 2008 and changed the California con-stitution. The group said it wanted to help crime vic-tims do the same in Illinois.

Susan Kang Schroeder,

district attorney chief of staff for Orange County in California said the outcome of the Illinois general elec-tion tells people how Illi-nois voters feel about crime victims: that they deserved more rights.

“This is exactly in line with what we need to do to be compassionate with peo-ple who have actually suf-fered the harm,” she said.

After the constitution-al amendment passed on Nov. 4, the next step is to decide how implementation will take place by answer-ing questions such as what procedures will be taken to enable legislation and give offi cials the authority to enforce the law, which will become effective in the next legislation session in Janu-ary of 2015.

“I’m very proud and excited of the fact that all of the young people at the University of Illinois are now going to be growing up in a state and function-ing as adults now in a state where they will never have to worry about whether or not a rape victim, a domes-tic violence victim, a child abuse victim, a victim of assault, a murder victim’s family member, is protect-ed in court,” Bishop-Jen-kins said. “For a lot of us it’s going to be a big change, but hopefully for you guys it will soon become the norm.”

Ali can be reached at [email protected].

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide the fate of President Barack Obama’s health care law yet again, this time ruling on whether low- and mid-dle-income Americans may receive subsidies in two-thirds of the states to make insurance more affordable.

Currently, about 5 mil-lion Americans have subsi-dized insurance they bought through a health care

exchange, or online mar-ketplace, run by the federal government.

The conservative group that has brought the case now before the high court argues that such an arrangement is illegal. They maintain that the Affordable Care Act, as written, allows the govern-ment to subsidize health insurance only in the states that have set up their own insurance exchanges.

DETROIT — A federal judge on Friday approved a plan to end Detroit’s historic Chapter 9 bankruptcy, giving the Motor City an unprece-dented shot at recovering from decades of econom-ic despair and mismanage-ment that left the city awash in debt and struggling to pro-

vide basic public services.Judge Steven Rhodes ruled

that Detroit’s restructuring plan is fair and feasible, pro-viding the legal authority for the city to slash more than $7 billion in unsecured liabili-ties and reinvest $1.4 billion over 10 years in public servic-es and blight removal.

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When a late-night case of the munchies comes about, there is no denying the need to silence the onslaught of hunger — and preferably with something either sweet or savory, definitely fatty and definitely highly processed. However, in Kansas, one man’s late-night hunger led him straight into trouble. A little before 3:30 a.m., a woman found a male intruder in her kitchen eating cookie dough out of her freezer. Well, to be fair, the man supposedly thought he was at his aunt’s house. We by no means intend to downplay the seriousness of intrusion, but hey, we’ve all been controlled by our sweet tooth before.

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It goes without saying that last Tuesday’s elections defined a seismic change

in American politics, at least for the next two years. The Republican party seemed rein-vigorated after a presidential defeat in 2012 and powered its candidates to victories through-out America in states where Democratic senatorial candi-dates have previously seen con-sistent success, such as Louisi-ana and Colorado.

But Americans also went to the ballot box with some very liberal intentions, leading to the raising of the minimum wage in all five states where it was on the ballot and the legalization of marijuana in two others (and the District of Columbia).

Despite the country’s for-ward-leaning tendencies on bal-lot initiatives, the reinvigora-tion of the Republican party has left the country in a very per-plexing political atmosphere. While this mixed ideology is part of what makes America unique, it isn’t optimal for pass-ing laws.

As many who follow the news probably already know, last week’s election allowed Repub-licans to take control of the Sen-ate, as well as retain a hold on a majority in the House of Rep-

resentatives. This means that, once again, the United States has a divided government.

This isn’t anything new; a stark divide in the policies of both Democrats and Republi-cans has created deep political polarization across the country, perhaps indicative of Congress’ approval rating of 8 percent.

After seeing these results, I couldn’t help but wonder what an American political climate would look like if this stark divide wasn’t present, or even more radically, wasn’t allowed. At first, this sounds outland-ish because this is America, and freedom of choice, espe-cially electoral choice, seems to define us.

But there are other options — a parliament, for exam-ple. Nearly all major powers throughout Western Europe (and the world) operate using parliamentary systems, includ-ing the United Kingdom, Ger-many, Japan and many other developed nations.

In most parliamentary sys-tems, citizens only vote for who they want to control the legisla-tive branch of government, and, in more cases than not, a single party then controls the branch. The party that wins then fills the legislature with as many delegates as they proportionally received in votes.

In America, we vote for our leader directly, leading to the possibility of a president from one party and a legislature from another, as it currently

does. In a parliament, the leg-islative party with the major-ity of the votes chooses a leader (usually a Prime Minister), and, thus, the possibility of gridlock is much lower. In this system, the party who receives a small-er portion of votes is still pres-ent in the government, just to a lesser, proportional degree.

In the United States, per-haps a parliamentary system could stop the political infight-ing that has plagued the last decade. Only one party would be in power at any given time, and, thus, policies would have a much easier time being pushed through Congress.

This, in turn, would lead to increased accountability on the part of political leaders because finger-pointing and accusato-ry rhetoric wouldn’t really be valid. In the event the major-ity party dissatisfies the public, a vote of no-confidence could be issued, and the ruling par-ty could be changed relatively quickly. For this reason, most parties would probably avoid extremes so as to not receive votes of no-confidence.

Of course, the chances the United States would swiftly change electoral systems is ridiculous; it would never hap-pen. I’m not advocating for a vast political revolution.

But I am saying that the infighting and political stale-mate that grips the government in the United States could per-haps be reduced with a parlia-mentary electoral system in

which countries are forced to have a leader and a legislature from the same party. Policies wouldn’t be mired in stagnation.

Maybe we wouldn’t have to worry about the possibility of Republican and Democrat-ic infighting causing another government shutdown, as it did in 2013, or countless other issues, as they have been for what seems like all of recent memory.

With a parliamentary system, we could hold leaders account-able for their policies because the party in power could no lon-ger simply blame the opposing party if its policy isn’t adopted.

If parliament passed an extreme anti-abortion law, for example, opposition from more than 50 percent of the coun-try could overturn the party in power, with hopes the next group of leaders would overturn the law.

This would lead to a more trial-and-error form of govern-ment. I’m sure errors would occur more frequently than tri-umphs, but at least we would get some sort of notion of what works and what doesn’t. Then maybe the cold grip of politi-cal polarization and apathy wouldn’t dominate the nation, as it did this past election day, and maybe, just maybe, Congress’s approval rating would soar into double digits.

Boswell is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at hutson2 @dailyillini.com.

It’s week 12 of 16, and there are only 12 days until Thanksgiving break. Even better, we’re a mere 31 days away from reading day. That includes weekends, thank goodness, so actual days of class are even few-er. The period before our week 14 break rivals mid-term and final seasons in terms of stress. It’s as cer-tain as death and taxes, and we can only guess that the pressure stems from the fact that our professors are sadists. But fear not, we can make it through. There’s turkey at the end of the tunnel, and Dads Weekend sandwiched in there. After that, about two weeks to freedom. Let’s do this.

