The Daily Illini: Volume 145 Issue 33

BY AARON NAVARROSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois Preventing Sexual Violence in High-er Education Act will go into action Aug. 1, 2016 and require faculty, staff and student employees at Illinois universities to be trained on how to improve “awareness and responsive-ness to allegations” of sex-ual violence.

Currently, some Uni-versity student employees on campus are designated Campus Security Authori-ties, or CSAs.

The act will require all University employees to receive such training across the state.

Currently, student employees designated as CSAs range from Student Patrol officers to Univer-sity Housing residential advisors.

Students are trained to officially report sexu-al assault cases to cam-pus police, to intervene as a bystander and have an established understanding of how the investigation process is handled.

CSAs are “required to report good-faith allega-tions that certain crimes occurred on campus, in public areas bordering campus, and in non-cam-pus buildings owned or controlled by the Universi-ty,” according to We Care’s website.

University Police Lt. Joan Fiesta said CSAs are valu-able because students see them as peers, making it a little less difficult to report harassment or assault.

“We believe that students who experience sexual

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BY STEPHEN NYE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Several institutions are working in Champaign-Urbana to help returning soldiers; one of the larg-est is the Illinois Depart-ment of Veterans’ Affairs, which directly employs about 1,350 individuals in Illinois.

Through both federal and local systems, the depart-ment’s objective is “to help our Illinois veterans and family members get the benefits they’ve earned through service,” said Ryan Yantis, public information officer for the department.

The department offers four major services: hous-ing for 900 residents, out-reach to about 721,000 Illi-

nois veterans, reviews of educational institutions and grants for veterans who need long-term care, job placement or similar

services. The lack of Illinois’ bud-

get poses a major concern to members of the department and the community, as 30 percent of the department’s budget comes from state

funds. In total, the depart-ment funds programs using “50 percent federal funds, 30 percent state and 20 per-cent from the individuals,”

Yantis said.The department is

staffed by 70 veteran ser-vice officers, who are trained and accredited by the US Department of Vet-erans Affairs to help vet-

erans and their families apply for available feder-al and state benefits. From the $5 million dollar bud-get the officers have to work with, last year the officers helped veterans acquire $127 million in federal benefits, Yantis said. This results in a return of $25.40 received by veterans for every one dollar spent by the department.

The Illinois lottery also acts as one of the major sources of revenue for the veterans the department serves.

“The Illinois lottery Vet-erans Cash has provided nearly $12 million for pro-grams to help veterans

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The Kinkead Pavilion at the Krannert Art Museum on Wednesday.

CHARLOTTE COLLINS THE DAILY ILLINITop: Demi Olatunbosun, sophomore in Engineering, helps Anthony Ekeopara, graduate student, keep his balance. Bottom: Marisa Pierre, freshman in LAS, watches a group of Marching Illini mellophone players, who were at the rink for a bonding event. Students could skate at the Ice Arena Wednesday during Wellness Week, aimed to promote health and fitness.

BY VIVIENNE HENNINGSTAFF WRITER

The arts have an impact on society that may at times go unnoticed. But now, due to budget cuts, funding for the arts has hit a low in the state of Illinois.

Amid Gov. Bruce Raun-er’s proposed budget cuts are cuts to public arts fund-ing for museums such as the Illinois State Muse-um and its accompanying branch sites. This, com-

bined with the lack of fund-ing resulting from the state budget standoff, has caused the museum to have to close its doors for the foresee-able future, leaving the future of arts in Illinois uncertain.

Such a closure could have detrimental conse-quences for Illinois col-lege students, said Jona-than VanderBrug, policy and research director for advocacy group Art Alli-ance Illinois.

“There are many univer-sities’ professors, research-ers and students who rely on the collections of the Illinois State Museum to do their research. And right now they no longer have access to any of those col-

lections whatsoever,” he said. “So we have numerous research projects that have just ground to a halt and are no longer possible because of the closing of the Illinois State Museums.”

As for the University, it remains unclear how the decrease in funding will have an effect on the cur-riculum for the arts.

“On campus, the arts are a vital component of the comprehensive university education which students enjoy at (the University.) Like all other units on cam-pus we do not yet know the impact the state appropria-tion will have on our unit, but we are making plans

Future of Illinois arts funding remains murky

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“The services have been sufficient; they’ve got good involvment (with

veterans).”DAMIEN BUCKELY

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Closing of Illinois State Museums concerns many

Services offered by the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs:Housing for 900 residentsOutreach to about 721,000 Illinois veterans

The department is funded through: 50 percent federal funds30 percent state20 percent private funds

• 70 veteran service officers work in outreach • The officers acquired 127 million federal dollars to benefit veterans last year

SOURCE: Department of Veterans Affairs

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ChampaignTheft was reported at

County Market, 331 East Stoughton Street around 4 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the offender stole two bot-tles of tequila from the store. The offender has not been located.

Criminal damage to property was reported in the 1800 block of Melanie Lane around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender broke

out a window on the vic-tim’s vehicle while it was parked on the street.

University Theft was reported at

Loomis Laboratory, 1110 W. Green St., Tuesday.

According to the report, the victim reported that his skateboard had been stolen sometime between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. from the back of a classroom. The skate-board has an estimated val-ue of $700.

Theft was reported near Memorial Stadium, 1402

S. First St., around 3 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole the victim’s motor scooter on either Oct. 2 or Oct. 3. The motor scooter has an estimated value of $990.

Urbana Domestic battery was

reported at the Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green St., around 9 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, the offender and the victim were previously in a dating relationship. A verbal argu-

ment began in the library and turned physical in the parking lot.

Domestic dispute was reported in the 1700 block of East Florida Ave-nue.. around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, the offender engaged in a verbal argument in a high-ly intoxicated state. The offender was transported to the hospital for alcohol related treatment.

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A suburban Chicago transgender student’s fight for full locker room access will continue after federal officials deemed inadequate a solution proposed by the state’s largest high school district, school officials said Monday.

The transgender student filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights about a year and a half ago, seeking unrestricted access to a locker of the gender the student identifies with in Palatine, Ill.-based Township High School District 211.

Superintendent Daniel Cates said school officials and board of education members worked for months in hopes of finding an acceptable compromise. The proposed solution, which Cates said was “quickly squelched,” gave the transgender student use of the locker room but asked that the student change and shower in private.

The district anticipates an official written response from the Office of Civil Rights in the coming days. In the meantime, however, school officials said they were told the Office of Civil Rights found the district’s solution to be “inadequate and discriminatory,” according to a posting on the district’s website.

“At some point we have to balance the privacy rights of 12,000 students with other particular, individual needs of another group of students,” Cates said. “We believe this infringes on the privacy of all the students that we serve.”

School officials said they are responsive to the needs of their transgender students, including listing their self-identified gender and preferred name on school records, Cates said. Transgender students also can play on the sports teams of the gender they identify with and use the bathrooms of that gender.

If the district cannot reach a

compromise with federal officials, it risks losing some of its federal funding, which last year totaled about $6 million.

“It’s not about an individual student,” Cates said. “This matter really is about whether a federal government office can dictate terms and practices on local school districts that we think override the local communities.”

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BY SHAHZMEEN HUSSAINCONTRIBUTING WRITER

About one in eight wom-en born in the country today will develop breast cancer at some point, mak-ing it the second most com-mon cancer for women.

To help fi ght against the disease, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is organizing its eighth annu-al walk “Making Strides of Champaign” on Saturday.

The organization hosts the largest network of breast cancer awareness events in the nation, and Champaign-Urbana is one among its 300 communi-ties that come together annually.

Angela Dimit, a breast cancer survivor and the director of advancement at the Offi ce of Student Affairs, is leading the an eight-person volunteer committee and helps plan and implement the walk.

“Fundraisers really aren’t successful when they’re staff-driven ... your community has to embrace,” Dimit said.

