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Hygiene drive aids charity BY KIMBERLY BELSER STAFF WRITER
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Buildings line Green Street on Sunday. As a result of the growing housing market in C-U, students have speculated how rent prices will be affected.
High-rises impact supply, demand BY HEATHER ROBINSON STAFF WRITER
A new apartment called “The Dean” is currently under construction in the center of Campustown. With a surplus of apartments already available in Champaign, student living is expected to be impacted. According to the building permit, the estimated $50 million-valued project will be 17 stories tall with 320 units. The apartment projects completion by August 2020, just in time for movein week. Due to the oversupply of
housing, there remains a high rate of vacancy in local apartments, in which landlords have responded to by calling for decreased taxes. T.J. Blakeman, senior planner for economic development for the City of Champaign, said the project will certainly contribute to the overall property tax base. The city will receive a portion of that property tax, while all other taxing districts — schools, transit, parks, community college, public health, forest preserve and so on — receive the other share.
“Other benefits to the tax base include increased commercial activity in Campustown by the new residents living in proximity to Campustown businesses,” Blakeman said. “Additionally, a new Target will be located on the ground floor, so that will add a new component of retail to Campustown, and with it, the potential for new sales tax growth.” On social media, students have been discussing the possibility of lowered rents SEE HIGH-RISES | 3A
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Construction for “The Dean” sits on the corner of Green and Sixth streets on Sunday.
Organizations around the University contributed their efforts to a Sanitary Products Drive, where hygiene products were collected to be donated to a local charity organization. “Join Women of Color as we make a difference by donating sanitary products to Courage Connection!” read a Twitter post by Women of Color. “All donations will be given to individuals in need around the community. We will have a representative from the Women’s Resources Center to talk with us about domestic violence.” Erin Smith, sophomore in LAS and president of Women of Color, said the drive was her idea, but everyone played a part. A flyer posted around social media indicated that organizations including UIUC MAPS, Reaching Across Classes, the African Cultural Association, Moda Bellissima, WORD, Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Black Students for Revolution and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. participated in the drive. Smith said she came up with the idea to have the Sanitary Products Drive, getting connected to the resources, donating them, getting the speaker and “kind of organizing things from there.” “I wanted to host this event because Women of Color is really big on community service and giving back and uplifting women around the community, and I felt that supplying them with the supplies they would need for a naturally occurring thing would really help benefit them,” Smith said. Smith said the donated items will be going to Courage Connection, an organization which “provides housing and supportive services to individuals and families who are victims of domestic violence,” according to the Courage Connection website. A representative from the Women’s Resources Center also attended the event to give a presentation on domestic violence. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, about one in four women and one in seven men have reported
Center for Disease Control reports on domestic violence One in five women and one in seven men have reported experiencing severe physical violence by a partner in their lifetime.
10% of women and 2% of men have experienced stalking by a partner.
About 41% of female intimate partner violence survivors and 14% of male IPV survivors experience some form of physical injury related to IPV.
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experiencing “severe physical violence by a partner during their lifetime.” She said she hopes the drive will “do a little bit” just by letting women know they do have support within the community, on- and offcampus, and if they ever need supplies, the University will always be here to help. Serena Mitchell, sophomore in ACES and publicity chair for RACSs, said the organization attended the drive to support Women of Color. “They’re trying to put on an event that helps women and girls and provide sanitary products, and then we’re going to be here for a presentation on domestic violence,
so we’re really just here for support and letting them know that we support the movement, that we support their (organization),” Mitchell said. She said Women of Color reached out to RACs and asked if they were interested in collaborating for the event. Mitchell said RACs thought it was for a good cause and provided a good message, so they wanted to be a part of it. “I always want to volunteer, I want to do anything I can to help out, especially being a part of a mentoring org, we try to set the example, and kind of just show people SEE HYGIENE | 3A
Startup weekend inspires Midwestern student entrepreneurs BY ETHAN SIMMONS SENIOR REPORTER
On March 23, 2017, Mark Van den Avont, junior in Engineering, broke his spine in a gymnastics accident. It was his parents’ anniversary. The mat he landed on was not sufficient to break his fall. Seven months later, Van den Avont founded HexNest, a startup aiming to create sports mats far safer than the foam standard. “It was a nightmare for other people around me, and the big thing was that foam didn’t keep me safe and doesn’t keep other people safe,” Van den Avont said during his presentation. Last month, Van den
Avont walked up to accept the $1,500 first prize at Forge Startup Weekend. Student entrepreneurs from 18 midwestern Universities attended the studentrun Forge Startup Weekend, put together by Illinois entrepreneurship organization Founders. Held Nov. 9 and 10 at TechNexus in Chicago, 47 student startup teams pitched their businesses to six venture capitalist judges, after two days of mentorship sessions and guest speaker panels. Brad Schnitzer, program manager at Chicago startup accelerator Techstar, served on the judge panel for Forge. Through the evaluation process, Schnitzer empha-
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sized the idea of finding the customer’s “pain point.” Schnitzer said HexNest had it down pat. “He is going to solve this problem regardless if this is a million-dollar, multimillion-dollar business because he has this pain and he doesn’t want it to happen again to somebody else,” Schnitzer said. “If there’s a big enough pain, people are going to pay for it.” Despite his recent string of success, HexNest’s founder is fixed on the future. “This has been a great weekend for us and is really energizing for what we’re doing,” Von den Avont said. “But we have a lot of goals for engineering right now — very ambitious goals — and we are recruiting for an underclassman to fill out our market research team.” Forge isn’t HexNest’s first go-around. HexNest won second place at last year’s Cozad New Venture Challenge, receiving $10,000 to jump-start their business. HexNest also made the 2018-19 cohort for iVenture Accelerator, a Gies Business function that gives consultation and resources to rising student startups. Ian Huntley handles the marketing side of HexNest.
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Graduate students win Data Visualization Competition BY GRACE MALONEY STAFF WRITER
A team of four graduate students in the School of Information Sciences won first place in the Data Visualization Competition sponsored by University Library’s Scholarly Commons. Though the team completed the majority of their project last semester, the competition was held this semester, and the winners were announced in late October. The team’s final project submission, “A Day in an American’s Life,” looks at factors that may contribute to different amounts of time spent in different areas of life. The team consists of Smriiti Singhal, Pranay Parmar, Beena Balakrishna and Sarvani Putta. Parmar said his initial purpose for the project was to gain practical experience in his field. However, he realized this could help commercial businesses choose a market in the United States by looking at these data visualizations. “Once I thought more about it I thought, ‘okay this has potential to win,’” Parmar said. For South Dakota, the average working hours are very high compared to other states. “They work really hard for long hours. We were thinking that California, New York — these are the hubs — they should work for long hours. But it was different,” Singhal said.