Big Ten works to become green

W hen it comes to the oth-er Big Ten schools,

we are competitors on the field. We sport our Il-lini pride in the presence of the Hoosiers, Hawk-eyes, Wildcats and all oth-er Big Ten opponents, and we like to think we are the greatest school in the Big Ten — which, of course, is our own completely biased opinion.

Off the field, though, we have the potential to be one team — a team where all 14 Big Ten universities can unite and work toward one effective project. That is the hope of one Univer-sity of Maryland student, Ori Gutin. He proposed an idea for a Big Ten Stu-dents Sustainability Asso-ciation that would allow these schools to “share ideas, collaborate (and) get feedback” from each other regarding sustain-ability initiatives.

Being from a universi-ty that takes tremendous leaps and bounds when it comes to making environ-mentally-friendly choic-es, we would love to see a program of this magnitude encompass the efforts of all 14 Big Ten schools. Currently, 11 have com-mitted to the project, ac-cording to The Daily Illini.

Looking close to home, the University has scored highly in green initiatives, particularly in efforts re-lating to climate change and energy, food and recy-cling, transportation and administration, which is in reference to sustainabili-ty policies and plans. Our school continues to make new strides with various ongoing green projects.

As Gutin noted, bring-ing together the various sustainability groups that each campus has would essentially allow for a broader, collaborative conversation where each school could work toward a larger environmental is-sue and solution.

This is something we hope transpires. Christi-na Cilento, the Associated Student Government vice president of sustainabil-ity at Northwestern not-ed that while some sus-tainability projects might differ from campus to campus, there are also similarities among some of these initiatives.

We can see these unique differences even through our own campus’ Uni-versity Housing Coffee Ground Repurposing Proj-ect, for example.

But we also imagine that many of the Big Ten schools have similar sus-tainability goals in mind, and we look forward to the potential outcomes of these schools coming to-gether.

While we might often be packaged together as athletic competitors, we can acknowledge the fact that all 14 Big Ten schools have their strengths. If we could channel some of that strength into one co-hesive project, we open up the possibility to make immense positive chang-es. And maybe in the fu-ture we can see some of these changes take place in arenas beyond sustain-ability.

With 19 kids, two media-blown weddings and a TV show to boot, the hyper-religious Duggar family sure knows how to grab the spotlight. Their latest draw to attention is one of the younger boys’ music video lip-synching to Lawson Bates’ “Happiness is the Lord.” Warning: It’s awkward. It includes yodeling, a lot of walking and faux instrument playing by five circa 10 year olds. We couldn’t even tell you what the Duggar boy’s name is who stars in the video, but we can tell you it starts with the letter “J” — as does the names of all the other 18 kids.

VETERAN SUPPORTS TROOPSONE MUSIC VIDEO AND COUNTINGMany don’t always show those in the military how thankful they are for them. It’s easy to forget. But luckily, many other people do remember, and they go above and beyond to show their appreciation. Thursday, an anonymous Navy veteran picked up the tab for the 15 to 20 soldiers behind him in line at a convenience store in Swansea, Illinois. Although many wanted to give the veteran recognition, the man declined. He said, “It was just something I wanted to do,” and then he left the store. It’s the little things.

A fter fantasizing about it throughout high school, this August, I signed up for

a Spotify Premium account. Spotify Student gives sub-

scribers access to all the music on the site for $4.99 per month. This is a discounted version of Spotify Premium which is $9.99 per month. There are no commercials, and I can down-load any music to my phone so I don’t use data.

It’s just been a few months, but I love it. If I keep it for the rest of my college career, I will have shelled out over $100.

As I sit here feeling that mon-ey fleeing out of my wallet, I know the subscription is worth it — or at least it had been until last week, when Taylor Swift removed her entire solo album catalogue from the site.

I like Taylor Swift, but I’m not overly upset about her albums, specifically. Instead, I’m nervous that because she’s removed herself from the site, there’s a precedent for other artists to do so as well.

Swift argues that music is art, and the amount artists make from Spotify is so menial that it perpetuates poor com-

pensation for the art they cre-ate (even though Taylor Swift’s net worth was almost 200 mil-lion dollars before the release of 1989 — enough to pay my col-lege fees 1,600 times over). A similar line of thought is proba-bly why many singles from 1989 from are removed from You-Tube because of copyright laws.

Despite her insane net worth, I tried to see her point. But, as a broke college student, I only see a few options, besides Spotify, for listening to music for free, or at an affordable price.

1. YouTube, where we waste our lives away waiting for the ‘Skip Ad’ button (if it ever comes).

2. Pandora, where I use all of the hour’s skips betting on the chance that the song I want will be next. (Spoiler: It never is.)

3. Torrenting. “Will this but-ton destroy my laptop?” Or you nervously say, “What if the cops find out,” and apologize to the artist profusely in your head.

4. The iTunes Store. After previewing a song on the iTunes store, when you finally hear that song on the radio, you’re amazed there’s more to it than the ninety second clip you’ve previewed.

With the money I’m spend-ing on Spotify, I could buy about eighteen albums until gradua-tion — not including singles.

I hate the idea of illegally downloading music, but I have

a hard time paying around ten dollars for an album when I want new music — especially when I see how much artists make, and outlets such as Spo-tify let me pay half the price of one album, but let me listen to so much more.

That’s why Spotify is a great choice: It’s legal, cheap and pro-vides great music.

But now, our ability to access certain music is changing.

Despite the fact that Swift’s albums are removed from Spo-tify, I’m not going to unsub-scribe; I’m just going to stop lis-tening to her.

It’s not personal, and I’m not doing it to make a statement, but her album availability isn’t convenient for how I listen to music.

The music industry suffers 12.5 billion dollars each year due to piracy — in no way does Taylor profit from this. But she would be making money from Spotify, as she receives money every time someone (premium or free listener) plays one of her songs. Even if it’s not as much money as when people buy the album, she would still be mak-ing something.

What’s ironic is that ille-gal downloads are curbed by streaming sites like Spotify. If this is an argument about mon-ey, Spotify is a better alterna-tive to millions of people steal-ing albums.

Taylor Swift, what do you want me to do? “Shake It Off” and “Bad Blood” are great songs. I can’t deny that. For the same amount of money, I can buy three of your singles on iTunes, or I can listen to any music I want for a month with Spotify.

There’s no doubt here over which I’ll pick — sorry, but it isn’t 1989.

Owning music for people on a budget boils down to two very different options.

There will be people — in T. Swift’s case, millions of people — who will buy the albums. But there will also be millions of people who won’t buy it, yet it will still make its way onto their music library illegally.

Or, artists can continue (or resume, cough, cough, Taylor) providing us with their music for reasonable costs that are cooperative and understand-ing of people who are listen-ing to different music non-stop. I live in a world where paying for eighteen albums is too much money, but eighteen albums isn’t enough music for my liking.

That’s the option I choose. I pay for my music, and that isn’t a bad thing, so stop letting it cause bad blood.

Emma is a sophomore in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].

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wonderful contribution to the community, and it humaniz-es aspects of incarceration through the creation and maintenance of relationships.

“Nicole (Pijon) brings such a multi-faceted lens to

the issues that the program addresses,” Hwu said.

