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BY MAGGIE SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER Discussions regarding Gov. Bruce Rauner’s pro- posed budget cuts continued at the Senate Executive Com- mittee meeting on Monday. Depending on how the cuts are allocated across the system, the Urbana campus could lose anywhere between $86 million and $114 million in state funding, up to 12 per- cent of its state budget, said Provost Ilesanmi Adesida. Everything is on the table to cope with the cuts, he said. University administra- tion requested that the SEC draft a response to the poten- tial cuts to be presented at the Board of Trustees meet- ing in May. Nicholas Burbules, chair of the SEC’s General University Policy Committee, said that trends indicate that the state will continue to decrease General Revenue Funds. “We can’t keep reacting to it on a year-by-year basis,” he said. There are ways to deal with the cuts over time, Ade- sida said, and he believes the University will eventually become semi-private. He said the University could slow hiring to offset layoffs, but it cannot stop altogether. “The world is changing,” Adesida said. “You need new, young people to bring you new ideas.” Roy Campbell, Senate Executive Committee chair, said while he is concerned about the budget, he believes the University will survive. “What I’ve learned over time is we’ve survived other budgets that are just as dire as this one,” Campbell said. “It’s a challenge, just like we challenge our students.” [email protected] Online courses could become more accessible, after the Senate Executive Committee passed a recom- mendation on Massive Open Online Course compensation Monday. The recommenda- tion will now be presented to the Academic Senate at the April 6 meeting. . . “If someone in high school who is interested in engineer- ing takes a MOOC from one of our professors and likes that professor, that is good publicity for the University,” said Robin Kaler, University spokeswoman. The SEC voted to recom- mend that professors be com- pensated based on MOOC development, rather than for teaching a MOOC. MOOCs are not currently a large source of revenue for the University, but it’s pos- sible that some MOOCs will bring in significant revenue in the future. Michael Sandretto, SEC member and professor in Business, said the courses could be a good source of additional revenue for the University, especially with Gov. Bruce Rauner’s pro- posed budget cuts. “If someone writes a really popular textbook, they make a lot of money— but the Uni- versity does not,” said San- dretto. “A MOOC seems like a better opportunity for the University than even a textbook.” Chancellor Phyllis Wise also voiced her support of further MOOC development. “I heard a great presenta- tion about what they’re doing in the College of Business with the possibility of start- ing a MOOC course that could turn into an MBA,” Wise said. [email protected] INSIDE Police 2A | Opinions 4A | Letters 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Life & Culture 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 4B | Sudoku 4B THE DAILY ILLINI TUESDAY March 31, 2015 63˚ | 39˚ WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM 5he independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 144 Issue 98 | FREE @THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINI DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI EDITORIAL New statue will hopefully break stereotypes and encourage future female engineering students PAGE 4A LIFE & CULTURE OPINIONS SPORTS RYAN FANG THE DAILY ILLINI Admitted students and their parents get a taste of the University on a guided tour around campus during Admitted Students’ Day on March 3. For biracial individuals, racial identity is a personal choice Consistent offense push Illini to victory against Michigan Urbana’s Courier Cafe abounds with memories, homemade food Racial identity not for others to decide Baseball wins rubber match in Big Ten opener From papers to plates, cafe celebrates 35 years PAGE 6A PAGE 4A PAGE 1B BY MICHELLE REDONDO STAFF WRITER Imagine waking up after a Tuesday wine night at The Clybourne without an awful hangover. This could eventually be a reality, thanks to a cur- rent research study occur- ring on campus. Yong-Su Jin, associate professor in the department of Food Science and Human Nutri- tion, and his team have made hangover-free wine a possibility. Though hangover-free wine is not created yet, nor will it be for a while, Jin and his team are experi- menting with genetic com- ponents in yeast that cause hangovers. They are also investigating which com- ponents can be removed or added to decrease the effects of the yeast. “The results from our study showed that it would be feasible to make wine containing lower amounts of compounds, which are known to cause headaches, through engineered yeast,” said Jin in an email interview. Making wine with low- er concentration starts at the secondary fermenta- tion stage of wine. At this stage wine is made less bit- ter, but more amine com- pounds, like histamine, are added which can cause hangovers. “We envision that our yeast engineering tech- nology can be applied to get rid of the secondary fermentation while mak- ing wine taste smooth,” Jin said. This research is com- plicated because they are working with industrial strains versus lab strains. Lab strains are specifi- cally made for research, while industrial strains have another purpose, said Heejin Kim, a Ph.D student in Food Science and Human Nutrition department and member of Jin’s team. “Industrial strains are used in an actual indus- try. It’s difficult for us to engineer them and be used within its field,” Kim said. The genome knife, a tiny, new customized engineer- ing tool created by UC- Berkeley Professor Jamie Cate and his team, has made it easier to access and research industrial strains. The genome knife is the only way their team could have achieved what they have so far, said Guo- chang Zhang, postdoctoral research associate in the Energy Biosciences Institute and member of Jin’s team. “Let’s say we have one layer of paper that is eas- ily cut with scissors. Now, if we have a whole book, the scissors will have a more difficult time cut- ting through it,” Zhang said. “It’s easier to cut lab strains because they have one copy of their chromo- some, but in industrial, there are multiple, like the whole book. This tool lets us manipulate even more than one chromo- some now.” Although they have over- come the first hurdle, the team is still a long way from marketing hangover- free wine. They’ll still have to introduce it to a much more conservative and cau- tious society. The team said after following a necessary protocol, maybe a hang- over-free wine would even be sold globally. “In the end, we could even add aromatic process- es in the genes for them to smell like bananas instead of wine. We don’t know if we can do it, but there’s this new possibility (with the technology),” Kim said. mnredon2@dailyillini. com Developing hangover-free wine Enactus to collaborate with domestic violence organization SEC to draft plan for potential cuts University seeks response to governor’s proposed budget cuts Professors may be compensated based on MOOC development University researchers experiment with wine’s yeast SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINI In Iok Kong, Ph.D. student in Food Science and Human Nutrition, operates the machinery used to extract yeast on March 30. Previewing campus life SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITEE 50000 52000 54000 56000 58000 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 60000 57986 55648 54122 52948 52750 51600 51589 52452 52486 51435 Fewer survivors of domestic violence recieve help The number of survivors of domestic violence has been decreasing over the last eight years because of the limited resources and funding. SOURCE: Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence THE DAILY ILLINI Number of clients BY LIYUAN YANG STAFF WRITER Approximately 20 people in the United States are phys- ically abused by an intimate partner per minute, accord- ing to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Marella McMurray, the domestic violence services program manager at Cour- age Connection, said it is a non-profit corporation which provides housing and sup- portive services for individu- als and families dealing with homelessness and victims of domestic violence. Courage Connection is a non-profit corporation fund- ed by state, federal and pri- vate grants, as well as 100 percent of revenue from their store in Lincoln Square. Courage Connection is also collaborating with Illi- nois Enactus, a registered student organization with- in the College of Business. Illinois Enactus will hold an event on the Quad on April 8 to help Courage Connection. “Our mission is to provide the continuum of services so that individuals and fami- lies can achieve safety, sta- bility, and self-sufficiency,” McMurray said. Courage Connection was actually created in 2010 as a combination of the wom- en’s shelters Woman’s Place and the Center for Women in Transition, but was given its current name in 2014, said McMurray. Maxwell Fisher, the proj- ect manager for Illinois Enactus and a sophomore in ACES said Enactus is cur- rently working on 9 differ- ent projects, with the $1,500 grant given by the Coca- Cola Foundation. Its work with Courage Connection, called Uncap Opportunities for Women, is one of the projects. “Since domestic violence has become a very pub- lic issue garnering a lot of national attention, we saw an opportunity to help those who are trying to fix this problem.” McMurray said even she did not realize how serious domestic violence was until after she started working at Courage Connection. “Because it’s not a fun topic to talk about, often time it’s an embarrassing topic to talk about, often time it’s a topic that people just want to stay in the fam- ily type thing you know,” McMurray said. She said people of all rac- es, classes and statuses are at risk of becoming domes- tic violence victims. As of 2010, there were 1,746 shelters for battered women, according to the National Census of Domes- tic Violence Services. In 2014, Courage Con- nection served 709 indi- vidual clients, 217 of which received domestic violence counseling, according to the non-profit’s annual report. Fisher said domestic vio- lence is important for col- lege students to understand because women between the ages of 18 to 24 years old are at the highest risk for domes- tic violence, “That age group encom- passes the majority of col- lege women here at the Uni- versity of Illinois, so they all should have a vested inter- est in ending domestic vio- lence,” Fisher said. Education on a healthy relationship is key to protect people against domestic vio- lence, McMurray said, “Stepping away from what the society says, stepping away from what the media says, and stepping away from what may have learned growing up, but what do you as an individual really want for yourself in a relationship and what is a healthy rela- tionship for you,” McMur- ray said. [email protected]
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BY MAGGIE SULLIVANSTAFF WRITER
Discussions regarding Gov. Bruce Rauner’s pro-posed budget cuts continued at the Senate Executive Com-mittee meeting on Monday.
Depending on how the cuts are allocated across the system, the Urbana campus could lose anywhere between $86 million and $114 million in state funding, up to 12 per-cent of its state budget, said Provost Ilesanmi Adesida.
Everything is on the table to cope with the cuts, he said.
University administra-tion requested that the SEC draft a response to the poten-tial cuts to be presented at the Board of Trustees meet-ing in May.
Nicholas Burbules, chair of the SEC’s General University Policy Committee, said that trends indicate that the state will continue to decrease General Revenue Funds.
“We can’t keep reacting to it on a year-by-year basis,” he said.
There are ways to deal with the cuts over time, Ade-sida said, and he believes the University will eventually become semi-private.
He said the University could slow hiring to offset layoffs, but it cannot stop altogether.
“The world is changing,” Adesida said. “You need new, young people to bring you new ideas.”
Roy Campbell, Senate Executive Committee chair, said while he is concerned about the budget, he believes the University will survive.
“What I’ve learned over time is we’ve survived other budgets that are just as dire as this one,” Campbell said. “It’s a challenge, just like we challenge our students.”
Online courses could become more accessible, after the Senate Executive Committee passed a recom-mendation on Massive Open Online Course compensation Monday. The recommenda-tion will now be presented to the Academic Senate at the April 6 meeting. . .
“If someone in high school who is interested in engineer-ing takes a MOOC from one of our professors and likes that professor, that is good publicity for the University,” said Robin Kaler, University spokeswoman.
The SEC voted to recom-mend that professors be com-pensated based on MOOC development, rather than for teaching a MOOC.
MOOCs are not currently a large source of revenue for the University, but it’s pos-sible that some MOOCs will bring in significant revenue
in the future. Michael Sandretto, SEC
member and professor in Business, said the courses could be a good source of additional revenue for the University, especially with Gov. Bruce Rauner’s pro-posed budget cuts.
“If someone writes a really popular textbook, they make a lot of money— but the Uni-versity does not,” said San-dretto. “A MOOC seems like a better opportunity for the University than even a textbook.”
Chancellor Phyllis Wise also voiced her support of further MOOC development.
“I heard a great presenta-tion about what they’re doing in the College of Business with the possibility of start-ing a MOOC course that could turn into an MBA,” Wise said.