Singhal said they then found out that South Dakota has one of the lowest wages in the country. “And that made sense. Because they had one of the lowest wages, they had to work extra hours to make their living,” Singhal said. The project pulled data from the American Time Use Survey and the Current Population Survey. “Basically there was data collected from over 200,000 institutes — surveys were provided asking how Americans spent their previous day,” Parmar said. Parmar said those surveyed were around 13 to 70-years old. Singhal said the project was a final project for a data visualization class during the third semester of their master’s program. “At the end of the semester, you showcase ‘this is what I learned from the class.’ We made a group, and we came across a lot of data sets,” Singhal said. Singhal said the team was considering several different ideas for the project, including doing something with houses in Chicago and their prices. “Then we thought, these have been used by a lot of people. We wanted to make something that was quite new and can actually be interesting to see. If we talk about a day in an American’s life, everyone will be willing to hear it. It should be relatable with everyone,” Singhal said.
Singhal said the data set from the ATUS was also huge. “We were thinking there are so many different data types and we can combine them together,” Singhal said. “So, we could set up a lot of data in terms of how much time is spent in traveling and how much sleeping and doing leisure activities and sports and household activities.” The team first combined different data sets they thought would be helpful for them, such as population and the population distribution of the people. “First we saw this much time people have spent, but then we wanted to see gender-distribution. So we started with merging all the data, then we started making visualizations,” Singhal said. The team started by making 50 visualizations and then took the best of those results. The project also compared married and unmarried people. “We usually think that unmarried people work more, but then we actually saw that with the visualization … that married people spend more time in household activities and work time is more,” Singhal said. “And their sleep time and leisure time lesser than unmarried people.” The team was also surprised in some of the findings about gender disparity in work.
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The project found Alaska to have the highest gender disparity. It found all states to have women working slightly less than men. “In Alaska, this gender gap is huge due to male-oriented jobs. Women in Alaska don’t have many avenues
for them to work,” Singhal said. In terms of gender disparity, Parmar said he saw a big difference between the U.S. and India, his home country. “As an international student, I was curious to find out about how Americans do
things that is different than my home country,” Parmar said. Beena Balakrishna and Sarvani Putta were unavailable for comment at the time of publication. gnm2@dailyillini.com
I think it’s fair to say we would have seen increased rental costs.” Rock said with the large developments in Campustown, the housing market has significantly improved for students. Additionally, the overall C-U area has benefited as well. “In 2012, Green Street had a lot of dead space without storefronts or large surface parking lots,” Rock said. “The MCORE redevelopment combined with the apartment complexes has created a much more vibrant area.” According to Blakeman, the dense environment that has resulted from such developments on Green Street keeps students from driving into the campus, thereby freeing up parking, lowering congestion and making campus a safer place for pedestrians and cyclists.
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due to the large number of available apartment spaces. Blakeman said the concept of supply and demand would indicate this is true. If there are more units than demand, prices would lower to meet that demand. “It is also important to understand that within the 0.5-mile radius of our defined University District, one still finds a wide variety of housing styles at various price points,” Blakeman said. “As units age, those units tend to fall in price to a point they are either replaced or renovated. There is always a continuum of aging housing stock that continues to offer value.” Jason Rock, doctoral MARK CAPAPAS THE DAILY ILLINI student in Business, is an Construction for “The Dean” progresses on the corner of Green and Sixth streets on Sunday. active advocate for housing that serves the needs young professionals. that student renters put on has cooled the rental mar- grew as it had without new of graduate students and “Decreasing the pressure Urbana and Champaign ket,” Rock said. “If UIUC apartment units going up, hrr4@dailyillini.com
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said. Sarah Brincks, junior in Business, co-directed Forge 2019. The diversity of industries from the seven finalists stood out to her. “You had software, you
had hardware, you had social innovation; it was interesting to see judges pick such a diverse group,” Brincks said. Two other finalists won prizes. PuriPods, a startup centered around menstrual
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HexNest’s Mark Van den Avont and Ian Huntley accept Forge Startup Weekend’s first prize of $1,500. Van den Avont started HexNest following a spinal injury caused by a gymnastics mat.
cup cleaning devices, won a $1,000 microgrant from the 1517 Fund, which accelerates businesses headed by young founders. Glimpse, a product placement company targeting Airbnb, received a free three-month membership at mHUB, a Chicago product development center. Forge allowed individual entrants for the first time this year. Of 143 entrants, 34 students came unattached to any startup. One of them was Becky Button, freshman in Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. At over 450 miles away, Button was the farthest-traveled Forge attendee. “Four months ago I was in a car accident. I should’ve died. I’ve been learning to walk this semester and dealing with accessibility issues and feeling weird feelings I’ve never felt before,” Button said. Button had the idea for some kind of positive messaging business, to paste into various outerwear. Mentoring sessions helped her direct it into a supportive online network. “I’m coming here with an idea, not necessarily a vision or ways to manifest it. Coming here to network with other people to turn the idea into a reality,” Button said. ecsimmon@dailyillini.com
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is very important because they are expensive and a lot of women do need them, especially homeless women or girls who don’t have money to buy them, so she thinks the drive was helpful and educational.
that it’s OK to be involved and to support different RSOs as well as your community so we’re here to support,” she said. Mitchell said she thinks donating sanitary products kbelser2@dailyillini.com
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Jaya Kolisetty, associate director of Women’s Resources Center, gives a talk about Domestic Violence at the Ikenberry Commons on Wednesday.
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Illinois fans rush the Memorial Stadium Field after Illinois upset Wisconsin on Oct. 19. The average attendance for Illinois home games has dropped from 45,644 in 2016 to 36,702 in 2019, according to the University of Illinois Division of Intercollegiate Athletics.
University works to revamp school spirit BY JARED EBANKS STAFF WRITER
As the Illinois kicker prepares for a field goal, the camera pans toward the North Endzone, the designated student section. Fewer than half of the stands are filled, with a majority of students grouped together in the middle. The last year the Illinois football program was able to accumulate an average home attendance of at least 50,000 was 2010. According to the University of Illinois Division of Intercollegiate Athletics, the average attendance for home games has dropped from 45,644 in 2016 to 36,702 in 2019, leading some to question where the culture of the student body and the University as a whole stands. For years, it was a tradition for students to sit in the “Block I” student section. The original concept of “block” Saturdays was for Greek life students to purchase a block section of tickets for their group of members. Now, Greek organizations no longer associate block on Saturdays with football at all. Bars such as The Red Lion, Joe’s Brewery and KAM’s began hosting “block” on Saturday afternoons. This time is reserved for Greek life organizations on campus that pay an upfront fee to have access to the bar without cover on Saturday mornings from noon-4 p.m. Ajiri Oghale, senior in ACES, has been a bartender at The Red Lion for three
years. As he regularly bartends during block, Oghale sees firsthand the lack of enthusiasm for the football team by students. “We do kind of miss out on that Big Ten atmosphere,” Oghale said. “You have the Michigan States, the Purdues, the Ohio States, where they have a really big sports culture, and that’s something that I feel like that we’ve lacked for a while now.” The Red Lion offers many amenities to students Memorial Stadium does not: available alcohol, location and reliability. Block runs every week of the fall and spring semesters no matter if the football team is home or away, giving students a consistent activity to partake in on the weekends. “A lot of people want to be in the social scene during the weekends as well as all of the deals that we have to offer,” Oghale said. “One thing that attracts a lot of people is $1 wells as well as $1 mimosas, so you kind of get a bang for your buck as well as you get to see all of your friends.” During special occasions such as Dads Weekend and Homecoming, fraternities host tailgates at the home football games. Compared to the home game the week before, homecoming weekend in 2017 increased fan attendance by around 6,300 people. The Division of Athletics noted the lack of Greek organization attendance and has been looking into how
it can draw the attention of this distanced group. It also has methods to attract other students all across campus. One of these methods is the weekly reminder email sent to students the week before a home game to offer $10 tickets. Justin Acton, director of ticketing for the football department, provides input on what content the weekly email includes. Two emails are sent out each week, one on Wednesday and the second Friday. “The Friday one is (more successful) just because it’s time to act, it’s 24 hours before the game,” Acton said. “We usually see a lot better results on Fridays because it’s time to act and you don’t have as much time.” It’s been five years since the Illini have made a bowl game appearance, and six years since they’ve won. Outside of team success, though, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics looks at all of the contributing factors toward student attendance. Cassie Arner has worked within the department for over 20 years, currently as the associate athletic director for marketing and fan development. “We know that even with wins, there still are going to be other things that fans can look at and say, well, it was hard to get to the game (and) there wasn’t enough parking or concessions are too expensive or it was cold,” Arner said.