The event starts at 9 a.m. at Meadowbrook Park, located on 2808 S. Race St. in Urbana. Registration is free and can be found either on their website or on-site at 8 a.m.

There will be survivors’ and caregivers’ tents, along with activities for kids, a fl ag ceremony, national

anthem, warm-ups and an all-survivors picture. The walk is one loop, or three miles, around Meadow-brook Park and will fi nish around 11 a.m.

“For me, it’s one of the most inspirational morn-ings to be among others ... You have your own support group, but it’s just a visual reminder of people that are here,” Dimit said.

Colleges Against Cancer is a nationwide collabora-tion of college students, faculty and staff dedicat-ed to eliminating cancer by working to implement the programs and mission of the American Cancer Society.

The University’s chap-ter organized Pink Week last week with the help of the Alpha Phi Omega ser-vice fraternity to support Breast Cancer Awareness month.

The money they raised from selling t-shirts was donated back to the Ameri-can Cancer Society.

Amanda German, com-munity manager of the spe-cial events division at the American Cancer Society said donations are already being put to use.

“The society is investing in groundbreaking breast cancer research to bet-ter understand, prevent, fi nd and treat the disease, as well as providing free, comprehensive informa-tion and support to those touched by breast cancer in every community, when and where they need it,” German said.

Nyquelle Drayton, senior in AHS, interns at the American Cancer Society’s offi ce. When she’s not in

the offi ce, she’s out on the fi eld with an ACS employer advocating for the organi-zation by reaching out to local businesses, such as Wal-Mart, Starbucks and Einstein Bros. Bagels. She also organizes fundraisers, such as Pink Week, to get people to donate or support the organization in any way that they can.

Drayton plans on walk-ing this Saturday in honor

of her great-grandmoth-er who died from breast cancer.

“Honestly a lot of peo-ple, no matter race, gender, ethnicity, age, can relate to either losing a loved one to cancer or knowing some-one that has been affect-ed,” she said. “It touches lives and everyone comes together.”

Last year, the walk raised more than $64,000,

a record in the eight-year history of the C-U event, with over 350 participants. This year, 57 teams regis-tered – 194 participants in in total — and the goal is to reach 500 walkers and $75,000.

“I want to encourage stu-dents whose life has been impacted by breast cancer in some way to come out and walk with us,” Dimit said. “Even a donation of

$10 or $20 would be helpful if they feel they might be able to contribute.”

To register, visit the Making Strides Walk website.

“I truly believe that once we fi nd a way to beat one type of cancer, it will open the door to ending cancer of all types,” Dimit said.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF ALIYA PRESCOTT “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer,” an annual walk in Champaign to help fi ght the disease, will take place on Saturday. Last week, RSO Colleges Against Cancer raised money for the American Cancer Society as part of Pink Week.

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assault will be more likely to talk to a peer than they will the police right away,” Fiesta said. “So we want those students who will be seen as peers to have that training and resources.”

University Police Cap-tain Tony Brown said new CSAs go through training in collaboration with the First Year Campus Acquain-tance Rape Education, or FYCARE.

“New employees have an online training through FYCARE. It includes train-ing through Title IX, what constitutes sexual violence,

dating violence,” Brown said. “It defi nes the school’s defi nition of consent and how to report sexual assault violence and how to report that to campus offi cials or the police.”

Those who investigate these cases — campus police, Title IX staff and Dean of Students staff — go through training in terms of handling these investigations.

Patricia Morey, assis-tant dean of students in the Women’s Resource Center said the Women’s Resource Center trains their employ-ees on handling sexual assault cases, though in dif-ferent senses.

She said the center’s stu-

dent employees go through similar, on-site training as campus CSAs. The cen-ter’s other set of employ-ees are students who run

FYCARE, and they are trained through a semes-ter long-course.

“(FYCARE facilitators) not only learn about the issues but also the resourc-

es and how to respond if a student discloses they’ve been through an issue like this,” Morey said.. “We have done research on how effec-

tive FYCARE is ... it’s been shown to be very effective.”

Morey said the major-ity of University student employees are trained on how to handle reports of

sexual assault and miscon-duct but more can be done to educate the entire student body.

“I would say more can and will be done in the future. I think what is true of students is that their lives are pulled in lots of differ-ent directions at any one time,” she said. “So they may be more open to hear-ing about these issues at one time or another, so they may not be picking up on things as much as we hope.”

Fiesta said the We Care website is a varied and informative source for vic-tims of sexual assault as well as members of support systems.

“Everything that we have

is an introduction to keep it in people’s minds. That’s why we continue to get fur-ther information out, espe-cially with the We Care web-site,” Fiesta said. “We’re using that as a springboard as to what things are going to look like.”

Morey said informa-tion sources, such as We Care, are necessary in fur-ther educating University students.

“We’re trying to develop a multiple tier educational program, so the foundation would be FYCARE, and then we’ll continue to provide opportunities for students to learn more,” Morey said.

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to ensure that we preserve our core missions of teach-ing, research, scholarship and engagement,” said Paul Redman, executive assis-tant dean for administra-tion in the College of Fine and Applied Arts.

Students may not just be concerned about the effect the state budget may have on them, but how the lack of funding will affect society as a whole.

“I guess because with-out funding the expansion of the arts is impossible and, according to one of my professors, the downfall of every civilization through-out history is a direct out-come of the downfall of cul-ture,” said Nora Mokate, a junior in FAA. “Which I guess would be the arts, and America’s number one export (culture.)”

The lack of funding from the state has caused inde-pendent agencies, such as the Illinois Arts Council Agency, IACA, to fi ll the

funding gap that the muse-ums need.

The IACA is one of the main sources of public funding for the arts in Illi-nois. It offers an array of grants that go toward art organizations as well as individual artists. But now that the Illinois state bud-get is in dispute, funding for the IACA is dwindling.

“I think that Illinois has been under extreme budget constraints, or there’s been disagreements on how the budget should be developed and what should be passed,” said VanderBrug. “Right now, like many other agen-cies, the Illinois Arts Coun-cil does not have a budget. It’s not able to provide any grants because the funding is simply not there.”

Arts Alliance Illinois recently conducted a study about the positive econom-ic impacts of creative sec-tors in Illinois. According to the study, the nonprofi t art and culture sector alone is a $2.57 billion industry in the state of Illinois. All of the money in the sector is generated by spending from

nonprofi t arts organizations and their audiences.

“We know that the arts and culture nonprofi t sector in Illinois supports 78,000 full-time equivalent jobs, it generates $2.3 billion in household income and then it delivers $324 million in state and local government revenue,” VanderBrug said. “That’s a huge economic impact that benefi ts busi-nesses and organizations, including universities and the cities that they’re in.”

Although the future of Illinois arts remains murky, Illinois artists and their supporters’ goal remains clear.

VanderBrug said he is optimistic Illinois patrons of the arts will continue “to voice the central role that the arts and culture play in our society and our economy.”

“We will continue to voice the importance of the arts and culture sector and we will do that until a budget is passed and things are fully funded,” he said.

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… 100 percent of the net proceeds are dedicated to support Illinois veterans,” according to the depart-ment’s public statement, according to the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs website.

The University also pro-vides programs for stu-dent veterans in tandem with state and federal ini-tiatives. The Veterans Student Support Services acts as “a focus point for incoming veterans,” said Jason Sakowski, service coordinator.

The service helps incom-ing veterans navigate ben-efi ts and services, running orientations and reaching out to veterans within the student body.

In addition, the service pairs incoming veterans with unpaid peer mentors giving the new students a community contact to talk to, which greatly helps incoming veterans in their new environment and helps

them better understand the benefi ts they are entitled to under the GI Bill without costing the school extra funds, Sakowski said.

The service is open to all incoming veterans, help-ing to different degrees depending on the needs of the individual.

Sakowski said there are 303 student veterans at the University and 160 fami-ly members using veteran benefi ts.

The service is funded directly by the school, and all the resources given to the offi ce go directly to the enrolled veterans, Sakows-ki said.