Both Pijon and Hwu said they believe that constant relationships between pris-on inmates and citizens on the outside helps the psyche and the rehabilitation of prisoners, as well as an edu-cation of incarceration to volunteers.

“The old fashioned way is much better than just elec-tronic correspondence,” Pijon said. “I think it is a lot more personal to see handwriting than just Times New Roman font on a printed page.”

Alexander can be reached at [email protected] and @marino_il_greco.

Orphaned otter pup taken on by the Shedd AquariumBY DANA FERGUSONTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

CHICAGO — The Shedd Aquarium has announced the arrival of its newest inhabit-ant: a southern sea otter pup.

The 5-week-old otter was orphaned on a California beach, but after weeks of intensive care, Pup 681 — the name given to her by the organization that first took her in — seems to be enjoying her new home in the Windy City.

The pup was discov-ered Sept. 30 on Coastways Beach in central California when she was believed to be 1 week old, according to a media release.

A jogger heard the pup cry-ing and notified the Marine Mammal Center. Pup 681 was taken to the Monterey Bay Aquarium for care.

Karl Meyer, an animal care coordinator for the Sea Otter Program, said the pup weighed 1 kg when she

arrived at the aquarium in California, which is seriously underweight for a newborn. He said the pup’s mother had abandoned her for at least 16 hours.

“This meant it was critical that we begin to get calories into her as quickly as possi-ble,” Meyer said in a media release.

After four weeks of inten-sive care and stabilization in the Sea Otter Program, Mon-terey Bay Aquarium reached out to aquariums across the country seeking a facility that could provide round-the-clock care for the sea otter pup.

Shedd volunteered and last week brought in the 5-week-old. The aquarium said she arrived weighing just under 6 pounds and at a length of 22.6 inches.

Tim Binder, the aquarium’s vice president of animal col-lections, said a team of ani-mal care experts watches the

pup 24 hours a day to make sure she eats, grooms and sleeps.

“It truly takes a village to rehabilitate a young sea otter,” Binder said. “Our ani-mal care team is teaching the pup how to be an otter.”

The pup swims in her own pool, splashing with long strands of felt normally used in car washes. The long green pieces are intended to repli-cate kelp. She also chews on plastic key rings and other toys because she is teething, her trainers said.

The pup’s caretakers said she is learning to feed and bathe herself. She current-ly takes in a diet of instant formula in a bottle and sliced clam pieces.

The pup will stay at Shedd indefinitely, and the aquari-um is working to decide how it will choose a name for her. Pup 681 eventually will join four other otters in the Regenstein Sea Otter habitat.

TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEA baby otter at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium is seen on Wednesday. The otter was orphaned in California and sent to the Shedd Aquarium.

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Soft robotic arm developed at CMU inspires Disney’s animated feature ‘Big Hero 6’BY DAVID TEMPLETONTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Pittsburgh — When Don Hall was working on a robotic character for his Disney ani-mation, “Big Hero 6,” he vis-ited NASA and other robotic research centers in search of a huggable robot. Who wants to embrace a metal one?

In 2011 he visited Carne-gie Mellon University, where he beheld a soft robotic arm inside Chris Atkeson’s robot-ics lab that Siddharth San-an had developed for his doctoral thesis. Made from polyurethane, the inflated, user-friendly arm was being designed to help dress, feed or comb the hair of people who are elderly or disabled. In that instant, Hall later not-ed, “I knew we had our hug-gable robot.”

It was apparent, the mov-ie’s co-director said, that the technology would inspire the kind of robot character never seen before.

“Everything about Bay-max’s character, personali-ty and design stemmed from that trip,” he was quoted as saying.

Animated features typical-ly are soft fantasy rather than hard science. But Hall com-bines the two. The movie’s main character, the soft, help-ful robot Baymax, reflects the latest trend in develop-ing soft, cheap and practical robots that can interact with people.

The CMU team has been

collaborating with the Uni-versity of Pittsburgh in operating the National Sci-ence Foundation Center for Engineering Research Cen-ter on Quality of Life Tech-nologies, which is developing health care robots, including the soft robot arm. Pittsburgh researchers include Jacque-line Dunbar-Jacob, dean of Pittsburgh’s School of Nurs-ing, and Rory Cooper, direc-tor, Human Engineering Research Laboratories of Pittsburgh and the Veterans Administration.

People needing assistance tend to prefer a warm, soft robotic hand rather than a cold, bruising metal claw. But such robots pose structural challenges. They must be soft and lightweight but strong. Air pressure can provide strength through computer-controlled actuators, pneu-matic pressure and cables.

Meanwhile, Atkeson’s goal has been to reduce the amount of metal in his robots.

“In the glorious future,” he said, “I think we can build them out of soft materials with air pressure, soft valves and a computer filling up and deflating air compartments to make the robots walk, roll and do tasks.”

The soft robotic exterior can be elastic and contain electronic sensors.

“If we could make robots out of cloth or plastic sheets, it potentially could make for very cheap robots,” Atkeson

said. “That is one compel-ling reason to make inflat-able robots.”

A soft robotic arm would be ideal to disarm bombs.

“If it is blown off, you can add a cheap new one, as opposed to the costly, com-plicated metal arm,” he said. While other potential bene-fits could include treating people infected with Ebola, the immediate goal is rou-tine care.

“If you can keep air in, you can keep water out,” allow-ing the robot to help wash, bathe or shower a person, Atkeson said. “We can build machines, but unless people like them and want to inter-act with them, they won’t be successful.”

CMU now is busy creating a Center for Soft Materials and Machines led by Carm-el Majidi, which will include the Soft Machines Lab and Soft Robotics and Bionics Lab. Turnabout is fair play. A goal of the new center is to develop a real Baymax.

And apparently roboticists sometimes reflect the robots they build. Atkeson said he had five soft moments while previewing the film, with tears occurring three times when his lab’s technology was depicted. Two other times simply were emotional points in the plot.

So his own movie review comes as no surprise: “The movie is a tremendous win for soft robotics.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF DISNEYBaymax, left, and Hiro from Disney’s new animated feature “Big Hero 6.”

BY ABRAR AL-HEETISTAFF WRITER

When Cliff Maduzia walks through the hallways of Westview Elementary School in Champaign each day with large, empty con-tainers in tow, faculty, staff and students know what he’s there to do.

“Hi, Cliff,” a secretary says as he walks into the main office. Another faculty member says hello as Madu-zia makes his way to the caf-eteria and walks toward the leftover food from that day’s lunch.

Maduzia is the chair of the Susan Freiburg Memo-rial Food Surplus Program, which picks up leftover pre-pared and perishable food from local restaurants, grocery stores and Unit 4 schools each day and donates it to local shelters. The pro-gram is under the Cham-paign-Urbana Coalition for the Homeless, a nonprofit organization.

The food surplus program was established in 1989 by Susan Freiburg with the help of Garry Bird, director of the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District. Freiburg passed away in 1996, and Maduzia and other volun-

teers have worked to keep the program alive.

The organization began with stores and restaurants, before adding Unit 4 schools to the program three years ago. Volunteers now gather leftover lunch food from all the schools in the district.