Arner knows the drop in attendance is a national trend as well, thanks to television and streaming accessibility. It has never been more accessible for fans to watch their sports teams from home. In anticipation of more fans watching the game from home, the department polled fans at the end of the 2017 season asking how they can improve the facilities and what amenities they could offer. Their biggest request was beer. In the spring of 2018, the program joined with around 50 other Division I programs to sell beer within their sta-
dium. They also built a beer patio off of the student section to resemble that of a bar setting. The department conducted additional research into other Division I programs where they associated school spirit with athletics. What it found was that schools with immense spirit also contained a large demographic of multi-generational students. Students at these schools were raised as fans of their parent’s college where they may expect their child to attend as well. That is not the case at the university. The University currently hosts a little over
10,000 international students as well as a large percentage of first-generation college students. “It’s not like we can ask people to completely change their culture,” Arner said. “We have to find a way for the cultures to coexist together.” The department realized to increase attendance, it must acknowledge what sets the University apart from other schools across the country and teach the student body what school spirit means at the University of Illinois. jaredde2@dailyillini.com
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Students in the student section of Memorial Stadium cheer for the Illinois football team on Oct. 19. It’s been five years since the Illini have made a bowl game appearance and six years since they’ve won.
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Education Justice Program engages prisoners BY KIMBERLY VILLANUEVA STAFF WRITER
As prisons in Illinois continue to decrease spending on books and ban book titles, the gap between inmates and education and vocational studies widens. According to data from the Illinois Department of Corrections, only $276 was spent on books in 2017. This is a steep and progressive decline from the nearly $787,000 IDOC spent on books in 2002. A number of Illinois nonprofit organizations have stepped up in the meantime to provide inmates with access to books and education. The Education Justice Project is a college-in-prison program run by the University of Illinois and co-founded and directed by Rebecca Ginsburg. University students as well as volunteers act as prison librarians and educators. The EJP’s programs are carried out in Chicago, Champaign and Danville, Illinois. The EJP offers upper-level University courses to inmates at Danville Correctional Center, conducts in-prison writing, math and science workshops and more. Ginsburg said the EJP offers these programs to prisoners because of the importance and benefits of access to education on people and society. “As part of a land grant institution, we see ourselves as an extension of the University of Illinois providing qual-
ity higher education to people throughout the state, understanding that it serves all of us in the state and beyond when they have such access,” she said. The EJP has a number of success stories. Some students who were incarcerated without a GED or high school diploma have returned to society with bachelor’s and master’s degrees. “We think people who are in prison, no less than people who are out of prison, deserve as much education as they can take in and as much education as they want, and it turns out that many people who are in prison are wanting an awful lot of education,” Ginsburg said. Recidivism refers to the return of formerly incarcerated people to jail or prison after being released. It costs the state of Illinois and its taxpayers millions of dollars every year. In the summer of 2018, the State of Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council reported 43% of inmates return to prison within three years of their release. It also reported the average cost to taxpayers of a single recidivism event is $151,662. From the release of the report to 2023, SPAC predicts recidivism will “cost Illinois over $13 billion.” Ginsburg said access to education in prisons is one of the few things that stands in the way of these figures.
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Volunteers respond to letters from inmates and process their selection of books to send. Rebecca Ginsburg, co-founder and director of the Education Justice Project, said the EJP offer educational programs to prisoners because of the importance
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Volunteers pause for a photo in the basement of the Independent Media Center. The Education Justice Project is a college-in-prison program run by the University that offers upper-level university courses to inmates at Danville Correctional Center.