Damien Buckley, junior in LAS, attended college after serving in the Navy for fi ve years and said the he believes the services have met his needs.

“They’ve been very, very friendly … I’ve had no issues so far,” Buckley said. “The services have been sufficient; they’ve got good involvement (with veterans).”

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“We believe that students who experience sexual assault will be more likely to talk to a peer than they will the police right away”

JOAN FIESTAUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS POLICE DEPARTMENT LIEUTENANT

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer hosts 8th annual walk

“Many universi-ties’ professors, researchers and students rely on the collections of the Illinois State Mueseum to do their re-search. And right now they no longer have access to those collections.”

JONATHAN VANDERBRUGRESEARCH DIRECTOR FOR ART ALLIANCE ILLINOIS

The University of Illinois Black Chorus is, without speaking hyperbolically, one of the most

benignant and infl uential forces on this campus. Any student hop-ing to someday become an educator should be aware of the unique peda-gogy, or way of teaching, employed in formulating such an effective organization.

When I sing with this choir, as I have now for three semesters, I can’t feel anything apart from it. It’s fi t-ting that Director Ollie Watts Davis often tells her ensemble, “I am you. You are me.” It does feel as though we are a solid entity, totally removed from individual self-awareness.

We rarely, if ever, receive sheet music. We learn melodies and lyrics by ear; Dr. Davis sings a part to us and we sing it back.

This methodology results in an almost unique system in which we must be engaged throughout the learning of a piece or else we’ve missed it. There is generally no text for us to retroactively refer to.

It would be, admittedly, diffi -cult to install this exact pedagogy in other subject areas — good texts are generally helpful to the learning process.

However, there is something com-pelling about stripping away every-thing but the raw material that’s being learned, stripping the signifi ed from the signifi er. That practice is

one that could be, when appropriate, applied universally in academics.

This choir is also one of the very, very few academic organizations of which I have been a part where stu-dents are motivated to perform well, not in the pursuit of a certain grade or in fear of discipline, but for the love of the organization.

That’s where education needs to go. A sincere appreciation of the sub-ject matter, a love of the class, ven-eration for the instructor — these things are what should, ideally, drive students to succeed, rather than fear. Fear fades in the classroom; students become desensitized to it.

Rather than threatening to lower a grade, Dr. Davis refl ected, “‘I often admonish the students to ‘do well, then feel well, then do well, then feel well...’ It always starts with the doing.”

These recommendations are an integral component of her choir experience. I often fi nd them playing in my head when I encounter a try-ing situation. The future educators studying at this University need to value this sort of moral instruction, instruction that extends beyond a stringent academic curriculum.

I am not asserting that instruc-tors should impose their particu-lar values on students in any such a way that could possibly result in the marginalization of certain identities. But there is a way in which teachers, while being respectful of various backgrounds and identities, can pro-mote some sort of generally agreed upon standard of ethics.

This chorus is further a deeply powerful group in that it deals with issues regarding personal achieve-

ment, spirituality, tradition, religion, and of course, the intersections of race, culture, ethnicity and music.

Dr. Davis remarked that her choir, “never lose(s) sight of our purpose and dedication to the exceptional performance of the music of Black Americans and its transformative beauty and power.”

I have a suspicion that the tutelage used in the Black Chorus cannot, in all likelihood, be replicated. But it does have the potential to inspire.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to suggest our society would be much improved if more teachers adopted policies utilized in the Black Chorus to cultivate classroom standards.

School, in a large part, is where we learn to socialize and where we garner a sense of morality in addi-tion to becoming familiar with aca-demic material.

Education, therefore, needs to be a holistic process. While it’s certainly easier written than done, it is cur-rently being done. The Black Cho-rus serves as one such microcosm of what could, one day, develop on a larger scale in educational theory.

“By the time Black Chorus stands before an appreciative audience, we have all benefi tted tremendously from the learning process and are excited to give away some of what we have received,” Davis said.

This coming Sunday afternoon, the Black Chorus will perform at Smith Recital Hall. For any stu-dent interested in didactics, it is sure to be a worthwhile, educational performance.

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As the world is pushing itself into a new era of accep-tance, social movements

are gaining more footing than ever before, making a real name in the media and refusing to be ignored. One such movement is the “Justice or Else” campaign that began in D.C. this past Saturday, marking the 20th anniversary of the historic Million-Man March. The campaign took from recent points of controversy in the media, such as police brutality and racism in the legal system, and held one massive march in intense and unifi ed protest.

Now, this event held tidbits of a wide variety of social issues in it, but its primary focus existed in empowering the black community — a focus that I feel like a lot of stu-dents on campus can get behind and support. We exist as one of the most diverse campuses in the nation, and that diversity often leads to a natural sense of inclusiveness.

All sorts of students are now out there supporting issues such as LGBTQ rights, feminism, and cam-paigns for racial justice. With the rise of this advocacy, it’s crucial to understand the priveleged parties’ places in social issues. Those who are not directly affected by the dis-criminatory system need to know the most effective way to show their support for such movements with-out overstepping their boundaries and keeping the focus on the right

people.As a straight white, cisgender,

middle-class male, I’ve knowingly lived my life as one massive walk-ing privilege; I exist as the majority party in all social issues, and many times, upon my attempts to assist and become part of social move-ments such as feminism and the Black Lives Matter movement, I’ve encountered resistance from the respective oppressed parties.

Upon being told to “stay in my lane” and to “check my privilege,” I began a search for the white man’s place in racial issues, the straight man’s place in LGBTQ causes and situations of the like.

Promise Aziaka, an African-Amer-ican sophomore in Engineering, says the level of acceptance of privileged individuals in social issues depends heavily on the size and momentum of the movement.

“Some issues that get less atten-tion and need greater amounts of help, such as transgender issues, are more accepting of the resources and help that majority parties can give,” Aziaka said. “Other issues that seem to be gaining ground with a very direct message, like Black Lives Matter, won’t always take everybody; sometimes they only want their movements full of people directly affected by oppression.”

The sad truth is that the words and views of majority parties tend to mean more to the media and soci-ety than the voices of the oppressed, because prejudice exists, more than anything else, as a system.

This system has been built over centuries of social norms and dis-crimination, and now the voices of white people, straight people, men

and other people of privelege, are the ones that society pays the most attention to. The best way for such privelaged individuals to utilize that inherent social advantage is in the name of progression and equality.

One such example is shown by the Human Rights Campaign in a bro-chure on being an effective straight ally for LGBTQ issues, saying that “Many civil rights movements were successful because people from nearly every part of society stood shoulder to shoulder in fi ghting bias.”

So to all you straight, white, mid-dle-class students all over campus: through my investigation, I’ve found the best way for majority parties like us to participate in modern-day civil rights movements is to constantly be conscious of those who are actually being oppressed.

Use your privilege to do as much good as possible, respectfully back off when those who are being direct-ly affected ask you to do so, and most importantly, don’t make these movements about you. We need to be directing the social attention we receive towards those who need it most, not seeking it ourselves. Reverse racism is not a thing, and as much as this phrase annoyed me not even a year ago, it truly is important that we check our privilege.

Every type of person has a part they can play in bringing this cam-pus, and the world in general, to a social equilibrium. So long as you have a sense of where you stand on the spectrum of social privilege, you can always do something to make a change.

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“I don’t know who Steven Salatia is.”

“I have no idea who he is.”

“I think of free speech, academic freedom and UIUC’s hiring process.

You would think the University should be a place that respects

and values both free speech and academic freedom but I think

Salaita’s incident surprised us all.”

“Everyone’s really hyped up about it—a really supporting

crowd and good players—they can make it. Oh, and the goat

through campus? Yeah, it’ll break the curse.”

“I think it’s possible, but not because of the whole goat thing. I feel like it has more to do with

how they changed up their whole team, but I don’t really

know baseball that well.”

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Stephen Colbert can’t reverse the curse, who can?”

When you hear the name “Steven Salaita,” what is

the fi rst thing that comes to mind?

