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BY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER

Timothy Killeen was appointed the University’s 20th president this semes-ter, succeeding President Robert Easter when he retires in July 2015.

The former vice chan-cellor of State Universi-ty of New York was intro-duced as the next University president Wednesday Nov. 19 at press conferences on each of the three University

campuses. The 62-year-old Wales

native and U.S. citizen has over 30 years experience in higher education, serv-ing roles in administration and as a researcher in geo-physics and space sciences at the University of Mich-igan, according to a press release from the Board of Trustees.

Killeen earned his Ph.D. from University College of London at age 23 and has

received three achievement awards from NASA.

For him, Killeen said working at the University is a homecoming of sorts because all of his past work led him to Illinois. The president-elect already has big picture goals for the institution.

“I am a genetic optimist, which is not a scientific term, I have one gear and that’s moving forward with optimism,” Killeen said.

The University president is the chief executive officer of the University, as well as the executive agent of the Board of Trustees. Killeen will work with the board to establish general University goals and practices.

“One of the great things about Tim Killeen is his global mission to empower and educate the people of the state but to also serve

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BY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER

In February, the Univer-sity came under fire after a series of articles revealed that a former criminal, James Kilgore, was working as an adjunct professor in the University’s Center for

African Studies program. Kilgore was soon after

told that his contract would not be renewed for the fol-lowing school year. Suspi-cious of the chain of events, Kilgore, along with other faculty and students, chal-lenged the University’s

decision.Kilgore said he was clear

with the University on his background as a member of the Symbionese Libera-tion Army, which he served time for.

On Nov. 10, Friends of Kilgore, a group of support-

ers for the former profes-sor, held a rally outside of the Henry Administration Building urging the Board of Trustees to decide to rein-state Kilgore at its upcom-ing meeting =on Nov. 13.

Friends of Kilgore were successful in their efforts

and it was announced after the meeting that the pro-fessor would be allowed to be hired by any University units.

In a previous interview with the The Daily Illini in November, Kilgore said he thinks it’s important the

Board of Trustees is not “micromanaging,” and that faculty who have been given the authority and responsi-bility to make decisions are able to do so.

At the time, Kilgore had

After controversy, Board allows Kilgore’s return to University

BY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER

On Sept. 11, the Board of Trustees voted 8-1 to reject the appointment of Steven Salaita to the American Indi-an Studies program on the Urbana campus.

“I’ve come to the conclu-sion that Professor Salai-ta’s approach indicates that he indeed (is) incapable of fostering a classroom envi-ronment where conflicting opinions (are) given equal consideration regardless of the issue being discussed,” said University President Robert Easter during the board meeting.

The controversy surround-ing the former Virginia Tech professor began this sum-mer when several of Salai-ta’s tweets regarding the Israeli government and its most recent incursion into the Gaza Strip were brought to Chancellor Phyllis Wise’s attention. She notified Salaita via email on Aug. 1 that she would not be forwarding his appointment to the board for approval.

Some of the tweets in ques-tion ranged from, “Only #Israel can murder around 300 children in the span of a few weeks and insist that it is the victim. #Gaza #GazaUn-derAttack,” to “At this point, if Netanyahu appeared on TV with a necklace made from the teeth of Palestinian chil-dren, would anybody be sur-prised? #Gaza.”

Speaking at a press con-ference held at the Universi-ty YMCA on Sept. 9, Salaita addressed the tweets, which he believes were “critical of recent Israeli human rights violations.”

Salaita asserted that label-ing his tweets as uncivil is highly subjective and sets a dangerous precedent for future faculty members with unconventional beliefs.

“My comments were not made in a classroom or on campus; they were made through my personal Twit-ter account,” Salaita said at the press conference. “The University’s policing and

Salaita controversy continues

Salaita sues UISteven Salaita and

his legal team filed a request under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, asking for emails containing 14 keywords sent between University officials during the month before Chancellor Phyllis Wise notified Salaita she would not forward his appointment to the Board of Trustees.

The request was made on Sept. 17, six days after the Board of Trustees officially rejected Salaita’s appointment. The University responded to his request, stating the FOIA request was “unduly burdensome” and urged Salaita to narrow his request.

Salaita filed a new request on Oct. 15, asking for emails between 15 University officials over a three-month period, according to the lawsuit.

The second request was also rejected by the University, which stated that it would require viewing 8,000 to 10,000 emails. Salaita filed the FOIA request again on Nov. 5, but reduced the timeframe to one month. He claims he never received a response.

The lawsuit was filed in Champaign County and asks the court to order the trustees to give Salaita the requested documents; admit to violating the act; and to award civil penalties, reasonable attorney fees and any other compensation deemed appropriate by the court.

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African-American student enrollment has steadily declined for the Unversity over the past decade.

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Over the last decade, the African-American popula-tion on campus has faced a heavy decrease.

Only 356 African-Amer-ican freshmen enrolled in the fall semester, of the 945 that were accepted into the University, according to the Division of Management Information.

The yield — the number of students that enrolled in relation to those accepted — has fallen below that of the incoming class of African-

American freshmen in fall 1968, the year “Project 500” took place. The project was an initiative to boost African-American enrollment follow-ing the assassination of Mar-tin Luther King Jr.

Corey Evans, Men of Impact president and senior in AHS, agreed the increase in tuition plays a potential role in turning African-American students away.

“I would say that the tuition increase is probably one of the biggest factors

African-American enrollment drops

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINITimothy Killeen, president-elect, sits as he is introduced to campus at the Illini Union on Nov. 19.

DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOSteven Salaita’s appointment to the American Indian studies program was rejected by the University Board of Trustees after a series of inflamatory tweets.

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Decision led to student and sta! protests, lawsuit

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BY CHARLOTTE COLLINSSTAFF WRITER

Carle Foundation Hospi-tal’s mission says it “serves people through high quali-ty care.” But some Urbana residents, including Alder-man Charlie Smyth, Ward 1, expressed concern about how much the hospital truly cares about its residents after open-ing their property tax bills to a 10 to 11 percent increase, due in large part to the hospi-tal’s tax-exempt status.

“Carle has an ethical and a moral responsibility to the community,” Smyth said in October. “They’re soiling their own backyard.”

Smyth was not alone in thinking the hospital was out-of-line to claim tax-exemp-tion; some Urbana residents put signs in their yards in protest of the hospital’s exemption, reading “My fam-ily pays Carle’s share of tax-es,” among other messages attacking the hospital’s busi-ness model.

Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing said she believes Carle could easily pay its taxes and that the burden of extra property tax is placed onto Urbana residents. The city of Urbana accounts for approximately 87 percent of the property Carle oper-ates on.

“Carle could much more easily pay its $10 million out of its $116 million profi ts

than the city can afford a $1 million cut in its operating budget,” Prussing said in an October interview.

While some Urbana offi -cials and residents felt unnec-essarily targeted by the hos-pital’s tax-exemption, the legality of Carle’s status has been approved by the courts.

Article IX Section 6 of the Illinois Constitution states that certain bodies may qual-ify for tax-exemption given that they are “used exclusive-ly for agricultural and hor-ticultural societies, and for school, religious, cemetery and charitable purposes.”

After Carle Clinic and the Carle Foundation Hospital’s 2009 merger, they were fi rst granted their tax-exempt status. Three years later, SB 2194, a 2012 amendment passed by Illinois General Assembly, permitted Carle, a not-for-profi t hospital, to be tax-exempt on the basis of “charitable purposes.”

Despite the legality of the hospital’s tax-exemption, some Urbana citizens argued that Carle would have a bet-ter relationship with the res-idents it serves if it contin-ued to pay property taxes as in the past. Some locals believe Carle’s fi nancial suc-cess more than qualifi es the hospital to carry on paying property taxes.

The Concerned Citizens of Urbana is a group of

residents that have band-ed together in opposition to Carle’s tax-exemption and the resulting increase in taxes for Urbana residents. The group was actively involved in the making of yard signs that displayed opposition to Carle.

Dannie Otto, member of Concerned Citizens of Urba-na, believes that Carle could manage to pay the proper-ty taxes as it did in the past, while some Urbana residents will struggle to manage with the extra fi nancial burden.

“My tax bill went up about $1,000 in 2012 to 2013,” Otto said in a November interview. “And this will continue for years to come. Carle Hospi-tal is making a net income of at least 25 percent, mean-ing they are extremely prof-itable with the money they have left over. Most compa-nies wouldn’t even dream of that much net operation income.”

In November, Carle offered the city four grants, totalling $100,800, to help with the cost of Urbana’s police and fi re protection. Seeing it as a “bribe” to quell or silence the ongoing issue between Carle and Urbana, Prussing refused the grants.

“You don’t get to choose what taxes you pay for,” Prussing said in a Novem-ber interview.

The city of Urbana has since fi led a suit against Carle regarding their tax exemption. The University has been invited to join the conversation by Prussing this December, who said that it is “in the long-term interest of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to pro-mote healthy and sustainable local communities in order to attract students, faculty and staff.”

Charlotte can be reached at [email protected].

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not received any offers of employment from Univer-sity units; however he was hopeful of returning to his job with the Center for Afri-can Studies.

“It just means an opportu-nity for me to teach, which I really enjoy, and to re-estab-lish my connection to Africa, where I lived for almost two decades,” Kilgore said. “And the Center for African Stud-ies has been very important

to me in terms of maintain-ing that connection.”

