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Here is a glimpse of ways the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois system is impacted by the state budget impasse. From social service institutions to universities, the cuts are everywhere. were put on hold until the budget is resolved.
BY MEGAN JONES STAFF WRITER
1. Faculty retention is struggling as many academics are moving to different universities with more promising funding. The number of retention cases is up more than 40 percent over the last two years, meaning more professors are leaving. 2. Resignations of tenure faculty are up by over 75 percent over the last two years. This is in response to competing offers from other institutions. 3. Without employing competitive faculty members, students miss out on the educational opportunity of learning from the best. 4. Even with faculty hirings from 2013 to 2015, the campus-wide student-to-faculty ratio for undergraduate students has grown from 15.1 in 2007 to 18 in 2016. 5. More than 150 staff positions have been eliminated from July 1 to March 16.
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28. The campus also implemented a hiring freeze in July which was estimated to save nearly $7 million. 29. Several campus improvement projects are suspended or have reduced funding, including capital projects.
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Patricia Rodriguez is a first-generation student from a working class family in Belvidere, Illinois. She is a sophomore studying political science and a student senator. But she wouldn’t be an Illini if it wasn’t for the MAP grant she received. The state has covered fall semester’s grants, but the University is currently crediting students’ accounts for spring semester. Not all public institutions across the state have been able to do this, meaning several students will not return for the spring semester. “It’s almost criminal that somebody can deprive so many people of what keeps them going during their everyday lives but face no punishment whatsoever,” she said. *** The scrapyard at North Cunningham Avenue in Urbana could receive $15 million of equipment of what once made up an innovative research lab — the Illinois Simulator Lab. Hank Kaczmarski, director of the lab, has worked at the University for 41 years and said he, along with six full-time employees will be out of a job in November when the lab shuts down. “We’re shell-shocked, of course, but we’re a research lab and we have professors with projects that are funded by the federal government that have been ongoing for several years,” he said. “They’re freaking out as to how these projects are going to be completed.” No one else in the world has a lab as unique as this, he said, and no one else knows how to use it, so it will be scrapped. “This is just a huge waste of resources on behalf of the state.” *** While faculty enjoy the intellectual community at the University, the stress of not having a budget is too much for some. Brett Ashley Kaplan, director of the program in Jewish Culture and Society, said the cuts hurt staff morale the most. “The fact that there’s no raises, there is no merit raises,” she said. “We work really, really hard. We work late at night, we work on the weekends. And there is no positive outcome anymore to all that we do.” *** The University is less than 60 days away from going an entire year without receiving funding from the state. This is unprecedented. The state funded about $236 million of the University’s 2015 budget. Lawmakers are currently considering another measure to give $453 million for Illinois colleges. The additional funds would give higher education institutions 60 percent of what they should have received for fiscal year 2016. Competing institutions are targeting the University’s best faculty with attractive, comprehensive offers. “They are targeting us, citing the fiscal condition of the state as a whole,” Campus Spokesperson Robin Kaler said. “We are losing people across the breadth of our disciplines.”
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6. Student’s Monetary Awards Program, MAP, Grants continue to be threatened. University students were awarded over $12 million in MAP Grants in August, but many were left uncertain if the state would cover their grants. 7. The University hopes the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, ISAC, will refund the University, but warned students that they might have to pay the grants back. 8. Incoming students who are currently working on their financial aid packages are being told about the predicament. Award letters warned students that if funding for MAP grants or any other financial aid is reduced, the grants would be reduced or rescinded. 9. The state’s stop-gap funding, which provided $600 million to aid nine universities, paid off one semester’s worth of MAP grants. The funding provided 45 percent of a full year’s worth of MAP grants. The University hopes to receive funding for the spring semester. 10. Some students from universities in Illinois couldn’t return to school due to the concern they may have to pay back MAP grants. According to a Washington Post article, 1,000 low-income students from the state were unable to return. 11. With less financial aid available, it is harder for low-income students to be able to enroll into universities in Illinois.
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12. Nearly $24 million of administrative costs were cut across campus. 13. The Beckman Institute, an interdisciplinary research institute, has cut its budget by 9 percent. The research covers many different departments and keeps the University as a leader in research and development. 14. The Illinois Simulator Lab, a part of Beckman, will be shut down in November due to a lack of funding. 15. The lab’s six full-time employees will no longer have jobs and professor’s with longterm federally-funded projects at the lab have nowhere to continue their work. 16. Civil service employees may face layoffs in August due to the lack of a budget and lack of uncertainty about the status and timing of FY 2017’s appropriation. 17. Civil service employees are currently going through an elimination period, called bumping, to match employees in eliminated positions with current job openings on campus. 18. The University temporarily suspended funding for fall 2016 first-year discovery program courses. The program helps enhance first-year students’ experience by increasing interaction with faculty in small classes. 19. Academic departments may have reduced some course offerings for the fall semester, but campus-wide information is not available. 20. For smaller departments in the College of LAS, department heads estimated onethird of teaching assistants have been cut. 21. This places additional work on the faculty. 22. This cut also provides fewer funding opportunities for graduate students. 23. Without TAs, there is less help for undergraduate students in their courses. 24. Departments’ ability to fund travel for faculty and graduate students has reduced. 25. Some graduate students had state-supported research projects that were left unfunded. 26. With budgetary uncertainty comes low morale for staff members. 27. In July 2015, all raises across-the-board
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31. Buildings and equipment are not being maintained or repaired. 32. Energy conservation projects are not being carried out. 33. The Electrical and Computer Engineering building was created to be a netzero facility, but the solar panels to be installed for the roof are currently sitting in storage due to funding cuts. 34. The state is delayed in paying medical centers back for expenses covered under the state’s self-funded health care plan. Many employees are being asked to pay for large medical procedures upfront.
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41. The campus has increased integration of IT services and support on cam35. This led some employees to decline receiv- pus, reducing any duplications. ing necessary procedures and checkups because they won’t be paid back in a reason- 42. The campus eliminated a central account able amount of time. where money was set aside to cover the cost of the IT operating system, used for student 36. The same problem for employees and their accounts, human resources and business funcfamilies has existed with dental coverage, and tions. In fiscal year 2015, $12.8 million was deditwo nearby dental practices have closed in cated to the account, but instead the money was used to mitigate the funding cuts. recent months due to state debt. 37. The Counseling Center isn’t directly affected because they receive funding from the Student Health Fee each student pays. However, students aren’t able to see the counselors on a long-term basis and must be referred to other community organizations which are facing cuts.
43. Illinois International Programs, Graduate College and other programs are consolidating programs and aligning its strategic missions. 44. Plant Biology greenhouses used to have eight plant collections, but the greenhouse has reduced to five.
38. The Rape, Advocacy, Counseling and Education Services had to lay off employ- 45 . Decreases in faculty funding reduces ees and reduce services. The center has research opportunities and collaborations in areas such as research park. remained open thanks to donations. 39. Students may fear attending a university facing budget cuts and an uncertain future of the state’s budget. One could receive a better financial aid package from an out-of-state university.
