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Future business students visit UI ALPFA gives Latino high schoolers glimpse of college life

Lucero Gutierrez, president of ALPFA and senior in Business, does not directly oversee this program but is proud the organization is opening doors to students across Illinois. “We do this program specifically because we are looking at the pipeline,” Gutierrez said. “Predominantly, there’s not a lot of minority students that go to college or universities within the majors of business.” Those who participate in the program go through different workshops and live with their assigned ALPFA member for the weekend. Activities they can participate in include a case study, a scavenger hunt and more, Baccera said. When high school students submit their applications, the ALPFA committee looks for applicants who are dedicated to academics. Marco noticed many students might focus more on their test scores, but the key to stand out is what you say in the personal statement. “A lot of students are competitive with their GPA and ACT scores, but we really try to find students that are inspired to go to school and are looking in the College of Business since we are trying to serve as a pipeline of finding Latino high school students that are specifically coming to the College of Business,” Baccera said. A rmando Miranda, sophomore in LAS, said

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Student cyclists lock and unlock their bicycles outside the English Building. Bike thefts have decreased since last year since the UIPD introduced anti-theft bikes on campus.

GPS tracking deters thieves BY JULIE KANG STAFF WRITER

Since the introduction of anti-theft bikes on campus last year, the University of Illinois Police Department has seen a decrease in the number of stolen bikes reported by students. Anti-theft bikes are tracked by GPS and put out

around campus by the UIPD. When a tracked bike is stolen, the police can locate the person by tracing the bike. Patrick Wade, communications director in the Division of Public Safety, said according to the reported bike theft data, the anti-theft bike initiative has been effective. Prior to the start of the ini-

tiative, 30 bikes were reported stolen in the time period between Aug. 23 and Oct. 9 of 2017. This year, only 18 bikes were reported stolen in the same interval of time. Wade said bike theft is a crime of opportunity, meaning people do not necessarily plan on stealing bikes in advance.

“Bicycles become an easy target because they’re left in public areas and they’re unattended,” Wade said. “A lot of times they’re unlocked, so they’re a very simple target.” Wade said the introduction of VeoRides to campus may SEE UIPD | 3A

A Latino professional association at the University is giving Latino high school students the opportunity to visit campus and is providing multiple workshops to assist in the transition from high school to college. The High School Outreach Program, offered to Illinois high school students, is being hosted by The Association of Latino Professionals for America from Nov. 8-11 this year. ALPFA is the largest Latino organization for students who are studying business in college. The University is one of 160 student chapters nationwide. Marco Bacerra, vice president of internal affairs of ALPFA and senior in Business, oversees the High School Outreach Program. He leads a committee of 45 active ALPFA members who review program applications. “It is a little bit stressful just overseeing it, but I have a lot of help,” Bacerra said. “Even though we have a lot of applications, I don’t actually have to go through every single one by myself.”

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Consulting teams to compete in Ohio Business contest offers real-world experiences BY XIN DING CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Several consulting teams from the University will travel to Ohio to participate in the West Monroe Partners Case Competition on Friday. West Monroe Partners, a consulting company headquartered in Chicago, invited students to participate in a competition at Miami University based on business case studies, where students are given mock business problems and asked to solve them. “West Monroe Partners built this compe-

tition to allow students with interest in problem solving and consulting to test their abilities in real world applications,” said Taylor Smairat, senior in Engineering and vice president for recruitment and communications for Illinois Consulting Academy, in an email. Smairat is responsible for recruiting students for the competition. She said it will help students expand their worldviews and prepare them for encountering new problems. Kelly Kim Yeong Sun, junior in Business, said she’s interested in the competition because she enjoys teamwork and strategic thinking. “I would love to pursue a career in consulting,” Sun said. “It’s strategic thinking and planning in a short duration of time, which is SEE COMPETITION | 3A

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Members of the Engineering Without Borders RSO meet to discuss a bridge in Malawi on Thursday. They are trying to raise $50,000 to start building the bridge this summer.