Since the November decision, Kilgore has been hired as an adjunct lecturer by the Global Studies pro-gram. Kilgore will teach an eight-week class during the 2015 spring semester titled, “Sweat Shops or Flat World Opportunities? Exploring the New World of Work.”

Kilgore declined to com-ment on his employment at this time.

Abigale can be reached at [email protected]

judgment of those messages places any faculty member at risk of termination if Univer-sity administrators deem the tone or content of his or her speech ‘uncivil.’”

At the board’s Sept. 11 meeting, Wise chose to for-ward Salaita’s appointment to the trustees, although she expressed her belief that Salaita should be rejected for a position in the Ameri-can Indian Studies program.

Prior to September’s vote, the University faced wide-spread criticism for denying Salaita a tenured position at the Urbana campus.

More than 5,000 academ-ics have participated in an ongoing boycott against the University, resulting in numerous guest lecturers

cancelling their appearanc-es. In the weeks leading up to Salaita’s rejection by the board, the American Asso-ciation of University Profes-sors sent a letter to Wise urg-ing her to reinstate Salaita to the program and 14 academic departments issued votes of no confi dence in Wise.

“I’m saddened that this has happened, obviously, because no confi dence real-ly means that they have no confi dence in my leadership, and I take that very serious-ly,” Wise said in an interview with The Daily Illini Editorial Board in October. “I hope we can have a good conversation and a better understanding and even if we don’t come to total agreement, we at least understand and respect each other.”

In addition to the boycott and votes of no confi dence, a Change.org petition calling

for Salaita’s reinstatement reached more than 19,000 signatures, as of press time. Several student and faculty-led protests took place across campus in the weeks leading up to the board’s vote.

However, there were also those who supported the trustees’ move to reject Salai-ta’s appointment. Speaking at the Sept. 11 meeting, Josh Cooper, senior in LAS, pre-sented a petition supporting Chancellor Wise consisting of more than 1,000 student sig-natures compiled in 48 hours.

“Chancellor Wise, we admire your courage, your wisdom and your ongoing efforts to ensure civility on our campus,” Cooper said, quoting the petition. “Hate speech is never acceptable for those applying for a ten-ured position. Incitement of violence is never accept-able, (and) yes, there must be

a relationship between free speech and civility.”

The University adminis-tration also took heat over hundreds of emails released through a Freedom of Infor-mation Act request, which revealed days before Wise notifi ed Salaita she would not be forwarding his appoint-ment to the board, she was lobbied extensively by a handful of students, alumni and donors opposed to Salai-ta’s appointment.

While the names of those in email communication were redacted, many could easi-ly be identifi ed as Universi-ty alumni and donors from the content of their messages, some of which explicitly stat-ed that they would no longer contribute to the University if Salaita was hired.

“We will now cease our annual contributions to the University and will let our

fellow alumni know why we are doing so,” an alumnus said in an email dated July 24. “We will encourage others to join us in this protest, as per-haps fi nancial consequences will sway you even though morals, common sense and decency did not.”

At his Sept. 9 press con-ference, Salaita expressed concern over the possi-ble infl uence donors may have had over an academic appointment.

“This risks creating a Pal-estinian exception to the First Amendment and to academic freedom,” Salaita said. “The ability of wealthy donors and the politically powerful to create exceptions to bedrock principles should be worrying to all scholars and teachers.”

However, Wise defended the Board’s decision to The Daily Illini Editorial Board,

stating donors had no direct infl uence over the vote.

“Everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve tried to reemphasize that I was not at all infl uenced by donors,” Wise said. “I nev-er went back and checked whether they had been a donor or whether they were possibly going to be a donor, whether we were talking with them already about a possi-ble gift.”

Although nearly three months have passed since the board rejected his appoint-ment, Salaita’s fi ght against the University has contin-ued to make headlines. In a recent conversation with the Daily Illini, Salaita said he still hopes to join the AIS pro-gram and work with the Uni-versity to put the controversy in the past.

Josh can be reached at [email protected].

the industries that are a part of that state’s economy,” Board of Trustees Chair-man Christopher Kennedy said at the press conference in November.

Additional responsibili-ties include ensuring con-tinued economic support for the University and rep-resenting the University to the state government, the public, corporate and civic leaders, alumni and donors.

“State funding is one prob-lem, investment support, research, grant funding, there are many pieces which contribute to this problem,” Killeen said. “And I think what I would like to do is to really indulge the exciting value proposition of what the University of Illinois is to the state, for the state and for the population.”

Killeen also said his goals for the University center around student diversi-ty, affordability, economic revitalization and faculty recruitment.

He stated that he hoped to do a “listening and learning tour” in January after the holidays, however no offi cial plans have been made yet.

As president, Killeen will make an annual base salary of $600,000. With potential performance and retention bonuses, he could make up to $730,000 per year. Killeen will outearn his predecessor by $121,442 a year. His com-pensation is ranked seventh out of all Big Ten presidents.

Killeen said he and Easter are going to stay connect-ed and be partners, even though he said, “Easter thinks he can get away as he moves toward retirement.”

Killeen is insistent on collaboration and team-work with all other Uni-versity offi cials and facul-ty as well.“We’re not going to come in with a blueprint and say this is how it’s going to be,” Killeen stated. “I’m going to be insistent upon motion and mentoring, building enthusiasm and optimism.”


because, statistically speak-ing, it’s harder for African-Americans coming from lower-income families than other students,” Evans said in October.

Keith Marshall, associate provost, said in an email in October that administration monitors admissions data and enrollments carefully, and the Offi ce of Undergraduate Admissions has been aware of the decline in African-American enrollments “for some time.”

With respect to the cause for the decrease, Marshall said surveys conducted suggest that students who applied to the University but chose not to attend did so pri-

marily due to the high cost of tuition and the lack of suffi -cient fi nancial aid.

“The University of Illinois is committed to enrolling a diverse freshman class, and the decreasing enrollments of African-American stu-dents is unacceptable to any-one committed to that goal,” Marshall said.

Rory James, director of the Bruce D. Nesbitt Afri-can American Cultural Cen-ter, said in October he consid-ers the tuition a major factor in the decline.

“I just fi nd it personal-ly, and professionally, prob-lematic when black students from Illinois who really want to come here can’t come to a land-grant institution,” James said.

James said he has faith in the University to increase the

numbers, if the center con-tinues to engage in conversa-tion with University admin-istration to come up with solutions to encourage more African-Americans to attend the University.

“We have to make (Afri-can-Americans) feel like they’re welcome and we have to make them feel like they’re wanted here; I think when we start doing those things, we’ll see the numbers increase.” James said.

Renee Romano, vice chan-cellor for student affairs, said in December that admis-sions was partnering with the Offi ce of Inclusion and Intercultural relations, as well as the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, to involve students in the recruitment process.

“They have created a stu-

dent ambassador and a tele-counseling program that will involve our current students in hosting visiting prospec-tive students and tele-coun-seling, which will involve our current students calling pro-spective students throughout the decision-making pro-cess,” Romano said.

Romano said University administration continues to consider solving the decline a priority and have always been focused on supporting the University’s African-Ameri-can population, but have sig-nifi cantly been more engaged in the issue since last spring, participating discussions with student leaders on how the campus climate could be improved.

Faraz can be reached at [email protected].

ZOE GRANT THE DAILY ILLINIDr. William Sullivan of the department of landscape architecture gathers with fellow supporters of James Kilgore to speak with reporters outside the Henry Administration Building on Nov. 10.

CORINNE RUFF THE DAILY ILLINIUrbana residents opposed to Carle Foundation Hospital’s status tax exemption for charity work have been posting signs in their yards to show their disapproval.

City of Urbana burdened with Carle’s tax increase

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Carle Foundation Hospi-tal’s mission says it “serves people through high quali-ty care.” But some Urbana residents, including Alder-man Charlie Smyth, Ward 1, expressed concern about how much the hospital truly cares about its residents after open-ing their property tax bills to a 10 to 11 percent increase, due in large part to the hospi-tal’s tax-exempt status.

“Carle has an ethical and a moral responsibility to the community,” Smyth said in October. “They’re soiling their own backyard.”

Smyth was not alone in thinking the hospital was out-of-line to claim tax-exemp-tion; some Urbana residents put signs in their yards in protest of the hospital’s exemption, reading “My fam-ily pays Carle’s share of tax-es,” among other messages attacking the hospital’s busi-ness model.

Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing said she believes Carle could easily pay its taxes and that the burden of extra property tax is placed onto Urbana residents. The city of Urbana accounts for approximately 87 percent of the property Carle oper-ates on.

“Carle could much more easily pay its $10 million out of its $116 million profi ts

than the city can afford a $1 million cut in its operating budget,” Prussing said in an October interview.

While some Urbana offi -cials and residents felt unnec-essarily targeted by the hos-pital’s tax-exemption, the legality of Carle’s status has been approved by the courts.

Article IX Section 6 of the Illinois Constitution states that certain bodies may qual-ify for tax-exemption given that they are “used exclusive-ly for agricultural and hor-ticultural societies, and for school, religious, cemetery and charitable purposes.”