46. Campus planning for FY 2017 calls for academic units to plan three different reduction scenarios: a 3, 5 and 7 percent reduction. Administrative units are planning for 5, 7 and 9 percent reduction scenarios.
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New Career Center survey tracks graduate job success BY LILLY MASHAYEK STAFF WRITER
As seniors say their goodbyes to the University and prepare to graduate in May, many of them are faced with an unstable job market. However, a recent survey by the Career Center now gives a more accurate depiction of where students end up once they graduate.
The Career Center started a campus-wide survey for all undergraduate students called Illini Success. “It is one survey that brings everyone together so that we can say this is where our graduates go, and we can do it in a way that’s comparable across the campus,” said Julia Panke Makela, associate director for assessment
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and research at the Career Center. Makela said that in the past, individual colleges conducted their own surveys. B But a campus-wide survey allows them to look at the University as a whole. The committee started working on the survey two years ago, and has been collecting data since then. “We look at a year of data, we look at August grads, December grads, May grads … plus we follow students for up to six months after graduation because not everybody knows when they walk across the stage,” Makela said. The survey will be done every year. Right now, they are collecting data from the May graduates. “If you look at the annual reports online from last year, our students do really, very well,” Makela said. “What’s most exciting about the reports is seeing the real variety of things that our graduates go on to.” While the survey is not mandatory for students to take, Makela said 74 percent of graduates had responded to their survey. “Of those 74 percent, 84 percent of them told us that they had secured what we call
a ‘first destination,’” she said. “So, they had reported to us that they were enrolled in a graduate school program (or) that they were employed.” Twenty-four percent of students said they were enrolled in a graduate school program, 59 percent were employed and about 1 percent were going on to service and volunteer type positions. A small number of students said they were still seeking employment, looking at graduate school or were taking some time off. “Within those reports you can see all the different types of places that people are going on to employment, and you can see the different types of graduate programs that people are pursuing,” she said. Even though the survey is still new, Makela said that the Illini Success survey showed that the data aligned with what the individual colleges had found in previous years. She said they try to show people that they effectively use the data they collect, and that it isn’t just “stuck on the shelf.” “In this next coming year, (we’re) going to build a career exploration tool for students,” she said. “So you’ll be able to
go on to this portal and put in those different majors and see what kinds of careers they lead to, and not just for anybody across the country … but for University of Illinois people specifically.” Gaby Riccio, senior in ACES, will be graduating this year. However, she will come back to the University next year to attend veterinary school. Riccio said that when she was choosing her major as an incoming freshman, she didn’t find it too difficult to decide on animal sciences. “It was one of the most popular ones,” she said. “I just knew that I wanted to work with animals no matter what.” For some students, however, it can be difficult to decide which major will lead to which career path in the future. Makela said sometimes students have a few options in mind, but they’re not sure which major will get them where they want to be. Riccio agreed that a career explorer tool would have been helpful to her, and that it could be helpful to students in the future. “That definitely would have
been helpful because then you see what kinds of opportunities there are for different majors,” she said. Illini Success is very protective of the information. All of the information gathered is aggregated so that the identity of the students are kept private, Makela said. “This is something that we use for accreditation, for speaking to the legislature and the state to say we really need funding.” Makela said this data comes in handy when trying to get funding for the University. For example, at one point the governor questioned funding the University, claiming that students who graduate tend to leave the state. “We’re actually able to say that’s not true, did you know that 70 percent of our graduates are employed in the state of Illinois?” she said. “We’re finally able to use this data to really back up the contributions that we make to the state.”
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Research shows lowering voice pitch increases perceived dominance BY LAUREN SCAFIDI STAFF WRITER
A recent study conducted by a University professor could help students succeed not only in their classes, but in the real world, too. Along with her research team, Joey Cheng, assistant professor of psychology, found people who lower their voice pitches in the first few utterances of an interaction are perceived as more high-status, more dominant and more influential. “When people first meet, we see changes that happen in the first couple minutes of their voice pitch that actually tells us something about how much status they’re going to get toward the end of the interaction,” Cheng said.
Cheng and her research team first became interested in piloting this study when questions arose surrounding how humans signal status to each other and what behaviors they do to get status. A great deal of research has uncovered how tall posture and expansive body displays both tend to be seen as high-status gestures. However, little research had explored other aspects on status, such as voice pitch. “We wanted to go beyond the straightforward question of do people with higher or lower voices tend to get more status,” Cheng said. “We asked a more nuanced question of how do subtle changes in voice pitch that happen when people first meet relate
to status outcomes.” Cheng and researchers conducted two experiments to solve that question. In the first experiment, subjects were asked a question that yielded a lengthy response. Then, Cheng and her research team used phonetic analysis software to measure the fundamental frequency of the subject’s reactions. Without first seeing the results of the software and without knowing the study focused on the relationship between vocal pitch and status, outsiders were asked which answers seemed the most dominant. Observers answered those whose voices went down in pitch rather than up dur-
ing the first few utterances seemed most dominant. In the second experiment, participants listened to recordings of an individual saying three consecutive sentences. The recording was technologically changed to either increase or decrease the voice pitch throughout the three sentences. Consistent with the first experiment, the observers recognized the recordings manipulated to decrease the voice pitch as more powerful and influential. The results Cheng and her research team found matched their initial hypothesis. “We found what we predicted and that doesn’t always happen so we were
pretty excited,” she said. “Something about lower voices seems to reliably tell us about people’s dominance and status.” There’s evidence that some sort of psychological feedback boosts confidence when individuals speak in a lower tone, too. “There’s a case to be made for lowering your voice when going into interviews and giving presentations,” Cheng said. Mardia Bishop, director of public speaking instruction at the University, said raising voice pitch typically happens when people aren’t breathing correctly due to nervousness. “When we are nervous we are not breathing properly and we put a lot of tension in
the throat area and the rest of our body,” she said. “We tighten up all those muscles so our vocal cords tighten up too, and consequently, our voice gets higher.” To combat this, Bishop suggests several tactics to boost confidence and to improve performance during a presentation or an interview besides lowering voice pitch. “What I strongly encourage people to do is breathe when they’re speaking,” Bishop said. “Present based off an outline so you’re memorizing the message you want to convey instead of memorizing just words, and practice the speech out loud.”