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Bridge project lacks funding BY EMILY DAO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University’s Engineers Without Borders chapter is struggling to raise $50,000 for materials and labor to construct a bridge in Malawi, a project it hopes to begin this summer. “If we can finish the design by the end of the year, we’re thinking about

starting construction in the summer of 2019,” said Alex Kawar, senior in Engineering and internal vice president of EWB-UIUC. “But that’s all dependent on crowd fundraising because if we don’t have the money, we can’t start.” Since EWB-UIUC began fundraising more than a year ago, it has raised nearly $2,800 of its $50,000

goal. The RSO hopes to raise more money through events like their LaTea fundraiser on Thursday. The project has been in the works since 2015, but money raised prior to this year was spent funding assessment trips made by students within the organization.

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Grant to improve computer efficiency BY ASHLEY FU STAFF WRITER

Three engineering professors received a $1.2 million grant across a four-year span from the National Science Foundation for their research on improving computer efficiency. The recipients are Josep Torrellas, Laxmikant Kale and David Padua, all in the Department of Computer Science. Torrellas said computers use too much energy and can sometimes become extremely hot, reaching up to 212 degrees Fahrenheit, so the team is trying to decrease the temperature and reduce power consumption. The amount of power generated for computers by power generation plants is a significant fraction of the energy consumed by the world, he said. “So current situation we are finding ourselves in, we’re not dealing with just the speed, but we have the worry with speed, energy, temperature and power,” Torrellas said. Raghavendra Pothukuchi, post-doctoral student in Engineering who helped write the proposal for the research, said efficient computer systems will help people solve their problems better. “It could be just a person who wants their phone to be smarter and lasting longer,” Pothukuchi said. “It could be a researcher who wants to get a new drug or find a new mechanism to using computation because their system is more efficient; they can use more machines and get to their solutions faster. So it enables a wide variety of things.” Torrellas said the research focuses on eliminating unnecessary operations in computers and

making remaining operations more efficient. Computer chips can be used to determine how much work the computer can process and the maximum temperature the computer can reach. The research team does not expect to fully solve the problem within four years, but hopes to make some progress in solving issues related to reducing the energy consumption of computers. Kale’s role in the project focuses on parallel programming and runtime systems. Parallel programming uses multiple computers to solve a problem, which divides work and improves efficiency. Runtime system is a part of the computer’s software that oversees the tasks done in a parallel program. On the other hand, Padua focuses on compilers, which take a programmer’s code and turn it into another language computers can comprehend. He said there are too many communication pathways within computers and he wants to use the funding to save energy by writing programs to reorganize and reduce communication. The team is building a hardware controller in a cluster, which is a group of connected computers working together to control the computers’ processors and distribute power to the working units. Roughly 10 percent of the funds will be used to purchase materials for testing, but the rest will be used to pay graduate and post-doctoral research students. Pothukuchi said he was happy to find out the team received the grant. “At the time of the submission, I was a bit nervous,” Pothukuchi said. “Sometimes I used to think

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Raghavendra Pothukuchi (doctoral student), Professor Josep Torrellas and Thiago Teixeira (graduate student). Left column starting from front to back is: Bhargava Gopireddy (graduate student), Dimitrios Skarlatos (graduate student), Professor Laxmikant Kale, and Raghavendra Kanakagiri (post doctoral student). The woman on the left is Kavitha Chandrasekar (graduate student). Torrellas, Kale and David Padua received a grant to improve efficiency in computers.

maybe we wouldn’t (win) because there are a lot of people working on the same area. Sometimes I think we have some edge because we worked with industry like Advanced Micro Devices and showed this area has promise.” Torrellas said the rea-

son for writing the proposal is the collaboration with Advanced Micro Devices, a company that manufactures computer chips. He said engineers from the company helped guide the team on what changes to make. “All of these things are

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Two different student groups from Engineers Without Borders traveled to Malawi to scope out the site on which they are planning to construct a bridge by spring 2019.