After Carle Clinic and the Carle Foundation Hospital’s 2009 merger, they were fi rst granted their tax-exempt status. Three years later, SB 2194, a 2012 amendment passed by Illinois General Assembly, permitted Carle, a not-for-profi t hospital, to be tax-exempt on the basis of “charitable purposes.”

Despite the legality of the hospital’s tax-exemption, some Urbana citizens argued that Carle would have a bet-ter relationship with the res-idents it serves if it contin-ued to pay property taxes as in the past. Some locals believe Carle’s fi nancial suc-cess more than qualifi es the hospital to carry on paying property taxes.

The Concerned Citizens of Urbana is a group of

residents that have band-ed together in opposition to Carle’s tax-exemption and the resulting increase in taxes for Urbana residents. The group was actively involved in the making of yard signs that displayed opposition to Carle.

Dannie Otto, member of Concerned Citizens of Urba-na, believes that Carle could manage to pay the proper-ty taxes as it did in the past, while some Urbana residents will struggle to manage with the extra fi nancial burden.

“My tax bill went up about $1,000 in 2012 to 2013,” Otto said in a November interview. “And this will continue for years to come. Carle Hospi-tal is making a net income of at least 25 percent, mean-ing they are extremely prof-itable with the money they have left over. Most compa-nies wouldn’t even dream of that much net operation income.”

In November, Carle offered the city four grants, totalling $100,800, to help with the cost of Urbana’s police and fi re protection. Seeing it as a “bribe” to quell or silence the ongoing issue between Carle and Urbana, Prussing refused the grants.

“You don’t get to choose what taxes you pay for,” Prussing said in a Novem-ber interview.

The city of Urbana has since fi led a suit against Carle regarding their tax exemption. The University has been invited to join the conversation by Prussing this December, who said that it is “in the long-term interest of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to pro-mote healthy and sustainable local communities in order to attract students, faculty and staff.”

Charlotte can be reached at [email protected].


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not received any offers of employment from Univer-sity units; however he was hopeful of returning to his job with the Center for Afri-can Studies.

“It just means an opportu-nity for me to teach, which I really enjoy, and to re-estab-lish my connection to Africa, where I lived for almost two decades,” Kilgore said. “And the Center for African Stud-ies has been very important

to me in terms of maintain-ing that connection.”

Since the November decision, Kilgore has been hired as an adjunct lecturer by the Global Studies pro-gram. Kilgore will teach an eight-week class during the 2015 spring semester titled, “Sweat Shops or Flat World Opportunities? Exploring the New World of Work.”

Kilgore declined to com-ment on his employment at this time.


judgment of those messages places any faculty member at risk of termination if Univer-sity administrators deem the tone or content of his or her speech ‘uncivil.’”

At the board’s Sept. 11 meeting, Wise chose to for-ward Salaita’s appointment to the trustees, although she expressed her belief that Salaita should be rejected for a position in the Ameri-can Indian Studies program.

Prior to September’s vote, the University faced wide-spread criticism for denying Salaita a tenured position at the Urbana campus.

More than 5,000 academ-ics have participated in an ongoing boycott against the University, resulting in numerous guest lecturers

cancelling their appearanc-es. In the weeks leading up to Salaita’s rejection by the board, the American Asso-ciation of University Profes-sors sent a letter to Wise urg-ing her to reinstate Salaita to the program and 14 academic departments issued votes of no confi dence in Wise.

“I’m saddened that this has happened, obviously, because no confi dence real-ly means that they have no confi dence in my leadership, and I take that very serious-ly,” Wise said in an interview with The Daily Illini Editorial Board in October. “I hope we can have a good conversation and a better understanding and even if we don’t come to total agreement, we at least understand and respect each other.”

In addition to the boycott and votes of no confi dence, a Change.org petition calling

for Salaita’s reinstatement reached more than 19,000 signatures, as of press time. Several student and faculty-led protests took place across campus in the weeks leading up to the board’s vote.

However, there were also those who supported the trustees’ move to reject Salai-ta’s appointment. Speaking at the Sept. 11 meeting, Josh Cooper, senior in LAS, pre-sented a petition supporting Chancellor Wise consisting of more than 1,000 student sig-natures compiled in 48 hours.

“Chancellor Wise, we admire your courage, your wisdom and your ongoing efforts to ensure civility on our campus,” Cooper said, quoting the petition. “Hate speech is never acceptable for those applying for a ten-ured position. Incitement of violence is never accept-able, (and) yes, there must be

a relationship between free speech and civility.”

The University adminis-tration also took heat over hundreds of emails released through a Freedom of Infor-mation Act request, which revealed days before Wise notifi ed Salaita she would not be forwarding his appoint-ment to the board, she was lobbied extensively by a handful of students, alumni and donors opposed to Salai-ta’s appointment.

While the names of those in email communication were redacted, many could easi-ly be identifi ed as Universi-ty alumni and donors from the content of their messages, some of which explicitly stat-ed that they would no longer contribute to the University if Salaita was hired.

“We will now cease our annual contributions to the University and will let our

fellow alumni know why we are doing so,” an alumnus said in an email dated July 24. “We will encourage others to join us in this protest, as per-haps fi nancial consequences will sway you even though morals, common sense and decency did not.”

At his Sept. 9 press con-ference, Salaita expressed concern over the possi-ble infl uence donors may have had over an academic appointment.

“This risks creating a Pal-estinian exception to the First Amendment and to academic freedom,” Salaita said. “The ability of wealthy donors and the politically powerful to create exceptions to bedrock principles should be worrying to all scholars and teachers.”

However, Wise defended the Board’s decision to The Daily Illini Editorial Board,

stating donors had no direct infl uence over the vote.

“Everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve tried to reemphasize that I was not at all infl uenced by donors,” Wise said. “I nev-er went back and checked whether they had been a donor or whether they were possibly going to be a donor, whether we were talking with them already about a possi-ble gift.”

Although nearly three months have passed since the board rejected his appoint-ment, Salaita’s fi ght against the University has contin-ued to make headlines. In a recent conversation with the Daily Illini, Salaita said he still hopes to join the AIS pro-gram and work with the Uni-versity to put the controversy in the past.


the industries that are a part of that state’s economy,” Board of Trustees Chair-man Christopher Kennedy said at the press conference in November.

Additional responsibili-ties include ensuring con-tinued economic support for the University and rep-resenting the University to the state government, the public, corporate and civic leaders, alumni and donors.

“State funding is one prob-lem, investment support, research, grant funding, there are many pieces which contribute to this problem,” Killeen said. “And I think what I would like to do is to really indulge the exciting value proposition of what the University of Illinois is to the state, for the state and for the population.”

Killeen also said his goals for the University center around student diversi-ty, affordability, economic revitalization and faculty recruitment.

He stated that he hoped to do a “listening and learning tour” in January after the holidays, however no offi cial plans have been made yet.

As president, Killeen will make an annual base salary of $600,000. With potential performance and retention bonuses, he could make up to $730,000 per year. Killeen will outearn his predecessor by $121,442 a year. His com-pensation is ranked seventh out of all Big Ten presidents.

Killeen said he and Easter are going to stay connect-ed and be partners, even though he said, “Easter thinks he can get away as he moves toward retirement.”

Killeen is insistent on collaboration and team-work with all other Uni-versity offi cials and facul-ty as well.“We’re not going to come in with a blueprint and say this is how it’s going to be,” Killeen stated. “I’m going to be insistent upon motion and mentoring, building enthusiasm and optimism.”


because, statistically speak-ing, it’s harder for African-Americans coming from lower-income families than other students,” Evans said in October.

Keith Marshall, associate provost, said in an email in October that administration monitors admissions data and enrollments carefully, and the Offi ce of Undergraduate Admissions has been aware of the decline in African-American enrollments “for some time.”

With respect to the cause for the decrease, Marshall said surveys conducted suggest that students who applied to the University but chose not to attend did so pri-

marily due to the high cost of tuition and the lack of suffi -cient fi nancial aid.

“The University of Illinois is committed to enrolling a diverse freshman class, and the decreasing enrollments of African-American stu-dents is unacceptable to any-one committed to that goal,” Marshall said.

Rory James, director of the Bruce D. Nesbitt Afri-can American Cultural Cen-ter, said in October he consid-ers the tuition a major factor in the decline.

“I just fi nd it personal-ly, and professionally, prob-lematic when black students from Illinois who really want to come here can’t come to a land-grant institution,” James said.

James said he has faith in the University to increase the

numbers, if the center con-tinues to engage in conversa-tion with University admin-istration to come up with solutions to encourage more African-Americans to attend the University.

“We have to make (Afri-can-Americans) feel like they’re welcome and we have to make them feel like they’re wanted here; I think when we start doing those things, we’ll see the numbers increase.” James said.

Renee Romano, vice chan-cellor for student affairs, said in December that admis-sions was partnering with the Offi ce of Inclusion and Intercultural relations, as well as the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, to involve students in the recruitment process.

“They have created a stu-

dent ambassador and a tele-counseling program that will involve our current students in hosting visiting prospec-tive students and tele-coun-seling, which will involve our current students calling pro-spective students throughout the decision-making pro-cess,” Romano said.

Romano said University administration continues to consider solving the decline a priority and have always been focused on supporting the University’s African-Ameri-can population, but have sig-nifi cantly been more engaged in the issue since last spring, participating discussions with student leaders on how the campus climate could be improved.