“We know that our students have a lower recidivism rate,” Ginsburg said. “We know that our students get jobs more quickly than is average nationally. And we know that they get better jobs.” According to a list compiled by the EJP, 202 titles were removed from the Danville Correctional Center, in January of 2019. Some of the titles included “Prison Grievances: When to write, how to write” by Terri Leclercq, “The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State” by Basil Davidson, “Respect in a World of Inequality” by Richard Sennett, and “The Color of Our Future: Race in the 21st Century” by Farai Chideya. A significant amount of the titles are authored by black writers and are about race. Rachel Rasmussen, the volunteer coordinator at the Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners said the organization also faces restrictions from the IDOC on books pertaining to sexuality, sexual identity and LGBTQ+. Rasmussen said these restrictions from IDOC stem from stereotypes about the LGBTQ+ community. “The assumption is that any book about sexual identity means it’s going to be erotica,” Rasmussen said. UC Books to Prison-
ers volunteers try to work around these restrictions by responding to these book inquiries with biographies of LGBTQ+ individuals and books on psychology. UC Books to Prisoners uses its team of volunteers to respond to letters from the inmates in Illinois requesting books, completely free of charge. According to Rasmussen, the goal of the organization is to send books into prisons and engage the public on issues of incarceration and prison reform. The positive effects of putting books into prisons is not measured only in numbers. Volunteers at UC Books to Prisoners have received many thankful, emotional letters from inmates since the organization’s beginning. Some of the effects are on an academic level. “We had a role in moving them from almost illiterate to earning an associate’s degree,” Rasmussen said. “One man sent us a copy of his GPA. He was so proud.” And other impacts, Rasmussen said, are harder to record on charts and graphs. “One (letter) that really moved me was a man who reflected on the fact that because of the reading that he had done, he had the insight that he himself had been a victim of violence,” Rasmussen said. “And that
was why, in his own mind, he was kind of making a connection to his violence toward others.” Education programs like EJP and grassroots organizations like Books to Prisoners are now facing more barriers than ever in connecting inmates with educational materials. In recent years, at least 35 states have introduced digital tablets to prisoners. The introduction of new technology is supposed to make media such as books, movies and music more accessible to prisoners. However, The Outline reported recently that the tablets may make books more inaccessible to prisoners than ever before. Companies like JPay and Global Tel Link, both corrections-related services providers, sell their tablets to inmates in 35 states across the U.S. Depending on the state, JPay entices inmates to purchase their tablets, such as at the JP5S and JP5mini, with features like downloading music and ebooks, email availability and access to educational materials. But all of these attributes come at a price. Depending on the state and the correctional facility, a JPay tablet runs inmates about $69.99. And according to the New York state prison records, ebooks and audio-
books were costing inmates up to $19.99 per title, including those a part of the public domain up until Nov. 5 of this year. GTL charges inmates by the minute to access ebooks, music, video games and use video visitation with friends and family on the outside. These rates are cost-prohibitive for reading and media materials that once would have been freely provided to inmates through funded prison libraries. Depending on how prisoners use the features of the technology, downloading music and sending emails can end up costing an inmate much more than it would a nonincarcerated person. A current University student and former jail inmate for 18 months attests to the importance of books. For privacy reasons, she would like to be known only by her middle name Alyssa. Alyssa said for many prisoners, reading is a form of “escape.” “Reading was definitely the most therapeutic thing that you could possibly (in jail) do because it just takes you to another world and you don’t have to live in that one at that moment,” she said. “That’s how most people survived in there.” kdv2@dailyillini.com
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KAITLIN MIKRUT THE DAILY ILINI
Parents can’t be your scapegoats forever RACHEL STARCEVICH COLUMNIST
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one time or another, everyone is guilty of blaming their unethical actions on the way they were raised. When we’re young, the parents of bullies are held accountable for their child’s malicious actions. On the other side of that scenario, parents of the bullied are blamed for allowing their child to be
mistreated. Until a certain point in time, this is fair. At such a young age, it really is a matter of whether children were effectively taught right from wrong. This is just one example of how parents can be held responsible for the way their children act. As I stated, it’s reasonable until children are old enough to start making their own decisions, but people can often get away with using their parents as scapegoats for everything, forever. When you reach a certain level of indepen-
dence, your parents are not responsible for the way you act anymore. You can no longer blame them for the way you treat others or the way you allow others to treat you. Though our parents often do have a very large impact on the people we become, they really don’t have to if you don’t allow them to. What many people fail to understand is that just like behavior is learned, it can also be unlearned. There are so many influences in our lives outside
of the household, and it is completely up to you to decide which values you want to take away. On paper, it sounds fairly easy — if your parents aren’t good people, don’t listen to them. But I understand it’s never really that simple, especially when negative behaviors and opinions start getting drilled into you from the moment you’re born. In cases like this, it’s important to find your own good influences. When you’re young, of course, you don’t know to
do this because you think your parents are right about everything. But once you are old enough to understand right from wrong even without sufficient parental guidance, you have no excuse not to seek your own role models. We are not our parents, and as much as some of them may try to make us exactly like them, we never will be. Americans have a natural desire for individuality, so why do we let others dictate so many of our choices? Things happen to you every day, and you meet
new people all the time. These experiences are opportunities to start creating our own paths. Eventually, it becomes your own decision whether you hold onto what your parents taught you, or learn new things and form your own opinions and values. You have the power to choose who you become, and as tempting as it may be, you can’t use your childhood to excuse your bad behavior forever. Rachel is a freshman in DGS. rstarc2@dailyillini.com
Pro-life is more than anti-abortion our country still leads the world in shootings. If the “good guys need to SENIOR have guns to stop the bad COLUMNIST guys” argument worked, we wouldn’t have had 369 am proud to be pro-life. mass shootings in 2019 (as Being pro-life, conof Nov. 17). The good guys trary to popular belief, have guns. People are still PHOTO COURTESY OF STEPHEN MCCARTHY means more than being dying from gun violence. Caitlyn Jenner, Olympian and advocate of transgender rights, is anti-abortion. People are Being pro-life means you pictured on Future Societies Stage during day three of Web Summit pretty confused when they don’t see refugees as “not 2017 at Altice Arena in Lisbon. Columnist Abril calls attention to the hear I label myself as a my problem.” It means dangers of deadnaming transgender individuals in 2019. pro-life woman. They say following the golden rule I can’t be a feminist, that and loving thy neighbor, I must hate other women, even when it’s not conthat I must be a crazy-con- venient for you. It means servative bigot. not hating another group Pro-life, however, does of people you know nothnot equal conservative; on ing about just because you lead to harassment, disthe contrary, being pro-life heard on Fox News that ABRIL SALINAS crimination and even sexual is a radical stance bearing “all Muslims are radiCOLUMNIST assault. powerful consequences, cal” or something equally In 2015, The Nationmany of which are, in fact, ridiculous. ecently, I was hanging al Center for Transgender rather liberal. Being pro-life means out with some friends Equality’s U.S. Trans SurTo me, being pro-life you don’t think we should from back home who vey found 54% of those sur- means not only believing “build a wall” (I can’t even kept referring to Caitlyn veyed reported being verbal- in human-caused climate believe I have to say that!). Jenner by her birth name. ly harassed, 24% reported change, but doing your It means understanding Besides being outraged by being physically attacked best to live responsibly the violent and fear-ridden this, it left me with a quesand 13% reported being sex- and sustainably. It means lives immigrants flee and tion: So, are we just not ually assaulted all because you should care for the recognizing if you were in going to talk about how it’s they were transgender. earth and support busitheir shoes, you would be almost 2020 and we’re still On top of that, 17% of peo- nesses whose goal is to pre- doing the same thing. And intentionally disrespecting ple from the same survey serve the planet for future even if there was a wall, transgender people by dead- reported experiencing “such generations. you would do whatever you naming them? We’re not? severe mistreatment that Being pro-life means could to get over it, too. Oh, OK. Yeah, that’s cool. . . they left a school as a result.” believing our country’s Being pro-life means you Alright, well, here’s the It might seem harmless, gun problem will not be don’t believe health care thing: It’s