“It’s still good quality food,” Maduzia said. “It’s still edible.”

Without the program, Maduzia added, it would go to waste.

Mary Davis has served as the director of food services for Unit 4 schools for four and a half years. She said when she began, the schools had a serving option in which each student was given every type of offered food. But Davis said this resulted in waste, as students threw away what they did not want.

Two years ago, the schools switched to something called “Offer versus Serve,” in which students choose three out of five food items, one of which has to be a fruit or vegetable. If students don’t want one of the items they picked, they can put it on a share table, or a place where any student can then take it.

Davis said this reduced waste significantly, but there

was still food that wasn’t get-ting eaten.

The uneaten food from the share table is what Cham-paign-Urbana Coalition for the Homeless donates to the shelters. If there is hot food left over that hasn’t been served, they will take that as well.

“They still have to take three of the five (food items), and two of the things may-be they’ll eat, and one they might not. So this way we still have somewhere good to take our leftovers,” Davis said.

Maduzia starts driving to the schools he’s assigned to at around 12:30 p.m., while the other six volunteers from the coalition also drive to their assigned schools. They fill large plastic containers with milk cartons, fruits and hot foods, including sandwiches and beans. Maduzia finishes at around 2 p.m., before drop-ping off the food at local shel-ters such as the TIMES Cen-ter and Courage Connection.

The Salvation Army and Canaan S.A.F.E. (Substance Abuse Free Environment) House also participate in the program; however, they bring their own trucks and volunteers to pick up food.

Robert Swinford, who

works with the Salvation Army, said the food surplus program allows them to use their limited funds toward other services, while also putting resources to good use.

“Schools have a hard time forecasting how much food they’re going to use,” Swin-ford said. “We (at the Sal-vation Army) have 45 men that we help, and we feed them three meals a day and a snack. We’ve had arrange-ments with restaurants and dining halls, but the school lunch program helps us to spend even less money.”

Maduzia said his organi-zation has received positive feedback from community members and the school dis-trict for the impact it has on the community.

“There was a couple that was very excited when they found out that we were start-ing to do this because they saw the waste and all the stuff getting thrown out,” he said. “The people in the cafeterias are just ecstatic. They’ve been pushing for this for a while, and they were very excited that this was set up.”

He said the program also promotes values and life les-

sons for the schoolchildren.“(Through the share

tables), the kids are getting exposed to sharing rather than throwing it out,” Madu-zia said. “A lot of times I’ll be walking through the school and kids will say, ‘What’s that? What are you doing?’ And I tell them what it’s for, and they get all excited.”

Davis said the program has been helpful in the school district’s efforts to reduce lunchroom waste.

“It is heartbreaking to see

food go in the trash,” Davis said. “The fact that we can give it to someone who needs it is wonderful — we might even be feeding our own students. There’s too much waste. We’re working on our side of that through the pro-duction, but then there’s the other side, where it’s already made up and we don’t want it in the trash. So it has a good place to go.”

Abrar can be reached at [email protected].

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LIFE CULTURE

BY ALEXANDER VASSILIADISSTAFF WRITER

Oftentimes, people write letters to their loved ones, the elderly or even to their idols. But volunteers in the Community Justice program, a part of Volunteer Illini Proj-ects, write letters to prison inmates that have been incarcerated for crimes ranging from armed robbery to murder.

Since January, Nicole Pijon, sophomore in LAS, has been the director of Commu-nity Justice and runs the Prisoner Pen Pal program by herself.

Every Monday, she enters the Volunteer Illini Projects office and is greeted by a big stack of letters either from inmates already corresponding with a volunteer, or inmates who desire to join the program. With a spreadsheet of 220 inmates from 22 correctional facilities in Illinois, she is able to track each correspondence and helps new volunteers work with inmates on the waiting list.

“I wanted to be a part of something that was along the lines of what I grew up with,” Pijon said.

Pijon’s father is a criminal defense attor-ney, and she grew up going to correctional facilities with him. As a pre-law psychology major, she saw this program as an oppor-tunity to gain psychological insight into the criminal justice system.

“It has been an interesting experience how we as volunteers are given a window into how the inmates could’ve changed their lives leading up to their imprisonment,“ she said.

A lot of the prisoners that the volunteers exchange letters with do not have close con-tact with family or anyone on the outside. Pijon explained that a lot of them feel lonely, and for the volunteers, starting a conversa-tion with the inmates is often eye-opening.

“It is a learning experience on both sides,” Pijon said.

All volunteers are paired up with a spe-cific inmate and choose pseudonyms under which they begin their correspondence to protect their identities. They are instruct-ed not to give out identifiable information, mention any specifics about daily routines and not to write about anything they feel uncomfortable with. The inmates are also sent a contract outlining what they cannot say in the letters. All these regulations are set in place for the safety of both parties.

There are a lot of requests from prison-ers who think the program is some sort of dating service. There are others who send letters explaining how they were wrong-ly accused, wrongly represented and how they are in need of legal help; however, the program’s policy is to not respond to these requests, Pijon said.

“I get some weird requests,” Pijon said. “I get some that say ‘I want a woman with this waist size who I can marry and have

children with after.’” Pijon even remembers a time where she

was screening letters from inmates and she found one guy who sent a mug shot to his correspondent saying, “This is my smiling face, hang it up in your room for me.”

She also recalled a time when a prisoner drew a feather pen dipped in blood on the front of the envelope she received.

“Prisoners also send a lot of artwork, some of them are very artistically inclined,” she said.

Pijon is also the vice president of the Pris-on Justice Projectand works with president Amanda Hwu, senior in Social Work.

The Prisoner Justice Project is a RSO dedicated to incarceration and awareness. They have two branches of programming: The first consists of regular events pro-grammed that pertain to a social justice topic about incarceration and the second deals with the running of C.U. Succeed, a strengths-based mentoring program for youth who have been through the juvenile justice system. As the president of the pro-gram, Hwu’s role is to act as a media spokes-person, program evaluator and advisor to other executive board members.

Hwu used to be a part of the Pen Pal Pro-gram. She wrote to a man who was incar-cerated at 18 years old and wouldn’t be released until he was over 60 for two armed robberies.

“This was bewildering to me as this didn’t seem like justice,” she said. “It infuriated me that our system continued to punish this man as if he was still the 18-year-old that was convicted.”

Hwu said she believes the program is a

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Black, Hill steal the show in exhibition

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Malcolm Hill does a layup during the exhibition game against Quincy at State Farm Center on Friday. The Illini won 91-62 and Hill led the team with 20 points.

Balanced scoring fuels llliniBY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois men’s bas-ketball team did what was expected Friday night.

Illinois took care of Quin-cy in the team’s exhibition with a 91–62 victory over the Hawks.

“We did a lot of good things,” senior center Nnan-na Egwu said. “Offensively, sharing the ball. We’ve got a lot of things to get better on defensively, but overall, I thought we did play well.”

Although Quincy won the opening tip and scored the first points of the game, the outcome was never in doubt.

After Quincy scored the first three points of the game, the Illini went on a 17-0 run to mount a lead they wouldn’t relinquish for the remainder of the game.