ZOE GRANT THE DAILY ILLINIDr. William Sullivan of the department of landscape architecture gathers with fellow supporters of James Kilgore to speak with reporters outside the Henry Administration Building on Nov. 10.

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While we wouldn’t want Steven Salaita to be our professor, we didn’t agree with the process of how his position to join the American Indian studies program was handled. In August, the University rescinded their job o! er to Salaita after a slew of biting tweets on his personal Twitter account . On Sept. 11, weeks after he would have begun teaching as a tenured professor, the board o" cially denied his appointment . That action led to a divide between professors and students as well as leading to talks of academic freedom. On Nov. 17, Salaita fi led a lawsuit against the University after a Freedom of Information request for emails sent among 15 o" cials with 14 keywords was ruled “unduly burdensome.” As a whole, we had multiple issues with the way the entire Salaita situation was handled by the University, and we hope it has learned from its mistakes.

Time and time again, Chancellor Phyllis Wise reiterates the emphasis she wants to place on diversity, and as of this year, it looks like most of that emphasis was placed on bringing international students to the University. In September, The Daily Illini reported that a record-breaking number of international students enrolled at the University. This year, we have 9,871 international students who account for 22 percent of the student population, which is a 10 percent increase from 10 years ago. While we admire the addition of a variety of students of di! erent backgrounds on campus, there is still much work to be done with regards to the University’s integration e! orts.

While the e! orts of attracting international students to the University have clearly worked, it seems the University has forgotten the importance of promoting racial and ethnic diversity. For the past decade, the number of African-American students on campus has declined. As reported in October, only about 37 percent of African-Americans accepted into the University actually enrolled here for the fall semester . And for an institution that prides itself on promoting a welcoming, inclusive environment, we can’t say that holds true when it seems the University isn’t attracting people of di! erent races to our campus. We are hoping strong e! orts are being made by the administration to stop this trend, and we hope they are working toward ways to increase this low yield of African-American students.

Most notably, this year’s midterm election brought big wins for the Republican party, as it now has a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. In Illinois, Gov. Pat Quinn lost to his Republican opponent, businessman Bruce Rauner, while Sen. Dick Durbin kept his role, defeating Jim Oberweis. Meanwhile, it seems young voters didn’t do much to infl uence these outcomes — only 13 percent of 18 to 29 year olds comprised the national electorate in the 2014 election cycle. While politics may sometimes seem less than thrilling to follow, it is vital to get active young voters out to the polls to weigh in on who will run our government.

University Board of Trustees Chairman Chris Kennedy decided to step down after Bruce Rauner was elected governor. He announced this during the board’s Nov. 13 meeting. Kennedy helped guide the University through three presidents and two admissions scandals during his term. While we didn’t agree with everything Kennedy and the board did, the University is a better place because of him, and we thank him for that. We hope the next chairman of the board will take some notes from Kennedy on how to best serve the University.

This semester, the University continued conversations on the development of a College of Medicine with a bio-engineering focused program on our campus, and we are glad that it’s still being considered. At the Nov. 13 Board of Trustees meeting, trustees approved directing President Robert Easter to explore each proposal. The new college would give students on our campus more opportunities, encourage more professors to work here and help create partnerships with Carle Health System and Presence Covenant Medical Center, which have both shown interest in partnering with the proposed college.

When James Kilgore, professor in African studies, lost his job in April, we were saddened by the lack of respect the University had toward the laws already in place. Kilgore had already served his time and was upfront about his involvement in the Symbionese Liberation Army. The Board of Trustees should not have ruled on the situation and should allow members to join society again after prison and live new lives out of the system. Everyone deserves a second chance, and we are pleased to see the Board OK’d Kilgore to teach again at the University at its Nov. 13 meeting.

After a nearly eight-month search, Tim Killeen was named the 20th president of the University of Illinois on Nov. 19. He will replace current President Robert Easter, whose term will be up in June. The University doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to its leaders. Both B. Joseph White and Michael Hogan, Easter’s predecessors, resigned amid controversy. Killeen has dealt with controversy at his current institution, the State University of New York, so we hope he can continue to lead the University of Illinois in the right direction. We hope he can recruit and retain the best faculty and students, we hope he can boost the University’s fi nancial and socioeconomic status, and we hope he can push for diversity, in every sense of the word.

It’s no secret we think the University fails at many things bike planning related. Bike lanes are poorly placed, infrastructure is shoddily maintained, and the long-awaited, updated campus bike plan continues to cycle through various stages on its Tour de Incompletion. As such, we were heartened to see overwhelming support and passage of the student-initiated $1 bike fee during November’s referendum vote. However, it never should have had to come to the point at which students felt it necessary to take on additional fees to, hopefully, resolve these issues.

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Starting this month, University students will now be able to take courses over winter break if they so choose. With the addition of winter classes, undergraduates can take initiative and work toward their degrees over break — something we are glad to see come to fruition. Starting on Dec. 22, these classes run for four weeks and end on Jan. 16. These winter classes are online, making it easy for any student to take them, and they are taught by our esteemed University faculty. Classes can be chosen from the subjects atmospheric sciences, business administration, economics and sociology. While this is a great start, we hope to see the addition of more class options in the future.

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Steven Salaita’s rescinded appointment to the Ameri-can Indian Studies program by the Board of Trustees in early September generated a chain of frequent discus-sions concerning academic freedom on campus.

John Wilson, co-editor of the American Association of University Professors’ Aca-deme Blog, held an academ-ic freedom talk in Allen Hall on Sept. 22, discussing how he believed the University violated those freedoms.

Wilson stated that opin-ions expressed outside of one’s profession, such as in tweets, have been signifi-cant in the “extraordinari-ly important” history of the University, citing the 1960 firing of Leo Koch, a former assistant professor of biolo-gy who wrote a letter to the editor of the Daily Illini that defended premarital sex, and was subsequently fired by President David Henry for the “encouragement of immoral behavior” within three weeks.

Wilson described an “enormous backlash” in 1963 from the AAUP, who decided to put the Univer-sity on a censure list—the highest form of condemna-tion that the association has for those who violate aca-demic freedom.

Another academic free-dom event held on cam-pus was the AAUP’s aca-demic freedom workshop, which took place at the Illini Union on Nov. 4, addressing how advances in technology have affected universities’ actions related to academ-ic freedom cases in recent years.

John Prussing, former president of the University AAUP Chapter, expressed that new dilemmas in mod-ern technology have caused the need for a refreshed per-spective on academic free-dom for professors.

“Teachers are entitled to freedom in the classroom,” Prussing said. “Obvious-ly, with electronic media, the definition of ‘the classroom’ has changed drastically...”

Cary Nelson, former pres-ident of the national AAUP, said the AAUP’s statutes on academic freedom provide

specific protection from university discipline for remarks made as a public citizen.

“Extramural speech is defined not by where the statement was made, but by the subject addressed,” Nelson said.

Nelson emphasized the AAUP has faced difficulty over defending whether aca-demic freedom protects pri-vacy rights for research and teaching conducted by email and to what degree.

In light of these techno-logical advancements, Nel-son said a new definition of academic freedom has been considered.

In October, the AAUP Foundation’s Academic Freedom Fund awarded Salaita a $5,000 grant on the grounds that he was involved in an academic freedom controversy.

These grants are award-ed to individuals who are either a victim of violations of academic freedoms and

require legal fees, or to peo-ple involved in an academic controversy, such as Salai-ta, to provide personal sup-port regardless of what the outcome of the controversy might be.

Meanwhile, Salaita quick-ly became an activist for academic freedom on Uni-versity campuses, giving a series of talks on his con-troversial rejected appoint-ment throughout October at Chicago universities includ-ing Northwestern Univer-sity, DePaul University and Columbia College.

The Committee on Aca-demic Freedom and Ten-ure has been considering the case, but still had not arrived at a conclusion, said Eric Johnson, past chair. Nelson expected a state-ment on Salaita’s case from the AAUP before the end of the year.


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BY MEGAN JONESASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

The University is trying to create a new type of stu-dent studying medicine — one who is grounded with compassion and care but also in tune with technolo-gy and engineering-based applications.

The Urbana campus has proposed creating its own College of Medicine, which will fuse engineering, com-puting, health sciences and medicine into one. The last time a new college was formed at the University was 1957.

“If there is one thing that technologies and innova-tions have not touched yet, have not been made avail-able to people, it is taking care of their health in an affordable and accessible way,” said Andreas Cangel-laris, dean of the College of Engineering, in September. “We are talking about bring-ing the clinic to the patient.”

The University’s sister school in Chicago already has a College of Medicine and proposed a counterpoint at a Sept. 3 Board of Trust-ees meeting. Chicago would use its original framework while working with Urba-na’s College of Engineering to create a “Translational BioEngineering Institute,” which would promote bio-medical research and eco-

nomic development.At the board’s Nov. 13

meeting, President Rob-ert Easter was appointed to explore medical education and look at each campus’ proposal.

Provost Ilesanmi Adesi-da said in September that the University had heard UIC’s proposal but would not accept it.

Adesida said the proposed college will not require additional state funding and take money from oth-er programs, as Chancel-lor Phyllis Wise and Ade-sida will team together to approach donors and private investors.