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Student groups raise money for Ecuador relief after its worst tragedy in 60 years BY ANDREA FLORES CONTRIBUTING WRITER
April 16 started as a normal day for Melina Villavicencio, junior in LAS. She was doing homework and preparing for finals like any other University student. But, for Villavicencio, this day quickly turned into a tragedy when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck her home country of Ecuador. “I felt powerless; my country was going through one of the most severe natural disasters in its history and I wasn’t there to help,” she said in an email. United Nations officials call this the worst tragedy to hit the country in 60 years, and the country’s Risk Management Office reports the death toll has climbed to over 650 people. Dozens remain missing, and thousands are left injured and in shelters. “It was amazing to see pictures of friends and family doing everything they could to help out our brothers and sisters from the northwest,” she said. “Solidarity is the perfect word to describe what occurred
after the earthquake.” The 20-year-old exchange student from Cuenca and Quito of southern Ecuador said none of her friends and family were affected by the quake, as it mainly struck Ecuador’s coast. “People in the highlands weren’t receiving information; some even thought it was not serious and started making memes about it,” Villavicencio said. “As soon as everyone realized how grave the situation was, people started taking action.” The Ecuadorian Student Association on campus has extended a hand to Ecuador. A spokesperson from the association, Felipe Fernandez said in an email that no one in the association has family or friends personally affected by the earthquake. Regardless, the group has hosted a multitude of events on campus in the past two weeks in order to fundraise for the cause. From April 19 to April 22, the association had a stand on the Main Quad where they gave out information and flyers about the earthquake. These flyers included links for online
donations to UNICEF and the Ecuadorian Red Cross. On April 29, the association held a bake sale in the Foreign Languages Building, and for the past two weeks, donations were taken at La Casa Cultural Latina. “The donations included water, canned food, diapers, clothes, etc. We dropped off all the donations in the Ecuadorian Embassy in Chicago and they sent it to Ecuador,” Fernandez said. Additionally, in a post on their Facebook page of the Ecuador Earthquake Relief, the Ecuadorian Student Association asked for monetary donations to a multitude of groups, like UNICEF and the Ecuadorian Red Cross. Before the close of the semester, the association has plans to project a movie for the relief cause. Along with the Ecuadorian Student Association, Greek life on campus is also getting involved in the relief effort. The Alpha Chi chapter Lambda Upsilon Lambda, also called La Unidad Latina, has participated in
the fundraising on campus. Isaac Lozano, secondyear MBA student and member of LUL, shared a gofundme.com account on the behalf of “Portoviejo Relief.” This account asks for monetary donations to help the cause, and so far over $500 has been raised in collaboration with a dance event hosted by the fraternity. Lozano lived in Portoviejo, Ecuador, one of the hardest areas hit, from 2011 to 2012. “I knew many people who were affected; many people died. The biggest thing that affected my neighborhood was the lack of water,” Lozano said. “The second hardest thing was the aftershocks, which destroyed many homes. I can’t even imagine what it must look like to see everyone sleeping in tents in the park.” The fraternity hosted an event, “Dance for Ecuador,” at the Cowboy Monkey in Champaign on April 27. Donations were collected at the door and they are going to Clinica Bambini in Portoviejo, where pediatri-
cians will ensure that food, water and medicine will get to those who need it, Lozano said. As the weeks pass, Villavicencio said the news of the earthquake has slowed, but Ecuador remains strong. “I think this sentiment persists, although the attention span has certain-
ly decreased to a certain extent,” she said. “However, in such a small country, it’s impossible to ignore something that’s happening three or four hours away from where you live. I saw my country act like a family and that made me proud.”
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he debate that many thought was done at the University has returned again. Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson announced Monday that the University will begin searching for a new mascot. The Editorial Board is thankful Wilson promised that the mascot won’t be “silly.” It’s also important that the “Fighting Illini” nickname and the music we hear from our great marching band during sporting events won’t change. But we’re confused. Why is the University doing this now? The report submitted by the Illinois Student Senate’s exploratory committee stated that students remain divided on the issue, and that they want to move forward because they don’t have anything to rally around during sporting events. Yes, the absence of a mascot does leave a void, but a mascot wouldn’t have soothed Illini fans’ anger during the Tim Beckman years. Students lined the Illini Union to see new head football coach Lovie Smith this spring — there was no need for a mascot to rile everybody up. To search for a new mascot at this time simply seems unnecessary. The University has a multitude
of issues that need immediate, comprehensive attention — many of which we’ve written editorials regarding — but this is not one of those pressing issues. Maybe the school should focus on finding a permanent chancellor and provost, or push to open the College of Medicine on time. This sudden search for a mascot will inevitably exhume the debate over the Chief, though bringing it back isn’t a consideration. The report stated that maintaining inclusivity will be a priority for the search committee, which we completely support. But we have a hunch that this conversation won’t be civil, just as it hasn’t been in the past, and will only incite further harmful discourse in the Champaign-Urbana community. Supporters of the Chief will remain adamant about bringing back the former symbol of the University, claiming the new mascot will never replace the Chief. These arguments nearly always turn personal very quickly, and already concerned students could be made to feel even more uncomfortable when offended by supporters who will likely never deem pro-Chief arguments as insulting. But the decision to move forward with the University’s first-ever mascot is al-
ready complete, so there’s no turning back now. Though we may not fully support searching for a mascot at this time, we are absolutely in favor of moving on from the Chief as a University symbol. With that in mind, we have a few recommendations for the mascot search committee. We want the University to sponsor more programs that inform the community about Native American history and traditions. It’s important that people understand why the Chief is offensive and why its presence causes harm, whether or not they eventually agree with that premise. On a much less serious note, the Board agrees that we don’t want our mascot to be a squirrel. There’s a very clear favorite here, folks: Abraham Lincoln, or maybe Fightin’ Abe. There’s a reason why our state is called the “Land of Lincoln.” Abe is considered one of this nation’s greatest presidents, and in a state whose politicians are best known for being corrupt, the least we can do is honor someone whose main quality is honesty. Our Abe could even be similar to the large-headed Lincoln the Washington Nationals use for the team’s presidents races.
Think of how much fun kids (and drunk students) will have when they see a top-heavy Abe falling on his small feet — good luck not getting distracted by that, Michigan State. While we don’t complete-
ly agree with the decision to move forward with a new mascot in this complicated time for the University, the easiest way to avoid escalating this controversy further is a brief search that ends in Abe.
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hen walking out of the apartments along Healey Street in Champaign, I always see garbage cans so jampacked that the covers can’t even close. Not only are the bulging trash bins problematic, but the contents are worrisome as well. Liquids that should have been drained from the bottles are leaking onto the sidewalks. Glass bottles are shattered by the weight of trash pressing on top of them. There are usually a couple of trash bags rolling next to the bins that missed the mark when residents threw them away. Lastly, it is a pretty standard-issue to see several squirrels feasting on leftover pizza and beer cans. College campuses are extremely wasteful environments. We use an abundance of resources and appliances that are designed to last for a short amount of time. This system of planned obsolescence is damaging the Earth, and college students should take time when making a purchase to consider how long the object will last and what impact it will have on the environment when it is thrown away absentmindedly. “There is a problem with overuse of everything on the campus,” says Catherine Yee, a sophomore in the College of ESE and a member of Students for
Environmental Concerns club. “We are generating so much waste. College students need better knowledge of recycling to reduce the act of dumping.” Organizations such as the Students for Environmental Concerns or the Student Sustainability Committee have realized this issue and tried to increase student awareness of the amount of waste generated. They have operated several events including a clothing swap, plant sale and discussion forum with the Wildlife Society in April to seek out more involvement from campus members. Members of the organizations say there is still “way too much garbage” and “not enough recycling bins installed throughout the campus.” They also added that highly populated locations such as the Main Quad and the Union should be equipped with even more recycling bins. Students have led many campaigns throughout campus to encourage recycling. With the intent of reducing the usage of disposable cups, the yearly Kill the Cup project asks students to prioritize reusable coffee cups instead. The University won amongst many colleges throughout the nation with the highest participation rate in the campaign; however, after the campaign ended, the same amount of landfill from the past replaced the notion of “sustainability” for the self-serving desire of comfort.