A goat has been parading around campus recently in order to reverse the curse of the goat for the Cubs - not to mention

Stephen Colbert trying to reverse the curse last week. Do you think

this is the year for the Cubs to fi nally win the world series?

“Controversy.”

“The Cubs are playing better than any other team left in the playoffs, and are set to contend for at least a half-

decade. As a Cubs fan, that’s perfect enough for me.”

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THE DAILY ILLINI

EDITORIALShuffl ing budget,

suff ering programs

The fact that Illinois still doesn’t have a budget isn’t anything new.

Whether from this very publication, the Chicago

Tribune or The New York Times, you’ve more than likely read that the state of Illinois hasn’t had a budget since May.

And in anticipation for the likely cuts that will come with any approved budget, the state has had to cut millions in funding for certain programs all the way from the southern tip of Illinois to the Chicagoland area.

At this point, no program is safe.The most recent cuts have come to the

Illinois Arts Council Agency, a Chicago-based organization that works toward the development of the arts across the state with grant money.

The arts industry in Illinois alone is a $2.57 billion industry that supports more than 75,000 jobs. Cuts will have a major impact on the industry, whether certain programs are or are not affi liated with the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

As budget cuts continue to impact state programs, it’s crucial to take additional measures to ensure certain programs, like the arts, don’t suffer too greatly. Not just for the sake of these programs within the arts, but also for those who participate in these programs: The children, students and professionals who have dedicated much of their lives to perfecting a craft that the rest of us look on with with amazement.

It’s not entirely our place as a group of college students to ask of the community to donate money toward programs. However, we’re the kids who have grown up on these types of organizations — we understand better than most how crucial programs such as the Illinois Arts Council Agency are.

It’s programs such as these that foster and develop the youth into the people who will cure diseases, create works of art unimaginable to current minds and create buildings and cities that will rise among the current skylines of the world’s largest cities.

It’s more important than ever for the residents of Illinois to contribute fi nancially and with their time to ensure that these programs can fi nd success for the youth of the state. Much of the U.S. grew up on an education founded in the arts.

The rise of the sciences and technology is largely a relatively new concept, but it’s literature, music, dance, writing, painting and photography that much of the country was established on. And as these programs continue to be cut within public education curriculums, it’s the opportunities outside of the classroom that remain crucial to many children.

Until the Illinois legislature is able to decide on a budget, the duty to ensure that the arts are protected remains on us, the citizens of Illinois.

LOGAN WEEBEROpinions columnist

ALEX SWANSON

Opinions columnist

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Resilience and determina-tion are only two of the many narratives Black Chorus seeks to tell through their performance in the fall con-cert Sunday under the direc-tion of Dr. Ollie Watts Davis.

This year, Black Chorus’ fall concert is entitled “Per-severance: Ever Onward.”

Davis said she chose this theme because she felt it was the most relevant to the world around her and the lives of her students.

“I look at the strength of the music that we are com-mitted to performing and what message is needed from our cultural and physi-cal background,” Davis said. “So what’s going on global-ly and at the University, and of course, internationally. I believe that there is a strong need to persevere.”

But perseverance does not end with the last cur-tain call. This fall’s concert theme reinforces the les-sons and values taught every

Monday and Wednesday in rehearsals.

“Dr. Davis said one thing when I was a freshman: ‘Hope is a dangerous thing because hope can never be defeated.’ And that has liter-ally stuck with me since she said it four years ago,” Erica Thomas, president of Black Chorus and senior in LAS, said. “I think that has reso-nated with me, even through the music we sing. When I’m having a rough time, I think of that quote. And I’m just like, you know what, when it might not seem like it’s going how you want it to be just have hope, have faith.”

Davis sees it as a necessi-ty that every University stu-dent experience Black Cho-rus sometime during their time here. Each concertgoer has the opportunity to learn a lesson from the show.

“There’s a need to stay the course. There’s a need to maintain the integrity of the festival upon which we are found, upon which we believe and stay the course,” Davis said. “And so that’s why this

fall concert is entitled “Per-severance” and subtitled “Ever Onward” because we are on our way some place. We are not going to just curse the darkness or the difficulty, but we hope to cast light and move forward.”

Jazmyne Thomas, sec-retary for the chorus and senior in ACES, said concert attendees should expect to hear a variety of music.

“I think that they should expect to be inspired, to be uplifted,”Jazmyne said. “They should expect not to just receive one style of music, but come with an open mind knowing that African-American heritage has a lot of different sounds to it.”

Davis invites the audience to be a part of the experience holistically.

“The audience can expect to be transformed, inspired and they can expect to be engaged and invited to become part of the presen-tation,” Davis said.

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focuses on just breast cancer, because many types of can-cer don’t get the same atten-tion. Currently, her cous-in Randy is battling colon cancer.

That is why Renaé pro-motes cancer research and clinical trials.

“If not for the people before me who participated in clini-cal trials, I may not be sit-ting here talking to you today. Research is what allows our medicine to advance,” she explained. “I like knowing I have some teeny tiny piece in the scientific puzzle that may someday either eradicate it or help screen for it and pre-vent it.”

Renaé said she was lucky to have support from her family and friends. Her sis-ter even shaved Renaé‘s head when she began losing her hair. However, there are some things only those who have had cancer understand.

“You don’t know how it feels to ride a bike until you actually have,” said Renaé‘s best friend of 40 years, Deb Griest, about cancer.

With the encouragement of Griest, who battled Stage 3 colon cancer, Renaé joined a cancer support group at Car-le Foundation Hospital.

“I badgered her success-fully for a long time,” Griest joked.

Griest said support groups are so important for can-cer patients and survivors because they have walked that same road and felt that same anguish. And some-times, even during the hard-est parts of treatment, sur-vivors can laugh together. Renaé agreed, and still attends the group to this day as a survivor.

“There’s still that comrad-ery, that oneness that some-body’s gotten through this and this is how they did it,” Renaé said. “Doctors can’t tell you everything and nurs-es can’t tell you everything. You get some really good information and questions to ask from other people who have been through it.”

Now, she said she likes that she is giving back and helping other patients.

“When someone is in the trenches of active treatment, you can’t climb down the ridge through the valley with them, but you can stand on that ridge and you can cheer them on and you can reach out and hold their hand for a while,” she said.

Renaé emphasized that there is a life after cancer. It has brought her new best friends, life-changing con-versations and clarity in her life. In 2005, she decided to

go back to school, earning her Associate’s degree at Park-land College and Bachelor’s degree at Eastern Illinois University.

“Death is a part of life and although I mourn that, I don’t get stuck there. I’m too much of a survivor to get stuck there,” she said. “Life goes on ... and I want my life to be a good quality of life.”

Renaé said she wants oth-ers to have that good qual-ity of life as well. She said she typically posts on her Facebook page once a week to encourage people to get mammograms.

“I’ve had a couple of friends who have postponed their mammograms and I’m like, ‘I will hold your hand, I will walk with you, I will explain everything,’” she said.

As for students, she said it is never too early to be con-scious of cancer risks.

“Know your body inside and out. If you see a change, don’t be afraid to go to your doctor. When there is a change, find out what it is,” she said. “Find a doctor you trust and make sure you get the answers you need. They may not be the answers you want, but the answers you need to make sure that you live a long, productive, healthy life.”

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classic as well as new horror films,” Kozma said. “In the past, we’ve just stuck to the classics, but we’re focused on showing some more under-rated and lesser-seen hor-ror films that aren’t usually shown in theaters.”

Some of the lesser-seen films are “Martyrs” and “The Descent,” which have more in common than their genre: they are both focused on women.

“We wanted to highlight the fact that women can work in horror movies and there are horror movies about women just to show more diversity for our audience,” Kozma said. “They don’t get a lot of attention; their films don’t get a lot of attention, but they’re amazing films and we want them to be seen.”

The Art Theater has been focusing on females in film since it began the “Women on Top” series over the sum-mer, Kozma said.