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EDITORIAL New statue will hopefully break stereotypes and encourage future female engineering students PAGE 4A
LIFE & CULTURE
OPINIONS SPORTS
RYAN FANG THE DAILY ILLINIAdmitted students and their parents get a taste of the University on a guided tour around campus during Admitted Students’ Day on March 3.
For biracial individuals, racial identity is a personal choice
Consistent offense push Illini to victory against Michigan
Urbana’s Courier Cafe abounds with memories, homemade food
Racial identity not for others to decide
Baseball wins rubber match in Big Ten opener
From papers to plates, cafe celebrates 35 years
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BY MICHELLE REDONDOSTAFF WRITER
Imagine waking up after a Tuesday wine night at The Clybourne without an awful hangover.
This could eventually be a reality, thanks to a cur-rent research study occur-ring on campus. Yong-Su Jin, associate professor in the department of Food Science and Human Nutri-tion, and his team have made hangover-free wine a possibility.
Though hangover-free wine is not created yet, nor will it be for a while, Jin and his team are experi-menting with genetic com-ponents in yeast that cause hangovers. They are also investigating which com-ponents can be removed or added to decrease the effects of the yeast.
“The results from our
study showed that it would be feasible to make wine containing lower amounts of compounds, which are known to cause headaches, through engineered yeast,” said Jin in an email interview.
Making wine with low-er concentration starts at the secondary fermenta-tion stage of wine. At this stage wine is made less bit-ter, but more amine com-pounds, like histamine, are added which can cause hangovers.
“We envision that our yeast engineering tech-nology can be applied to get rid of the secondary fermentation while mak-ing wine taste smooth,” Jin said.
This research is com-plicated because they are working with industrial strains versus lab strains. Lab strains are specifi-
cally made for research, while industrial strains have another purpose, said Heejin Kim, a Ph.D student in Food Science and Human Nutrition department and member of Jin’s team.
“Industrial strains are used in an actual indus-try. It’s difficult for us to engineer them and be used within its field,” Kim said.
The genome knife, a tiny, new customized engineer-ing tool created by UC-Berkeley Professor Jamie Cate and his team, has made it easier to access and research industrial strains.
The genome knife is the only way their team could have achieved what they have so far, said Guo-chang Zhang, postdoctoral research associate in the Energy Biosciences Institute and member of Jin’s team.
“Let’s say we have one layer of paper that is eas-ily cut with scissors. Now, if we have a whole book, the scissors will have a more difficult time cut-
ting through it,” Zhang said. “It’s easier to cut lab strains because they have one copy of their chromo-some, but in industrial, there are multiple, like the whole book. This tool lets us manipulate even more than one chromo-some now.”
Although they have over-come the first hurdle, the team is still a long way from marketing hangover-free wine. They’ll still have to introduce it to a much more conservative and cau-tious society. The team said after following a necessary protocol, maybe a hang-over-free wine would even be sold globally.
“In the end, we could even add aromatic process-es in the genes for them to smell like bananas instead of wine. We don’t know if we can do it, but there’s this new possibility (with the technology),” Kim said.
Developing hangover-free wine
Enactus to collaborate with domestic violence organization
SEC to draft plan for potential cutsUniversity seeks response to governor’s proposed budget cuts
Professors may be compensated based on MOOC development
University researchers experiment with wine’s yeast
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINI In Iok Kong, Ph.D. student in Food Science and Human Nutrition, operates the machinery used to extract yeast on March 30.
Previewing campus life
SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITEE
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2005
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Fewer survivors of domestic violence recieve help
The number of survivors of domestic violence has been decreasing over the last eight years because of the limited resources and funding.
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BY LIYUAN YANGSTAFF WRITER
Approximately 20 people in the United States are phys-ically abused by an intimate partner per minute, accord-ing to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
Marella McMurray, the domestic violence services program manager at Cour-age Connection, said it is a non-profit corporation which provides housing and sup-portive services for individu-als and families dealing with homelessness and victims of domestic violence.
Courage Connection is a non-profit corporation fund-ed by state, federal and pri-vate grants, as well as 100 percent of revenue from their store in Lincoln Square.
Courage Connection is also collaborating with Illi-nois Enactus, a registered student organization with-in the College of Business. Illinois Enactus will hold an event on the Quad on April 8
to help Courage Connection.“Our mission is to provide
the continuum of services so that individuals and fami-lies can achieve safety, sta-bility, and self-sufficiency,” McMurray said.
Courage Connection was actually created in 2010 as a combination of the wom-en’s shelters Woman’s Place and the Center for Women in Transition, but was given its current name in 2014, said McMurray.
Maxwell Fisher, the proj-ect manager for Illinois Enactus and a sophomore in ACES said Enactus is cur-rently working on 9 differ-ent projects, with the $1,500 grant given by the Coca-Cola Foundation. Its work with Courage Connection, called Uncap Opportunities for Women, is one of the projects.
“Since domestic violence has become a very pub-lic issue garnering a lot of national attention, we saw
an opportunity to help those who are trying to fix this problem.”
McMurray said even she did not realize how serious domestic violence was until after she started working at Courage Connection.
“Because it’s not a fun topic to talk about, often time it’s an embarrassing topic to talk about, often time it’s a topic that people just want to stay in the fam-ily type thing you know,” McMurray said.
She said people of all rac-es, classes and statuses are at risk of becoming domes-tic violence victims.
As of 2010, there were 1,746 shelters for battered women, according to the National Census of Domes-tic Violence Services.
In 2014, Courage Con-nection served 709 indi-vidual clients, 217 of which received domestic violence counseling, according to the non-profit’s annual report.
Fisher said domestic vio-lence is important for col-lege students to understand because women between the ages of 18 to 24 years old are at the highest risk for domes-tic violence,
“That age group encom-passes the majority of col-lege women here at the Uni-versity of Illinois, so they all should have a vested inter-est in ending domestic vio-lence,” Fisher said.
Education on a healthy relationship is key to protect people against domestic vio-lence, McMurray said,
“Stepping away from what the society says, stepping away from what the media says, and stepping away from what may have learned growing up, but what do you as an individual really want for yourself in a relationship and what is a healthy rela-tionship for you,” McMur-ray said.
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A 25-year-old male was arrested on the charges of possession of cannabis and failure to signal at the intersection of Bloomington Road and Louisiana Avenue around 1 a.m. Sunday.
According to the report, offi cers conducted a traf-fi c stop for failure to sig-nal. Cannabis was found on the driver .
A 20-year-old male was arrested on the charge of theft at Walmart, 2610 N. Prospect Ave., around 2 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the offender took mer-chandise without paying at any purchase point .
University
A 20-year-old male was arrested on the charge of possession of cannabis with intent to deliver in the 400 block of East Healey Street around 7:00 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report, police made contact with the offender on March 6, when they learned he had purchased a large amount of cannabis .
Criminal damage to property was reported at Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Matthews Ave., around 6:30 a.m. Friday.
According to the re-port, an unknown offend-er broke a soap dispens-er in one of the bathrooms. The damage is estimated to be $30 .
Urbana
Burglary and criminal damage to property was reported on the 200 block of Hartle Avenue at around 12:30 a.m. Sunday.
According to the report, an unknown offender en-tered through the victim’s window, causing damages, and also stole a television .
Burglary from motor vehicles was reported on the 900 block of Crestwood Drive at around 3:30 a.m.
According to the report, many vehicles in the area were entered without per-mission, items were moved and taken from some ve-hicles .
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Scarlet Fever outbreaks on
campus at sorority houseMarch 30, 1935
The Daily Illini reported that Scarlet Fever struck the University and caused multiple rooming locations on campus to be put under quarantine on March 30, 1935.
The Beta House, 907 S. Lincoln Ave., was quaran-tined, and 22 women were confi ned within the walls of the sorority house.
The students were kept there until results of a Scarlet Fever test, called the Dick Test, yielded results.
The Phi Delta The-ta fraternity house was also quarantined but was released Saturday March 29, 1935 after it was under watch since Tuesday of that week.
The district health supervisor, Dr. O.R. Scott, was enlisted to investigate the outbreak.
Scott said that the Cham-paign cases showed “lit-tle variance” within the scheme of the Scarlet Fever outbreak in Illinois at that time.
The outbreak didn’t have that large of an effect on campus life because of the large amount of outbreaks that were occurring at that time.
LAS dean discourages
extracurricular involvement
March 31, 1931In 1931, the Dean of the
college of Liberal Arts Kendric Babcock made a statement against partici-pation in extracurricular activities.
Babcock said that most extracurricular were fool-ish and a waste of time. He was especially against the involvement of fi rst-semester freshmen in such activities.
He proposed that students should only be involved in activities after their second semester and if they have a adequate GPA.
Babock cited the student code, saying that students whose grades slip will be put on probation and that this rule would be more strictly followed.
Chemical engineers attend dedication ceremony for East
ChemistryMarch 30, 1951
On this day in 1951, The Daily Illini reported the attendance of 300 chemical engineers and biochemists at a banquet held in the Illini Union ballroom the previous night on March 30.
The banquet dedicated its day to the development of new branches of chemistry brought to the University, c o m m e m o r a t i o n ceremonies, and dedication of the new East Chemistry, which featured new chemical engineering and biochemical laboratories.
The East Chemistry building was dedicated in memory to Samuel Wilson Parr, who introduced the chemical engineering curriculum to the University in the early 1890s.
Director and head consultant of the Heyden Chemical Corporation, Donald B. Keys, who was also a former head of the Illinois chemistry department for 20 years, reviewed the 50 years that the chemistry department had been a part of the University.
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LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Monday that a trial to determine ownership of the prized Bahia Emerald will continue in Los Angeles despite ongoing efforts by the government of Brazil to return the gem to its coun-try of origin.
The 180,000 -carat, 840-pound behemoth has been the subject of a conten-tious court battle between a colorful cast of gem traders, miners, real estate tycoons and others vying for the jewel once valued at $372 million.
The gem is among the largest unbroken stones of its kind.
Last year, just as the court saga surrounding the emer-ald seemed to be nearing a conclusion, Brazil stepped
up to stake its own claim to the stone.
The Brazilian govern-ment last year asked a judge to dismiss the case outright or put it on hold while Bra-zilian officials continue negotiations with the U.S. government to secure the stone’s return.
Brazil’s Los Angeles-based lawyer, John Nado-lenco, told the judge that a decision in Los Angeles Superior Court would signif-icantly hinder Brazil’s ongo-ing discussions with the fed-eral government.
“But there is one compli-cation — this case,” Nado-lenco said.
Brazil’s motion lacked suf-ficient evidence to warrant halting the case, Johnson said. There was no official declaration from Brazilian officials, nor was there any indication that diplomatic
efforts would prove fruit-ful or timely.
The Brazilian govern-ment entered the fray in September, saying that all other ownership arguments are irrelevant. The emerald, the South American nation claims, was illegally mined and exported.
This interrupted the efforts of Kit Morrison, an Idaho businessman who was last in possession of the gem.
After its discovery in 2001, miners transported it to Sao Paulo, where it began an eight-year odyssey.
In 2005, the gem was shipped to a self-trained geologist and mining entre-preneur in Northern Cali-fornia who knew the orig-inal miners. He said he shipped it to New Orleans, where Hurricane Katrina submerged the stone for weeks.
After fishing it out, the man somehow lost posses-sion of the gem, and it end-ed up in the hands of Larry
Biegler, an investor from Paradise, Calif.