They already have one investor on their side: Car-le Health System, located in Urbana, who Adesida said is willing to invest $100 million. Neal Cohen, direc-tor for the interdisciplin-ary health sciences initia-tive, said that by partnering with Carle, the University will benefit from not having to run an “incredibly expen-sive” hospital, as he believes UIC does.

According to Adesida, Urbana’s medical school would enroll 25 to 50 stu-dents per year.

“We are working with UIC to negotiate what will happen on whether they will receive their MDs or PhDs here,” Adesida said.

While most colleges are big, they have half of the revenue for research that UIUC has, Adesida said. He added that even Stanford’s program has lowered to 90 students per incoming class.

The Urbana-Champaign Academic Senate approved the preliminary proposal on Sept. 22, and the Board of Trustees reviewed business and governance plans soon after. If approved, the col-lege’s first 25 students are expected to enroll in Fall 2017.

Wise stated in November that the college needs $135 million from donors and will receive $100 million from Carle over ten years. Addi-tionally, Carle will give $1.5 million annually, extending beyond the first decade.

Tuition rates for stu-dents would cost $45,000 in-state and $60,000 out-of-state.

“We have a very great opportunity being a Uni-versity with a top-engineer-ing college,” Rashid Bashir, head of the department for bioengineering, said in Sep-tember. “If we can do this now, in the long run we real-ly have a chance to change the way it is taught every-where else.”

Megan can be reached at majones5 @dailyillini.com.

Timeline for the proposed College of MedicineThe following timeline outlines the steps needed before the college can officially admit students.

• The Senate Executive Committee approved the concept on Sept. 15.

• The Urbana-Champaign Faculty Senate, along with the Senate’s Educational Policy Committee, endorsed the concept on Sept. 22.

• Formal documents outlining the college’s curriculum, budget and governance plans were submitted to the Educational Policy Committee, the Senate Executive Committee, the Faculty Senate and

other relevant campus offices.• The Board of Trustees reviewed

a business and governance plan and appointed President Robert Easter to explore medical education and Urbana and UIC’s separate proposals.

• The Illinois Board of Higher Education will review the plan in 2015.

• An application for accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education will be submitted in 2015.

• The first College of Medicine class would begin in 2017.SOURCE: URBANA-CHAMPAIGN FACULTY SENATE

RESOLUTION 15.02 FOR A PRELIMINARY ENDORSEMENT TO CREATE THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

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ZOE GRANT THE DAILY ILLINIJohn K. Wilson, author and 1991 University of Illinois graduate, gives a presentation at Allen Hall on Sept. 22 on academic freedom in the wake of the Salaita controversy.

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BY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER

Due to concerns of fi nan-cial security, less students are enrolling in the college of Fine and Applied Arts.

According to enrollment data from the Division of Management Information, there was a total of 1,982 undergraduate students enrolled in the college in 2008.

Since then, enrollment in FAA has been on a steady decline, with 1,499 under-graduate students enrolled in 2014.

Edward Feser, dean of FAA, said that the econom-ic long-term fi nancial wor-ries of potential students and their families might be playing a role in the declining enrollment numbers.

“The pressures are even a bit higher for the arts because students are nat-urally concerned that the degree they earn will pro-duce a good standard of liv-ing,” Feser said.

As public universities become increasingly reliant on tuition-based funds, Fes-

er said, programs in the arts are disproportionately put in fi nancial risk.

“Like a variety of other dis-ciplines on the campus, most arts disciplines do not gener-ate enough tuition revenue to cover their costs,” Feser said.

Many art programs have signifi cantly lower student-to-faculty ratios than many other fi elds of study, Feser said. For example, music and dance classes require a stu-dio learning model, meaning that many classes will consist of small groups or one-on-one instruction. This lower ratio means a higher cost for the department.

As FAA has become increasingly dependent on the funds it receives from tuition, the price of tuition has been slowly rising.

“As we become more dependent on tuition for our revenues, we naturally have to be increasingly con-cerned about how the specif-ic mix and relative number of majors and programs we support affects our fi nancial situation,” Feser said.

In 2008, the total cost of

the fall semester for a stu-dent in FAA was $28,492; today that number has ris-en to $31,198, an increase of almost 10 percent, accord-ing to the Department of Financial Aid.

He said FAA is trying to alleviate some of these fi nancial concerns by imple-menting new programs and majors for prospective stu-dents. These changes would

hopefully help the depart-ment recruit and retain more students as it contin-ues to evolve to adapt to a changing college landscape.

“Many emerging pro-grams create opportunities

for students to earn multi-ple degrees, such as in engi-neering and music, which students are fi nding increas-ingly attractive,” Feser said. “Many create more oppor-tunities for non-arts majors

to have an artistic learning experience, which can help develop creative thinking and design skills.”


College of Fine and Applied Arts enrollment decreasesThe College of Fine and Applied Arts undergraduate enrollment numbers since 2008. — 2014: 1,499— 2013: 1,574— 2012: 1,627— 2011: 1,769— 2010: 1,799— 2009: 1,893— 2008: 1,982

SOURCE: DIVISION OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION

FAA makes changes due to declining enrollment

BY RICK PEARSON AND MONIQUE GARCIATRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

House Speaker Michael Madigan on Thurs-day effectively ruled out any quick action by lawmakers to meet in a special legislative session to try to force a special election for Illinois comptroller following the death of Republican Judy Baar Topinka.

Madigan spokesman Steve Brown said the speaker views the issue of succession to be an “executive department” issue to be resolved by the outgoing and incoming governors and not something for lawmakers to get them-selves involved in.

To that end, Brown said Madigan “encour-ages” Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Repub-lican Gov.-elect Bruce Rauner work out “a sensible solution” on a succession plan to fi ll the vacancy caused by Topinka’s death early Wednesday following complications from a stroke.

The issue of legislative action and a poten-tial attempt to enact special election legis-lation was the result of the less-than-clear guidelines in the state constitution and state statutes that involve fi lling the vacancy caused by Topinka’s death.

The constitution says it is up to the gover-nor to fi ll the vacancy by appointment. But the document’s language could be interpret-ed to mean that an appointment would last until the next time the comptroller’s offi ce comes up for election — in 2018.

Complicating the issue is the timing of Topinka’s death, so close to the Jan. 12 inau-guration of statewide elected offi cials, and the transition in governance from Quinn and Rauner on that date.

Top lawmakers and several legal experts believe Quinn can appoint a replacement who would serve until Jan. 12, when Topinka had been set to be sworn in for a second term as comptroller. After Rauner is inaugurated, the lawmakers and legal experts said they believe the new governor can name a comp-troller to serve through 2018.

On Thursday, Rauner spokesman Lance Trover said the governor-elect’s legal team met with Quinn’s legal team to relay Rauner’s request that Topinka’s chief of staff Nancy Kimme be appointed comptroller through Jan. 12. The Quinn campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Special session for Topinka successor ruled out

Rauner tops Quinn in gov. raceBY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER

This year’s midterm election saw big gains for Republicans across the country, including Illi-nois, where republicans took con-trol of the governor’s mansion for the fi rst time since 2003.

In Illinois’ gubernatorial race, Republican businessman Bruce Rauner defeated incumbent Gov. Pat Quinn by a four-point margin of victory.

“This is a historic time in Illi-nois,” Rauner said to a crowd of supporters on election night.

“The voters have spoken. The voters have asked for a divid-ed government. For the fi rst time, we will have a Republi-can governor and a Democratic legislature.”

Since being elected gover-nor, Rauner has named Univer-sity Chancellor Phyllis Wise and Trustee Ed McMillan as mem-bers of his transition commit-tee. They will assist the gover-nor-elect in identifying problems facing Illinois and work to devise solutions. Both expressed enthu-siasm to work with the new

governor. Ballot Measures

Illinois voters considered three state advisory questions and two constitutional amend-ments comprised of an increase to the minimum wage, protec-tions for minority voting rights, prescription birth control cover-age, an expansion of crime vic-tims’ legal rights and an amend-ment to the Illinois constitution to provide additional funding to public schools through a 3 per-cent tax increase on income

greater than $1 million. An increase to the state’s

minimum wage from $8.25 to $10 voted favorably by 66.5 per-cent of Illinois voters and 63.5 percent of voters signed off on the “millionaire’s tax.”

The Crime Victim’s Bill of Rights passed with 78 per-cent of the vote. The referen-dum amends the Illinois con-stitution to expand the existing legal rights of the state’s crime victims, and allow victims to enforce these rights in the court system.

DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOAlex Lutz, senior in FAA, paints during a class.

Midterm election results broken down

Governor Bruce Rauner (R) Pat Quinn (D)Chad Grimm (L)

U.S. House 13th DistrictRodney Davis (R) Ann Callis (D)

Illinois House 103rd DistrictKristin Williamson (R) Carol Ammons (D)

Senator James Oberweis (R) Richard J. Durbin (D) Sharon Hansen (L)

Illinois Attorney GeneralPaul Schimpf (R)

Lisa Madigan (D)Ben Koyl (L)

Illinois Secretary of StateMichael Webster (R)Jesse White (D)Christopher Michel (L)

Illinois ComptrollerJudy Baar Topinka (R) *Sheila Simon (D)Julie Fox (L)

Illinois TreasurerTom Cross (R) Michael Frerichs (D)Matthew Skopek (L)

* Editor’s note: Judy Baar Topinka suffered a stroke and passed away on Dec. 10. Her replacement has not yet been named.