Quincy played sloppy and looked outmatched in terms

of talent. The Hawks shot 26.7 percent from the field and missed all four of their 3-point attempts in the first half.

Illinois, on the other hand, showed off its depth with 10 players seeing playing time in the first half. The Illini finished the first half with a 37-20 lead on 41.7 percent shooting.

Illinois also shot relatively well from behind the 3-point line. The Illini seemed confi-dent from three in the game, shooting 30 threes and hit-ting 36.7 percent of them.

The second half was more of the same as the Illini con-tinued their hot shooting and expanded their lead.

Quincy reeled in the Illi-ni and cut the lead to few-er than 20 points midway through the second half, but the Illini offense proved too potent.

The stout defense that became Illinois’ calling card last season was still evident for parts of the game Fri-day. Egwu finished the game with five blocks. But for head coach John Groce, the Illini’s defensive effort was lacking.

“We’ve got to be better defensively,” Groce said. “We just didn’t guard the basketball very well.

“I’m much more con-cerned about the (defen-sive) end of the floor. I didn’t think we were very good on that end. They had too many dribble penetration oppor-tunities that led to offensive rebounds. We’ve got to take a lot more pride in keeping the basketball in front.”

Sophomore guard Mal-colm Hill led the Illini in scoring with 20 points, two rebounds and two assists on the night. Hill played excep-tionally well in the first half

with 14 points.“I feel like I’ve gotten a lot

stronger and I feel like my offense has gotten better,” Hill said.

Leron Black was also impressive on both sides of the ball and on the glass for Illinois. The freshman for-ward finished with 15 points and eight rebounds. Four Illi-ni finished in double-figures scoring. Joining Hill and Black were guards Rayvonte Rice and Aaron Cosby, each with 11 points.

For Egwu, no matter how the team played, it was nice to just be back on the court at State Farm Center.

“It was good getting out here and playing in front of our fans,” Egwu said.

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

In the season’s first exhibition game, Quincy won the

opening tip and quickly converted an old-fashioned three-point play to take a 3-0 lead over Illinois.

The Illini swung back, jumping out to a 17-3 lead, but the Hawks proved they were far from the worst team to grace the floor in the 51-year history of State Farm Center. Quincy com-peted, and led by Godson Eneogwe’s 14 points, it kept Illinois on its toes.

The Hawks hung within 20 points most of the night, forcing Illinois to play hard until the 91-62 result was final.

Other than offering a slightly better showing than this columnist e x p e c t -ed, Quin-cy pretty much did what it was sup-posed to do Fri-day night at State F a r m C e n t e r . As most exhibition games go, the inferior team came in, got beat handily, and we got an idea of what the Illini might have in store for us this season.

One of the biggest take-aways from Friday was the apparent acceleration of the Illinois offense. It appears the third edition

of Illinois basketball under Groce will run at a faster pace than what we’ve seen the last two years. Led by point guard Ahmad Starks, the Illini looked to push the ball in a secondary break after pulling down missed shots on the defensive end. They hoisted 30 threes, which no doubt is an indi-cation of things to come. Make no mistake, the Illi-ni will let it fly from deep this season.

Groce has been known for his up-tempo offenses in his career, but wasn’t able to implement it to his liking due to the personnel he had in the last two years. It looks like this year, Illi-nois will essentially plug in four guards to its start-ing lineup (Starks, Aaron Cosby, Rayvonte Rice and Malcolm Hill) to surround center Nnanna Egwu with capable scorers on the perimeter. Rice, Cosby and Hill all possess a com-

bination of size and strength to mix it up inside as well.

S p e a k -ing of Mal-colm Hill: Oh, boy. Every fac-et of Hill’s game looks light years better than last season. His jump-

er, his handles, his con-fidence, everything. The sophomore scored 20 points on 6-of-10 shooting while hitting six out of seven free throws.

Hill was the best play-er on the floor Friday, and

ALEX ROUX

Basketball columnist

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BY BRETT LERNERSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s basketball team made the most of its only pre-season exhibition game. Although the opponent was Division III school Millikin, Illinois and head coach Matt Bollant still seemed to send a message.

Despite the fact that the win won’t count towards Illinois’ regu-lar season record, the 108-38 victo-ry showed a lot about the Illini. The squad showed that they’ve greatly improved in the spots they strug-gled in last year but still have a lot of room to grow.

The main issue Illinois had to deal with last season was depth. The scrimmage showed that Bollant has done a lot since the end of last sea-son to change that.

“A lot of different people can score, which is exciting to have more weap-ons offensively than we’ve had in the past,” Bollant said.

The mix of freshman and transfers expected to make an impact showed their value to the Illinois fan base against Millikin. Top-100 recruits Chatrice White and Amarah Cole-man set the bar high for their per-formance heading into the regu-lar season. White is someone who adds depth down low and has been referred to by Bollant as a “program changer.” She had a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds in only 16 minutes on the floor.

“(My debut) was a little rocky I think, but once I kind of settled down, I felt a little more comfortable out there,” White said.

Coleman added 10 points with four assists and three rebounds in just 14 minutes.

Production from newcomers didn’t stop at the two highly touted fresh-man. Redshirt junior Kyley Simmons transferred from Missouri and sat out last season. She poured in 17

points in her first appearance with the Illini.

“It’s fun to be able to take care of the ball,” Bollant said. “I don’t know how many games in the past two years that we’ve had double the assists that we did turnovers, I don’t think that’s happened many times and (Simmons) was a big part of that.”

Brittany Carter also added 15 points, and is expected to be an important senior presence after transferring from Ball State just a few months ago.

Illinois made it obvious that Bol-lant will have a tough job this season choosing his lineup. He’s going to be able to consistently go 11 deep off the bench, a good problem to have.

“I think the starting five have sepa-rated themselves from the next five,

but the next five is really open so we’ll see down the road who steps up,” Bollant said.

The 108 points was another indica-tion that Illinois has improved since last season. The total is hard to make judgements on, because of the com-petition level, but the fact that sev-en different Illini scored in double digits proves Illinois is getting bet-ter quickly.

Bollant sees one big issue that his team needs to work on before the offi-cial season opener on Friday.

“We thought we’d be a little farther along than we were but this week, we’ve got to get better defensively and grow as a team,” Bollant said.

Brett can be reached at [email protected] and @Blerner10.

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Kyley Simmons (15) lays the ball up during the exhibition game against Millikin at State Farm Center on Saturday. The Illini won 108-38.

KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Michelle Strizak, filling in for Morganne Criswell, spikes the ball past Northwestern’s block during the volleyball game against Northwestern at Huff Hall on Saturday.

Illini crush Millikin in pre-season opener

Illini one-ups Wildcats in 4BY STEPHEN BOURBONSTAFF WRITER

For the Illinois volleyball team, it didn’t take long to exact their revenge - only three days, in fact.

Following a five-set dis-appointment against North-western on Wednesday, the Illini rebounded against the Wildcats at Huff Hall on Saturday, pulling out a four-set victory.

“ W e needed to be better p a s s i n g and on offense. I thought we took steps for-ward in t h a t , ” senior Liz M c M a -hon said.