In 2009, Biegler reported it missing from a Los Ange-les-area vault. Los Angeles County sheriff’s investiga-tors tracked the emerald to a Las Vegas vault, where it was stored by Morrison and associate Todd Armstrong.
Sheriff’s investigators could not sort out who owned the gem, so they confiscated it — setting off years of lit-igation, in which eight dif-ferent people at one time or another claimed ownership.
A group led by Morrison, the Idaho businessman, was the only other party left in the legal case before Brazil entered the fight.
Morrison’s attorney, Andrew Spielberger, said that his client and Arm-strong purchased the gem from Biegler, paying seven figures, and are the right-ful owners.
“I’m happy for my cli-ent,” Spielberger said. “Now they’ll have to wait until a judgment.”
BY LEWIS GRISWOLDTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
PINEHURST, Calif. — A massive die-off of pine trees in the southern Sier-ra Nevada caused by beetles attacking drought-stressed trees is turning forests brown and creating a fire tinderbox.
From El Portal in Mari-posa County to Kernville in Kern County and beyond, stands of dead trees are striking fear in the hearts of mountain residents.
“You drive around and it’s all around us,” said Lee Dun-can, who lives in Miramonte in Fresno County near Pine-hurst. “It’s like a gasoline can everywhere.”
About the only hope in halting the die-off is for the drought to end, an unlikely occurrence this year as win-ter ended with perhaps the lowest Sierra snowpack on record.
As a fourth year of drought looms, mountain residents are stuck with the cost of removing dead trees next to their homes and loggers fault the U.S. Forest Service
for not allowing them to thin forests. But forest manag-ers say the tree die-off might help Mother Nature.
El Portal resident Jerry Rupert knows all too well the dangers of forest fire. The El Portal fire that burned about 4,700 acres in and around Yosemite National Park last year started behind his home.
Now Rupert warily watch-es the mountainside across from his home as more pine trees turn brown in a steep river canyon leading to the nearby community of Yosemite West.
“If we get a lightning strike over there, that whole hill is going to go up,” Rupert said. “All it has to do is hit one of those dead trees in there — and there are hun-dreds of them. It’s not going to be pretty.”
Rupert said he wants the U.S Forest Service to cut down the dead pines to reduce the chances of one being struck by lightning.
The sheer number of dead trees is making forestry and fire officials even more ner-
vous about the upcoming fire season.
“There’s thousands of acres” of dead and dying trees on public and private lands, Sequoia National For-est Fire Chief Brent Skaggs. “It’s going to be a bigger problem than we see.”
He said fire manag-ers should operate on the assumption that almost every fire is a severe threat and attack with everything they can: “A quick suppres-sion response is what’s going to save us.”
Tulare County Supervi-sor Steve Worthley likened the die-off itself to a forest fire. He was among 100 peo-ple who attended a recent community meeting here at which forest officials fielded questions and offered advice about how residents can pro-
tect themselves.The California Depart-
ment of Forestry and Fire Protection is advising hom-eowners to remove dead and dying trees near their homes. Removing trees on private property often requires the services of a forester or licensed timber operator, said David Shy, Cal Fire division chief and regis-tered professional forester.
A permit is required, but fees are being waived and no permit is needed by do-it-yourselfers who don’t sell or barter the wood, he said.
Bark beetles thrive in drought, and the conifer die-off is picking up speed in areas where the U.S. drought monitor map shows excep-tional drought conditions, said Beverly Bulaon, a For-est Service entomologist.
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UI transfer admitance varies by demand
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Jarling’s Custard Cup closed Monday, seeks new owners DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
Jarling’s Custard Cup on Kirby Avenue closed Mon-day afternoon after selling out of all its inventory.
The ice cream shop has operated in Champaign for 31 years, and current own-ers Doug and Christy Jarling are seeking new owners to
eventually reopen the shop. The owners announced
they are looking for poten-tial owners to whom they can sell the original reci-pes to ensure their estab-lishment will “maintain the quality of product” upon reopening, according to a press release.
BY DAVID STAGESTAFF WRITER
More transfer students applied to the University during the 2014-2015 school year compared to previous years.
According to the Divi-sion of Management Infor-mation, 4,939 students applied to transfer to the University this year and 2,028 of them were admit-ted. Eventually, 1,331 of admitted students chose to enroll.
A total of 4,336 students applied to transfer and 2,031 were admitted dur-ing the 2013-2014 school year. Of those admit-ted, 1,343 chose to enroll. More transfer students are applying to the Universi-ty, but a smaller percent-age are being admitted and fewer are choosing to enroll.
In the 2013-2014 school year, 46.8 percent of trans-fer applicants were admit-
ted and in 2014-2015 7 per-cent fewer — 41.1 percent — of transfer applicants were admitted. Additional-ly, the percentage of fresh-man applicants admitted was 18 percent greater, at
59 percent in 2014.The admittance of fewer
transfer students this year than in past years is unin-tentional, said Keith Mar-shall, associate provost and interim director of enroll-ment management.
“As with freshman admissions, we strive to admit the most quali-fied transfer applicants to
build an academically tal-ented and diverse transfer class. How many transfer applicants we admit each year varies by space, avail-ability and demand. Much of our recent increase in
transfer applications has been for highly competitive programs that have limited capacity so we’re unable to meet all of that demand.”
Marshall said the Uni-versity receives the most transfer applications in LAS, Engineering and Business.
Luke Luhrsen, senior in ACES, transferred from
the University of Kansas. A former football player for the Jayhawks, he decided to transfer to the University to focus on his academics.
Nicole Burg, junior in LAS, is also a transfer stu-dent. However, she trans-ferred from the College of Lake County, a communi-ty college located in Gray-slake, Illinois.
Burg said she believes one reason she was admit-ted was because she was a transfer student and was surprised fewer transfer applicants were admitted in past years.
Luhrsen said saving money is an incentive for many transfers, while Burg said as an incoming junior, she felt like a freshman because she didn’t know anyone on campus or any locations, which made it difficult to assimilate.
Despite Brazil’s e!orts, judge rules ownership trial to proceed
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LOS ANGELES SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT The 180,000-carat Bahia Emerald weighs 840 pounds and has been the subject of a contentious court battle between a colorful crowd of gem traders, miners and a real estate tycoon all vying for the prized jewel, once valued at $372 million.
ERIC PAUL ZAMORA TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICETimber faller John Beckwith quickly glances up before continuing the initial cut on a diseased Ponderosa pine March 20 near Badger, Calif.
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MIAMI — The latest round in the U.S.-Cuba rapproche-ment gets underway Tuesday when the two countries meet in Washington to discuss the issue of human rights.
A State Department spokesperson said the two sides will “discuss the meth-odology and structure of
future human rights talks,” so no major developments are expected. But even get-ting agreement on the sub-stance for future talks could prove difficult because the two countries have strikingly different views on what con-stitutes respect for human rights.
MELVILLE, N.Y. — An SUV barreled through the glass exterior of a Long Island AT&T store Monday morning, hitting and fatally injuring a customer, Nassau police said.
The victim, a 66-year-old Great Neck woman, “was sitting down waiting to get taken as the next customer,” said Inspector Kenneth Lack, a police spokesman. “She was struck from behind.”
When Barack Obama visited his father’s home-land of Kenya in 2006, thousands flocked to the streets to see the fast-rising U.S. senator whom many embraced as if he were a native son.
Now, Obama is prepar-ing to make his first visit to Kenya as U.S. president for a global entrepreneurship summit there in July, the White House said Monday.
While Obama has traveled throughout Africa as presi-dent, visiting Ghana, Sen-egal, Tanzania and South Africa, he steered clear from Kenya for nearly a decade, in part because of unrest and political consid-erations there, including a case by the International Criminal Court against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, which was dropped last December.
RALEIGH, N.C. — A Mooresville man has been charged with failing to secure a gun properly after a boy shot his friend in the face Sunday during a game of cops and robbers.
Daniel Layne Stewart,
the owner of the Iredell County home where the shooting happened, was charged with failure to secure a firearm to pro-tect a minor, according to a news release from the Ire-dell Sheriff’s Office.
WASHINGTON — Dol-phins are dying in unusual-ly high numbers. Sea turtle nests are declining.
Tuna are developing abnormally. And pelicans and gulls are suffering from the lasting effects of a mas-sive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico five years ago, the
National Wildlife Federation warned in a report released Monday.
The impact is concen-trated in the northern Gulf, but scientists say the long-term damage affects spawn-ing waters for many fish that migrate to South Florida and along the East Coast.
YANGON, Myanmar — The government of Myan-mar and armed ethnic rebel groups have agreed on the text of a nationwide cease-fire agreement that aims to end decades of conflict in the Southeast Asian nation,
negotiators said Monday.The draft accord was
seen as a significant devel-opment after 16 months of talks, but it still must be signed by the leaders of more than a dozen armed groups.
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SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS | [email protected] with the subject “Letter to the Editor.” The Daily Illini reserves the right to edit for length, libel, grammar and spelling errors, and Daily Illini style or to reject any contributions. Letters must be limited to 300 words. Contributions must be typed and include the author’s name, address and phone number. University students must include their year in school and college.
Last week controversy arose over Japan’s 2015 Miss Universe contestant,
Ariana Miyamoto, because she’s biracial— something critics, many of whom are Japanese, have taken issue with. Miyamoto has an Afri-can-American father and does not look like what most people imagine a traditional Japa-nese woman to look like.
As several news outlets have pointed out, Miyamoto speaks Japanese, lived most of her childhood in Japan and has a Japanese mother. Much of the discussion in defense of Miyamoto has consisted of the idea that these qualities make her Japanese, despite her biracial status. While I applaud the well-intentioned support for Miyamoto’s cho-sen racial identity, any legiti-mation of her race is unneed-ed because each person should be the sole authority of their racial identity.
I firmly believe no one should have to defend their chosen racial identity. And it sure as hell isn’t okay for any-
one to police or undermine the racial identity someone has chosen. Even though the United States is more racially diverse than Japan, this type of exclusion exists here, too. And it will continue to exist everywhere until we change the way we think about racial categories and stereotypes.
I’m particularly angered by the criticism directed toward Miyamoto because I, too, am someone who is biracial, and I understand the obstacles that most, if not all, multiracial people face coming to terms with not fitting in with one racial category.
Seemingly small com-ments like “But you’re not a real Asian,” or “You don’t act Asian,” (both of which have been said to me on this cam-pus) can have a huge impact in delegitimizing someone’s identity.
One tweet by a critic of Miyamoto, which was trans-lated by The Washington Post, said, “Her face is foreign no matter how you look at it!” That commenter’s criticism is merely that Miyamoto doesn’t look the way the commenter personally thinks a “typi-cal” Japanese person should. These types of remarks are based on stereotypical ideas of how a racial group should
look and act. A lot of racial identity polic-
ing is likely rooted in people’s desire to put others into cat-egories and stereotypes based on race. Since multiracial people often don’t act or look in ways racial stereotypes might predict, they compli-cate the cliches that people rely on to categorize each other.
Obviously these conven-tions don’t do the complex-ity of any person justice, whether someone is multi-racial or monoracial. Every racial group is infinitely diverse, which no stereo-type can encompass. There is no inherently correct way to look or act to fit a racial category.
Racial identity is not mere-ly a matter of appearance or genetics, but is one factor combined with social and cul-tural experiences that have shaped each person’s racial experience. Policing how mul-tiracial people chose to identi-fy neglects our right to under-stand the experiences that we feel best reflect ourselves.