actually not but deadnaming someone solved with more guns. I, is a luxury. It means you cool, and it’s something we and potentially outing them for one, am sick and tired believe every person, in should be talking about it. as transgender can put their of hearing the “Good guys their inherent dignity as Especially considering it’s life in danger. need to have guns to stop a human being, deserves super insulting and needs It’s not hard to call some- the bad guys!” argument. access to all the resources to stop. one by the right name. And Right now, the good guys available in our world to But, you might be wonwhile I understand at times actually have guns, and make them healthy and to dering, what exactly is dead- you might slip up if the pernaming? Well, in short, it’s son has recently just started when someone refers to a transitioning, constant and person who is transgenintentional occurrences der by the name they used make it disrespectful and before they transitioned, i.e. harmful. their birth name. With cases like R.G. & And while deadnaming G.R. Harris Funeral Homes can happen unintentionalInc. v. Equal Employment ly in situations that involve Opportunity Commisgovernment-issued identifi- sion just brought before the cation, like job applications Supreme Court on Oct. 8 of or on driver’s licenses, it’s this year (in which the court when it is done intentionwill decide if transgender ally that it can have severely people should be excluddamaging effects. ed from all legal protecFor those who choose to tions in all aspects of life), do so, undergoing a name it’s an understatement to change can be an affirming say transgender people go step in the transition prothrough a lot. cess. It’s a stride in solidifySo, can we all please just ing their identity and telling agree to stop deadnamthe world, “Hey, this is who ing people so the transI am.” gender community doesn’t By intentionally referring have to deal with even to someone by their birth more discrimination and name, it can portray that harassment? you don’t respect their idenI promise it’s not a chaltity or support their transilenging thing to do. We do it tion in a very harmful and every day with people who insulting way. aren’t transgender. But besides being an extremely disrespectful Abril is a freshman in Media. form of invalidation, it can abrils2@dailyillini.com ELLEN BARCZAK
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let them live the best lives possible. It means health should not be a privilege to which only wealthy people are privy. Being pro-life means believing a woman’s body and fertility are her own and therefore should not be subject to regulation based on the pressures of a society where unplanned pregnancies are frowned upon. Life happens. Unplanned pregnancies happen; there should be no shame in them. Our problem is not pregnant women but how society views them. Women should not end pregnancies due to fear of judgement from the unforgiving. It hurts my heart when I hear people who claim they are Christian, who claim they are pro-life, speak such hatred against others just because they are different from them. When people tell me they think pro-lifers are crazy, I often agree with them. Many pro-life politicians, in fact, are undeniably hateful hypocrites. I am proud to be pro-life. I’m proud to say I genuinely believe in the dignity of all humans; mother, fetus, immigrant, student, those without access to health care. I don’t demonize or judge those who do believe in abortion but hope they can pause to consider the
other side of the argument. I apologize to you for any encounter you’ve had with a person who may have said something like, “If you get an abortion, you’re going to hell!” or something equally horrible. The problem is, nobody who is hateful believes they are hateful. Nobody who’s racist thinks they’re racist; nobody who’s xenophobic thinks they’re xenophobic. If they did, they would change. We all have blind spots, and we all tend to think we’re doing better than other people are at loving our neighbor. I’m not perfect, and I’m sure I’m not the most loving person all the time, either. But I do try, and I know you do, too. I’m prolife because I want so badly to love my neighbor, no matter their race, religion or even their opinion of me. Whatever your stance, have empathy. Have love, not hatred, for those who disagree with you. Love is, after all, the thing that changes hearts, not arguing, not rants on Facebook, not telling people how horrible they are for what they believe. It isn’t easy, but it’s the most important part of being pro-life. Whatever you do, do it out of love. Ellen is a junior in LAS. ellenmb2@dailyillini.com
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Illinois earns invite to Redbox Bowl BY MEGHAN REST SPORTS EDITOR
accolades. Senior running back Reggie Corbin — who became the 18th Illini ever to rush for 2,000 yards — senior running back Dre Brown, sophomore defensive back Sydney Brown, junior offensive lineman Alex Palczewski and junior defensive end Oluwole Betiku were among AllBig Ten third-team award winners. Junior linebacker Jake Hansen, junior offensive lineman Doug Kramer, sophomore offensive lineman Kendrick Green, senior defensive back Stanley Green, junior cornerback Nate Hobbs, junior wide receiver Josh Imatorbhebhe and senior defensive lineman Jamal Milan collected honorable mentions on the season.
The Illinois football team is headed to the Redbox Bowl in Santa Clara, California, and will face California (7-5, 4-5) at Levi Stadium at 3 p.m. CT. Illinois earned a bowl bid for the first time under head coach Lovie Smith, marking the program’s first post-season appearance since 2014 and 19th in program history. The Illini finished the season with a 6-6 overall record and 4-5 record in the Big Ten with notable wins over No. 6 Wisconsin, 24-23, and a 27-point fourth quarter comeback over Michigan State. Fourteen Illini earned post-season honors, including junior Blake Hayes, who won Punter of the Year, and senior linebacker Dele Hard- @meghan_rest ing, who coined first-team merest2@dailyillini.com
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Terrapins edge past Illini by single point BY MILES POWERS-HUANG STAFF WRITER
The Illinois men’s basketball team looked to have secured its first signature road victory under head coach Brad Underwood, but a frantic final few minutes saw the team squander the lead when No. 3 Maryland stole a 59-58 victory. Contrary to Monday’s loss to Miami, Illinois started the game hot, leading by as many as 14 points, which happened to be the halftime advantage. Illinois dominated the first 20 minutes, 39-25. Underwood shook things up in the starting lineup, turning to Da’monte Williams instead of Andres Feliz as the third guard. Although he didn’t provide much offense, Williams tied for the team lead with eight rebounds. The Illini were on cruise control as the clock ran down in the second half, but the Terrapins refused to go away. Trailing 57-50 coming out of the final TV timeout, Maryland sophomore forward Jalen Smith expertly sold a pump fake, freeing himself for a wide-open three-point shot, which he swished. On the other end, Illinois, which played without freshman center Kofi Cockburn down the stretch despite having extra fouls to give up, couldn’t create an open look. Guard Ayo Dosunmu forced a long three, but fellow forward Giorg i Bezha nishv ili
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Outside hitter Jacqueline Quade spikes the ball during the Illinois’ game in Utah at Provo, Utah, Friday. The Illini’s loss to the Utes in the first round of the NCAA tournament ended the team’s season.
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Sophomore guard Ayo Dosunmu dribbles the ball down the court during Illinois’ game in Maryland at College Park, Maryland. The Illini lost 59-58 in the final two seconds on Saturday.
bailed him out with an offensive rebound. However, Maryland guard Anthony Cowan, the smallest player on the floor, quickly reached in and caused a jump ball, rewarding possession to the
Terrapins. As Maryland came down the floor, Illinois left forward Donta Scott wide open under the basket, and the freshman deposited a layup to make the score
57-55. The made basket gave Scott a bit of overconfidence, however, as he aggressively defended Illinois’ inbound SEE TERRAPINS | 2B
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Haveman named Midwest region coach of year BY SAVAUGHN ANDERSON STAFF WRITER
In November, Illinois head cross country coach Sarah Haveman was named the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Midwest Region Women’s Coach of the Year. Haveman is the second coach in the history of the Illinois women’s program to win the award, joining former coach Karen Harvey, who won the award in 2006. Finishing her second season as head coach of both the Illinois men’s and women’s cross country programs, Haveman has led both teams to outstanding achievements. Haveman has seen early and productive success with Illinois, leading the women’s cross country team to the NCAA Midwest Regional title on Nov. 15. Prior to Haveman, Illinois
had only won the Midwest Regional title once in program history. “This award speaks a lot toward the team,” Haveman said. “I hope it’s an award that the whole team can enjoy ... Even (though) it’s a coach’s award, I hope it could be spread across the student-athletes, athletic trainers, support staff and administration. It should be something that the University of Illinois could be excited about.” Haveman concluded her third season with Illinois overall. In her first season of coaching both the men’s and women’s teams, Haveman coached five studentathletes to Midwest AllRegion honors at the 2019 Midwest Regional, with redshirt sophomore Irwin Loud representing Illinois on the men’s side and sophomores Madison Maras-
co and Emma Milburn and of the four women reprejuniors Allison McGrath senting the women’s team and Rebecca Craddock has all placed in the top-25 representing the women’s team. Nevertheless, each SEE HAVEMAN | 3B
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Women’s cross country and track head coach Sarah Haveman was named U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Midwest Region Women’s Coach of the Year. Haveman is the second Illinois coach to receive the award.