J o c -e l y n n Birks led the way with 14 kills and a season-high 21 digs for her fifth straight double-double and confer-ence-leading 15th for the season. McMahon chipped in 14 kills, while Michelle

Strizak filled in for Mor-ganne Criswell in the third and fourth sets and finished with six kills.

“I thought we were much better offensively. We really struggled to score (Wednesday),” head coach Kevin Hambly said. “Joc-elynn scored early, and I thought Lizzie did a good job of scoring late.”

In Evanston on Wednes-day, it was the Wildcats

who opened the match a s t h e aggressors by winning the first two sets, but the Illini rolled in the first set on Sat-urday, tak-ing it 25-15.

I l l i n o i s p l a y e d s t i f l i n g defense in

the first set, particular-ly on Northwestern right side hitter Kayla Morin. The sophomore was held without a kill in the open-

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“We knew what that team was capable of, so there was a sense of urgency to finish it out in four sets.”

LIZ MCMAHONSENIOR OPPOSITE HITTER

It appears the third edition of Illinois basketball under

Groce will run at a faster pace than what we’ve seen the last

two years

MEN’S BASKETBALLILL VS. QUINCY (EXHIBITION)FRI: ILL 91. QUINCY 62STATE FARM CENTER

VOLLEYBALLILL VS. NUSAT: ILL 3, NU 1HUFF HALL

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLILL VS. MILLIKIN (EXHIBITION)SAT: ILL 108, MILLIKIN 38STATE FARM CENTER

MEN’S TENNISITA NATIONAL INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPSTHURS-SUN: TIM KOPINSKI AND ROSS GUIGNON FINISHED AS TOURNAMENT RUNNER-UPFLUSHING, NY

WEEKEND ROUNDUP:HOCKEYILL VS. AURORA FRI: ILL 4, AURORA 2SAT: AURORA 7, ILL 4ILLINOIS ICE ARENA

SWIMMINGKANSAS DOUBLEDUAL MEETSAT: KAN 154, ILL 146ILL 254, TABOR 29LAWRENCE, KS

WRESTLINGILLINI QUAD MEETSUN: ALL DAYHUFF HALL

BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY STAFF WRITER

Tim Kopinski and Ross Guignon took second place at the ITA Intercollegiate Indoor National Champion-ships this weekend as they put together their best per-formance of the fall.

The pair came into the season as the No. 2 doubles team in the country, but it’s been an up and down season. After a first round loss at ITA All-Americans, the pair went onto the consolation finals. A few weeks ago, they dropped only their match at Texas A&M’s Conference Challenge. This weekend, Kopinski and Guingon’s play reflected their preseason ranking.

“I think we’ve been pro-gressing as the semester’s gone along, each of us indi-vidually, and then it sort of came out as a team this weekend,” Guignon said. “We’re just trying to play our best tennis ... We feel like if we’re playing our best ten-nis we can beat anybody.”

Kopinski and Guignon received an at-large bid for the tournament. In their opening match, they defeat-ed the ITA Atlantic Regional Champions, Ryan Shane and Luca Corintelli of Virginia, 6-3, 6-2. A 7-6(4), 6-3, quar-terfinal win against Central Regional Champions Tomis-lav Gregurovic and Tin Osto-jic of Wichita State advanced the Illini to the finals. In the first set against the Shock-ers, Kopinski and Guignon came all the way back from a 4-1 deficit to win.

“They played worry-free tennis ... They weren’t worried about ‘who are we playing’ and ‘what does this mean,’” assistant coach Marcos Asse said. “They got back to just playing and when they do that, get a lot of clarity out of their game, start executing better, play with less nerves, a lot of posi-tives come out of that.”

The pair lost a tough final match to the tournament’s No. 1 seeded team, USC’s Yannick Hanfmann and Roberto Quiroz. Asse said USC came up with some shots that even they were

surprised by. According to Asse, after the match, USC’s coach said that to say they got lucky was an understatement.

There’s no time to rest for Kopinski and Guignon, though. They’re entered in the Atkins Center’s JSM Challenger doubles brack-et as a wild card this week.

Jared Hiltzik also com-peted for the Illini in New York. He lost a hard-fought three set opening match to No. 28 Ryan Shane of Virgin-ia, the same opponent that Kopinski and Guignon faced. Hiltzik won his first match in the consolation bracket over TCU’s Cameron Nor-rie but then fell to Roberto Cid of South Florida. Hiltzik entered the tournament on a five match losing streak, dating back to the Midwest Regional final. Despite the 1-2 performance this week-

end, Asse said he thinks Hilt-izk improved throughout the tournament.

“As the tournament went on, he (Hiltzik) kind of found his game back a little bit and squeaked his way through a couple sets here and there. He ended up playing better than he started,” Asse said. “I think there’s something that’s missing when you haven’t won in a while, he’s put himself in a place to play better tennis where he can start winning again.”

Hiltzik will also compete in the JSM Challenger at Atkins Tennis Center this week as a wild card entry. While several Illini will com-pete, this ITA Indoor Nation-al Championship marks the end of the official fall season for Illinois.

Chris can be reached at [email protected].

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Height not holding back Starks

Swimming falls short of the Jayhawks

KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Tim Kopinski and Ross Guignon briefly celebrate during the NCAA Tennis Regionals at Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex on May 10. The duo took a second at the ITA Intercollegiate Indoor National Championships this past weekend.

BY SAM SHERMANSTAFF WRITER

When Ahmad Starks was in eighth grade, he played in a Boo Williams Invita-tional tournament in Vir-ginia. Almost everyone in the tournament was 15-years-old, except for Starks. At 13, Starks was good enough to jump two age levels.

Starks’ team made it all the way to the champion-ship game to take on the Boo Williams AAU team. Before the game, some of the older, taller kids who weren’t familiar with Starks’ abilities began to talk.

“I was playing a bunch of 15-year-olds. Obviously they’re bigger and stron-ger and in high school, but there was a lot of talk going on, basically saying ‘He’s too small’ and all this oth-er stuff,” S t a r k s said.

The kid that the b i g g e r kids were c a l l i n g too small scored 22 points and e a r n e d MV P of the tourna-ment.

Through-out much of Starks’ life, he has been proving people wrong. There is no sport where height can be as much of an advantage, or disadvan-tage, as it is in basketball.

However, Starks’ has never viewed his height as a weakness.

“Some people say it’s a disadvantage, or you’re looked down upon because of it, but there are also

things I can do that other people can’t,” Starks said.

Starks’ might only be 5-foot-9, but lucky for him, there’s no height require-ment for a gym.

After having his hard-ship waiver to play imme-diately denied by the NCAA a year ago, Starks had to sit out last season. He took full advantage and added even more strength to his frame.

Illinois head coach John Groce witnessed these changes first hand.

“He’s really strong,” Groce said. “He weighs 171 pounds and bench presses 290. You don’t see that very often from a guy who is 171 pounds.”

Senior point guard Tra-cy Abrams tore his ACL last month. To many, that news threw a wrench in the plans of a big season for the Illini.