Asking someone to defend their chosen identity simply isn’t okay. Someone cannot possibly know by just looking at another person the experi-ences they’ve had that have
shaped their choice of racial identity. Choosing to ques-tion a person’s racial identity is exclusionary and frankly, hurtful.
For me, being raised in a town with 98 percent of the population identifying as white has irrevocably shaped my perceptions of my own racial identity. I was, and am, excluded from white culture in ways that have made me choose to identify as biracial or Korean rather than white. I share this not to defend my chosen racial identity, but to exemplify how it is personal and subjective to experiences and how powerful being inclu-sive or exclusive of someone’s racial identity can be.
Because Miyamoto says she’s Japanese, she’s Japa-nese, and I commend her for representing Japan and cele-brating her identity. It doesn’t matter to me if she can speak Japanese or any other way she’s felt the need to defend her racial identity to the media and critics.
I trust her to know her own racial identity and experi-ences best— better than you, me or anyone else. And you should too.
Audrey is a senior in [email protected]
P icture in your mind 1950s Smalltown, USA; white picket fences, the shops
lining Main Street, the creep-ily photogenic nuclear family with two perfect kids and two sedans in the driveway; one for Mom, one for Dad. Take that image, strap it into a time machine and send it to 2015. That’s pretty much my home-town in a nutshell.
Where I’m from is solidly middle to upper-middle class, around a $60,000 median income, and more than 80 per-cent white. I wouldn’t be sur-prised if some people in my town actually did think that “diversity” was an old, wooden ship (and that’s how you nail an Anchorman reference).
It doesn’t take a genius to see that I grew up in a pret-ty sheltered environment, but it’s there that I developed my notion of what reality is, or my personal bubble. We all have a bubble we live in, created by where we grow up, our friends, where we get our news, our families, our education and countless other factors. These things all play a role in how we interpret the world around us. But no matter how true
we believe our perspectives to be, no matter how indisput-able they may seem, our per-spectives and our bubbles will always be incomplete because there are millions of experi-ences we inevitably miss out on.
While we live inside of our bubbles, whether we know it or not, sometimes, we’re suffocat-ed by them. While our bubbles encompass our humor, values and much of who we are, when we apply what is true within our personal bubbles to every-one else, serious problems begin to emerge.
It’s not hard to find an exam-ple of a person who believes their version of reality - their bubble - is universally true. For example, there are many peo-ple, who, likely because of their upbringing, denies that “white privilege” exists. In defense of their belief, they’ll probably say something along the lines of “well I would never discrimi-nate” or “I had to work for my success, so if you’re not suc-cessful you’re just lazy,” and provide some anecdotal evi-dence to back up their claim.
And many of these examples are the result of people never having to deal with these issues themselves. When you don’t take the time to actually con-sider a perspective or experi-ence different from your own, anecdotal evidence is probably going to be the only support
you’ll find, or the only thing that forms your own opinion.
This extends to large-scale issues as well. During the height of the protests in Fer-guson, I was stunned to see just how many people viewed the demonstrators exclusive-ly as troublemakers or crimi-nals whose anger toward law enforcement was baseless. There was even tension at one family get-together last fall because my statements to the contrary “offended” some of my relatives.
The Ferguson Police Depart-ment had been targeting Afri-can-Americans in the town for years, slapping them with trumped-up charges and trap-ping many residents in a cycle of fine-related debt. The com-munity’s distrust of local law enforcement existed for a legitimate reason, and had been building for years before the death of Michael Brown.
So it didn’t make sense to me why people were so quick to dismiss the protesters when they first hit the streets. But I think they were stuck inside their bubbles and personal per-spectives. They saw the events unfolding in Ferguson and incorporated them into what was already true for them; police are always the good guys, anyone against them are always the bad guys.
Even though the world we live in is incredibly complex,
nuance is tough to come by in our personal bubbles. These limiting views are only hinder-ing the way we perceive the world and the way we inter-act with people from different walks of life as us.
If you’re a student, you may think that just attending the University will broaden your horizons and make you more empathetic to people from dif-ferent backgrounds. However, with tuition rates continuing to rise across the country, a degree from a four-year uni-versity is becoming less acces-sible to low-income, minority and out-of-state students. As universities become increas-ingly exclusive, it’s easy to forget that thousands of peo-ple who are just as bright did not have the same or as many opportunities as us.
We’re trapped in our bub-bles when we fail to recognize the limitations of our perspec-tives. When we reject empathy, we make conflict more likely. Every day, challenge your preconceptions on any given issue. Push yourself to burst your own bubble, and recog-nize that there is no such thing as a black-and-white issue. The only accurate generaliza-tion that can be made is that generalizations are always inaccurate.
Josh is a junior in [email protected]
New statue provides crucial representation
for female engineers
T he iconic Grainger Bob statue will soon have a friend. Texas Instruments announced March
19 that it is funding the ad-dition of a female counter-part to the statue seated out-side Grainger Engineering Library as part of a $3.2 mil-lion gift to the University.
The statue, which is ex-pected to be completed with-in the next academic year, is a small gesture with big im-plications.
Only 19 percent of engi-neering undergraduates are female, reflecting a larg-er national trend of low fe-male participation in science, technology, engineering and math.
Adding a female stat-ue to the engineering cam-pus is the first of many steps to encourage women to en-ter STEM fields. Represent-ing both genders outside of Grainger will instill confi-dence in prospective engi-neering students as well as those already enrolled.
Despite a storied stereo-type that boys are good at math and science while girls excel in writing and liberal arts, there is no biological re-lationship between sex and academic studies. In a world where women are discour-aged from entering STEM fields as early as elementary school, they may be less like-ly to pursue a career in the sciences.
As less than a quarter of the College of Engineering’s current undergraduate pop-ulation is female, this does not seem to be far from the truth.
By representing this his-torically underrepresented group, Grainger Bob’s coun-terpart will show women that they are not only welcome in STEM fields, but that they have an equal chance for suc-cess after graduation.
At Engineering Open House, if a young girl sees the statue, she will know that there is nothing stopping her from following a career in science. The new statue will hopefully take the first steps in breaking a stereotype, en-couraging future female stu-dents to seek a STEM degree despite historically low num-bers.
For women on campus now, the statue’s existence will not only signify their pres-ence, but indicate that while their numbers are small, they are a strong minori-ty group within the field that will be immortalized along-side Grainger Bob.
On a campus that encour-ages diversity and inclusiv-ity, the statue’s addition will send the message that wom-en are a welcome and ca-pable group within the Col-lege of Engineering and their presence is appreciated and celebrated.
While this new female stat-ue may not work any enroll-ment miracles, her induction will speak volumes to the modern expectations of pos-sibilities for women in engi-neering.
Plus, Bob could use a friend.
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son, Jacob.Not all of Dugan’s students
have developmental delays. Jacob, a 17-year-old, start-ed training with her in 2006 because of an orthopedic problem in his hip. Nine years later that problem is gone.
“Helen’s a great teacher and a great person,” Jacob said. “I’ve learned so much through the years. If I were to go to another dojo, I probably would not have as inspiring a teacher as Helen Dugan.”
Back on the mat, Dugan is both opponent and instruc-tor to 7-year-old Brayden Bond. The boy is not pinned for long, as he raises his hip and executes a combination of moves to throw his teach-er off.
Dugan bounces up and gives Brayden a high-five for a job well done. Brayden smiles as if it were his birthday.
“I’m 35, and I can’t do a third of what she does,” said Brayden’s mother, Serena Faith. “My goal in life is to be Helen when I get to be her age.”
Dugan didn’t start learning karate until after she and her family moved to the area in 1979. When her two sons took lessons from her son-in-law, Jim Hartley, at a martial arts school, Dugan did, too. Her kids lasted four years.
Dugan took karate class-es for 14 years, earning her black belt at the age of 61. She was also working as a nurse in the Center School District.
Karate strengthened her body and mind and helped her restore the self-esteem she had lost in childhood. Dugan founded her own kara-te school in hopes of helping others do the same.
You see, Dugan’s students aren’t the only ones with a disability.OVERCOMING OBSTACLES
Growing up in Philadel-phia, Dugan failed many of her grade school classes. She has a few traits on the autism spectrum, but not enough to be officially diag-nosed. Although she was cre-ative, she couldn’t do math, had short-term memory prob-lems and struggled to learn in the conventional way.
She thought she knew the reason for her problems.
“I just thought I was stu-pid,” she said. “I got passed on probation all the way through grammar school. It wasn’t until high school that I realized I had a brain.”
She adopted unorthodox study techniques that jibed with the way her brain liked to learn.
“I just started to use my head and worked around things I didn’t know.”
It worked well enough to get her into a Philadelphia nursing school. After gradu-ation she got a job at a hos-pital and then married her husband, Barney.
Dugan still struggles with “face blindness” — or prosopagnosia — a condition that makes it difficult, if not impossible, to recognize fac-es, even of close friends and family.
“I can meet you tomorrow and not know who you are. I didn’t know it had a name until I read Temple Gran-din’s book,” she said, refer-ring to the famed professor
and autistic activist.Others with the condition
include anthropologist Jane Goodall and neurologist Oli-ver Sacks. In a 2013 interview Brad Pitt told Esquire maga-zine that he suspects he has the condition as well.
She has tools to jog her memory.
“It was very embarrassing to me to not know the kids,” she said. “Now I’m smart. I take pictures of them, take them home and study the fac-es. One may have a particu-larly wide or oval face. And I know which ones those are.”
The parents know that car-ing touch well. Mark Payne, a black belt from Basehor, was one of Dugan’s kara-te teachers. Then his young son, Michael, suffered a head injury and became Dugan’s first student.
“Helen took it on herself to give Michael special train-ing above and beyond what any other instructors would do,” he said.
Despite balance and vision problems, Michael earned a green belt, eight steps above a beginner.
“Back then there wasn’t anybody doing this,” said Michael’s mom, Patti Payne. “It was Helen who thought about helping these people. Nobody taught her how to do it.”
Mother and son took karate together.
“He would fall all the time,” Patti said. “But Helen was there to say, ‘Hey, let’s try this.’ She was always try-ing different techniques and thinking outside the box for how Michael could pass these requirements.”
In time, the training improved Michael’s balance, self-esteem and life.
But while Dugan is patient, that doesn’t mean she’s lax, Mark Payne said.
“She will cut them no slack if they are not giving 100 per-cent of what they can give,” he said. “It’s not like, ‘Oh, this poor disabled boy.’ It’s, ‘You can do better than that!’ But at the same time she knows how to pull back when some-body can’t. That’s what sep-arates her from a normal instructor.”
Teaching kids with special needs touches her heart.
“When you see a child get their first belt?” she said. “When you see them get their first trophy? Remem-ber, these are kids who don’t get awards. They don’t get trophies. And when you see the expression on their face when they get their first tro-phy, it’s such a self-esteem builder. I’ve had kids take their first steps here.”SKILLS AND CONFIDENCE
Angela Sutton, who ran a martial arts school in Leba-non, Missouri, before mov-ing to Texas two years ago, knew Dugan was special after meeting her at a train-ing camp in St. Louis in 2009.
“I noticed her because she was an elderly woman doing everything everybody else was doing,” she said. “I was very impressed with her.”
She was equally impressed by Dugan’s students.