L auren McGi nnity Boswell, a sophomore in the College of LAS and also a member of SECS, commented that “the milk jugs at Espresso Royale or Starbucks are often not recycled properly.” Given the number of customers that the two businesses receive, she feels a more environmentally friendly method of disposing of the waste should be implemented. There are enough resources and information concerning proper recycling and reducing waste that are readily accessible to college students. However, it is often the case that they disregard the need for contributing to more eco-friendly measures because of their inconvenience. Campaigns and other activities are capable of successfully engaging the members of the campus, but the attention doesn’t last long enough to create a significant habit of environmental activism. Therefore, it is important that all students be mindful of the items they purchase, the number of resources they utilize in daily life and the amount of waste they dispose. Instead of putting in the effort to force the overstuffed trash bins closed, it would be a better investment of time, for the individuals and for the community, to sort out the materials for the purpose of committing to a sustainable environment.
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ver the past eight years, President Barack Obama has increasingly established himself as someone with comedic skill and timing. And his last correspondents’ dinner speech was no exception. The 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner took place Saturday night; an annual event when, as Obama dubbed it, “Washington celebrates itself.” This is the president’s last year in office, and with today’s political climate, the event’s speakers had plenty of material to work with. Obama addressed, or in this case, roasted, the media, celebrities, presidential candidates and even himself. “Eight years ago I said it was time to change the tone of politics,” Obama said, reflecting on his time in office. “In hindsight, I really should have been more specific.” Humor often serves as a way to address inconsistencies, hypocrisy and particularly opposition. Hinting at recent debates like the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland, Obama sassily remarked: “For months now congressional Republicans have been saying there are things I cannot do in my final year. Unfortunately, this dinner was not one of them.” Of all the jokes success-
fully landed, most notable was Obama’s closing statement: “Obama out,” followed by a mic drop. The president arguably outperformed his following act: the professional comedic speaker for the night, Larry Wilmore. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has long been criticized for becoming more about which Hollywood guests are in attendance rather than serving its actual purpose of presenting awards and scholarships. This has led many to question the close relationship between the White House and the journalists who cover it as part of the White House Correspondents’ Association. Regardless of its criticisms, the dinner serves as an invaluable opportunity for issues to be brought up on a comedic platform. It’s an effective means for addressing topics that would likely be ignored in a more serious setting. For example, speaking of Donald Trump, Obama noted, “There is one area where The Donald’s experience could be useful, and that is closing Guantanamo — Donald knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground.” Over the years, the dinner has also given the president a chance to address more sensitive issues. Whether it’s making a reference last year to claims he is secretly a Muslim or responding to the birth certificate demands a few years ago — “I happen to know that my approval ratings are
still very high in the country of my birth” — Obama has entertainingly put his critics to rest. It’s difficult to get people interested in politics, but being funny has been proven to garner that interest. This connection was evident when Obama made an appearance on comedian Zach Galifianakis’ web series, “Between Two Ferns,” to discuss the Affordable Care Act. It became the website’s top traffice source. With the video having over 11 million views, traffic to the health care website increased by more than 40 percent, leading thousands more between ages of 18 to 34, including many college students, to sign up for healthcare. Just as we have seen Obama making appearances and giving interviews on cable news networks, we have seen him reading mean tweets or slow jamming the news on late night television. Yes, it’s been for media coverage, but it has also been for promoting matters such as passing a bill to prevent raising interest on student loans. Comedy has long been a way for politically concerned individuals, elected officials and presidents to get their messages across and gain attention. In a time where people seem more ideologically divided than ever, laughs are something we can all share.
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Students talk disconnecting from social media BY MARA SHAPIRO STAFF WRITER
Salim Omar, sophomore in LAS, was working at Hollister during his senior year of high school when he started using Facebook. Omar was never a supporter of social media, but had to open up his account for work, as his coworkers signed up for and exchanged shifts through the social media giant.
As soon as Omar stopped working at Hollister during his freshman year at the University, he deleted his account. "I felt like (Facebook) was a place where people could pretend to be your friend and where people you hadn't talked to in six years would wish you a 'happy birthday,'" Omar said. He was not happy with
how fake his friends list appeared, and he prefers to communicate with his real friends in person. Omar doesn't even like texting; instead, he will call his longdistance friends and family to keep in touch with them. Atreya Laxman, junior in LAS, also ended up deleting his Facebook account that he first opened up when he was in middle school. He deleted it during his freshman year of high school and has not looked back at reopening it since. Laxman felt his Facebook friends were trying to get attention via their accounts and was overall fed up with what he saw on his news feed. "I found (Facebook) to be a waste of time," Laxman said. "I wasn't really interested in it anymore, so I stopped using it (as often), and I thought I may as well not have a Facebook anymore. People post ridiculous stuff. It's kind of annoying when they say stupid things. I know it's not a big deal or anything. It's just one of
those things." Robert Baird, associate director of Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, wrote via email that social media has a plethora of benefits for college students in particular. "Smartphones and social media have simplified the work of connecting friends and family and planning events," Baird wrote. "Lots of real work, jobs, internships and studying and campus collaboration are accelerated and made possible with smartphones and social media. Indeed, the problem with smartphones and social media is that they are so successful and so widely useful that they have the danger of occupying all our time." Omar and Laxman both agree that having social media has its perks. Omar said it can be useful for work and for keeping up with old friends. Laxman discussed how social media has its pros when it comes to schoolwork. He said that Facebook
is a good resource for meeting up with friends, in addition to keeping in touch with old schoolmates. According to Baird, social media's biggest danger is that it can draw one's attention away from other important things. Humans are notorious for multitasking, but looking down at a small screen while also walking or driving poses an extreme danger to everyone involved. "Some people are better at multitasking than others, but we know from many cognitive experiments that any time a person multitasks, there is a diminishment of the skill and time needed to accomplish a task," Baird wrote. Laxman does not have any other form of social media, and Omar recently opened up a Snapchat account but is already displeased with the app. Social media has changed over the years, according to Baird, and this is in part due to smartphones and the easy access to social media they
provide. "The growth and expansion to hundreds of millions of people around the world has been rapid and amazing," Baird wrote. "The smart 'phone' isn’t just a phone but a do-anything machine, which can be used in almost any context one can imagine." With technology becoming an overwhelming presence in today's society, becoming addicted to social media is possible, according to The Huffi ngton Post. Baird wrote about people who try to quit their addictions. "People try to 'self-medicate' and go 'cold turkey' or take a break all the time. It’s very common, and everyone seems to try to balance their use of social media in their lives and at work," he wrote. "Like addiction, some people seem more vulnerable than others and actually suffer health and social problems due to too much time devoted to social media."