“It’s in line with our com-mitment to showing not only

a diverse range of films, but a range of films that highlight cultural producers and direc-tors that aren’t usually shown in theaters,” she said.

Shocktober began with a free event on Oct. 1, which included screenings of TV shows like “The Twilight Zone” and “Tales from the Crypt.”

“We like to kick off Shock-tober with a free event not only to get people excited about it, but to thank people,” she said. “We know they’re going to be making an invest-ment in coming back for the movies for the rest of the month.”

The events get even larg-er as Halloween gets closer.

“We don’t often do month-long genre programming,” Kozma said. She added that Shocktober is one of the the-ater’s largest events of the year, and the Late Night com-mittee begins planning for it in May.

“We like to do something with the month-long block we set aside for Shocktober,” she said. “We want to make sure we still involve the commu-nity in that process.”

This year, in honor of Shock-tober’s featured film, “Car-rie,” the committee teamed up with the Central Illinois Blood Bank. Anyone who donates blood will receive a free pop-corn coupon. Other events include an all-night horror marathon, which runs from 10 p.m. to around 4 a.m. and includes two secret screen-ings, as well as a memorial screening of “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “They Live” to honor Wes Craven and “Rowdy” Roddy Piper.

“We are both showing these classic horror films but also honoring the contribu-tion these two men made to the genre,” Kozma said.

Audiences can purchase tickets on the Art Theater’s website, and Kozma encour-aged students to come to the events, even though the the-ater is off campus.

“We do really keep in mind the student population that is into horror movies and who like celebrating Halloween,” she said. “The more students who come out and get to see these movies, the better.”

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BY LILLIAN BARKLEYASSISTANT COPY CHIEF

There may not be a late-night double feature at the Art Theater this weekend, but there will be a time warp.

Illini Student Musicals will be performing “The Rocky Horror Show” at 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday as part of Shocktober, a month-long horror festival at the Art Theater Co-op at 126 W. Church St. in Champaign.

“This year, they were actu-ally planning on canceling the show until we reached out to them,” said Lauren Brooks, treasurer for ISM and sopho-more in LAS.

The organization decid-ed to perform as a fundrais-er for “Godspell,” their fea-tured production later in the

semester.“We decided that a shadow

cast would be a reasonable way to get a taste of “Rocky Horror” without using all of our resources,” Brooks said.

A shadow cast is when the cast performs a pantomime in front of the actual film.

“That’s something our audience have asked for in the past,” said Alicia Kozma, assistant manager at the Art Theater and graduate student in the Institute of Communi-cations Research, about the live cast. “The last time we did it, we had to turn a lot of people away the first night.”

The cast only had four weeks to rehearse, but ISM performed “The Rocky Hor-ror Picture Show” March 14, 2014, at the Canopy Club, so

some of the cast already had experience.

For the most part, howev-er, Brooks said the cast was not used to the shad-ow per-formance method.

“ Y o u don’t have to worry about pro-jection or s i n g i n g , which is i nterest-ing. It’s all about appearanc-es,” she said.

The combination of film and live theater lets the audi-ence and cast interact with

each other in a way that is unique to the cult-classic film.

“You always have the audi-ence yelling out random lines

throughout the mov-ie, and sometimes they’ll have props and be throw-ing things at us, so that’s fun to look for-ward to but a little scary at the same time,” B r o o k s

said.Audience props often

include throwing rice and unbuttered toast, though the

Art has requested that audi-ence members refrain from this to keep the theater clean.

The cast makes the show their own by swapping out on-screen props and doing a pre-show beforehand with the audience.

“We’ll label the “Rocky Horror” virgins with a “v” on their forehead, so if you’ve never seen a live show before, we pull them out and play some games with them,” Brooks said.

Tyler Whitfield, sophomore in LAS, is seeing the show with a live cast for the first time this weekend, though he has seen the film in a theater before.

“If you’re seeing it for the first time, it’s not what you’d expect it to be,” he said. “It’s

just so overly dramatic and ridiculous and funny.”

Whitfield learned about the performance after he saw “Texas Chainsaw Mas-sacre” at the Art. The film, which is the only restora-tion made from the original 16mm reels, was showing as another part of Shocktober.

He said the month-long event is interesting because “it gets all these cult people together to watch all their favorite movies.”

Kozma, who is also a mem-ber of the Late Night Com-mittee that organizes Shock-tober, said providing cult film screenings is one of the goals of the event.

“We are showing a mix of

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RENAÉ STRAWBRIDGE

Cult classics bring horror to Shocktober

BY ANNABETH CARLSONASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR

Every day, when Renaé Strawbridge gets ready, she slips on a delicate silver and pink bracelet. When you look closely, the word “survivor” is engraved in elegant letters.

Renaé said she wears it for a few reasons.

First, it reminds her that she is a survivor. But most-ly, she wants it to be a con-versation starter for people who have been diagnosed with cancer or are undergo-ing active treatment.

Renaé, a Stage 1 breast cancer survivor and program administra-tive assis-tant for the Illinois State Geological Survey, said she consid-ered her-self a survi-vor from the time of her diagnosis in September 2002.

“ T h a t ’ s when you know that you’re fighting for your life and you are working at surviving,” she explained.

Sitting in an armchair in her office at the Natural Resources Building, Renaé shared her story. Even though she has been in remission for 13 years and has told the tale countless times, thinking of the day she was diagnosed still brings tears to her blue eyes.

With a family history of breast cancer, Renaé began getting mammograms ear-ly, starting when she turned 35. In 2002, at 45, she had 10 years of mammograms and ultrasounds under her belt.

At a routine appointment, the ultrasound tech brought in a doctor who wanted to do a biopsy. Since she had a his-tory of cysts, Renaé wasn’t alarmed.

But days later, she received a call from her doctor’s office, saying they wanted to dis-cuss her test results. The nurse refused to tell her the results over the phone. Sens-ing something was wrong, Renaé brought her aunt to the appointment for support.

“When the doctor looks at you and says, ‘Hate to tell you this, but you have breast cancer’ and the first thought

that goes through your head is ‘Oh, I’m going to die,’” she said. “That’s the scariest part.”

After the initial shock, she took action, mak-ing appoint-ments as soon as pos-sible, even

when doctors tried to post-pone them. She said she told both her doctor and surgeon that if she had time on her hands, she wanted to keep it there, and they complied.

“I must have had some look on my face that said ‘Don’t mess with me,’” she said with a grin.

Renaé underwent che-motherapy, radiation and a lumpectomy.

“I thought it was very appropriate that my last radi-ation treatment was on April Fool’s Day, because no foolin’, cancer’s not fun,” she said.

For Renaé, after the initial shock, the hardest part was

anticipating the side effects of the cancer drugs. One of the drugs caused her to lose her hair. She opted not to wear wigs, so she was either bald or wore knit caps. She said people would often stare when she was in public.

“Our society is very, very focused on beauty especially in women and hair is consid-ered something beautiful,” she said. “It’s so unfortunate

because if you’re only looking at the hair you’re not seeing the person. So breast cancer gave me an opportunity for people to see the person rath-er than just the hair.”

One day, she went to lunch with a co-worker, whose eyes kept diverting. When Renaé asked her what she was look-ing at, she responded that a man kept starting at them and she didn’t understand

why.“I looked at her and pointed

to my head and I go, duh!” she said. “She was like I forgot. (My co-workers) had grown accustomed to seeing me everyday and we got a good laugh out of that.”

And laughing was what got Renaé through the experience.

“Humor is so much a part of my life, I use it for every-

thing,” she said. “It’s how I de-escalate tension, it’s how I relieve my stress, it’s how I handle the adversity that comes in my life, and I had friends and family that understand that.”