“I watched one do a self-defense demonstration, and he was taking care of busi-ness,” she said. “He did take-downs, throws, knife dis-arms. You could tell he had Down syndrome, but you wouldn’t know he had spe-cial needs by his technique.”
Dugan never worries about what students can’t do. Instead, she builds on what they can do.
In a recent evening class, Dugan is working with grade school children. In the main training room, they line up on a red and blue mat facing their teacher, or sensei, as Dugan stands with her back to a wall of mirrors. Up above hang karate belts in 14 col-ors and white signs that read “self-discipline,” “respect,” “attitude,” “perseverance,” “cleanliness,” “honesty” and “integrity.”
The students learn foot-steps, positions, karate terms and self-defense, and earn belts and patches for mas-tering certain skills.
For the last 14 years Dugan has had only one paid employee: dojo manager Ste-ven Nagorski, a 37-year-old purple belt with Down syn-drome who teaches karate, cleans the dojo and provides security.
“She’s the best sensei in the whole universe,” he said.
“This is a great program, but without Steven and my volunteer instructors and helpers I would have noth-ing,” she said.
Nagorski and several vol-unteer teachers and assis-tants help students kick balls through hoops, strike hand-held pads and block punch-es with their forearms. They bounce on trampolines, ride on scooters and use a vari-ety of specialty equipment — some of which Dugan designed — to sharpen their skills.
Karate and other martial arts taught at Champs — including judo, jujitsu, tai chi and a defensive street-fight-ing discipline called Guided Chaos — can improve con-centration, stamina, balance, motor skills, independence and self-esteem.
A sign on the wall reads, “Life is 10 percent what hap-pens to us, and 90 percent how we deal with it.”
“If you build on someone’s strengths,” she says, “every-thing else falls into place.”
Today Dugan is still build-ing on her strengths, study-ing Guided Chaos. She takes the class from Brent Ames, a black-belt instructor who vol-unteers at her school.
Ames, who calls Dugan “a mentor for how I want to live my life,” respects her both as a teacher and a person.
“Helen is magnificent at quickly understanding a person and knowing how to motivate them,” he says. “She can read people better than anybody I’ve ever seen. There are very few people who can get to that level of instruction.”
Many say Dugan hasn’t gotten enough credit for what she has accomplished in her own life and what she has helped others accomplish in theirs.
She is too busy to worry about credit. Perhaps a quote in one of her brochures puts it best:
“Seek not to be famous, but to attain greatness. For only in giving do we become great.”
As she heads into her ninth decade, Dugan intends to give as long as she can.
“If you want to grow old, go to a retirement communi-ty,” she said. “You can all sit around and talk about your ailments. Put me with the kids. They keep you young.”
point people get tired of it because it’s the same old routine.”
After a beta test in Jan-uary that garnered 1,000 users in Chicago, White said Fortu is ready to tack-le the challenges of a col-lege campus.
“I think there are a lot of activities within school that require dates: parties, formals, et cetera. (When) speaking to girls on cam-pus, there’s a lot of pres-
sure. You post a date, and maybe it’s the girl in your class, or the girl you pass everyday on your way to work,” White said. “You’re giving yourself an eas-ier way to connect, and for this reason, I think there is huge potential on campuses.”
Autumn Langdon, fresh-man in LAS, agreed that Fortu could be a hit at the University.
“I think it will narrow it down to people who want a meaningful relationship rather than I’m going to meet up with someone and
whatever happens, hap-pens,” Langdon said.
With apps like Tinder and Skout already on the market, White wants Uni-versity students to know a few things about Fortu.
“Fortu is 100 percent free and will always be 100 percent free,” White said. “Monetization will not be based on user pay. In the future, we might offer dis-counts for students on cer-tain dates, but students will never pay period.”
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ALLISON LONG TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEHelen Dugan, owner of karate school Champs Achievers, shows a defensive move to 7-year-old Brayden Bond on March 9 in Lenexa, Kansas. The 80-year-old grandmother is a third-degree black belt and teaches karate classes exclusively to people with special needs.
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BY LILLIAN BARKLEYSTAFF WRITER
In a small, corner cafe, Pull-man railroad berth lights illu-minate the booths, a large pen-dulum clock keeps time on a far wall, a gold Palace Opera House chandelier shines above the dining room and a red air-plane with a propeller that acts as a fan for the main dining room hangs above customers’ heads.
In downtown Urbana, one institution sits on the founda-tion of another: The Courier Café at 111 N. Race St. in the old Urbana Courier Newspa-per building. The restaurant has been serving breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week for 35 years.
“When I opened the res-taurant people said, ‘You’re crazy, you’ll never make it there,’” said Allen Strong, the café’s owner. He said Urba-na was a ghost town when he decided to purchase and renovate the Courier build-ing after the paper’s closure in 1979.
The Courier was still in publication when Strong came down from Chicago to open Bubby and Zadie’s, a Champaign deli on Sixth and Green that was open as late as 4 a.m. and would host live music acts.
But after fi ve years of deal-ing with fluctuating busi-ness and a fl ooding basement, Strong said he was a ready for a change.
“I thought Urbana was poised for a renaissance,” he said. The Courier Café opened in November 1980 and sales grew every month for 17 years, according to Strong.
Many of the customers who came in were old newspaper employees who appreciated
seeing their old newsroom put to good use, said Susan Fox, the Courier Café’s manager from 1982 until 2012.
“I think people always appreciate historical sites being preserved, and I think Allen did a nice job incorporat-ing the history into his menu and the Courier Café. It just kept the memory alive,” she said.
Strong said he used to receive the Courier and has fond memories of the paper as well. It was a career start-er for Roger Ebert, who would
come and eat at the café. According to Strong, the
Courier always had the worst equipment but better writers and was the “spiritual focus of Champaign-Urbana.”
An old Courier delivery bag is on display in a case at the front of the café, along with numerous antiques which dec-orate the interior.
“I’m not a stainless steel, fl u-orescent lights kind of guy,” Strong said.
He can switch the airplane on from his favorite booth between the two dining rooms, where he has watched gener-ations of families grow up throughout the years.
“I think it just feels like home,” he said.
He added that there was no secret to the café’s longevity, except that they make it a mis-sion to serve good food.
Fresh bread is baked dai-ly, and the soups and sausage gravy are made from scratch. Customers would get upset when changes were made to the menu, so the food prepa-ration has been kept the same, he said.
“We never even advertise or wave a fl ag about it, that’s just the way we do it,” he said.
Fred and Sharon Gerth visit the restaurant every Friday for lunch and every Saturday for breakfast.
Regulars like the Gerths are what kept the business afl oat during rough times, Fox said.
“Some of the wait staff have been around long enough that we know them by name and they know us,” Sharon said.
They have been coming to the café since just after it opened, and they said they appreciate the quality and consistency.
“Their salad bar, I think, is the best in town,” she said. Fred said he was indulging in a whole salad and sandwich rather than his usual half.
Buying a newspaper and eating lunch at the Courier is “part of our routine,” he said.
New faces and regulars visit the Courier, where a sign over the salad bar reads, “tourists treated the same as home folks.” One University recruiter, a regular known only as “green-tea guy” holds his meetings at the restaurant.
“We have become sort of woven into the heart of the community,” Strong said.
BY DRAKE PENASTAFF WRITER
Coming to campus this spring, Fortu is an app designed to change the way people look at online dating, according to Jason White, founder of the app. The app uses three major pil-lars: initial physical attrac-tion, an event that both par-ties fi nd interesting and an available time that works for both users.
“We felt there was a big gap in the proper way to go about o n l i n e dating,” W h i t e s a i d . “ T h i s c a m e f r o m f r i e n d s who were h a v i n g t r o u b l e meeting p e o p l e on the o n l i n e world and needed a better platform for meeting others. We intend on getting the nuts and bolts of online dating right to help people meet each other.”
Fortu uses elements from other apps such as a small profi le and location set-tings to meet people near-by. White explained that the
user creates an idea for a date, which can vary from a run in the park to get-ting drinks at a bar. Once the event is set up with a time and location, other users are able to decide if they want to meet. Then, the creator of the date chooses the person they would like to take.
“You can make Fortu whatever you want it to be,” White said. “We’ve done beta tests and watch what people are doing. Whatev-
er you want to do you can do it. We give you a platform that allows things to happen.”
Aryaman K o c h h a r , freshman in DGS, said the formu-la of other dating and hookup apps is outdated, and Fortu
can provide a change. “I feel like when a lot of
people come to campus, they come with that mental-ity that they are just going to hook up with a bunch of girls or guys,” Kochhar said. “But I feel beyond a
New dating app ready to woo campus
“I think Allen did a nice job incorporating
the history into his menu ... It just kept the memory alive.”
SUSAN FOXFORMER MANAGER
“You can make Fortu whatever you want it to be ... We give you a platform that
allows things to happen.”
JASON WHITEFOUNDER OF FORTU
Carrying on the
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Allen Strong, the owner of The Courier Cafe, is holding the old newspapers in the cafe on March 20.
BY JAMES A. FUSSELLTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Dressed in a red uniform in a Lenexa, Kansas, mar-tial arts studio, Helen Dugan puts an opponent 73 years her junior in a choke hold, then throws him to the mat. Mov-ing like a woman half her age, she pounces on top of him, pinning his arms.
Let other octogenarians take it easy. Despite gray hair, wrinkles and 17 great-grandchildren, Dugan has no intention of going gentle into that good night. Now 80, she is a third-degree black belt in American karate who can still snap off a spinning back kick and break boards and bones with her feet.
“Want to know what my grandsons say about me?” she says as a smile sneaks across her face. “Well, you know how kids in school say, ‘My dad can beat up your dad’? They say, ‘My grandma can beat up your dad!’
For 25 years Dugan has used her skills to train stu-dents often turned away by
others. Her nonprofi t martial arts school, Champs Achiev-ers, specializes in teaching people with special needs. A third of her 60 students are on the autism spectrum. Others have cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, attention defi cit disorder and developmental delays. Some have hearing and vision impairments.
“Helen is an amazing wom-an,” said Angela Degnan, whose 3-year-old son, Aid-en, joined in October. “She has dedicated her life to chil-dren with special needs. My son has special needs, and it’s been a wonderful experience for him.”
By all accounts, Dugan holds her own in tourna-ments against far younger opponents and is more than capable of defending herself.
“The headlines would not be pretty when they read, ‘Mugger beat up by 80-year-old woman,’” said Mark Schenkelberg, who takes lessons from Dugan with his
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SPORTS1BTUESDAY
Midweek game offers relief
BY COLE HENKESTAFF WRITER
The Illinois softball team is taking a break from its conference schedule to play the Illinois State Redbirds at Eichelberger Field on Tuesday.
The teams will play one game rather than a multi-ple-game series, which is a change of pace for the Illi-ni. According to head coach Terri Sullivan, these one-game breaks are a good way to get out of the grind of the Big Ten season.
She also stressed how important these games are. In this case, Illinois is com-ing off of a weekend sweep of Indiana. The midweek game against the Redbirds (16-18, 7-2 MVC) gives the Illini (11-20, 3-3 Big Ten) a chance to keep their momen-tum going into another Big Ten series.
“We just try to stay consis-tent,” Sullivan said. “While these games aren’t confer-ence games, I make sure the players go in with the same
mentality to every game. We can’t afford to treat oppo-nents any differently.”
The two teams play a sin-gle game against each other every year. The Illini won last year after the 2013 game was canceled.