BY BRENDYN JONES STAFF WRITER
On Friday, the Illinois volleyball team concluded its season in the first round of the NCAA tournament, losing in five sets against No. 17 Utah. Illinois gave up the first set, but won the next 2. Utah edged Illinois in the fourth set, and then a mid-set run by Utah in the fifth sealed the win for the Utes. The match was a close battle throughout the five sets, with each of the first four sets being decided by two points. Utah’s ability to handle the Illinois attack was the difference in the match. The Utes ended the match with 59 digs and 12 blocks, holding the Illini to a .204 hitting percentage. The Illini benefited heavily from their two starting seniors, outside hitter Jacqueline Quade and middle blocker Ashlyn Fleming. Quade, an AllAmerican, was the leader in kills with 23 over the five sets on a .298 hitting percentage. She also had two service aces and a block to go along with her attack. Fleming was a presence on both sides of the net with five blocks to go along with 12 kills on a .333 hitting percentage. Fleming was coming off her second time being a Second Team AllBig Team honoree, doing so
after transferring to Illinois to finish out her last two seasons of eligibility. The Illini didn’t lose on their lack of defense, putting up 11 blocks on 42 digs. Junior outside hitter Megan Cooney led the Illini with six blocks, and freshman middle blocker Kennedy Collins matched Fleming’s block total with five. Cooney was the second leading scorer for the Illini with 15 kills on the match. The match came down to two 3-point runs in the fifth set for Utah that made the lead too much for Illinois to overcome. With the set tied at five-all, Utah hitter Dani Drews scored two kills in a 3-point stretch for the Utes. Those were just two of her dominant 27 kills on the night. The Illini fought back from 8-5 to get as close as they would be the rest of the set, down 9-8. When Utah was up 11-9, it went on another three point run to go up 14-9 and pretty much sealed the match. Illinois went on to lose the set 15-10. Illinois finished the season 16-14 and 11-9 in the Big Ten. The team wrapped up the careers of four seniors in Quade, Fleming, outside hitter Beth Prince and defensive specialist SEE UTAH | 3B
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The Illinois wrestling team defeated Northern Illinois in a 22-15 victory at Huff Hall Friday in the team’s first home meet of the season. Freshman Justin Cardani won the first match of the night at 125-pounds, 5-2. He took his opponent down twice and successfully controlled the match all six minutes. Junior Dylan Duncan wrestled at 141-pounds and swiftly secured a fall for Illinois. His opponent, freshman Nathan Swartz, was unable to prevent Duncan from scoring a takedown and four-point near fall. At time 2:20 of the match, Duncan got the fall. “I’m pretty happy with that,” Duncan said. “I’ll take what I can get. Any win is a win. I just wish I would have worked more, wish I would have let him up and worked my skills.” Duncan didn’t expect
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to get a pin so quickly, but he knows there’s a lot he’ll be able to prove in longer matches. He said he enjoys seeing the success of his teammates, and it helps to motivate him in his bouts since he’s the third wrestler in the team’s lineup. “The two people in front of me, they pump me up a lot,” Duncan said. “It’s great to see when they get wins. I get excited.” Senior Joey Gunther competed against junior Kenny Moore in the 174-pound weight class. Gunther patiently wrestled, never allowing his opponent to take him down in the first period and successfully held Moore down more throughout the entire second, leading to a riding point. In the third period of the match, Gunther escaped his opponent and won the match with a score of 2-0. Freshman Zac Braunagel had an action-filled match with eight takedowns to
rack up points, finishing with a major decision. At 184-pounds, he faced off against Northern Illinois’s junior Caden McWhirter. During the match, he realized a succession of takedowns created a more discouraged and fatigued opponent. “I’d rather just let him up and try to take him down again and wear him out a little more so the third period is easier on me, because he will be tired,” Braunagel said. Braunagel believes his ability to outwork his opponents is an asset in his wrestling, but said he’s not in better shape than his other teammates. “I believe in my conditioning more and I’ve wrestled and put myself in positions where I’m exhausted in practice, so I know that when I am exhausted I can still wrestle,” Braunagel said. The meet concluded after an hour and a half. The Illini look forward to working
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An official holds up redshirt freshman Justin Cardani’s arm following his victory. The team defeated Northern Illinois in its first home meet of the season.
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second. The Illini couldn’t get a shot off in time, and in the blink of an eye, squandered what looked like a signed, sealed and delivered victory. There wasn’t enough offense for Illinois. Frazier and Feliz were the only players to break double figures, while Dosunmu scored just 9 points and was inefficient from the field. This team’s personnel puts it in a position where it needs to outscore teams to win, and the Illini have the offensive firepower to get things done. It’s unclear whether Under wood w ill sit Cockburn in the final minute of close games, given the freshman has proven to be efficient, registering nine points and eight rebounds in only 21 minutes Saturday. It doesn’t get any easier for Illinois either; a top-10 Michigan team comes to town Wednesday.
play and fouled an Illinois guard, junior Trent Frazier. Frazier, normally a knockdown free throw shooter, split the pair, leaving the door open for Maryland. After the teams traded misses, Maryland secured an offensive rebound and called a timeout with 30 seconds remaining, down 3. After a broken play, Cowan was left alone several steps behind the arc but hoisted anyways. The shot sailed through, and all of a sudden, the Illinois lead officially evaporated. The Illini came down the floor with Cockburn still out and tried to run some sort of action for Feliz, but the senior lost possession and fouled Cowan with two seconds remaining in the act of trying to regain the ball. Cowan stepped to the line, drained the first and @MilesP_H intentionally missed the milesp2@dailyillini.com
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“I knew she was looking out for my best interest from the start, and when I heard that she was switching universities (moving from Dayton to Illinois). I put my faith in her and her judgment and decided to follow her here. It was the best decision I’ve ever made ... I’m so lucky to have a coach that puts all of her effort and heart into bettering each of her runners as athletes and as people.”
overall to achieve the honor of being named to the Midwest Regional Champion women’s team. Haveman’s passion for coaching and for the sport has earned her high praise and gratitude from her student-athletes. “Coach Haveman is the reason I came to Illinois,” said junior Rebecca Crad- @savaughnanders1 dock, per fightingillini.com. sande20@dailyillini.com
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Mia Takekawa performs on the balance beam during the Womens’ Gymnastics Exhibition against Illinois State at Huff Hall on Thursday. While exhibitions do not count toward a team’s record, the event allowed an opportunity for the team to be judged.