While Renaé said she appreciates Breast Can-cer Awareness Month, she doesn’t like that everything

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“If they’ve never seen a live show before,

we pull them out and play some games

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TREASURER, ILLINI STUDENT MUSICALS

“I must have had some look on

my face that said ‘Don’t mess with

me.’”RENAÉ STRAWBRIDGEBREAST CANCER SURVIVOR

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The Illinois volleyball team’s schedule has been grueling thus far, and it doesn’t get much easier from here on out.

The No. 13 Illini (11-6) will have a chance to end its four-game losing streak Friday against lowly Iowa (10-9), winless in six match-es against Big Ten teams. It will be the first non-ranked opponent Illinois will play in its last five matches, but the Illini will be back to play-ing ranked opponents the very next night when No. 3 Nebraska (14-2) comes to Huff Hall.

While the Illini work on maintaining a high level of energy throughout a match, the team has no plans of making light of its Hawk-eye match, which head coach Kevin Hambly said has improved in recent years.

“Iowa is getting close and they’re battling, and I like the things (head coach Bond Shymansky) has done there,” Hambly said. “I really like the athletes that he has and he is doing things to make it more difficult. He is doing some things offensively that are different than any-one else — some gimmicky things that make it hard to prepare for.”

Hambly said it is typical for teams to try non-tradi-tional strategies when they are trying to rebuild, and he expects Iowa to settle back into a more conventional style of play once the pro-gram is more established.

In his second year as head coach, Shymansky has tried to rejuvenate the Hawkeye program by bringing in five transfers in the last two years. Hambly has had only

four transfers in his seven years as head coach.

Amongst those four trans-fers is junior opposite hitter Naya Crittenden, who played her first two years at Oregon before coming to Illinois. She has provided another source of power for the Illi-ni defense, leading the team in blocks against Ohio State with five.

But, like most of the team, Crittenden is striving to show the type of energy throughout the match that the team expects. She said that the whole team has bought into the mentality Hambly wants to see from his players.

“You have to come out at the beginning of the game, ready to fight,” Critten-den said. “Even if the oth-er team gets on a run of points, you just keep ener-gy going and fight through those moments.”

Illinois will certainly need to bring the fight to Nebraska Saturday if it hopes to come out of the match with a win. The Cornhuskers have their signature win over the Nitan-

ny Lions, who they replaced as No. 3 in the rankings.

Hambly said that Nebras-ka could be the best team in the conference. He praised its depth, and like Illinois, the Huskers have a freshman star of their own in outside hitter Mikaela Foecke, who is coming off an 18-kill game against Michigan.

According to Hambly, the team will need to see more production from its middles, Ali Bastianelli and Katie Stadick, in order to com-pete with Nebraska’s fir-ing power. He said that the travel has been detrimental to the front-line’s technique but there has been steady improvement in recent weeks.

“Things are slipping and you couldn’t address them because of the travel,” Ham-bly said. “Now, we have some time. I thought we actual-ly made some strides this weekend. We were better this weekend than the week-end before, but not where we need to be.”

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BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER

While campuses around the nation are filled with tailgates, full stadiums and college football, Illinois foot-ball’s Memorial Stadium will be empty Saturday.

Illini players will rest and watch other teams compete while Illinois is on its bye week. The break is exactly halfway through the season and has arrived at a con-venient time for the Illini. Many players are nursing injuries and need the week off to heal and return to the field.

But as the players rest, their coaches will be hard at work. They’re plan-ning for the Homecoming game against Wisconsin, but they’re also thinking beyond this year. Coaches will be all around the nation on high school campuses, looking for future Illini. A bye week is a key time to talk to recruits, especially since Illinois’ coaches will likely be the only ones speaking with the high-schoolers this week.

There are many different things coaches make sure they talk about with recruits, but there is one thing that is more important than others.

“Perception is everything, especially when you’re talk-ing about the recruitment battle to get the best foot-ball players to be interest-ed in the institution,” said John Holecek, head football coach at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, and former Illinois linebacker. “You have to have tremen-dous leadership top to bot-tom in recruiting and that all takes hits when all you have are bad stories coming out.”

The University’s image has taken hits recently, especially in the past year. Recent issues with James Kilgore and Stephen Salai-ta, the resignation of for-mer Chancellor Phyllis Wise and the player mistreatment investigations in the athletic department have cast a dark shadow on the University.

Holecek said he believes the University’s reputation has taken a hit and needs a drastic change.

Illinois’ recruiting staff saw mixed results during former head coach Tim Beckman’s tenure at Illi-nois — the Illini nationally ranked 49th, 72nd and 47th, respective-ly, from 2013-2015 a c c o r d -ing to 247sports. Fifty-four of the 118 players on the team — or 46 percent — come from the state of Illi-nois. But Illinois has strug-gled to land the state’s top recruits.

Rochester High School head coach Derek Leonard said he felt the struggles started because of negli-gence to recruit in the state by former head coaches Ron Turner and Ron Zook. Turn-er predated Leonard’s time at Rochester, but Leonard felt that Zook neglected to recruit in a state that was filled with football talent.

Leonard thought Beck-man started to repair the damage before he was fired in August.

“At times, other people have recruited better,” Leon-

ard said. “I think they’re improving from the past and are trying harder (to recruit in the state).”

Freshmen lineman Gabe Megginson and running back Dre Brown were ranked No. 2 and No. 7, respectfully, in the state’s class of 2015. Illi-nois signed six more top-20 players in the state from 2010-2014. Many of the state’s top-ranked recruits chose to attend other Big Ten schools like Michigan, Michigan State and Wiscon-sin, while others chose to go to other Midwest schools like Missouri and Notre Dame.

The Illini have a commit-ment from No. 7 Kentrail

Moran, a r u n n i ng back from O’Fallon H i g h S c h o o l , and there are three t o p - 2 0 p l a y e r s u n c o m -m i t t e d

according to 247sports.High school football play-

ers used to dream of play-ing for the state’s flagship team, but the change in social media has affected that dream. Players can now see other programs more and find the perfect fit. Wins and losses and loyalty to the state aren’t the only things that matter for players.

“I don’t think it’s a top pri-ority (to play for the flagship team),” O’Fallon head coach Brandon Joggerst said. “It’s just trying to find the right fit for you … I don’t know if that’s driving kids.”

Several high school coaches said the relation-ship between recruits, high

school coaches and Illinois’ recruiting staff has been positive. Joggerst said he believes that the staff has done a good job of recruit-ing in the state, but each sit-uation is different. A high school coach’s top priority is finding the ideal schools for their students.

The coaching change at Illinois a week before the sea-son hasn’t hurt how recruits view Illinois. Almost 25 per-cent of Division I programs change coaches each off-season, and this season has already seen major firings.

Coaches expressed posi-tive views of head coach Bill Cubit and the stabili-ty he’s provided to the pro-gram. Big wins like the one against Nebraska and com-petitiveness against teams like Iowa has garnered inter-est from recruits, including from recruits who’ve com-mitted to a school already.

“We’re getting a lot of pos-itive feedback,” Cubit said. “A lot of guys will be on the road selling the Illini to peo-ple and, they’re really look-ing forward to us getting there.”

While players rest and prepare to host the Bad-gers next Saturday, the next opponent in a season during which the Illini are trying to reach a second-straight bowl game and contend in the Big Ten West, the coach-es are selling the program that they’ve built.

Memorial Stadium might sit empty come Saturday, but the future of Illinois foot-ball will be shaped on high school campuses all around the nation this weekend.

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BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDYSTAFF WRITER

The Illini men’s golf team has only left the state of Illinois once this sea-son. Earlier this week, the team put together a domi-nant showing at Indiana’s Crooked Stick Invitational. This weekend, the Illini will make their first trip of the fall down south to Florida to play in the Tavistock Colle-giate Golf Invitational.

The invitational markets itself as “the top tourna-ment in college golf,” and the field certainly reflects that. Illinois headlines the completion as the No. 1 team in the Golfweek/Saga-rin rankings. It will face off against No. 10 North Caroli-na, No. 11 Arizona State, No. 16 Vanderbilt, No. 18 Flori-da and No. 23 South Caroli-na as well as several other teams in the top-50.