Illinois’ offense is on a hot streak right now, scor-ing 40 runs over the week-end to sweep the Hoosiers and the Illini garnered some awards for their efforts. Junior infielder Allie Bauch was named Big Ten Player of the Week, and freshman outfielder Carly Thomas was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week. The 22 runs the Illini scored on Sunday were a school record and the game ended in the fifth inning via the mercy rule.
Illinois State finished up a weekend sweep against Evansville, where the Red-birds scored 34 runs. While Illinois gave up 26 runs over the weekend, Illinois State only gave up 11.
Junior outfielder Kylie Johnson reinforced what
Sullivan said about treating opponents the same.
“We play a long sched-ule,” Johnson said. “We can’t afford to treat games like they don’t matter. We didn’t have the best start to the season, so we need to really focus.”
Illinois State had a simi-lar start to the season as Illi-nois — the Redbirds couldn’t record a winning weekend in their tournament season. The Redbirds have only one win against a power con-ference team and are 0-10 against nationally ranked teams.
The Illini have played nine games against ranked opponents and, like the Redbirds, haven’t won any.
Pitching hasn’t been a strong suit for either team. The Illini pitching staff has a collective ERA of 6.34 and the Redbirds pitch-ing staff has a 7.11 ERA. The struggles of the Illini stem from inaccuracy with their pitches. The Illini have walked 31 more bat-
ters than they have struck out this year. The Redbirds have walked 92 batters com-pared to the Illini’s 136, but the Redbirds have given up 312 hits compared to the Illi-ni’s 273.
Sullivan still trusts her pitchers and thinks the only problem is that they are not trusting their stuff.
“Our pitchers are fine,” Sullivan said. “We need to get over the hump, and we will do that by playing to our strengths.”
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Illinois vs. Illinois StateTuesday 5 p.m. at Eichelberger FieldQuick facts: Junior infielder Allie Bauch was named Big Ten Player of the Week, and freshman outfielder Carly Thomas was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week.Hidden stat: No Illinois pitcher has a winning record this season.
BY STEPHEN BOURBONSENIOR WRITER
Just one year ago, Mike Dudek was a lightly recruit-ed receiver entering his first spring practices.
Following a stellar fresh-man campaign that led to his selection as a Freshman All-American, Dudek enters his second round of spring practices with a new level of expectations.
“He’s got to understand, it’s going to be a lot differ-ent,” offensive coordinator Bill Cubit said. “It’s not like you’re a freshman coming in and nobody knows who you are. There’s an added, I don’t want to say pres-sure, but people are going to look at you a little more. You’re going to get different coverages.”
In his first season in
Champaign, Dudek set freshman school records with 76 catches for 1,038 yards, while tying the fresh-man record with six touch-downs — highlighted by his performance against Purdue on Oct. 4, when he caught eight passes for 200 yards.
“I’m still kind of in awe of Big Ten football,” Dudek said. “It’s always been a
dream of mine since I was a kid.”
Dudek enrolled for spring practice last season as an early enrollee after the Illi-ni were his only FBS offer out of high school.
Though Dudek proved he belonged in the Big Ten, there are still slights for Dudek to use as motivation.
Despite early success, Dudek remains focused
BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois baseball team needed contributions from its entire lineup in order to win Monday’s rubber match in its series against Michigan State in East Lansing, Michigan.
Michigan State evened the series at one after the Illini’s poor offensive performance in Sunday’s game, but Illinois rebounded Monday. Behind consistent offense, the Illini (20-6-1, 2-1 Big Ten) created a large lead early and with-stood a late Spartans (12-13, 2-4) push to win 13-9.
“We just battled one through nine,” catcher Jason Goldstein said. “When the game became tight again, we didn’t settle for only a few runs, and we found a way to get the win.”
As in Saturday’s series opener, Illinois’ offense wast-ed little time getting after Michigan State’s starting pitcher. Right fielder Casey Fletcher singled up the mid-dle to lead off the second against the Spartans’ Antho-ny Misiewicz. Goldstein and first baseman David Kerian followed with singles to load the bases for third baseman Ryne Roper.
The sophomore started the scoring with a single into right field to score Fletcher. Misiewicz struggled to get out of the jam — he walked the next batter, center fielder Will Krug, and ball four was a wild pitch, which allowed two runners to score and the senior to reach second base. Shortstop Adam Walton add-
ed a two-run single before Michigan State escaped the inning trailing 5-0.
The Illini loaded the bas-es again in the fourth after a Roper double down the left-field line, a Krug walk and a Walton single into left. The team failed to make a major dent with no outs. Left fielder Ryan Nagle hit into a double play that scored Ryne Rop-er, but Reid Roper flied out to end the inning with a 6-0 lead.
Illinois added another run in the fifth when Goldstein hit an RBI double to left cen-ter to score Fletcher, who had
Baseball holds off late push to secure series
Illinois 13, Michigan State 9Summary: Illinois withstands a late Michigan State push to win the rubber match of it Big Ten opener. Key performer: Shortstop Adam Walton went 3-for-6 and had three RBIs.Quote of the game: Catcher Jason Goldstein — “When the game became tight again, we didn’t settle for only a few runs and we found a way to get the win.” Up next: vs. Missouri at 6:30 p.m. at Sauget, Illinois
Birthdays, bright lights and another missed opportunity
Michal asks: What are your thoughts about Mar-cus Lovett? Some have called him the next Dee Brown. Is he a must-get for Illinois?
I’m not sure who told you that Marcus Lovett is the next Dee Brown, but go to that person ASAP and tell them that they are dumb.
Marcus Lovett’s nick-name is “Bright Lights,” which is freaking awesome.
He also scored 45 points in a game this year on 20-of-27 shooting, which is almost as cool as his nickname.
I think Lovett is very talented, and I would love to see the Illini lock him down, but in no way do I think he can be compared
to one of the best players in Illinois history.
What makes him valu-able is that he seems to be a more than capable point guard, which is something Illinois needed badly this past season.
Obviously Tracy Abrams will be back for another season after sitting out last season due to injury.
If Groce can’t land Lovett, the point guard position gets very slim after next year.
Jaylon Tate started the season strong, but was exposed in conference play. He doesn’t appear to have what it takes to be a starting point guard in the Big Ten.
Illinois basketball needs a point guard and Marcus Lovett is a solid candidate for the job.
If you’ve watched any game in the NCAA tour-nament so far, you’d know how important guard play is in college basketball.
There is no reason John Groce shouldn’t get Lovett to commit.
Not closing the deal would be a major disappointment.
Jordan asks: How much do you think it would have helped recruiting to bring the IHSA State bas-ketball tourney back to Champaign?
It was a bummer to see the IHSA State basketball tournament not return to Champaign (it’s going to be in Peoria through 2020), but not because of recruiting.
I don’t think the tourna-ment being held in Cham-paign would have had any effect on Illinois basket-ball recruiting.
If a high school kid were deciding between Illinois and Kansas, the state high school tourna-ment being held in Illi-nois would have no impact on his decision.
If a potential Illinois recruit played in Cham-paign for the tournament,
I don’t think the ability to play at State Farm Cen-ter while in high school would make him think, “Oh, now I know Illinois is the right school for me.”
The unfortunate part of this decision is the impact it will have on tourism in Champaign. The differ-
ence between holding the tournament and not hold-ing the tournament here from an economical per-spective is massive.
This would have been a great time for thousands of students, parents and fans to visit Champaign and enjoy, what I believe, is a great city.
It would have gener-ated tons of revenue, and would have showcased all of what Champaign has to offer to people who may not come here otherwise.
That is why not bringing back the tournament was unfortunate.
DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOIllinois' Mike Dudek runs the ball during the Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl against Louisiana Tech at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, Texas on Dec. 26.
KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' Kylie Johnson swings for the ball during its 3-0 loss against North Dakota State at Eichelberger Field on March 17.
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' Jason Goldstein stretches in an attempt to tag Lindenwood University's Sean Keeney during its game at Illinois Field on March 18.
Illinois takes break from conference play to host in-state rival Illinois State on Tuesday
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BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIThe IHSA basketball finals haven’t been held at State Farm Center since 1996. It was announced March 21 that the tournament finals would stay in Peoria through 2020.
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Flaws granted sixth season
DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT Redshirt-Senior forward
Jannelle Flaws was grant-ed another year of eligibil-ity by the NCAA and will return to the Illinois soc-cer team for a sixth year, which was announced Monday.
She missed the entirety of the 2010 and 2012 sea-sons due to ACL injuries.
“It is tremendous that Jannelle has been given the chance to complete her col-
lege career and continue her development here at Illinois for one more year,” head coach Janet Rayfi eld said in a press release.
Flaws won Big Ten For-ward of the Year the past two seasons, making her the only Illini ever to win the award in back-to-back seasons. Her 23 goals in the 2013 season led the NCAA and set an Illinois record for most goals in a season.
If Flaws remains healthy next season, the odds are in her favor to score the most goals in team history. She’s currently tied for third on the list at 43 goals with for-
mer Illini Vanessa DiBer-nardo. Tara Hurless is fi rst on the list with 47.
This season Flaws was named a third-team NSCAA All-American and tied an Illinois record set by Emily Brown in 2000 for most consecutive goal-scor-ing games with fi ve. Flaws scored 10 goals during those fi ve games, the most goals scored by an Illini in a fi ve-game span in school history. She scored 17 goals overall in 2014.
Flaws was the 2014 female recipient of the Dike Eddleman award as Illinois’ top female athlete.
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Janelle Flaws is dispossessed while trying to turn with the ball during the game against Michigan at Illinois Track and Soccer stadium on Oct. 26.
BY NATE ULRICHTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Although many observers expected the NFL to lower the boom on the Browns for Text-gate, the penalties it issued Monday were more like a slap on the wrist.
The league suspended Browns General Manager Ray Farmer without pay for the fi rst four regular-sea-son games of 2015 and fi ned the organization $250,000. The NFL did not strip the Browns of a draft pick.
Farmer will still be able to run the draft, sign free agents, make cuts through-out training camp and set the roster heading into the season in early September. Once the season begins, a GM’s responsibilities scale back drastically.
Furthermore, the orga-nization still has all 10 of its selections in the draft from April 30 to May 2: fi rst round (Nos. 12 and 19 over-all), second round (No. 43), third (No. 77), fourth (Nos. 111 and 115), fi fth (No. 147), sixth (Nos. 189 and 202) and seventh (No. 230).
In a news conference last month at the NFL Scouting Combine, Farmer admitted to sending text messages to coaches during games last season and apologized for his actions. The mes-sages, presumably opin-ions about play calls and the usage of players, led to an NFL investigation because league rules pro-hibit electronic communi-cation about competitive or strategic information dur-ing games. The texts also reportedly contributed to offensive coordinator Kyle
Shanahan resigning in Jan-uary with two years left on his contract.
Last month, Browns owner Jimmy Haslam told reporters he would stick with Farmer despite the controversy, adding he didn’t think the embattled GM intended to gain an unfair advantage by send-ing the texts.
The discipline handed down by the league sug-gests it doesn’t believe the Browns attained a competi-tive advantage from Farm-er’s texts.
“The use of a cellphone on multiple occasions dur-ing games in 2014 by Cleve-land Browns General Man-ager Ray Farmer was a violation of NFL rules that prohibit certain uses of electronic devices during games,” Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice presi-dent of football operations, said in a statement released Monday. “Based on these violations, the Browns have been fi ned $250,000 and Ray Farmer will be sus-pended without pay for the fi rst four regular-season games of the 2015 season.