Abrams b r o u g h t s e n i o r l e a d -e r s h i p , a g g r e s -s i v e d e f e n s e and solid offensive c o n t r i -but io n s . While the i n j u r y will hurt the Illini in some w a y s , G r o c e

knows what Starks brings to the table.

“He’s really gifted offen-sively,” Groce said. “He’s a high-level shot maker. He’s a great ball handler. He makes good decisions, and his assist-to-turnover ratio throughout the course of his career has always been really good.”

You don’t often hear

coaches wanting their players to make more mis-takes, but Starks’ case is a little different. Groce wants Starks to make more mistakes so he can be more aggressive and less cautious.

Starks’ role changed since Abrams’ tore his ACL. He went from being an offensive sparkplug coming off the bench to more than likely the team’s starting point guard.

Senior Rayvonte Rice, who led the Illini in scor-ing last season, noticed that nothing seems to get in Starks’ way. Starks isn’t afraid to take on any chal-lange, including pulling up a shot on Nnanna Egwu.

Rice also hasn’t been afraid to joke with Starks when it comes to his height.

“I call him ‘Little Man’ sometimes, and other short jokes,” Rice laughed. “He drives a big Hummer, but he’s such a little guy.”

Rice said the jokes are not one sided, however.

Jokes about Rice’s weight have been thrown around at his expense.

Egw u has been impressed with what he’s seen from his new point guard. Starks continues to take on any challenge he’s faced with despite his height disadvantage.

“I don’t even think he knows he’s 5-foot-9,” Egwu said. “He plays big, he plays aggressive and he plays strong. It doesn’t even come to his mind, he probably thinks he’s 6-foot-4 because that’s how he plays, and that’s what I love about him.”

When Starks got the news that he wasn’t going to be able to play last sea-son, it was tough for him. Little did he know that this season, the success of Illini will rest heavily on his play at point guard.

Sam can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @Sam_Sherman5.

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Ahmad Starks shoots a 3-pointer during the exhibition game against Quincy at State Farm Center on Friday.

BY DANIEL COLLINSSTAFF WRITER

It was a meet of millisec-onds for the Illinois swim-ming and diving team as the meet against Kansas on Sat-urday came down to the last event.

The Illini lost 154-146 by three-hundredths of a second.

A tight finish was only fitting seeing as the Illini started off the meet win-ning by 18-hundreths of a second in the 200 medley relay. From that point on, things remained neck and neck.

“It was a great situation for the team to be in,” said head coach Sue Novitsky of the close meet. “Figur-ing out how to handle those high-pressure situations, but still be able to stay relaxed and perform.”

Novitsky said part of learning how to swim in pressure situations is by blocking out all the dis-tractions around you and not making the event any bigger than it really is.

In order to accomplish this, the team implements deep breathing and visual-ization exercises.

“If you overthink things and your brain gets in the way of your body, then you’re not able to perform the way you ideally have been in training.” Novitsky said. “People were tripping up on themselves and get-ting in their own way a lit-tle bit.”

Amidst the pressure of the event, senior Alison Meng set the Kansas pool record in the 100 backstroke with a time of 55.16 seconds and won the 100 butterfly.

For Meng, taking the positives out of the event and not dwelling on what small details could have

changed the outcome will help the team moving for-ward in other competitive competitions.

“In close meets like this, races can go one way or the other; you just never know,” Meng said. “Having a pos-itive attitude throughout will be the deciding factor ... because if we win a cou-ple (events), it totally chang-es the momentum, and that positivity will carry over to big invites and big events.”

Besides Meng, the perfor-mances of freshman Saman-tha Stratford and the diving squad helped keep the meet a seesaw battle.

Stratford won the 100 and 200 breaststroke. She also raced in the 400 individu-al medley for the first time in her collegiate career and finished second with a time of 4:26.13, placing her ninth all time in Illinois history in that event.

On the boards, the Illini secured first place finish-es in both the 1-meter and the 3-meter dive, won by senior Erika Murphy and sophomore Olivia Kassou-ni, respectively.

Had the Illini touched the wall four-hundredths of a second sooner in their last event — the 200 free-style relay — their record would have been 4-1 on the year. Instead, they are 3-2 and will use this meet as a stepping stone against high-er competition later in the season.

“In the end, this can real-ly help us in the long run,” Novitsky said of the meet. “Once you get to the Big Ten Championship, every race is going to be a tight race.”

Daniel can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @chisports2.

“He’s really gifted offensively. He’s a high-level shot

maker. He’s a great ball handler He makes good

decisions.”JOHN GROCE

MEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH

Kopinski, Guignon get to 2nd placeing set and finished with 10 kills and nine errors. Morin produced against the Illi-ni on Wednesday, tallying 15 kills on the match, but was not nearly as effective Saturday.

The Wildcats were led by Symone Abbott who had 13 kills with eight errors. Northwestern hit .071 as a team.

“We did a much better job on their two lefts (Morin and Abbott),” Hambly said. “I thought (Abbott) was bringing what she could really bring and we were still stopping her. Same with (Morin), I thought we did a great job block-ing her and then picking up her shots.”

For the second consec-utive match, Northwest-ern middle blocker Katie Dutchman was a non-fac-tor. Entering Wednesday’s match, the senior was sec-ond in the conference in hitting percentage at .406.

The Illini held her to eight kills in each of the two matches.

After the Illini cruised in the first set, the rest of the match was tightly con-tested. The Illini pulled out the second set 26-24 but gave away a lead late in the set. Illinois led 19-15 but allowed Northwestern to briefly take a 23-22 lead.

In the third set, Illinois held a slim 20-18 lead only to have Northwestern go on a run and take the set 25-22.

With a lead late in the fourth set, the Illini were determined to not let this lead, or the match, slip away. With a 19-16 lead, Illinois ran off six consec-utive points to clinch the match.

“We knew what that team was capable of, so there was a sense of urgency to finish it out in four sets.” McMahon said.

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

he showed an impressive arsenal of skills on the offensive end. He could end up being a nightmare for opposing forwards this season, capable of creat-ing mismatches with his athleticism.

“I feel a lot stronger; my offense has gotten better,” Hill said. “All it is is confi-dence. When I was a fresh-man last year, I was a lit-tle nervous, I didn’t know what to expect. This year, I’m just playing, I’m just letting the game come to me.”

It wasn’t just the Mal-colm Hill show, either. Freshman Leron Black had an outstanding night, scoring 15 points on 7-of-9 shooting while being active on the boards with eight rebounds.

As the impressive show-ing from Black rolled along, a murmur from the State Farm Center crowd grew louder, as if the fans in attendance were all agree-ing upon the same thing: Illinois may have the best-kept secret in the Big Ten in the 6-foot-7 newcomer.

We’ll see how Black does when he runs into more ath-letic and competitive bigs, but his performance Fri-day night was encouraging.

Three of the players expected to have big years for the Illini this year —

Rice, Cosby and Starks — did some nice things, but didn’t steal the show. How-ever, it’s clear this will be a dangerous team when those three are connecting from beyond the arc. Egwu was, expectedly, a menace on defense, finishing with five blocks.