BRIAN CASSELLA TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEBruce Rauner celebrates his election to governor of Illinois on election night, Nov. 5, at the Hilton Chicago.

BY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITER

Illinois women’s soccer began the 2014 season at a record-setting pace, but nagging injuries and offen-sive inconsistency derailed the Illini’s opportunity for a fifth-straight NCAA tourna-ment appearance.

Illinois’ season began with a 3-1 loss to Notre Dame, but the Illini responded with five straight wins in nonconference play. Five of those wins were by way of shutouts, showcas-ing Illinois’ vast defensive improvement from the pre-vious season.

The Illini stumbled into conference play, suffer-ing a 2-0 loss to Iowa, but again responded with a winning streak, defeat-ing four straight Big Ten opponents to build a 9-2-0 record midway through the season. This was only the third time in school histo-ry the Illini began the sea-son at 9-2-0, and they did it with a suffocating defense that set a school record by holding eight consecutive opponents to single-digit shot attempts.

During their most suc-cessful stretch of the sea-

son, the Illini’s offense was led by senior forward Jan-nelle Flaws, who looked determined to improve on her record-setting 2013 season. Following Illinois’ loss to Iowa, Flaws scored multiple goals in four con-secutive games — a school record. During that span, Flaws earned National Play-er of the Week honors and the Illini went 4-0 in Big Ten play.

The Illinois offense began and ended with Flaws, and once she went cold, so did the rest of the team. Flaws couldn’t maintain her ram-pant scoring pace and scored just three goals in Illinois’ final seven games. The Illini went 1-5-2 in that stretch and barely earned a spot in the Big Ten tournament.

“I think our effort was def-initely there, it’s been there the last couple games even though we haven’t won,” Flaws said during the losing streak. “We just really need to focus on our execution.”

The Illini continued to struggle in the Big Ten tour-nament and were eliminat-ed by Wisconsin in the first round. Following the early exit, Illinois’ season was ended when it wasn’t select-

ed for a spot in the NCAA tournament.

Injuries were a concern all season. Junior midfield-er Taylore Peterson missed the entire season with a foot injury, and key players Casey Conine, Kara Mar-bury, Amy Feher and Aliina Weykamp all missed multi-ple games with various inju-ries. The plethora of injuries may have harmed Illinois’ offensive flow the most — forwards and midfielders shuffled around all season.

Even with 2014 NSCAA All-American Flaws possibly returning for a sixth year of eligibility, the Illini will be looking for more scoring options next season. With sophomore goalie Claire

Wheatley solidifying herself as the unquestioned start-er, a backline that played strong all season and plenty of young contributors, Illi-nois has a lot to build upon.

“Next time, we’ll be bet-ter for the lessons we have learned this season,” head coach Janet Rayfield said. “What we have to hope for now is that they take every-thing that they’ve learned this season, the heartaches that came along with it, and learn from that and are bet-ter when we step on the field next season.”

Joey can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @joeyfigueroa3.

BY LAUREN MROZSTAFF WRITER

The first half of the Illinois men’s golf season proved to be monumental for Illini golf-ers, coaches and the rest of the college golf community.

Ranked No. 6 in the pre-season, the Illini jumped to the No. 1 spot of the Golf Coaches Association of America coaches poll after topping one of the toughest fields in the country at their season-opening tournament, the Olympia Fields Fighting Illini Invitational. After tak-ing their first and only loss of the fall at the season-conclud-ing Tavistock Collegiate Invi-tational, the Illini finished the fall season ranked second in the GCAA poll; however, they are still No. 1 in the Golfweek and Golfstat polls.

Illinois’ No. 1 ranking in the GCAA marks the first time since 2001, when the coaches’ poll started, that a northern school has claimed the top spot in a nationally recognized poll. The Illi-ni also made school history after receiving the first unan-imous No. 1 team ranking, which they received from Golfstat.

In Illinois’ best start since Steve Stricker led the 1988-89 team to a 4-0 fall season, the Illini showed their ability to bounce back from early defi-

cits in two of the team’s first three tournaments and finish up later rounds at the top of the leaderboard.

Reigning Big Ten Play-er of the Year, senior Brian Campbell led the competi-tion team of five, including juniors Charlie Danielson and Thomas Detry and fresh-men Nick Hardy and Dylan Meyer. Campbell, Daniel-son and Detry all received Big Ten Golfer of the Week honors during the season, while Hardy and Meyer con-tinued to distinguish their competitiveness in tourna-ments, with Hardy finishing in the top 20 in all four tour-naments and Meyer doing the same in three of the four tournaments.

“The culture of our team is our biggest strength.” Campbell said, “We’re grind-ers at heart, no matter what. No matter what it is, we’re going to grind it out and finish as best as we can. We never give up. That’s our mentality. We have a very good connec-tion among all of the players. We’re all very close.”

Although coach Mike Small is happy with his team’s fall performance, he still sees room to improve in the spring to work toward its first national championship vic-

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Illini volleyball ends season in Sweet 16 again

KICKING OLD HABITS

Inconsistency, injuries end soccer season

Men’s golf team maintains No. 1 spot on GCAA ranking poll

BY STEPHEN BOURBONSENIOR WRITER

On a team that returned all but one starter from last season, the Illinois volleyball team set the highest of expec-tations for the 2014 season.

The Illini had their sights set on a national champion-ship, and although the team didn’t reach its goal, Illinois reached the Sweet 16 for the second straight season.

Illinois’ (26-8, 16-4 Big Ten) season came to an end as the team was eliminated by Florida in the Sweet 16 on Friday in Ames, Iowa.

It marked the fifth Sweet 16 appearance in six sea-sons under head coach Kev-in Hambly.

Illinois finished third in the Big Ten during the reg-ular season and was the No. 9 seed in the NCAA tourna-ment. The Illini hosted the first two rounds of the tour-nament at Huff Hall and cruised at home, sweeping Murray State and Iowa State.

Against Florida, a team that had won 22 straight matches, the Illini went down to the wire and tied the match at 14-14 in the decisive fifth set. With a chance to take the lead, senior Morganne Criswell was blocked and then Criswell’s next attempt went long, and the Illini’s sea-son was over.

“I thought we competed our butts off, and I thought we had to deal with a lot of adversity,” Hambly said after the loss to Florida. “Every-one stayed together and we really, really competed at a high level.”

Jocelynn Birks led the team in kills for the third consecutive season with 527.

The junior outside hitter was named an unanimous selection to the All-Big Ten team. Senior Liz McMahon was named honorable men-tion all-conference and libero Brandi Donnelly was put on the All-Freshman team.

The dynamic of the team changed on Oct. 8 against Ohio State. Facing a 14-10 def-icit in the fifth set, the Buck-eyes rattled off six straight points to stun the Illini.

Following the defeat, head coach Kevin Hambly decided to change offensive systems from a 6-2 with Alexis Vili-unas and Allison Palmer as the setters, to a 5-1 scheme with Viliunas as the lone setter.

Debuting the new offense on the road against defend-ing national champion Penn State, the Illini shocked the Nittany Lions with a four-set victory. The loss snapped a 19-game winning streak at home for Penn State and the Nittany Lions had been 44-1 in their last 45 home matches.

Just one week later, Illinois traveled to Nebraska, where the Illini beat the Huskers in four sets.

The Illini were the first team since 1991 to pull off road victories against Penn State and Nebraska.

“It was an awesome sea-son,” Birks said. “We were always working to get bet-ter, and we didn’t do what we wanted to, but I think it was a great season and we fought hard and that’s all you can really ask for.”

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

BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER

According to head coach John Groce: Illinois is not yet a “team.”

While the Illinois men’s basketball team has looked to make noticeable improve-ments to its offense this sea-son, both the offense and defensive sides of the ball have sputtered of late. The Illini (7-3) haven’t found consistency early on this

year, and the team has har-kened back to bad habits, losing three of its last four games as a result.

“We’ve got to learn how to stay connected and have that grit,” Groce said after the Illini’s loss to Villanova. “We’re just not there yet.”

At the start of the season, Groce preached the return of offensive balance for the Illini as the team began the year with two new transfer

guards, Ahmad Starks and Aaron Cosby, in the start-ing lineup.

Groce touted both Cos-by and Starks as remark-able shooters for good rea-son; both had shot close to 40 percent from three for at least a season of their col-lege career before coming to Illinois. So far for the Illi-ni, neither Cosby nor Starks has gotten into an offensive groove.

Against its first six oppo-nents, Illinois found the offensive balance it need-ed. The team averaged 90 points per game and shot more than 45 percent from

the field and close to 45 per-cent from three. The Illi-ni went undefeated in their first six games as a result of the offensive explosion.

Over the next four games, three of which were loss-es to then-No. 15 Miami, then-No. 7 Villanova and Oregon, the Illini reverted back to an offense similar to last year, in which the Illi-ni settled for shots taken by senior guard Rayvonte Rice. Rice scored 59 points combined against Villanova and Oregon but shot the ball five times more than anyone KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINI

Illinois’ Jocelynn Birks goes for an attack against Florida in the Sweet Sixteen on Friday in Ames, Iowa.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jannelle Flaws has been a driving force for Illini soccer this season, leading the team’s offense.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Rayvonte Rice rises for a shot during the game against Oregon at United Center in Chicago, Illinois on Dec. 13. The Illini lost 70-77.