“The suspension will start on midnight of the Sunday preceding the Browns’ fi rst regular-sea-son game and will end immediately after the Browns’ fourth regular-season game. During the period of the suspension, Farmer cannot be involved in any club matters and is prohibited from being at the Browns’ offi ces, prac-tice facility, or at Browns games.”
At the combine, Farm-
er insisted Haslam didn’t infl uence or pressure him to badger the coaches with texts, even though the two sit together during road games. Last month, Haslam said he hadn’t seen the messages.
The league’s findings supported those claims.
“There was no evidence in the NFL’s review that Browns ownership or any other team executives had knowledge of the prohibit-ed conduct,” Vincent said in his statement. “Once the violation was discovered, Browns management imple-mented new processes to ensure future compliance.”
Last month, Farmer acknowledged he knew
the league’s rules regard-ing texting, but he broke them because “sometimes your emotions get the best of you.”
He’s lucky Haslam won’t fi re him for the violations.
“We accept the league’s ruling,” Haslam said in a statement released Mon-day. “Ray made a mistake and takes full responsibil-ity for his role in violat-ing the policy. It is criti-cal that we make better decisions. Ray has tre-mendous integrity and I know has great remorse for what occurred. We are all committed to learning from this and making the Browns a stronger and bet-ter organization.”
Browns GM suspended without pay
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — It appears the Battle Plan is in full effect.
Alabama athletic director Bill Battle is reportedly mak-ing his move to land Wichi-ta State’s Gregg Marshall as the Crimson Tide’s next head basketball coach today.
Battle reportedly fl ew to Wichita this morning, accord-ing to various media outlets, including CBSSports.com and the Tuscaloosa News, to meet with Marshall about becoming Alabama’s next head coach.
Marshall would replace
Anthony Grant, who was fi red March 15 after Ala-bama missed out on the NCAA Tournament for the fi fth time in his six-year ten-ure with the Tide.
Marshall is one of the hot-test names in college basket-ball and has been a rumored front-runner for the recently opened head coaching vacan-cy at Texas.
It has been speculated Marshall is Battle’s No. 1 target, with various media outlets reporting that inter-est early last week.
But it wasn’t until seventh-seeded Wichita State (30-15) fell to No. 3-seeded Notre Dame, 81-70, on Thursday in the Sweet 16 that it became clear the interest might be mutual .
Georgia State’s R.J. Hunt-er is turning pro.
He told his teammates Monday morning. He said he is going to sign with an agent in the next two weeks, and he won’t return to school.
“I know I can do more, but at this point I feel like my time is up,” he said. “This team is so well off they don’t
need me. It will be fun for them.”
Hunter, a 6-foot-6 guard, said he has heard he could be picked anywhere from the middle of the fi rst round to the second round. Only fi rst-round picks receive guaran-teed contracts. Ron Hunt-er, R.J.’s father and Georgia State’s coach, said in feed-back he has received Hunter could go anywhere from 11 to 25. Ron Hunter said how R.J. Hunter performs at the NBA combine in Chicago in May will determine where he gets drafted .
Former St. John’s super-star Chris Mullin has reached an agreement to become St. John’s new head coach, according to multiple sources. He will be introduced at a news conference Wednesday, a source said.
Mullin replaces Steve Lavin, whom the school “mutually parted ways” with Friday. Terms of the contract were not available immediately.
After Lavin was let go, the school immediately
focused its attention on Mullin, a source with knowl-edge of the process said. Rhode Island coach Danny Hurley reportedly reached agreement Sunday on a con-tract extension through the 2020-21 season, removing him from consideration.
In the 51-year-old Mullin, St. John’s is hiring some-one with no prior coaching experience. However, the Naismith Hall of Famer, who was a three-time Big East player of the year and a fi ve-time NBA All-Star, spent fi ve years as Golden State’s executive vice-pres-ident of basketball opera-tions and most recently has been a front-offi ce adviser for the Sacramento Kings .
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reached on a walk and stolen second. The team tacked on three more runs in the sev-enth to give Illinois a com-fortable 10-2 lead.
“We were aggressive,” Walton said. “We hit them in the right places. We moved runners, hit behind runners and it put us in the right posi-tion to win.”
With such a strong offen-sive display, pitcher John Kravetz had more than enough support. The senior pitched fi ve scoreless innings before giving up a pair of runs in the sixth. With two men on base in the inning and the Illini leading 10-2, junior reliever J.D. Nielsen replaced Kravetz. Michigan State scored three runs in the frame and scored four runs in the eighth to cut Illinois’ lead to 10-9.
Despite the attempted Michigan State comeback, the Illini added three insur-ance runs in the ninth: Pat McInerney and Goldstein scored on two wild pitches and a Walton single scored Kerian from third. Closer Tyler Jay came in to secure the 13-9 win.
“They put some good swings on some pitches,” head coach Dan Hartleb said. “The same group was pitch-ing well a few weeks back, so it just depends on the pitches being thrown.”
There will be little time for rest as the team travels to Sauget, Illinois, where it will play Missouri on Tues-day. For Hartleb and his team, the grind of games and travel isn’t an issue, as the importance of each game outweighs the other distractions.
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Despite leading the Big Ten in yards during confer-ence games, with 716 yards in eight conference games — 89.5 yards per game — Dudek was left off the All-Big Ten team by the coach-es and was a second-team selection by the media. He was a Freshman All-Amer-ican by ESPN.com, in addi-tion to making the Big Ten’s All-Freshman team.
Even with the accolades, Dudek still doesn’t feel as though he met the expec-tations he set for himself
going into the season.“I set mine as high as I
can,” Dudek said of his per-sonal goals. “Some people like to think that I did, but I don’t think that I did. I push to be an All-American fully, not just a Freshman All-American.
“But the main goal, of course, is to go out and win.”
While outsiders might have overlooked the 5-foot-11 product out of Naper-ville, Illinois, Cubit knew that Dudek had a chance to be an immediate playmaker from the slot.
“Everybody looked at him during recruiting and
said ‘he’s too small’ or asks if he’s fast enough. So from that perspective, he did,” Cubit said. “But if you looked at him in practice in the spring and during camp, you say no. That’s what you expected from him.”
Heading into next season, Cubit said that Dudek has “a lot” of room still to grow as a player, and he will have to continue to progress to stay in front of defenses.
“All of little fl aws he had, route running, he’s got to fi x that in order to keep that added advantage,” Cubit said. “You’re going to get their best guy all the time. That’s going to be from the
very beginning.”Crouch now fully healthy after spring break
Monday’s practice was the fi rst of the spring that saw backup quarterback Chayce Crouch in a navy blue jersey, which indicates a full practice participant. The redshirt freshman uti-lized spring break to rest an ailing hamstring.
Crouch currently sits sec-ond on the depth chart at quarterback behind junior starter Wes Lunt.
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Il l inois basketball shouldn’t worry too much — I don’t think recruiting would be effected signifi -cantly either way.
John says: Describe your perfect birthday.
Yeah, Monday was my birthday, so now is the time for all of you who didn’t wish me a happy birthday to feel bad about it.
I found out the morn-ing of my birthday that according to Facebook, the only person who could see that it was my birth-day, was me.
I didn’t want to change that on my birthday because I was pretty sure Facebook would have some update that said, “Sam Sherman updated his birthday to today.”
My girlfriend changed it for me, and I don’t know if there was a self-promo-tional update, but if there was I apologize.
It must have looked like “Sam Sherman is updat-ing his birthday on Face-book so you all know today is his birthday, wish him a happy birth-day, jerks.”
My perfect birthday would be a steak dinner with the famous people whom I share a birthday with.
Get ready to be jealous folks, because I share a birthday with a bunch of awesome people.
My cousin Richard plays for the Seahawks, and he happens to share a birthday with me, so he’s going to be there for sure, along with his new baby
boy.Richard is a cool guy,
and he won the Super Bowl two years ago, and almost won it again last year. We would have a lot to talk about.
I could make small talk with Celine Dion, and talk about singing and stuff like that.
Vincent Van Gogh would paint me for my birthday. I would sell the painting for a bunch of money, and he wouldn’t know because he’s dead (he’s only alive on the day of my birthday steak din-ner just so you know).
Eric Clapton could teach me how to play “Layla” on guitar and I could teach him how to make my famous incred-ible microwave nachos.
MC Hammer wouldn’t have to entertain me at all, because he’s MC Hammer and his presence alone is a gift.
Sitting right next to me would be White Sox ace, Chris Sale. He is the best pitcher in the American League and don’t try to convince me otherwise.
Sale would teach me how to throw that nas-ty slider of his, and then maybe after we could get ice cream or something.
I could have told you that Piers Morgan, Norah Jones, Tracy Chapman and Warren Beatty also share my birthday, cause they do, but I didn’t want you to get too jealous.
Happy birthday, Sam.
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ED SUBA JR. TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICECleveland Browns general manager Ray Farmer listens to a question during a news conference at the teams training facility on Feb. 11, 2014, in Cleveland. He will be suspended for the fi rst four games of the 2015 season.
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Jannelle has been given the chance to com-plete her college
career.”JANET RAYFIELD
SOCCER HEAD COACH
BY K.C. JOHNSONTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
All the parsing of Der-rick Rose’s words, the will-he-or-won’t-he speculation over his return and analysis of his play exists outside the Bulls’ realm.
Behind the closed doors of the Advocate Center, where Rose participated in the contact portions of practice Monday for the first time since his Feb. 27 arthroscopic right knee surgery, a simple truth resonates.
“We know when Der-rick’s back right, he takes our team to a whole other level,” Joakim Noah said.
Rose, on track to return in the four- to six-week timeline offered by team physicians and officials, scrimmaged full-court for two 10-minute sessions. The games were 4-on-4 because Pau Gasol, Mike Dunleavy, Aaron Brooks and Kirk Hinrich were excused as part of a rest and mainte-nance day.
“He was aggressive,” coach Tom Thibodeau said of Rose. “He was a little wind-ed, but we expected that. Overall, I thought it was good. He said he feels good physically. The big thing is going to be the wind and conditioning. He’s been out a long time.”
Friday marks five weeks since team physician Brian Cole removed a small por-tion of Rose’s right meniscus. When Rose returns depends on how his body reacts to
taking the contact. The Bulls, currently the East’s third seed, have eight regu-lar-season games remaining.
Rookie Doug McDermott, who doesn’t have the injury history Rose does, under-went a similar procedure in December and also got cleared for contact at the start of the fifth week. He
landed on the active roster five weeks and two days after his surgery.
“This is the next step. We’ll know more as Derrick goes forward,” Thibodeau said. “Obviously, he needs some more practice time where he’s taking contact. But it will come. The more he does that, the faster it will come.
“Ultimately, he’s got to feel comfortable. You can’t put him out there if he’s not comfortable. Each week he’s done a lot more. Hopefully, he’ll be good.”
The Bulls will practice Tuesday before traveling to
Milwaukee in a likely pre-view of a first-round playoff matchup, though scrimmag-ing rarely occurs the day before a game. The goal is for Rose to log as many reg-ular-season games as possi-ble to build chemistry and conditioning.