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Older students and faculty Movies to get through fi nals discuss returning to school BUZZ
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Attending a university is challenging, but making the choice to come back later in life creates an entirely different experience. Rosita Byrd moved from New Jersey this year to pursue her master's degree in social work at the University. She has been attending the University since August and admits it has not been an easy adjustment. “U of I chose me," Byrd said. "I would never think to come out west because this is outside my comfort zone." Her children inspired her decision to leave her home, sell her possessions and abandon the life she knew. Byrd has two children, both in college, who convinced her to go back to school and pursue a higher degree. “When I would work certain places, my oldest daughter knew I wasn’t really happy," Byrd said. "She kept telling me, 'Mommy, you need to go back and finish,' and that’s exactly what I did." Donte Winslow, freshman in DGS, understands the challenges for students of non-typical age, as his mother is graduating from Olivet Nazarene University this weekend. “I think it’s inspiring," Winslow said. "Specifically for my mom, she inspires me because she’s always like, ‘I can do it, I’m still working, I still have all these responsi-
bilities, I’m still your mom, but I’m going to school.’” Winslow’s mother has been taking online classes since his junior year of high school. She will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education. “It was taxing at first, but now it’s rewarding because she knows how to do these things by herself,” Winslow said. Applying as an older student is typically a similar
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process to what incoming freshmen go through, but it can have its challenges. According to Kristin Smigielski, associate director of Undergraduate Admissions, it can be more difficult for older students to apply because they have been outside of higher education for so long. Smigielski said these students tend to be pretty place-bound, often tied to spouses who are relocated to the area or are already C-U locals. Byrd is graduating this May and is either staying
in the area or moving back to New Jersey, depending on what opportunities she is presented with. She said few students of non-typical age attend the University, so her experience lacked a sense of camaraderie. To help her better adjust, the School of Social Work connected her with Regina Parnell, alumnus in social work. “She really transformed me to a certain degree ... and I volunteered with her," Byrd said. "She showed me and introduced me to the right people, the movers and shakers of Urbana-Champaign.” Byrd thinks students of typical college age should embrace their older counterparts. The value of shared perspectives from different points in life is a connection she said the non-typical age students have to offer. In terms of students coming back to school later in life, Byrd encourages others to make the choice. She believes no one is ever too old to learn and is thankful for the great education she has received. “Education is key and something that nobody can take from you," she said. "If that’s what makes you happy or something is just missing in your life, and you’re thinking, 'Hey, I should go back to school, but wait I’m 45 years old,' so what?”
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There are many great films out there, and once procrastination hits, anything other than studying becomes a pretty great alternative. At that point, even a nature documentary on birds of the sea seems like a solid way to spend the evening. Even 45 minutes of seagulls swooping around and cawing to each other for no good reason may sound better than a night spent hitting the books. However, if you’re trying to find specific films for slacking while you’re supposed to study, two hit movies fit these tough times perfectly. One is a classic, the other more on the contemporary side of things: “Weekend at Bernie’s” (1989), and “Neighbors” (2014). Filled with parties that you can live vicariously through and procrastinating fiends you can tearfully relate to during your time of struggle, these films are perfect to get the average slacker through the tough week ahead.
“Weekend at Bernie’s” Who else was curious to watch this film because Joey said it was secretly Rachel’s favorite movie? If you don’t understand that reference, you should also procrastinate with the TV show "Friends.” “Weekend at Bernie’s” is a hilarious movie about two young law firm associates who are invited by their boss to spend a weekend at his beach getaway. Eager to have time off
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Students eat popcorn while watching a movie. work (awren’t we all?), the two arrive at the house only to find their boss is dead. Through strange and rather ridiculous circumstances, no one but the two notice and they are forced to keep up the charade in order to stay safe – and have a good time doing it. Watching the film is like having the two sides of the procrastinator’s mind come to life.One of the main characters is rational and logical (“I should be studying”), the other one lives by the seat of his pants (“I’ll somehow pass the class”). The only flaw is that the retro parties look so wild and the beach looks so alluring that you might end up crying instead of laughing when you realize that summer break is so close, yet so far away.
“Neighbors” “Neighbors” is one of those films you watch when you’re determined to study, but you still want a movie playing in the background to appease your soul. Trick yourself into thinking you’re also having a good time while watching
Seth Rogen and Zac Efron pitted against each other as rival neighbors. Rogen plays a father who’s determined to do away with the noisy fraternity next to him, led by Efron. The movie’s antics hide under the thin veneer of plot, so fear not if you suddenly come up with a good thesis and get distracted for a few minutes — nothing monumental will really have happened. The end of the movie is also a good wakeup call when Efron’s character Teddy admits aloud, “I probably should have studied just a little bit.” Things work out for Teddy in the end, though, and it’s like the movie is trying to say, "If you don’t have the brains but you have the brawn, you’ll still be okay." This is all fine and dandy, but what if you’re procrastinating and eating countless spring rolls from the Chinese place around the block? Yeah. That’s right. Start studying, friends. This article is over — so get to work!