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else on the Illini against the Ducks.

Illinois has continued to share the ball well, as the team finished the Oregon game with 17 assists on its 23 field goals, but the Illi-ni only had one other play-er reach double figures in points on the night. This is becoming a common theme, as Illinois has struggled to find a second offensive option behind Rice.

“Obviously we need more balance with our scoring,” Groce said after the Ore-gon game.

Starks and Cosby haven’t provided balance of late. The pair shot a combined 2-for-20 against the Hurri-canes and 3-for-15 against the Ducks, a game in which Cosby was benched in favor of sophomore Kendrick Nunn.

Despite his poor play, Groce said he will contin-ue to ride Cosby’s shooting

slump, feeling the junior is better than his numbers currently indicate.

“(We have to) encourage him, as long as he takes good ones,” Groce said. “We’re

just going to continue to encourage him to do what he does.”

On the other side of the ball, the Illini have also fal-tered. Illinois, a team that finished as one of the best defensively in the country

last season, held five of its first six opponents fewer than 70 points but has man-aged that just once in the last four games.

“We fell out of character,” Malcolm Hill said after the Villanova loss. “We lost our-selves. We got a little too selfish on the offensive and defensive end.”

After the Oregon game, Groce’s message about what needed to change for the Illini was similar to Hill’s, but more blunt.

“Defending,” Groce said. “We have to defend better.”

Although Illinois is in a rut at this point, the Illini can take comfort in know-ing that the season is far from over and there is still time to improve and become more of a “team.”

“It’s a long season,” Nnanna Egwu said. “We’re going to find ways to correct ourselves.”

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

BY LUCAS WRIGHTSTAFF WRITER

The Illini women’s golf team has gone into the winter break with a successful fall season.

Two victories, three Big Ten Players of the Week awards and one individual victory are just a few of the accolades this team has already achieved.

Illinois opened its season with three freshmen and two sopho-mores on the roster. Despite hav-ing such a young team, it showed it had potential.

The Illini notched a third-place finish in their opening tournament at the Ptarmigan Ram Fall Clas-sic in Colorado in September. The third-place finish included topping top-50 ranked Colorado and Cali-fornia. Illinois finished with four golfers inside the top 30, includ-ing freshman Dana Gattone, who opened her collegiate career with a

1-over-par 217 in the three rounds.“I was excited to get out and com-

pete again,” Gattone said. “I just got in the competitive mindset and started playing well.”

Following the strong start, the Illini faltered at their next tourna-ment, the Minnesota Invitational, finishing with a 56-over 920. Their score gave them a 10th-place finish, their worst finish of the fall season.

Illinois rebounded from its poor finish at Minnesota by defending their title at The Diane Thomason Invitational, shooting a 917 and win-ning by 14 shots over Iowa. The Illi-ni were led once again by Gattone, who earned her first individual win by tying for first at 10-over. Gat-tone also went on to win the Big Ten Player of the Week honor for her performance.

“(Winning Big Ten Player of the Week) was a pretty big achievement for me, but it was something that

hadn’t really crossed my mind in the start of the season,” Gattone said. “After earning that, it kind of propelled me forward to have a really great season.”

The final two matches were led by one of Illinois’ leader sopho-mores, Stephanie Miller.

The Illini took on a match-play competition at Indiana in the mid-dle of October, where they notched their second team win of the year. Illinois topped Boston College, Indi-ana and Fresno State on its way to the title. The win also helped Mill-er win the Big Ten Player of the Week award by going 2-1 in match play and shooting even par in the

stroke play round.The final match of the year at

the Jim West Challenge was a dis-appointment in the eyes of coach Renee Slone, where Illinois shot a 922, finishing in eighth. Slone called the match a “very mediocre” finish to their fall season. Despite a poor team showing, Miller man-aged to win her second Big Ten Player of the Week award, shoot-ing a 6-over 224 in the three rounds in Texas.

Notwithstanding the rough end-ing to the season, assistant coach Jenny Coluccio was positive about the season as a whole.

“I would say we played pretty well (during the fall season),” Coluc-cio said. “We had set out to win a few tournaments, and we at least put ourselves in contention to win some high-level tournaments. What we want to do now is improve our ranking, and that will require us to play more and in stronger fields.”

Lucas can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @LucasWright95.

tory. Last season, Illinois tied for fifth in the NCAA Championships — their third top-five finish over the past four years.

“We need to play from strength,” Small said. “I don’t think we need to protect. Rank-ings don’t win you championships. We need to try to win each tour-nament that we play in and keep getting better and better. There’s going to be speed bumps along the way that we’re going to have to fight through. We’re going to have times when we’re not going to play well. We’re going to have to address those issues individual-ly and persevere then peak come April, May and June. That’s the goal.”

The Illini start up the sec-ond half of their season Jan. 24 for the Tinervin Cup in Placida, Florida, where they will compete against Illinois State for the com-petitors’ 11th annual face off. Illi-nois has won all 10 of the previous matchups.

Lauren can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @MrozLauren.

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Golf sees mixed results in fall

Illini runners fall short of Nationals

Illini conclude up-and-down season

BY MATT GERTSMEIERSTAFF WRITER

Jake Stewart may be spending this offseason looking for a good luck charm.

The head coach of the Illinois men’s cross-country team watched his team fall 2,000 meters short of qualifying for Nationals, as the team ended its season by placing fifth at the NCAA Regional meet. Stewart claimed the team’s failure to place in the top two spots wasn’t due to a lack of effort, but rather a lack of luck.

“The program is in a great spot,” Stewart said. “The talent is here. At this point, the luck factor comes

in where we need a little bit to go our way.”

Illinois’ fifth-place finish at Regionals was its best performance all season. A strong finish at Regionals was a goal the team had since its team camp in Galena, Illinois, at the start of the season.

“The mission of our program is to run our best races in November, and sometimes that’s tough to do on a day in September or early on in the year that doesn’t go as well as you wanted to. We had those,” Stewart said. “But the guys were upbeat and had a very good sense of what ultimately our goal was and never deferred from that.”

Early this season, the Illini had several runners battle injury. Junior Liam Markham nursed a stress fracture in his shin for most of the year while senior Brendan McDonnell dealt with a back injury.

Despite the injuries, the team had a solid season and competed for top finishes in all its meets. The team came in seventh out of 29 teams in the Roy Griak Invite, 12th out of 28 in the Greater Louisville Classic and sixth place at the Big Ten Championships.

Seniors Bryce Basting and Jannis Toepfer and juniors Ian Barnett and Paul Zeman were key contributors to the team’s

success. Toepfer and Barnett were consistently the top finishers for the Illini this season.

Stewart credits the team’s ability to contend at meets because Illini runners focused on the success of teammates instead of individual results.

Next year, the addition of some new runners may just be the spark Illinois needs. Jesse Reiser from McHenry High School in McHenry, Illinois, and Zach Dale from Conant High School in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, have both committed to Illinois for next season. This year, Reiser took first place at

the IHSA 3A cross-country championship and Dale came in second, 10 seconds behind Reisser.

“Anytime you get kids to commit like that, that says something about where the program is at, so I’m excited,” Stewart said.

Stewart and the cross-country team now turn their attention toward the upcoming track season, while only time will tell if they’ll have luck on their side at the start of next year’s cross-country season.

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

BY ALEX WALLNERSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s cross-country season was marked by inconsistency.

“I think the season was successful, but didn’t end the way we had hoped it would be,” junior Britten Petrey said. “Overall, it was a step in the right direction for next season for us to set higher goals, work even harder and place higher in the championship season.”

The Illini won three events: Illinois State Invite, Bradley Invite and Illini Open, but had a sluggish ending. The team finished ninth at the Big Ten Championships and 10th at the NCAA Midwest Regional, not high enough to qualify for the NCAA Championships.

J u n i o r s A l y s s a Schneider, Amanda Fox, Colette Falsey and Petrey were four of the team’s top-five runners at Midwest Regionals. Sophomore Hanna Winter was the fifth runner in the top group: she also placed first for the team at Big Tens. This quartet were the top five finishers for Illinois in all but three meets.

Schneider won back-to-back events individually at the Illini Challenge and the Illinois State Invite, but struggled toward the end of the season, finishing 58th at Big Tens and 33rd at the Midwest Regional.

“I can definitely say that I am looking for a big

improvement at Big Tens next year,” Schneider said. “Our conference is really strong, so contending for the title is no small feat. I don’t know where I’ll be at next fall, but I can say that I’m going to do everything I can to get better.”

The Illini’s expectations remain high. Going into next season, Falsey said she wants her team to go out with a bang.

The Illini are losing just one runner from this year’s team, graduating senior Chloe Schmidt. With almost everyone returning, Falsey believes the Illini are moving a step forward, as they made improvements over the course of the season that she believes will carry into her senior season.

“My expectations for next season are to finish in the top half of the Big Ten meet as a team,” Falsey said. “Qualifying for Nationals is definitely something this team is more than capable of doing. Although the season was not as successful as we had hoped for, I think everyone grew as a runner and next year, with the right mentality, this team can do anything we set our minds to.”