Overall, this Illinois team showed some serious potential offensively; they did it without sophomore Kendrick Nunn. He sat out as a precaution to keep his recovering knee fresh.

Groce expects him to be ready for the season open-er next Friday, and I’m intrigued to see what the Illini offense can do with another high-octane weap-on at its disposal.

At Illinois’ media day in early October, Groce and his players refused to put a ceiling on this team when asked how far it could go. That’s wise in my opin-ion, because there are def-initely things to improve on after tonight (especially defensively). But it certain-ly looks like Illinois has the pieces to have a solid year.

I’ve been to dozens of Illini exhibition games over the years, and they never really mean much. But this one left me opti-mistic about where this team could go.

Alex is a junior in AHS. He can be reached at [email protected] and @aroux94.

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Illini lost in the last event by three-hundredths of a second

Hiltzik still struggling but takes !rst win since ITA Midwest Regional

ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate ChampionshipsSummary: Tim Kopinski and Ross Guignon take second place at indoor national championships.Quote of the game: Ross Guignon — “I think we’ve been progressing as the semester’s gone along, each of us individually, and then it sort of came out as a team this weekend.” Hidden stat: Including his loss in the Midwest Regional final, Jared Hiltzik is 1-7 in his last eight matches. Up next: JSM Challenger, Atkins Tennis Center, Champaign, Ill., Monday through Friday

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BY ETHAN SWANSONSTAFF WRITER

Illinois wrestling opened its season at Huff Hall for the first time in 16 years on Sunday in a quad meet against Rider, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville and Northern Illinois.

The No. 11-ranked Illinois wrestling team started the day by defeating SIUE 44-0, winning seven of its 10 matches by either a fall (technical and by pin) or major decision. After a dominating team performance to begin the meet, the Illini squared off against a Rider squad that had three wrestlers ranked in the top 20 nationally. Nevertheless, Illinois went on to claim eight of the 10 matches in a decisive 29-6 team win, losing its only two matches by a combined total of six points. In his match against Rider’s J.R. Wert, senior Jesse Delgado registered a technical fall with a score of 22-5, while redshirt juniors Steven Rodrigues and Jeff Koepke won their respective matches against two of Rider’s three nationally ranked members. The Illini ended

the day with a convincing 37-10 team win over NIU, only dropping two matches: one by forfeit and the other by a 0-7 major decision.

“I thought we did pretty well today,” head coach Jim Heffernan said. “For the most part, we were really aggressive. There’s still just a lot of small things we need to clean up, but it’s early and that’s what this is for.”

Heffernan expressed his contentment with the entire Illinois wrestling team Sunday and especially gushed over his young talent, redshirt freshman Kyle Langenderfer and Isaiah Martinez.

“Those two guys have gigantic upside,” Heffernan said. “Langenderfer is a freaky athlete. He does stuff the right way. He turns the right way, he’s explosive, he’s got pushiness and he’s got grit.”

Langenderfer went 2-1 overall at 149 pounds Sunday afternoon, winning both his matches by a fall (one technical and one pin) while dropping his only match by one point in a 5-4 loss to Rider’s B.J. Clagon.

Martinez finished the day 3-0 at 157 pounds, claiming two of his wins by pin. Martinez entered the day ranked No. 9 nationally at 157 pounds, according to InterMat’s NCAA wrestling rankings. Both Martinez and his coach believe he solidified that ranking Sunday.

“We know exactly what we’re getting with Martinez,” Heffernan said. “We’ve seen the same thing for the past two years.”

“I think it was a good start,” Martinez said. “I’ll make my big statement when the Big Ten season comes around; then I’ll tell people I’m here to say.”

Illinois travels to Gilroy, California, Friday to face Appalachian State and Cal State Bakersfield.

Ethan Swanson can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @EthanSwanson88.

“We were really ag-gressive. There’s still just a lot of small things we need to clean up, but it’s early and that’s what this is for.”JIM HEFFERNANHEAD COACH

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KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jesse Delgado pins Rider’s Zach Valcarce during the wrestling match against Rider University at Huff Hall on Sunday.

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Mistakes cost the Illi-nois hockey team a sweep against Aurora University at home this weekend. Illi-nois won on Friday 4-2, but faltered Saturday, losing 7-4.

Illinois (10-5-0-0) got out to a slow start Friday, scoring a power-play goal in the fi rst period. Illinois and Aurora had six shot attempts each in the fi rst. Head coach Nick Fabbrini thought it was one of the team’s worst periods of the year.

“Complacency was a big issue in the fi rst,” Fabbri-ni said. “We just weren’t skating, making lazy plays, (making) bad decisions with the puck, (making) bad deci-sions without the puck, and I came in and made it pretty clear after the fi rst 20 (min-utes), that was not going to be acceptable.”

Illinois controlled the tempo in the second peri-od, scoring two goals on 14 shot attempts, while Auro-ra scored one goal on sev-en attempts. Despite only

three shot attempts in the third, Illinois was able to hold on to the lead and seal the victory.

After being swept by Lin-denwood last week, Friday’s win gave the Illini a morale boost.

“It was a nice bounce-back weekend for us because we had a rough go at Lindenwood,” junior John Olen said. “It was defi nitely a good way to turn around after a three-game losing streak there.”

Illinois’ win was short lived as Saturday’s game went much differently. After allowing three goals in the fi rst period, Fabbrini pulled goaltender Joe Olen and put in Zev Grumet-Morris.

Grumet-Morris’ spark was extinguished quickly. After making a few saves, he gave up two goals and Aurora took a 5-0 lead late in the second.

Illinois answered back when senior Kyle Varzino and John Olen scored each in a 43 second span.

That momentum carried over briefl y into the third period when a Joseph Riton-

dale goal cut the lead to 5-3. However, Illinois was unable to hold off Aurora’s attack and an empty-netter with a minute left ended the Illini’s hopes of a comeback.

The Illini accounted for 11 penalties on Saturday, compared to fi ve penalties on Friday. Fabbrini thought some of the extra penalties contributed to the loss Sat-urday night.

“We may have lost our composure a little bit, took a couple stupid penalties, offensive zone stick penal-ties. We had four or fi ve of them today and those are just not acceptable,” Fabbri-ni said. “Tripping a guy 200 feet from our net, there’s not a whole lot of upside in that.”

Coming off Saturday’s loss, Fabbrini believes adjusting ice time will send a message to his play-ers to get rid of committing unnecessary penalties.

“I need to do a better job of taking away guys’ ice time,” Fabbrini said. “That really seems to be the only thing that changes decision making around here is lack

of playing time. Sometimes it’s our best players that are taking these penalties, guys that we need on the ice to score goals so it really kind of puts us in a tough spot.”

The next series for Illi-

nois will be at the Big Pond against Iowa State. Forward Jacob Matysiak doesn’t want to see his team split another series at home.

“We’re too good of a team to win a game and then lose

a game the next night,” Matysiak said.

Matt can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @MattGertsmeier.

Illinois hockey splits with Aurora

KEVIN VOGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Kyle Varzino tries to keep the puck away from Ohio during the Ohio hockey game at the Ice Arena on Oct. 24. The Illini had a pair of matches this weekend against Aurora.

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