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Feminism through fashion
Illinois professor defies professional style expectations
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Associate Professor Mimi Thi Nguyen works on her laptop in her office on April 25. BY TERYN PAYNE STAFF WRITER
Growing up as a refugee from the war in Vietnam, Mimi Thi Nguyen, associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian-American Studies, has always been interested in clothing and how it relates to the body. Nguyen and her family were sponsored by a Catholic family, were taken out of a refugee camp and did not have access to fi rsthand clothing. “For the fi rst 10 to 12 years of my life in the United States, all my clothes were either donated by the church, bought at thrift stores or yard sales, or my mom made them,” Nguyen said. Nguyen’s life experiences shaped the way she viewed clothing and also affected how she viewed herself in clothing. “It was something that I had a lot of feelings about as a kid. When you’re a refugee kid, you’re one of five people of color in a small town in Minnesota, and you notice those things that ... make you feel like an alien,” Nguyen said. “A part in that was not just the body that I was in, but the way that (I) was able to clothe it, and all of my clothes were secondhand.” Initially, her secondhand clothing made her feel “uncool” and made her think her clothing was not trendy or favored. As Nguyen became older, she
changed her sentiments toward secondhand clothing. When she had the opportunity to buy fi rsthand clothing, she still preferred recycled clothing. “I still tended to buy secondhand clothing because it was a part (of) a political argument about waste and consumption and also because I liked those clothes better,” Nguyen said. “I still prefer vintage clothes over new ones.” During her teenage years, Nguyen started to develop a sense of style and figured out how she wanted to be perceived by starting to explore other clothing styles and ways to dress herself. When she was a teenager, her family moved to San Diego, where she discovered punk and her sense of style. Even in her adult years, Nguyen’s style still reflects many decades and variations of punk. Not only did punk have an inspiration on how she dressed, but it also trickled into her professional career. According to Nguyen’s website, she served as a Punk Planet columnist and “Maximumrockinroll” volunteer. Nguyen would best describe her style as “1980s new wave party girl who woke up and realized that she had to teach a class … after partying at the club at night … all night.” Nguyen’s style does not change even when she is
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that, there is the idea about what that person wears,” Nguyen said. “If you do a Google image search for ‘professor,’ it’s like old white dudes with corduroy and stuff.” Nguyen does not let the general perception of what a teacher is supposed to look like interfere with how she chooses to dress. Her colleagues are supportive of her “punk rock” style and knowledgeable about the professional work she does outside of teaching. “There’s a certain way in which I can get away with it because it’s apart of my professional profi le,” Nguyen said. Since 2006, Nguyen has been a professor in GWS and Asian American Studies, where she teaches a politics of fashion course and feminist theory courses for both graduate and undergraduate students. “The most rewarding part for me was knowing that I was going to be a professor who was fairly young and also a woman of color,” said Myra Washington, University alumna. “Mimi was amazing because she modeled everything I thought a really good professor should do.” In these courses, Nguyen discusses a variety of topics about femininity and empowerment. One topic in particular is the specific perception of a woman to be viewed as professional based on her attire. She
even reflects on her experience while transitioning into the professional world. “Definitely before I became a professor, it was really torturous for me on how to look like a grown-up,” Nguyen said. “I remember getting advice in grad school about how I needed to get a suit to go on interviews, and I just felt like a kid playing dress-up.” After feeling uncomfortable in her pin-striped black suit, Nguyen took a calculated risk to dress the way she normally would. By making this choice, she accepted the fact that some people may not be accepting of her clothing style. “I mostly get away with it, but who knows how other people perceive me because of this,” Nguyen said. With all the professional advice students are receiving while transitioning from college to the workplace, Nguyen wants her students to think about the story their clothing tells the public. She provides them with an interesting perspective of clothing and how it can be a limitation. Nguyen said: “There is this idea that your clothes can tell other people something true about you. The imagination is that something about your clothes will reveal something about yourself ... like your professionalism and respectability. People
often use clothing as a way to police you.” In her classes, some of Nguyen’s students present her with the concerns that they have as being perceived as professional women. “I’ve had students talk about how they have bigger breasts, and they have a harder time fi nding shirts that cover them, so they have anxiety about being read as unprofessional because it’s really hard to fi nd a button-up shirt that won’t pull at the buttons,” Nguyen said. “They have legitimate worries about how their limited access to super expensive, Oxfordtailored blouses to help them cover their breasts and how that will affect their ability to get a job.” Nguyen has many talents and has made some impactful contributions to the social, political, academic and fashion industries. Her upbringings have unquestionably impacted and shaped her into the woman she is today. With all the work she does, a theme of confidently embracing who you are as a person and being unapologetically yourself is constantly shown throughout all of her pieces. “The amazing thing to me is how humble she is,” Brown said. “She’s definitely a nice person, and those are two things that usually don’t go together.”
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On May 3 of last season, the Illinois baseball team held a four-run lead over Ohio State. When the bottom of the ninth came around, Illini catcher Jason Goldstein took his spot behind the plate. He looked up to see the Illini’s best pitcher — and soonto-be sixth overall pick in the 2015 MLB draft — walking to the mound. For the people in the stands, this was the moment they were waiting for as they were going to see Tyler Jay pitch. For the guy squatting behind home plate, throwing down the sign for Jay’s first pitch, this is when he really got to have fun. T h e n a junior, Goldstein didn’t worry about the “right pitch” in this situation. He knew Jay was too good for that and a four-run lead was more than enough. LARS DAVIS, 2007 Round 3, Pick 8
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By the end of each atbat with Jay on the mound, the batter would end up totally lost. If he guessed breaking ball, he would get blindsided by a fastball in the upper-90s. If he guessed fastball, he would receive a knee-buckling changeup. If he guessed changeup, he would get a nightmare slider. All the while, Goldstein was right behind him, knowing that he was in his head and loving every second of it. *** Goldstein was and still is in a rare position for a college catcher. He has the power behind the plate, calling all of the shots and acts as another coach on the field. In a college baseball game, the actions between pitches can take a while. First, the catcher has to check with the dugout. Then, the head coach and his assistants can take time to make the next call and send a signal to the catcher who relays it to the pitcher. Finally, the pitcher gets ready to make his move. Illinois pitching coach Drew Dickinson said this whole process takes 20-25 seconds. But Illinois baseball
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doesn’t have this problem as catcher and team captain Jason Goldstein doesn’t look to the dugout between pitches. He immediately throws down the next sign. “Me and Jason are always on the same page,” Dickinson said. “We are talking all the time. The kid is crazy smart in terms of coaching. He is like a big league catcher behind the dish, but he is in a college game. There is a total trust there.” Dickinson calls some pitches himself, but the number varies game-to-game. Sometimes he calls 40 pitches in a game, sometimes he doesn’t call any. Even when Dickinson decides to make the call, it is often the same pitch that Goldstein was going to call. Decisions behind the plate are anything but random for the Illini captain. There are numerous factors that Goldstein takes into account before he shows his pitcher the signal. “Before the weekend starts, the team gets a scouting report on our opponents for the weekend, and that is probably the biggest piece of information that I get,” Goldstein said. The report goes out Thursday night, and Goldstein will look at it for about 15 min-
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utes. Then the next day he will give it a quick review. That's all the time he needs to learn how to dismantle the opponent’s lineup. Reading the scouting report, Goldstein focuses on the other team’s best hitters. He learns their tendencies, their favorite pitches and where they like them. “I observe from behind the plate,” Goldstein said. “For instance, if we call a pitch, and he is late on that pitch, then maybe the next pitch we throw will be further inside, or maybe we will elevate it. I will change things based on what I can only see from behind the plate.” The best hitters are able to make adjustments between at-bats. Goldstein takes that into account when he is behind the plate because he does the same when he is in their cleats. As one of the best offensive players, Goldstein knows whats going through a batter's mind. This season he is leading the Illini in batting average (.341), hits (46), RBI’s (26), slugging percentage (.467) and on base percentage (.424). From personal experience, Goldstein can tell when a hitter starts to catch on to the Illini’s game plan and
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Four tumultuous years for athletic department ALEX ROUX Illini hoops columnist
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ooking back on it all makes it even harder to fathom. I set foot on the University of Illinois campus as a freshman in August 2012, one year into Mike Thomas’ tenure as director of Illini athletics. Thomas had pledged his intention to compete for Big Ten titles in football and basketball under the direction of his new hires, Tim Beckman and John Groce, both of whom had just hopped off the train from MAC-land. What’s happened within the headline-snatching, revenue-generating Illini sports programs in the nearly four years since the class of 2016 checked into their dorms has been, quite frankly, insane. It’s been as if twenty years’ worth of athletic department turmoil were shoved into a car compactor and crammed into four. Describing the last four years of Illinois athletics as "tumultuous" would be an understatement. But only noting the failures, embarrassments and Deadspinworthy snafus during that period would be unfair as well. The Illinois athletic department made enor-
mous strides in marketing, fan engagement and facility upgrades under Thomas. If the renovated and glistening State Farm Center goes down as Thomas’ biggest achievement at Illinois, Grange Grove on the west side of Memorial Stadium will easily come in second. I know it sounds crazy to even mention a party zone for college football fans in the same breath as a $160 million renovation on an AD’s resume, but re-visit the statement in ten years. A facelift and naming rights for an aging basketball arena were inevitable at some point under any leadership, but uprooting big-money donors from their parking spots right next to the stadium might not have happened under a previous administration. It’s kind of ironic, isn’t it? Thomas was rumored to have a chilly relationship with some of the deep-pocketed fat cats, and that actually might have benefited the majority of fans when it boiled down to certain business decisions. Ten years down the road, when Grange Grove will have hosted ESPN College Game Day and a concert every summer and thousands of fans for seven fall Saturdays a season, we’ll all be glad that someone was sick of seeing so much green space go to waste in such a prime location.