Schneider called this team “eager” and ready to take the next step.

“We aren’t going to let us discourage us, we are motivated by (success),” Schneider said.

Alex can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @AWallner93.FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINI

Illinois’ Kendrick Nunn shoots against Oregon at United Center in Chicago on Saturday.

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Hanna Winter (148), sophomore, and Britten Petrey (145), junior, pace themselves at the Illini Open 2014 at the Arborteum on Oct. 25.

Coaches see room for improvement as spring season grows nearer

Cross-country hopes to make improvements in 2015 season

“I just got in the competitive mindset and

started playing well.”DANA GATTONE

FRESHMAN GOLFER

“We fell out of character. We lost

ourselves. We got a little too selfish on the offensive and defensive end.”

MALCOLM HILLSOPHOMORE FORWARD

“I can definitely say that I am

looking for a big improvement at Big Tens next

year.”

ALYSSA SCHNEIDERJUNIOR RUNNER

“The talent is here. At this point, the luck factor comes in where we need a little bit to go our way”JAKE STEWARTHEAD COACH

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BY COLE HENKESTAFF WRITER

In August, the Illinois women’s tennis coach Michelle Dasso said the fall season is really all just a preparation period for the spring season and Big Ten play.

As the team heads into winter break, this still holds true for Dasso and her team.

The team did not perform up to expectations toward the end of the fall, with all of its players taking early exits from the Midwest Regional — hosted at Atkins Tennis Center in Champaign — and the National Clay Court Invitational in Orlando, Florida.

Dasso said she is already focused on the spring.

“We got a good look at some potential doubles parings for the spring, which always helps,” Dasso

said.Dasso was also happy

with the progression of sophomores Alexis Casati and Madie Baillon.

Baillon is a transfer from Illinois State who grew up in Champaign and joined the Illini this fall. Her experience lived up to her own expectations.

“It was awesome. I am really happy to be back in Champaign,” Baillon said. “There is a much better coaching atmosphere, and I am much more confident here. It is definitely reflecting in my play as well.”

Baillon added that the transition was not difficult at all. She fit in with the team well and already had a taste of college tennis from her days at Illinois State.

Casati has jumped to the front as one of the team’s

best players, according to Dasso. She played against some of the nation’s best this fall, and Dasso feels she can compete with anybody on a tennis court. After this fall, Casati says she feels the same way.

“I go out every match with the mentality that I am going to play the best match I can and compete,” Casati said. “(For the spring season), I am planning on making sure all of our players are ready for every match, and are going to compete in every match.”

The team gets a month over break to train individually, away from the coaching staff. Some players are using this time to do private training, but freshman Jade Hilton, sophomore Louise Kwong and senior Melissa Kopinski are playing in a USTA

tournament in Canada.Kopinski, entering her

final spring season, is focusing on match play over break. She said her fall season did not go as planned, but knows what she needs to do to be at her best this spring.

“I am going to work a lot more on being aggressive,” Kopinski said. “I am going to really focus on capitalizing on my shots and dictating the points.”

The Illini finished fifth in the Big Ten last spring, exiting in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament and missing out on a bid to the NCAA tournament. The Illini last reached the tournament in 2012.

Cole can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @cole_Henke.

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KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Madie Baillon hits the ball back during the Midwest Tennis Regionals at Atkins Tennis Center on Oct. 17.

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Still with two games to go before Big Ten play begins, the Illinois wom-en’s basketball team has already had a season’s worth of ups and downs. Currently sitting at 7-3, the Illini have a win over a top-10 team, but all three of their losses are to unranked opponents.

Through the first 11 games of the season, head coach Matt Bol-lant has seen the biggest growth in his team on the offensive end. After going 0-for-21 from the beyond the arc in the season-opener, the team has become much more consistent.

“On offense, we’re fig-uring it out, we’re tak-ing better shots and our shooting percentage in the last eight games is night and day better than the first few games because of the shots we’re taking,” Bollant said.

A big reason for the 7-3 start and the offen-sive success has been due, in large part, to two newcomers, which Bol-lant expected from the beginning. Freshman center Chatrice White has already been named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week twice this sea-son and is averaging just two rebounds shy of a double-double. White was described by Bollant in the preseason as a “pro-gram-changing” player, and it seems like she’s on her way to becoming one.

“(Being named Big Ten Freshman of the Week) is pretty cool,” White said laughing. “I saw it on Twitter the oth-er day and I was like, ’Ok cool, let’s go to practice now.’ So yeah, it’s cool.”

The other newcom-er making a big impact is redshirt junior point guard Kyley Simmons. Simmons sat out last season with the Illini

because of transfer rules, but has seen a huge role on this year’s team since day one. Bollant had said in the preseason that he expected Simmons to end up being one of the best point guards in the conference by the end of the season. Simmons is averaging a team-high 35 minutes per game. With all of that time on the floor, Simmons feels her biggest improvements so far this season have been as a leader.

“I take a lot of respon-sibility for just knowing my teammates and their strengths and I just want to make my teammates look good,” Simmons said. “As a point guard, that’s a big aspect of the game.”

While the rotation com-ing off the bench remains fluid, Illinois still has two games before it looks to make some noise in what’s shaping up to be one of the best confer-ences in the country yet again. To get to that point, though, Bollant sees the biggest improvements

still needing to be made on the defensive side of the ball.

“We’ve got to get better in our man defense,” Bol-lant said. “The buzz has been a weapon for us and really good, but we’ve got to grow in our man defense so we’re having more of a balance.”

Aside from on-court adjustments, Bollant also wants to see growth in an area he has constantly been looking to improve. The attendance num-bers at State Farm Cen-ter have been near the bottom of the Big Ten for years now.

“We’re working real-ly hard at that, to try to grow it and get it bet-ter and we’ve obvious-ly taken some great steps from last year but we need help,” Bollant said. “We need people to show up and be excited about it and embrace the program.”

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

BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDYSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois men’s ten-nis team played its best tennis of the fall right at the end.

Ross Guignon and Tim Kopinski finished out the fall season with a bang. A week after a run to the finals of the ITA Nation-al Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in New York, juniors Guignon and Kopinski won their first ever professional title at the JSM Challeng-er in Champaign. A few days after proving their place among the elite of collegiate tennis, the pair showed that they can hang with world-class professionals as well.

“It’s a great experi-ence for us to get the extra matches against some of the best guys in the world,” Kopinski said. “To win that defi-nitely gave us a bit of a confidence boost ... Everything kind of came together for those two weekends.”

Guignon and Kopinski hit their stride as the sea-son went on. Their first tournament play togeth-er this fall came against

stellar competition at the ITA All-American Cham-pionships. The duo fell in the first round, but rebounded to make the consolation finals. Their next extended action together was in New York for Indoor Nation-als, which they entered unseeded. Guignon and Kopinski then proceed-ed to take down three regional champions in a row to reach the finals, where they lost a hard-fought match to Yannick Hanfmann and Roberto Quiroz of USC.

Kopinski said the dou-bles success also helped improve his singles game — Kopinski reached the singles round of 16 at ITA All-Americans. He lost to Baylor’s Julian Lenz, the No. 1 player in the coun-try, in a hotly contested match.

“Some of that con-fidence from doubles transferred into singles,” Kopinski said. “(I) start-ed serving better, return-ing better, so hopefully I can keep that trend going.”

Several Illini fresh-men also made a splash. Australian Aleks Vukic had an impressive debut

this fall, putting togeth-er an 18-4 record on the season. Vukic kicked things off with a semi-final appearance in the Southern Intercolle-giate Championships, his first collegiate tour-nament. He rattled off seven consecutive wins in All-Americans pre-qualifying and quali-fying to reach the cusp of a tournament berth, ultimately falling in the final round of qualifying. Vukic capped off the fall with a 4-0 record at the Texas A&M Conference Challenge.

He was one of two per-fect freshmen at the Con-ference Challenge. The other was Aron Hiltzik. Hiltzik improved as the season went on. He had a breakout performance of sorts at the Midwest Regional Champion-ships, where he reached the semifinals. Head coach Brad Dancer said the freshmen had a posi-tive first season.

“I think they all showed some great promise, and that was exciting to see,” Dancer said. “They all had some good wins at one point or another, and then had

some times that may-be showed they weren’t ready to make that elite jump.”

Dancer also felt Aron’s older brother Jared pro-gressed as the season went on, noting a strong finish in his showing at the JSM Challenger and on the practice court. Hiltzik had an up-and-down fall; after reaching the finals of the ITA Mid-west Regional, he lost his next six matches.

For the team though, the focus is always on the spring. The fall sea-son is individual-based in college tennis, and the spring is where team championships are won. Dancer said the fall is ultimately about pre-paring for success in the spring.

“What we’re measured on each year is our team production,” Dancer said. “We’re trying to train and create com-petitive opportunities that allow (the team) to make improvements and be performing at their best in the spring.”

Chris can be reached at [email protected].

Early success for Illini

Men’s tennis finishes fall season strong

Win over Kentucky, bad losses early mixed signals

KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' Tim Kopinski prepares to hit the ball back during the first round of NCAA Tennis Regionals against Ball State University at Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex on May 9. The Illini won 4-0.

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' Chatrice White attempts a layup during the game against Virginia at the State Farm Center on Dec. 4.The Illini won 86-63.

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