The Bulls have won three straight and five of six to
improve to 9-8 without Rose in this stretch. Pre-viously this season, they went 7-4 without him as he battled sprained ankles, a left hamstring injury and illness.
“When he gets hurt, it’s not just him. It’s on all of us. We all feel it,” Noah said. “We’re a family. We spend more time together than we do with our fami-lies. It hurts to see any of the guys go down because we know how much we put into this. But to see him come back and be resilient
makes our team stronger.”Indeed, as opposed to
the torn left ACL that end-ed Rose’s 2012 postseason after one game and torn right meniscus that ended his 2013-14 season after just 10 regular-season affairs, a feeling of optimism is color-ing this stretch run.
Not to mention humor. Rose, who updated his sta-tus last week in Toronto, declined to address report-ers. That left Noah to answer if Rose showed flashes of his previous stardom.
“It was his first 4-on-4 con-tact since surgery,” Noah said. “So relax.”
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BY MARK GONZALESTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
MESA, Ariz. — The Chicago Cubs optioned second baseman Javier Baez to Triple-A Iowa on Monday and reassigned slugger Kris Bry-ant and shortstop Addison Russell to minor league camp.
Baez batted .173 with 20 strikeouts. Bryant hit nine home runs — tops among all spring training players — and batted .425, but has yet to play a full season at Triple -A Iowa.
President Theo Epstein and manager Joe Maddon said there was a healthy debate on whether to keep Baez or send him down to work on cutting down on his strikeouts.
“I think we all agree that Javy is an extremely talented player and is going to be a big part of this organization for a long time,” Epstein said. “He does so many things well on a baseball field. But we also agree all of us this was the right move. Right now he’s so close to getting it figured out in the batter’s box. We just feel Triple-A is the right forum for him to continue to make those adjustments and get locked in.
“He does everything else so well on the baseball field. He’s a winning baseball player. He’s just got to take that same mindset into the batter’s box, and it’s a slight adjustment, it’s a little tweak to his approach. We feel he’s not far from making it. We have his back 100 percent. But we feel like he needs those at-bats at Iowa to get it figured out.”
As for Bryant, 23, “His performance mat-tered,” Epstein said. “He made a great first impression on Joe and clearly demonstrated to everyone — including us — that he’s very close to being not just in the big leagues but to be playing an important role on the team. His camp mattered.
“We’re more likely to get him sooner rather than later at this point with how he’s playing
and how close he showed. But we are going to afford him the same luxury we tend to afford most, if not all, of our young players. Just go off and get into the rhythm of the season and play and (you) will get here quickly.”
As for Russell, who will be the starting shortstop at Iowa, “I couldn’t tell him what to work on,” Maddon said. “He’s that accom-plished at that age (21), so I just told him to keep doing what you’re doing.”
With Baez demoted, left-handed hitter Tommy La Stella and Arismendy Alcantara are the top candidates to play second base. Epstein said it’s highly unlikely the Cubs will make a trade with Sunday’s season opener against the Cardinals approaching.
Bryant, through a team spokesman, declined to comment. Baez was still sched-uled to play in Monday’s game against San Francisco.
Scott Boras, Bryant’s agent, has been ada-mant that the Cubs owed it to their fans to start the season with his client on the roster. But by sending Bryant to Iowa for at least a couple of weeks, the Cubs would have him under their control for seven years instead of six.
Commissioner Rob Manfred even got involved, saying last week that Boras should stay out of the Cubs’ business.
“Look, I don’t think the Cubs’ decision with respect of what’s going to happen with Kris Bryant is really any of Mr. Boras’ business,” Manfred said. “I think the Cubs — I know the Cubs — will make decisions that are best for the long-term competitiveness of that club, and focusing on whether a particular play-er has played, or (is) with a club on a day, or days, I don’t think is a fair evaluation of what the club is up to.
“The club is in the best position, and the Cubs are in the best position, to decide what’s
going to make them the most competitive over the longest period of time.”
Baez’s skeptics will point to his three strikeouts on Sunday as evidence that the hard-swinging slugger could benefit from more seasoning in the minors.
“I don’t know yet,” Baez said of his status before learning of his demotion. “We still got a couple days. Whoever gets on the plane, that’s who is going to Chicago.”
Baez said he didn’t mean to say last week that he had been informed he’d made the
team, as one published report claimed.“It was something that if I did say that, I
didn’t mean to,” Baez said. “I heard about it, and I wasn’t sure about what going on about it.”
Baez is aware that his biggest supporter is Maddon, who defends Baez’s defense and believes his strikeouts are scrutinized too closely.
“He knows what he’s saying, and he watch-es everything and what all the guys like to do,” Baez said.
Allen prepares for new team roleBY DAN WIEDERERTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Jared Allen glances down and knows immediately this is a “must selfie” moment. His 7-month-old-daughter, Lakelyn, has fallen asleep on his left shoulder, her chubby cheek burrowed deep into his T-shirt.
“Awesome,” Allen said. “My wife has to see this. This never happens.”
If Lakelyn is the picture of contentment, relaxed and totally at peace, then maybe her aura has been rubbing off on her dad.
Allen has ample reason to feel anxious. At the one-year anniversary of his signing with the Bears, the glory year he had envisioned in Chicago instead withered into a heap of struggle.
And suddenly the new-look Bears are overhauling their defensive front, adding two more run-stuffing ends last week with the signings of Ray McDonald and Jarvis Jenkins.
Yet as Allen sips his coffee and digs into an omelet at Breakfast Club near his Arizona home, he vows to convert his lingering disap-pointment into motivational fuel.
Yes, the general manager who signed him (Phil Emery) has been fired. The coaching staff he once endorsed failed and was jetti-soned. Plus, the defense he signed up to play for is being totally redesigned under new coach John Fox with Allen expected to take on a role he never has had — as an outside linebacker in a 3-4 scheme, a duty he would have resisted a few years back.
Somehow, Allen isn’t fretting.The new role, which occasionally will have
this old dog learning the tricks of a stand-up pass rusher, genuinely excites him.
“It requires you to refocus and rekindle your energy,” Allen said. “You can’t get stuck in your same old patterns.”
Plus Allen’s casual visits with Fox and gen-eral manager Ryan Pace during last week’s owners meetings offered a chance to relay his confidence.
“I was less anxious and so much more eager to talk to them,” Allen said. “Just to say, ‘Hey guys. I know the film from last year only shows 5 sacks. But don’t believe that’s all I have left.
“I’m good still. Really.”It will take more than an enthusiastic
promise for Allen to reassure Fox and new
defensive coordinator Vic Fangio that he still has it.
Last season’s film showcases Allen’s diminished explosion and career-low sack total. That points toward a conclusion his All-Pro ability has disappeared, perhaps even suggesting his performance level may be headed for a cliff in his career’s final stages.
Allen’s $12.5 million salary guarantee for 2015 made it nearly impossible for the Bears to trade or cut him. So now comes the unusual task for Fox of finding a five-time Pro Bowl selection an appropriate niche.
Last year’s productivity, Allen concedes, was a letdown.
“I own that,” he said.But he also has a full chamber of expla-
nations to fire. The pneumonia that side-lined him in Week 4 melted 15 pounds off his frame, creating a two-month battle to restore his power and conditioning. In ret-rospect, he wishes he had taken more time off to regain strength and muscle mass.
“I just don’t know how to miss games,” Allen said. “It killed me that I had to miss one.”
Baez, teammates demoted
ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEChicago Bears defensive end Jared Allen celebrates after sacking Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater during the second quarter of their 21-13 victory over the Vikings on Nov. 16 at Solider Field in Chicago.
Rose takes contact during practice since surgery
NUCCIO DINUZZO TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEChicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose goes to the basket against the Milwaukee Bucks during Feb. 23, at the United Center in Chicago. On Monday, Rose took contact in practice.
JOHN J. KIM TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEThe Chicago Cubs’ Javier Baez watches the flight of his solo home run in the fifth inning against the Cubs’ 4-1 victory against the Baltimore Orioles on Aug. 22, at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The Cubs decided to demote Baez to allow him time to cut down on strikeouts.
“When he gets hurt, it’s not just on him. It’s on all
of us. We all feel it. ... We’re a family.”
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BY JEFF POTRYKUSTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
MADISON, Wis. — Wis-consin senior Frank Kamin-sky on Monday was a unani-mous choice on the 2014—15 Associated Press All-Amer-ican team.
Kaminsky, who leads UW in scoring (18.7 points), rebounds (8.0), assists (99), blocks (54) and field-goal percentage (.549), has helped UW reach the Final Four for the second con-secutive season.
UW’s only other AP first—team pick was Alan-do Tucker (2007).
“It’s cool to be named first-team All-American. It’s something you dream of as a kid,” Kaminsky said in a UW release. “To final-ly be able to do so, it’s a good thing and it shows how hard I’ve worked in my career. To be up there with Alando Tucker is a pretty cool thing.”
Rounding out the first team: Duke freshman Jahlil Okafor, Kentucky junior Willie Cauley-Stein, Notre Dame senior Jerian Grant and Ohio State freshman D’Angelo Russell.
Kaminsky averaged just 7.7 minutes and 1.8 points per game as a freshman. His numbers as a soph-omore improved to 10.3 minutes and 4.2 points. He blossomed as a junior and averaged 13.9 points and
6.3 rebounds in 27.2 min-utes per game and has had his best season as a senior.
“Not to be overly patri-otic, but we’re an Ameri-can story, that you can do that in this kind of a sys-tem,” UW coach Bo Ryan said. “Sometimes where it looks like the privileged, the ones that are identi-fied as being great players and can’t-miss-type guys, where there can always come that guy from behind in the race and then cross the tape first.”
“Frank is that guy who got a little bit later start as far as people noticing his abilities, but that’s just a
great accomplishment on his part. ... He took advan-tage of a chance and has made the most of it.”
Kaminsky has consistent-ly said he isn’t interested in securing individual honors. Rather, his focus has been on helping UW to return to the Final Four.
That determination came through in his comments after UW’s 85—78 victory over Arizona in the West Region title game.
“You come back to school for moments like this,” he said. “To share it with your
teammates, your friends, the people you’ve been with the last four years of your life, very significant people that are going to be in the rest of your life as well.
“A moment like this is the most memorable moments of our lives, and I’m sure we’ll remember this for a very long time, every single guy on this team. I can’t be more grateful for the oppor-tunity that the school has given me to be put in this position. I’m just so happy right now.”
Kentucky coach John Calipari, whose unbeat-en team faces UW in the national semifinals Satur-day in Indianapolis, sees a better player this season. The Wildcats consistently double-teamed Kaminsky in their 74-73 Final Four victory last season and limited him to eight points, seven field-goal attempts and five rebounds.
“He looks stronger,” Calipari said on the Final Four coaches’ teleconfer-ence. “He’s working angles better. He is a really con-fident perimeter shooter. Because he gets double—
teamed so much he is pass-ing better.”
“I love when I see players from year to year get bet-ter. Whether it is my play-ers or another player, that is what gets me. That means they’re committed. They understand the grind.”
“And Frank is about his team now. He’ll go get 29 (points) or he’ll go get eight and he’ll have seven assists.
“I imagine Bo has had a ball watching him go from three minutes a game to last to season to where he is now.”
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NUCCIO DINUZZO TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEWisconsin forward Frank Kaminsky dunks over Michigan State guard/forward Branden Dawson during the second half of the Big Ten Men’s Tournament championship game on March 15 at the United Center in Chicago.
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