Despite Thomas’ hires and their results being disastrous — and we’ll get to that in a moment — there’s no doubt that Illinois athletics was dragged into modernity under his watch. Four years ago, ticket stubs were still torn instead of scanned at sporting events, the resolution on scoreboards at venues throughout campus resembled an Atari video game and logos and uniforms used across the school’s 19 sports were a jumbled, inconsistent mess. Not anymore. It feels like a 21st century college sports operation now. The golf, gymnastics, baseball, tennis, track, wrestling, volleyball and soccer programs have seen results ranging from bursts of success to outright dominance in the last few years. It’s long past time for the results in the revenue sports to catch up. The records speak for themselves. Thomas fired the incumbent football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball coaches upon his arrival, and the replacements he hired have gone 141-158 across their three sports. That is dreadful. Beckman’s final mark before being fired in August 2015 was 12-25, Groce’s record stands at 77-61, and women’s basketball coach Matt Bollant is 52-73
through four seasons. Students walking the graduation stage next weekend will have witnessed their alma mater participate in one (minor) bowl game appearance in football and two NCAA tournament games in their four years of undergrad. That statistic alone explains why school spirit within the student body remains on life support. Not many Power Five schools have done worse in that time frame, and for an institution with the resources that a school like Illinois possesses, that is a criminally low level of underachievement. Fans deserve better. I hope the incoming crop of freshmen look back on fonder memories four years down the road. There were also highlights that any college student would be extremely lucky to be a part of. Groce’s program has given us a handful of other minor thrills, as well. I couldn’t feel my legs while storming the Assembly Hall court my freshman year, because a moment like knocking off No. 1 Indiana at the buzzer in 2013 meant riding a wave of euphoria that many kids never get to experience. On the negative end of the spectrum, unfortunate headlines flooded in with an increasing frequency.
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Lovie Smith supervises the first spring practice of the season April 1. Illinois athletics became more and more of a running joke to the rest of the sports world as the relative success of the 2000s faded farther into the distance. It would have been comical if it wasn’t so real and depressing, with careers and livelihoods on the line. Some of the bad press was outside anyone’s control. Devastating injuries showed no mercy to the football and men’s basketball programs, as they wiped out multiple seasons of competition for football’s Mikey Dudek and basketball’s Tracy Abrams while robbing others — quarter-
back Wes Lunt, hoops star Rayvonte Rice, as well as several key contributors on both squads — of significant portions of their respective seasons. Injuries essentially rendered Groce’s fourth season lost before it could truly get underway. The avalanche of injuries to prominent Illini athletes these last several years was widespread and painful enough that I doubt we’ll ever see anything like it again in our lifetimes. Perhaps the most notorious day of Illinois basketball in the Groce era came
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ver the course of the last year, a few of my readers have so kindly told me to eat the words I’ve written in this column. I must confess that I have always found it to be a wholesome diet. Was I wrong about a couple of things over the last year? Maybe — probably not — but maybe. If there was one thing I was definitely right about, it was the broken record I played many-a-time: “Illinois is going to turn this thing around.” I hate to toot my own horn — or to toot at all; my mother tells me it’s inappropriate, especially at the dinner table — but I was right. Even when I asked “What the Sam Hill is going on in Champaign?”, or when I analogized the fall semester to the time I puked all over my Dad’s aloha-floralsilk Tommy Bahama shirt on vacation, I always urged Illini fans to keep their heads up. Along the way, I quoted Winston Churchill more than any 20-year-old kid should. My message? Optimism. It was just a few months ago when the Illini had an interim athletic director and an interim head football coach. Neither one instilled confidence in the Illini-faithful. If I were allowed to write in this space as a 16-yearold girl, the conversation would have sounded something like this four months ago: “Illinois is literally the worst school in the entire
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world. I am literally dying. OMG. What the heck. Insert more text acronyms and so on and so forth. OMG. Literally, why. Ugh.” Yeah, something like that. Since then, the program has established a vision and is taking legitimate steps toward achieving its goals. Lovie Smith has brought a much-needed buzz to the football team. After a year in which there were more empty seats than ones filled with Illini butts at Memorial Stadium, it will be refreshing to see what the place looks like when it’s striped in orange and blue. The on-field success is yet to come, but the future that used to look bleak is now brighter. Josh Whitman wants to win. I believed it the first day I met him, and I’m increasingly confident of that today. I don’t say this because I’m some kind of homer, although I was a big Simpsons fan growing up — I say it because Whitman’s AUSTIN YATTONI THE DAILY ILLINI desire to return Illinois Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman leads the crowd in an “ILL-INI” chant after speaking during halftime of the basketball athletics to prominence is game against Minnesota at State Farm Center on February 28. genuine. So, class, what have we alright. columns “would never fall So, take a look at the big than their fair share — howlearned? When the going ever, they did not lose the picture: Things are getting I’m frequently told I’ll short on fun.” I certainly gets tough, the tough get war. better. That feels good to end up eating a steady diet had fun. I hope you did too. going. Along the way, many non- say. of government cheese while Ta-ta for now. See you in Josh Whitman is one of revenue-generating sports living in a van down by the the fall, Champaign. And if those tough guys. I think A closing word… competed for national river, but I envision somethe Kevin McCarthy empire he’s reliable, too. As my thing slightly better. If not, lives to be a thousand years, father would say, he’s a “fox championships: men’s golf, Yes, just like you, I’m dis- cheese is okay with me. men’s gymnastics and wresmen will remember that hole buddy.” If you send tling, to name a few. Things appointed that I was nevIt’s been a fun year getthis was his finest hour. Just him back to base for food er hired to be the athletic ting to write these silly ol’ kidding — my columns next or ammunition, he’s coming were better than they director or the head football columns. Thanks for readseemed. year will kick even more back. Bottom line: You can ing them along the way. I As for the Illini basketcoach. ass than this year’s. count on him. If you’re in ball team, the town’s favorlook forward to joining you But, if it cannot be me, Good day, lads and the metaphorical Illini fox ite team, that’s a converin your living room, on your lassies. Josh Whitman and Lovie hole, be glad that Mr. Whitman is in there with you. sation for another day. Smith seem like pretty good bus ride to class or when The last year has been They’ve got problems. And Kevin is a sophomore in alternatives. And I think I’d you’ve tuned out of lecture a war for Illinois athletics. that might be a gross under- rather be a writer, anyway. next year. Nine months ago, Media They lost their fair share of statement. See what I did I wrote an introductory col- komccar2@dailyillini.com I know I’m not Bill Shakespeare, but I think I’ll be umn saying that my weekly @KevOMcCarthy there? battles — OK, maybe more