“This is one of the most competitive, outstanding tournaments in college golf,” Central Florida head coach Bryce Wallor said in a press release. “We’re proud to once again bring in an extremely competi-tive field. This is high-level golf at a gorgeous, champi-onship-level facility.”

The Illini faced several of the nation’s top teams at their Olympia Fields Fight-ing Illini Invite three weeks ago with a field featuring five teams in the preseason top-10. Illinois took fifth behind Florida State, Okla-homa State, Arizona State and Stanford. This week-end will be another battle for the team.

The Illini also entered last year’s Tavistock Invi-tational as the No. 1 team in the country, but finished fourth behind Florida State, Vanderbilt and Texas Tech, respectively. It was the only tournament that Illi-nois didn’t win last fall. The team had a strong final round with the second-low-est team score, but the Illini were done in with an over-all plus-one in the second. A one-over score was enough to put the Illini in eighth place for the day and they finished 14 strokes behind Florida State.

The Illini’s top player at last year’s tournament was senior Charlie Danielson, who is coming off an indi-vidual title at Crooked Stick. Last year, Danielson fin-

ished tied for ninth in Flori-da with New Mexico’s Gavin Green, UNLV’s John Oda and Texas Tech’s Clement Sordet. He was the team’s only starter to hit under par in all three rounds of play, finishing with a minus-eight total. While Danielson led Illinois, first and sec-ond place Florida State and Vanderbilt both put three players ahead of him in the final standings.

Danielson is the reigning Big Ten Golfer of the Week after his impressive perfor-mance Monday and Tues-day at the Crooked Stick Invite. Danielson finished the tournament strong, tying for the lowest round of the competition with a five-under in the final round of play. He will look to carry that momentum into this week’s tournament. Four of the Illini’s five starters return from playing at last year’s Tavistock Invite, and all but one finished in the top 30.

The Tavistock Invite is co-hosted by Central Flor-ida and Texas Tech and alternates being held at the Isleworth Golf & Country Club and Lake Nona Golf & Country Club, both a short drive from UCF’s Orlan-do campus. Last year’s tournament was played at Lake Nona, but this year it returns to Isleworth.

The last time it was held there in 2013, the Illini fin-ished fifth overall. Daniel-son competed as an indi-vidual, but shone with the best final round score of the tournament.

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Tavistock Collegiate InvitationalIsleworth Golf & Country Club, Winderemere, Florida Quick note: The Illini will face five top-25 teams at the Florida tournament.Hidden stat: Senior Charlie Danielson was the Illini's top player at last year's tournament. He's the regining Big Ten Golfer of the Week after winning Indiana's Crooked Stick Invite.

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Big Ten Network, Radio WDWSQuick note: Nebraska replaced Penn State as the No. 3 team in the country this week, meaning Illinois will now play two No. 3-ranked teams in two weeks.Hidden Stat: Nebraska freshman Mikaela Foecke was the No. 2 recruit in the country last year, ahead of No. 3 recruit Jordyn Poulter.

KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' Naya Crittenden spikes the ball during the match against Ohio State at Huff Hall on Saturday.

Coaches recruit on bye week

“A lot of guys will be on the road selling the Illini to people

and, they are really looking forward to us getting there.”

BILL CUBITILLINOIS HEAD COACH

BY RYAN WILSONCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Some sports are more men-tal competition than physical. Golf is one of them.

The Illinois women’s golf team is trying to relax for its upcoming golf tournament.

The Illini are coming off its worst finish of the season, and some players left disappoint-ed. They finished 37-over 901 and in 12th place, snapping its streak of two-straight top-10 finishes.

The team flew to Boerne, Texas, which is 45 minutes west of San Antonio, to play in its first 54-hole tournament on the season. Sophomore Dana Gattone said such fac-tors may have contributed to the team’s finish. She shot 18-over and finished 63rd in

the tournament.“We just didn’t get off to as

great of a start as we hoped in the round,” she said. “I think while we tried to pick up some ground, some of us made a couple mistakes along the way, and it costs us a lit-tle bit.”

Gattone shot 9-over in the first round. She also went 5- and 6-over in the second and third rounds, respectively.

Head coach Renee Slone also said the team was dis-appointed after the Jim West Challenge, but it should think about the present and not get caught up in previous scores.

“It’s a marathon, not a sprint,” Slone said. “We need to stay focused on the process and what’s right in front of us, and what we are going to con-

tinue to get better and better each and everyday.”

The Illini routinely do yoga and Pilates in the offsea-son. They will some-times med-itate and p e r f o r m breathing exercises through a p r o g r a m c a l l e d HeartMath. HeartMath is a pro-gram that tries to stabilize one’s emotion.

Slone has said throughout the season that the team needs to take more “mental breaks.”

She said the players need to breath and not think about the competition between shots.

For some, it helps to sing in their head.

“Others have dif-ferent key words that relax them, some will p r a c t i c e different breathing techniques that help keep them

calm,” Slone said. “Some others will go to a so-called happy place, whatever that place may be. Maybe it is the beach.”

Besides the mental aspect of the game, Illinois has prac-ticed putting and chipping for the Cardinal Cup. The team is new to the tournament in Lou-isville, Kwntucky, so Slone said she is relying on pictures of the course on the Internet.

She said putting speed and control will be important on this course, as the greens are large. She held a nine hole, par 3 course in which she placed cups in different areas of the green at practice.

Even then, Slone said the team needs should make adjustments when it arrives in Louisville.

“Practice rounds will be very important to take good notes and create a strong game plan for each player as far as how they are going to

manage their game,” she said. “So we’ll go down and be well prepared and then enjoy the opportunity of competing on the golf course.”

Illinois tees off at the Car-dinal Cup on Oct. 19.

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BY MIKE GASICKCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Illinois wom-en’s cross-country team couldn’t be happier to be in the top-tier race for Satur-day’s Pre-Nationals invite.

Coming off a ninth-place finish at the Roy Griak Invitational in Minneapo-lis, Minnesota, the Illini earned themselves a spot against some of the nation’s top women’s cross-coun-try teams such as Oregon, Georgetown, Michigan and Stanford.

Redshirt senior Alyssa Schneider wants to take advantage of racing against the high level of competi-tion. She will try to contin-ue the same approach that has brought her continuous success.

Part of Schneider’s strat-egy is to have as much gas in the tank as possible toward the end of the race in order to pass as many tired runners as she can.

This approach helped Schneider finish fourth overall at the Griak Invita-tional, where she completed the race in 21 minutes and 30 seconds.

Schneider is the only one on the team who has raced the Louisville course. She doesn’t remember how challenging the course is because she ran it three years ago, but is preparing

for this race like she would any other.

The course will be home to the NCAA Nation-al Championship meet, where the Illini hope to be in late November. Schnei-der vaguely remembers it as a “true cross country course” with a variety of hilly and flat patches.

“We know this is the Nationals course, so our goal is to preview it in hopes that we run it again later,” Schneider said.

Head coach Scott Jones will run Schneider, along with fellow senior Brit-ten Petrey, sophomores Audrey Blazek and Denise Branch, and juniors Valer-ie Bobart, Hanna Winter, Megan Lemersal and Kim Seger. This will be Lemer-sal’s first race since the Illi-ni Challenge on Sept. 4.

Petrey noted that the team has done an exception-al job of keeping focused in its practices, even with its large amount of time off. The team last raced on Sept. 26 and is ready to get back to action in a highly competitive race.

“When we found out we were in the seeded race, we weren’t jumping out of our seats, but it was definitely an achievement and a goal we had at the beginning of the season,” Petrey said.

Jones is proud his team

qualified for the top-tier race. He is looking forward to seeing how his team can match up with the high level of competition at the meet.

“I think we are real-ly prepared,” Jones said. “We want to be able to take advantage of the high com-petition level and not be something that diminishes our performances.”