Illini win exhibition meet against Redbirds BY CLAIRE O’BRIEN STAFF WRITER
The Illinois women’s gymnastics team competed in an exhibition meet against Illinois State Thursday night at Huff Hall. Illinois won the friendly, 191.700-188.800. Exhibitions don’t count toward a team’s record, but scores were recorded and events judged. “(Having judges) makes it feel real,” said senior Karen Howell. “We’ve been doing exhibitions in the gym where we’ve had our coaches judging us, but having real judges here and getting real scores of what we would see during season makes everything seem more real.” The Illini and the Redbirds competed against each other this year at the State of Illinois Classic in March. Illinois defeated
Illinois State, 196.075195.075, in the tournament event. Freshman Mia Takekawa star ted the evening competing on vault. Other Illini competing in the vault included freshmen Arayah Simons, Julia Waight and Lexi Powe. Seniors Morgan Bixler and Howell also competed in the event, along with sophomore Shaylah Scott. After Illinois’ individual performances on vault and Illinois State’s appearance on the bars, the Illini led the Redbirds 47.950-47.000. But at the end of the second rotation, Illinois State was ahead in the vault, 48.300-47.950, but Illinois was ahead in bars, 47.70047.000, giving the Illini the lead. Next, the Illini competed in the balance beam while the Redbirds competed in
the floor exercise. Junior Rachel Borden was the first competitor in the balance beam for the Illini heading into the third rotation. Other Illini competing in the beam included junior Nicole Biondi, Howell, Takekawa, junior Kylie Noonan, and Scott. Once Illinois State concluded its stint in the floor exercise and Illinois finished on the balance beam, the Illini pulled ahead, 143.050-142.00. Takekawa, Scott, Howell, Simons, Noonan and Biondi competed in floor exercise for the Illini to conclude the evening. Individually, Takekawa tied for first on the bars alongside Illinois State’s Angelica Labat with scores of 9.750. Takekawa also won the balance beam with a score of 9.95. Simons finished second in the vault
with a score of 9.700 and was the highest-finishing Illini in the event. “It’s definitely a different kind of pressure than I’ve had,” Takekawa said. “The added pressure, it just makes you focus more.” The Illini travel to Missouri on Jan. 4, giving them about a month between competitions. Head coach Nadalie Walsh thought the team performed well overall, but said she wants to tweak things within the turnaround time. “We had so many really good things,” Walsh said. “I think the girls did a really great job of getting some jitters out, and they’re gonna be hungry to do better once season gets here. We have just enough time to be ready.” @claire_obrien43 claireo3@dailyillini.com
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The Illini volleyball team comes together after a goal during Illinois’ game against Utah at Provo, Utah, on Friday.
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MARRIAGE Driver is maybe modern cinema’s most charismatic actor, so he encourages thye viewer to like Charlie from his first moment on-screen, but he uses that charisma in support of an increasingly toxic brand of passive-aggression. There are times in “Marriage Story” when he’s scarier than Kylo Ren could ever dream of being, not just when he’s yelling but when he’s refusing to accept Nicole’s positions without giving them a second thought. Nicole really doesn’t seem so bad in comparison, and Johansson makes her achingly human. Already this year, she was one of the best parts of the otherwise misbe-
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gotten “Jojo Rabbit,” but she delivers next-level work here as an open wound, radiating hurt at every moment. She and Dern make an ace oddcouple pairing, Dern playing unshakeable confidence while Johansson looks like she wants to melt into her surroundings. If the movie has a conscience, it’s Alda, the kindly, slightly feeble lawyer who’s far too nice for this business. He’s of course quickly tossed aside for Liotta, who plays the pitbull lawyer with assurance, playing each line so severely that Driver’s easygoing charm stands out even more. His venom directed at Nicole’s character hurts the viewer to listen to just like it does for Nicole. And yet all this pain is scored by Randy Newman,
doing the kind of sentimental orchestral score that he usually trots out for Pixar movies. It’s an odd fit, especially for a director whose music tastes usually skew more LCD Soundsystems than “Toy Story.” And yet, it works in some sad way, scoring the romance we never see while the bitterness we do see plays out in front of it. “Marriage Story” is not a petty or mean-spirited movie like some of Baumbach’s previous work could claim to be. It’s instead something truly melancholic, viewing the wreckage of a relationship not with anger but with a lot of regret and wistfulness. The young Baumbach raged, but the middle-aged Baumbach can only sigh. wt2@dailyillini.com
buzz calendar BY LIAM DWYER BUZZ CALENDAR EDITOR
The buzz calendar is a compilation of events happening in the Champaign-Urbana area. Follow our top picks in Monday’s and Thursday’s papers for ideas on what to do on any night of the week, from where to eat to what to watch. Want to submit an event? Email calendar@readbuzz.com.
MONDAY, DEC. 9
Caffettino
5-6 p.m Espresso Royale Coffee, 1117 W. Oregon St., Urbana Free Ciao a tutti e tutte! Want to practice your Italian with other students on campus? Join us for Caffettino and parliamo con noi! Caffettino is open to all levels of language learners and backgrounds. Each week there will be a new theme for the evening’s conversation, led by one of the Italian department’s instructors.
Blind Pig Comedy Open-Mic
11 p.m The Blind Pig Company, 120 N. Walnut St., Champaign Various drink specials Make it out to Champaign-Urbana’s only late-night stand-up comedy open mic. Come see the talent C-U has to offer and kick off your week right with some chuckles and cheap drinks.
TUESDAY, DEC. 10
One Book, One Campus Lecture: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
7-9 p.m. Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana Free Come on out for a chance to win some great prizes weekly. Free n’ Fun Bingo is every Tuesday at Neil St. Blues, and it is hosted by the one and only, Mr. Six! Play for a chance to win a $3,000 Jackpot, which goes up by $1,000 for every week there is not a winner, a trip to Vegas, a Car and so much more.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11
Japanese Tea Ceremony PHOTO COURTESY OF IMDB
The cover of the “Marriage Story,” a romance film starring Scarlet Johansson, Adam Driver and Merrit Wever, is shown. Both Johansson and Driver offer compelling performances.
5:30-6:30 p.m. Japan House, 2000 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana
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$10 for students, $12 general Chado, or the Way of Tea, is one of the most ancient and revered arts of Japan and is at the very heart of Japan House. Come to a traditional Japanese tea ceremony to learn about Japan House on the campus of the University of Illinois and the history of this 500-year-old art form. After a brief tour that includes a history of the facility and art form, watch as the host carefully and thoughtfully prepares each piece of equipment so you can thoroughly enjoy a bowl of matcha tea and seasonal wagashi, a traditional Japanese sweet.