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Student finds passion, family in women’s club team BY JORY PARYS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Senior Kayla Bibbs was rushed to the emergency room during the Illinois women’s club rugby practice with a dislocated knee. The senior flank/lock was determined to play again and went through months of physical therapy to come back for a final season. Risking her well-being, Bibbs played for no personal recognition or scholarship money but for the love of
the game. “Once I start something, I can’t stop; I have to keep going. Plus, I love my team, and we are a family,” Bibbs said. “It has definitely enhanced my college experience and gotten me involved. As a transfer, it gave me an outlet to grow and try something completely different.” Bibbs learned about the club rugby team when she signed up for her first year at Illinois. It did not take
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join the club by signing up and attending practices. There are currently 32 players on the team. “My experience with Illinois women’s rugby club has been amazing,” player Sirena Mota said. “I am so happy to be a part of a team with so much diversity. The energy the team gives is amazing and having new people come in eager to learn continuously makes things better.” With no coach, matches
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Hayes hurls second career complete game BY DAN COLLINS
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The shuttle hurdlers (Women’s track): The team combined to win the relays race for the first time since 2001. The team is made up of Pedrya Seymour, Jayla Stewart and Kortni Smyers-Jones
A little over 100 radar guns clocked almost every one of Cody Sedlock’s pitches through the first three innings of the Illini’s game against Minnesota on Friday. The seating section located behind home plate was packed with MLB scouts when the ace was on the mound. But it was southpaw Doug Hayes who made headlines that night. He pitched in game two of the Friday night doubleheader at Illinois Field. Illinois spilt the doubleheader, falling 3-1 in game one and taking game two, 2-0. Hayes hurled a complete game in his victory — the second of his Illini career. His first came earlier this season during the team’s opening home stand against Penn State. The lefty allowed only one hit and gave up a walk, facing just one batter over the minimum on the day. Against the Golden Gophers, he gave up one walk and eight hits while striking out six. Minnesota entered and exited the weekend series in Champaign as the top team in the conference. For the past couple weeks, Illinois
Aron Hiltzik (Men’s tennis): The sophomore was the only Big Ten athlete to beat an Ohio State player in singles. He defeated Hugo Di Feo 6-2, 6-4. has been teetering back and forth between eighth and ninth place — only the top eight teams make the Big Ten Tournament. “I knew going into the game that Minnesota had a great offense, and that it is was going to be a tough challenge,” Hayes said. “But after seeing how the first game turned out, I knew I had to go out there and do whatever I can to put us in a position to take the series on Sunday.” Hayes’ fastball clocks in between 85-88 mph. The majority of his outs come courtesy of a groundball, and often times he tends to work at a quick pace. Because of this, a couple of his team-
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Illinois’ Doug Hayes delivers a pitch during game two of the series against Ohio State at Illinois Field on April 23. mates have expressed their joy for playing behind him. “Doug’s by far my favorite to play behind,” second baseman Michael Hurwtiz told Illini Drive. “You’re expecting the ball almost every play. Sedlock strikes 10-12 guys out a game, so you just expect to throw the ball around the
infield a little bit and give it back to him.” Shortstop Adam Walton echoed these remarks about the lefty, saying Hayes always keeps him on his toes. Both Sedlock and Hayes tossed over 100 pitches in their respective outings over the weekend.
Hayes said it’s a good feeling to know that his coaches are willing to let him hurl past 100 pitches if they feel he is up to the task “We watch,” head coach Dan Hartleb said of his pitchers’ pitch counts. “Doug hasn’t been that high — in terms of pitch counts — all
year, and he keeps asking to go back out there. (Against Minnesota) he was pitching a shutout and was cruising along, so we’ll give him the opportunity to get the shutout.”
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*** Goldstein is the undisputed captain of the team, and the senior has seen it all. He has started 168 games for the Illini in four years and was a big contributor to the 27-game winning streak and the Big Ten championship last season. So when he throws down the sign behind the plate, it is more likely going to be followed. Dickinson said that the Illini pitchers hardly ever shake off Goldstein, and even then, it's only upperclassman. Illini closer and senior classman Nick Blackburn admits to shaking Goldstein’s sign off, but even he said that it is only under special circumstances. “If he thinks I should throw a fastball in a certain situation, but I really like how my slider was feeling in the bullpen, that is the only time I will shake him off,” Blackburn said. "If I do then he will immediately understand why I did it.” However, if one of the younger players shakes off Goldstein, the man behind the plate isn't as understanding. He immediately throws down the same signal to make sure that
BASEBALL it’s something that only Goldstein can see. Goldstein doesn’t just look at the ball as it comes out of the pitcher’s hand. He is looking at every small move the hitter makes. He notices where he steps, where he swings, whether he tries to pull the ball or take it to opposite field. With all the information Goldstein is taking in, it is enough to warrant a few mishaps per game. But Goldstein rarely makes mistakes. A senior Industrial Engineering major, Goldstein has been balancing his schoolwork and baseball career for four years — he was named Academic AllBig Ten the past two seasons. But Dickinson is still blown away by Goldstein’s baseball IQ. “We are dealing with a kid who just has a great mind,” Dickinson said. “I will give that kid a scouting report, and literally the next day he will be able to recite back to you everything that he has seen. That in its own right is a skill. I don’t know if he has a photographic memory or what.”
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Sign and Save $2000! Very LiMited aVaiLabiLity Dunk Tank { Mechanical Bull { Free Food gift Cards to the first 20 peopLe to attend! Leasing offiCe 201 e. green st. ChaMpaign, iL livelatitude.com • 630.576.0356 *rates and speCiaLs subjeCt to Change without notiCe