Jones stressed that he would not mind seeing his team be more aggressive at the beginning of the race, but he does not want his athletes influenced by how other teams attack the course. He hopes that his runners will stick to the team goals and have an overall strong race.

The Illini did not compete in last year’s Pre-Nationals, competing in the Bradley Invitational instead where

they finished first out of 30 teams.

In 2013, the Illini finished fourth out of 35 teams at the Indiana State Pre-Nationals, and in 2012, at

the Louisville Pre-Nation-als, the team finished 17 out of 38 teams.

“We are focusing on rac-ing up to our full capa-bilities as a team,” Jones

said. “And not letting our-selves get distracted by our surroundings.”

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Illinois at Cardinal CupQuick notes: Illinois is trying to move on from its worst finish of the Season. When/where: Oct. 19-20 Louisville, KentuckyKey Player: Grace Park shot her lowest score in one round last week.

Golf mentally prepares for tournament in Kentucky

JOVANIE DE LA CRUZ THE DAILY ILLINIIllini waiting to start the race at the Illini Challenge 2015 at the Arboretum on Sept. 4.

NCAA Pre-NationalsWhen/where: 9:15 a.m./Louisville, KentuckyQuick note: The Illini did not race in Pre-Nationals last year.Hidden stat: The Illini finished fourth at the Indiana State Pre-Nationals in 2013.

“It’s a marathon, not a sprint. We need to stay foucsed on the process and what’s right in front of us.”

RENEE SLONEHEAD COACH

BY COLE HENKESTAFF WRITER

The Illinois hockey team is ranked No. 13 in the nation in the latest ACHA rank-ings. The Illini are the low-est-ranked team in their con-ference according to those rankings.

Illinois’ conference – the CSCHL – started conference play last weekend, with Ohio taking on Iowa State and Lin-denwood taking on Robert Morris. Ohio is now ranked No. 1 in the nation, Linden-wood sits at No. 3, Iowa State stayed at No. 5 and Robert Morris dopped to No. 7 after its two losses this weekend.

Head coach Nick Fabbri-ni said he knows that all fi ve teams in the CSCHL being ranked in the top 13 is no fl uke.

“We have been the best conference in the league since when I played here back in 2004,” Fabbrini said. “Some teams in other confer-ences will be towards the top some years, but every team in our conference is always good. I know all of the oth-er coaches would agree with that too.”

Sophomore defenseman Shaunak Pal said the team looks at the rankings but knows that they have no indi-cation of how the game is going to go. Instead, the Illi-ni use them for motivation.

Illinois did not play last weekend, but now will start conference play with two home games against Rob-ert Morris on Friday and Saturday.

The Illini have been play-ing a lot of game-like situ-ations in practice, trying to get back into the competitive mindset after their break.

Robert Morris is very aggressive on offense, so Illinois has worked on keep-ing its man-to-man defense tight. The game plan is to keep the puck out of the Illi-ni defensive zone and push it up the ice as fast as possible. According to Pal, the key is getting the puck in front of the net.

The Illini understand that Robert Morris is prob-ably the best team they have played so far, and the team will have to face the Eagles without captain forward John Olen.

Fabbrini announced on Tuesday that Olen broke his ankle in the games against Alabama and will miss 4-6 weeks.

Olen was a major contribu-tor to the Illini’s fi rst offen-sive line, but now the team will have to look to other guys to pick it up, including left wing James Mcging. Mcging currently leads the Illini with seven points on two goals and fi ve assists.

“We honestly don’t know (how we will make up for it),” Mcging said. “We have plenty of guys that have the potential to take on the role. We will just have to see who steps up and plays well.”

Despite losing a main con-tributor like Olen, Fabbrini said the game plan on offense will stay the same as it has always been. The only thing that will actually change is the line commbinations.

Even though Olen won’t be playing in the game, he can still help the team prepare. As a senior, he has played Robert Morris many times and knows a thing or two about how they play. He said that Robert Morris is known for its “hard-nose hockey.”

Olen played for the Robert Morris head coach, Tom Adrahtas, when he played youth hockey, and he said that Adrahtas just preach-es work ethic and hard-nose hockey.

The Illini have been up and down this year so far. According to Fabbrini, if they don’t come into a game focused or prepared this weekend or even the rest of the season, they will get embarrassed.

With different guys getting

more ice time and more pow-er play time, the Illini have adjustments to make.

Those changes don’t make the Illini any less confi dent.

“It’s a fi rst CSCHL match-up of the year. This is the fi rst real test of the year,” Pal said. “We need guys to step up and play to the bets of their ability. We know we can get two wins because we know we are good at home.”

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BY WILL MOSTCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Just a couple weeks ago, the Illini fi nished fi fth in the Greater Louisville Classic, a fi nish which made a statement that the Illini deserved to be recognized as one of the better teams in the Big Ten.

Success at their upcoming meets this weekend, however, could make an entirely different statement.

With its huge and competitive fi eld, a top fi nish at the adidas Wisconsin Invite would suggest that the Illini deserve not just regional recognition, but national approval.

Success at the Bradley Classic would indicate that Illinois is a very deep team,

as people even outside their top seven are able to compete at a high level by themselves.adidas Wisconsin Classic

In their last meet in Louisville, Illinois actually finished ahead of No. 4-ranked Wisconsin , but come this Saturday at the adidas Wisconsin Classic, that kind of outcome seems unlikely, as the highly talented Wisconsin team will look for massive success in their home meet.

This does not mean that Illinois cannot walk away from the weekend feeling successful. The Illini were the fi rst team to miss the NCAA top-30 rankings, and if they can surprise a few teams at the invite, a national

ranking is likely to be in their future.

“I think Wisconsin will be a really good judge of where we actually stand and where other teams actually stand,” senior Ian Barnett said. “If we place in the top 10 or 12 like we should, there will be no denying that we should be ranked in the top 25.”

Interestingly enough, head coach Jake Stewart would also appreciate recognition, but has a different take on the situation.

“I’m sure the recognition would be nice.” Stewart. “If we come away with a ranking after all this is said and done, that’s great, but I already know who we are.”

Illinois will be running a relatively similar lineup

to the one it debuted in Kentucky, except with senior Paul Zeman absent and junior Liam Markham taking his place. Markham’s last race was actually the separate ‘blue race’ in Kentucky, which he placed in the top fi ve.

Beyond that, Illinois will be depending on All-American redshirt junior Dylan LaFond and with strong performances from both, the Illini should look to improve on their last meet and gain some national recognition.

“I think the group in totality needs to improve a small improvement from where we were two weeks ago,” Stewart said.

Bradley ClassicWhile Illinois’ top runners

will be running an extremely competitive national meet, some of the team’s other runners will be taking on a meet of a very different variety. The Bradley Classic will not feature many nationally ranked teams, but will still host talented competition from the Midwest and beyond.

The Illini will be lead by senior Jereme Atchison, who last took fourth at the Brissman-Lundeen Invite three weeks ago , and Alex Gold, who posted an equally impressive performance at the same meet, placing fi fth .

With all this talent, Stewart expects not only success, but a victory.

“We have such good depth,” Barnett said “A lot of the guys who are running in Peoria could also be running in Wisconsin.”

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11. Jun 2008 Part A Skill:

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4 3 62 7 5 3 41 8

2 72 6

8 5 7

62 6 9

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9 1 5

75 73 8 9 2

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9 7

89 6

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1 2 94 1

8 3 26 7 1

1 9 35 6


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6 3

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9

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8 4

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7 3

3

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9 8

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5 3 6

1 4 2

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1 6

4

2 4 1

8 7 5 2

1 5 6

6 5 1 3

4

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8

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Illinois vs. Robert MorrisFriday Oct. 16, 7:30 pm, Illinois Ice ArenaSaturday, Oct. 17, 7:30 pm, Illinois Ice ArenaQuick Note: Illinois will be playing without senior captain John Olen this weekend.Hidden Stat: The Illini are the only team in their conference ranked outside of the top 10 in ACHA.

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