Reading Day Eve Extravaganza ft. Spicy Clamato 7:30-9:30 p.m. Gregory Hall Room 0100, 810 S. Wright St.,Urbana Free Finals are creeping up on all of us, and if you haven’t developed a defensive nihilism toward your grades yet, then you’re probably pretty stressed out about it. Well, alleviate that stress for approximately one hour with a mash-up of improv and sketch comedy! For its final show of the semester, Potted Meat is teaming up with Spicy Clamato Improv to help you forget the amount of money you’re paying to get just a passing grade in classes like “Big Rivers” and “Comic Books.”
Open Jam with Grand Ambassador
9-11:30 p.m. The Canopy Club, 708 S Goodwin Ave., Urbana No cover Full bands and musicians, now’s your chance to strut your stuff on The Canopy Club stage. Singers and musicians of all stripes are welcome. Have a cover ready or bring a tune of your own and teach it to the band. Mingle and meet new musicians to work with and help grow the community. Or just enjoy the jams of Grand Ambassador.
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Elsinore returns from break with new approach BY CAROLINA GARIBAY STAFF WRITER
change of sound, which, in the band’s earlier years, had more folksy tones. Now, Elsinore has taken on a more pop-alternative sound, which is especially apparent in Elsinore’s new album, “A Life in the 21st Century,” which was released on Nov 16. Groff said, unlike with Elsinore’s previous album, “PUSH/PULL,” the band really took its time creating “A Life in the 21st Century” since the end of touring and promo for “PUSH/ PULL” in 2014. “We have been working on a no-deadline timeline with zero pressure to finish it by a certain date,”...
“We just stretched in the exact opposite direction of the last record, and we just took our time.”
sounds and creative musical styles but also lyrics with political undertones and critiques of the human
dreds or thousands or millions of people,” Groff said. “I try more and more not to shy away from that. I’m just trying to put both my moral money and my artistic money where my mouth is.” Groff also said this album was a way for him to express his thoughts and feelings about how life looks to him in a way other people can connect with. He said he thinks this type of connection with listeners is the biggest way artists can be involved with their audiences. “I don’t shy away from the responsibility songwriters and artists have when they do speak their
mind and when they do say things that are either politically charged or that are taboo,” Groff said. Groff does not have a problem speaking his mind through his lyrics and is more concerned with expressing his thoughts in a smart, artistic way rather than with worrying about what people think about his opinions. “I’m going to be an independent, free American citizen who can say anything I want,” Groff said. “But I’m also going to use my brain and my heart at the same time.”
Anyone who has ever seen a band perform live knows how important cultivating a strong, authentic “I don’t shy away from the responsibility bond between members is, both for the band itself and songwriters and artists have when they do speak for its fans. Fans can usually tell when the dynamic their mind and when they do say things that are between members is off or isn’t where it should be, and either politically charged or that are taboo.” a failed dynamic can often be the reason bands don’t RYAN GROFF CO-FOUNDING MEMBER OF ELSINORE end up working out. For Ryan Groff of the Champaign-Urbana based band Elsinore, fosterElsinore’s brief break in condition. ing and maintaining that releasing any music was “When you’re a songstrong bond between band necessary to make “A Life writer, you have this outmembers is one of the keys in the 21st Century,” which let that potentially will be to Elsinore’s success. is not only full of fresh seen and heard by hungaribay5@readbuzz.com “Everyone in the band has great input, a really good perspective and works together well,” Groff said. “So far, there hasn’t been even the hint of a heated moment because everyone doesn’t want to waste time being in a band that fights and doesn’t give constructive feedback and criticism. None of us are interested in doing that. We’re only doing it because it feels good to make music together.” Elsinore was formed in 2004 when Groff and Mark Woolwine were students at Eastern Illinois University. They were both music majors, which Groff said made the band forming process happen fairly naturally. “I have since seen and figured out that any music department is bound to have a few bands that start up just because we’re all kind of around each other all the time and people are going to find common interests,” Groff said. Elsinore’s current membership now consists of Groff, Woolwine, James Treichler, Adam Wayne and Andy Masters, who all have rich musical backgrounds. Groff said the change in members since PHOTO COURTESY OF RYAN GROFF 2004 is one of the contrib- The band Elsinore released their newest album, “A Life in the 21st Century,” on Nov. 16 after a hiatus. Member Ryan Groff speaks on how the time off helped the uting factors to the band’s group take its music in a stress-free direction, focusing on constructive criticism and feedback.
Netflix’s ‘Marriage Story’ captures complexities of divorce Johansson, Driver offer compelling, emotional performances buzz factor: BY BILL TAYLOR STAFF WRITER
Relationships are never long for this world in Noah Baumbach movies. As a child of divorce, he’s depicted the pain of separation in several films, most excru-
ciatingly in “The Squid and the Whale.” But following his own divorce, he’s softened up a little, to the point that he’s now able to make a film drawing from his own relationship rather than his parents’. The resulting film, “Marriage Story,” doesn’t sting like “Squid” or “Margot at the Wedding,” mostly because it’s too sad to try for that kind of bite. The likely Baumbach surrogate in the film is Charlie (Adam Driver), a New York theater director nearing the end of his marriage to actress Nicole (Scarlett Johansson). What starts as an amicable separation
quickly spirals into something vicious when Nicole wants to move their son to Los Angeles. That’s when lawyers get involved; Laura Dern on Nicole’s side and Alan Alda and Ray Liotta on Charlie’s. Things get even worse from there. The first major difference one can spot between “Squid” and “Marriage Story” is the cinematography. “Squid” was shot in frantic handheld, but “Marriage Story” prefers the still image, either through intimate close-ups or desolate wideshots, both of which often isolate Nicole and Charlie from each other
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on-screen. The cinematographer is Robbie Ryan, who shot “The Favourite” last year and treats this film’s locations like that film’s castle: vast, empty places where tiny people can be their worst selves. Even more drastically different is the editing. From “Squid” on, Baumbach has favored a quickcutting, almost montagesque style, tailoring cuts to deliver as much comedy as possible. Here, the editing favors uninterrupted takes and soft fades, an ironically relaxed style for a film this stressful. It’s only select times when the quick cut-
ting returns, like a ghost of Baumbach past reminding the viewer of the good times that once were. It’s not all sad, though. Julie Hagerty and Merritt Wever offer consistent laughs at Nicole’s family reluctantly getting dragged into the whole ordeal, as does Wallace Shawn as a theater actor with an endless supply of celebrity stories. But this is the first Baumbach that’s not predominantly a comedy, not even the cringe comedy of “Squid” or “Margot.” However, there are comedic breathers in what is other-
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wise a tragedy. There’s been some debate about whether Baumbach favors Charlie or Nicole in how he made the film. But the question of Baumbach taking sides seems irrelevant when watching the film itself, which is all about divorce bringing out the worst in everybody. The movie spends more time with Charlie, but that just means it spends more time exposing his many shortcomings, from an affair to a selfabsorbed attitude that is too hard to crack. If this is really a Baumbach self-portrait, it’s not a flattering one. SEE MARRIAGE | 5B