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BRIDGE “The assessment trips were needed to determine the needs of the community, create relationships with them, gather data that we needed and more,” said Nico White, senior in LAS and one of the project leads, in an email. Kawar, who is also a project lead, said the organization’s current main goal is to receive a grant through Engineers Without Borders USA, which oversees all the EWB chapters from different universities. The average value of grants is $5,000. “Getting a grant through EWB-USA would be the biggest help,” Kawar said. Pouyan Asem, adjunct lecturer at the University, said the project’s lack of funding has also hurt the advancement for the project’s design process, as more trips are needed to obtain soil samples from Malawi to bring back and test at the University. Soil samples are necessary to figure out how to design the bridge. The samples are essential to learn more about the shearing strength of the soil, the bearing load and others factors necessary to construct

the bridge. “We are just in the first stage of the design. We really haven’t gotten that far,” Asem said. “It’s a huge challenge we’re facing, the fact that we don’t have the soil profiles from the site, so that is a piece of the puzzle that we still need.” The Lunzu River, which the chapter will be constructing the footbridge over, can swell to over four feet during rainy season and has proven to be a dangerous obstacle separating residents from schools, churches, jobs, hospitals and other important community resources. During the two assessment trips made by EWBUIUC to collect data for the bridge’s construction, two local community members died while trying to cross the river. “When the water level rises, there are times when people need to skip school and can’t seek help if they need medical attention,” Asem said. “So, what we’re doing is important to the region.” Starting this fall semester, Kawar said the project has mainly been a collaborative project between herself and Asem. Other students who have contributed to the project include: Ralph Abano, Nicolas Holl,

Emily East, Jack Hynes, Jamie Sergay and Jonathan Mullen. Kawar said prior to spring semester last year, the organization had finalized its design for a concrete bridge. However, due to cost, availability of resources and other factors, the original design was completely abandoned. As a result, the group decided to switch to a steel design, which Kawar said brought them back to square one. Madelyn Tyler, junior in LAS and fundraising lead on the project, said along with applying for grants, EWB-UIUC is trying to raise money through hosting campus fundraisers, pitching their project at career fairs and on LinkedIn. The organization is also actively seeking out sponsorships to help pay for materials used to build the bridge, more assessment trips and a contractor when the plan is actually executed. “I’d encourage more students (to donate), because this is an organization that is truly making an impact,” White said. “It’s remarkable that students of our age and education level are able to do what we do, so it’s worth supporting.” eidao2@dailyillini.com

going to lead back to society. We are working with computer science and engineering to make a big societal impact, (which is) what you get to do when you work on parallel computing,” Kale said. afu6@dailyillini.com

a later stage investment, we’re going for ambassador bank near private equity,” Veloo said. “So it’s about understanding what stages companies are in, understanding the different types of ways to finance companies.” Makhijani said competitions can help students further their careers by practicing case skills and networking. Adya Sharma, senior in LAS, will be attending the competition and said it is a good way to network because participants get to meet and work with people from West Monroe Partners. She said the competition gives students an opportunity to have meaningful interactions with consulting professionals beyond the short elevator pitches a student might give at a job fair. “No one said it’s leading to a job, but these people are still from the West Monroe Partners. There’s a chance that we impress them and we network with them,” Makhijani said. “There’s a chance that somehow it might lead to further opportunity, but you go there for that reason to kind of network with the employer.”

why I like participating in case competitions and when there's opportunity, I would love to go for it.” During competitions, Sun said she wants to explore creative ways to work with others. Sun found international students and domestic students bring advantages to teams during case competitions. Domestic students are more familiar with local markets and cultures, and are more knowledgeable about issues in the U.S., while international students are good at dealing with international issues and bring alternative perspectives to the group. However, business students are not the only ones interested in participating in the competition. Nikhil Makhijani, junior in LAS, said the case competition is a good chance to apply his knowledge of microeconomics, macroeconomics and business strategy to a simulated real-world setting. Neelan Veloo, senior in Engineering attending the competition, said although he’s an engineering student, he approaches business problems the same xind2@dailyillini.com way he’d approach a problem in engineering. “I don’t see a math problem any different from the business. At the end of the day, you have some sort of equation or set that you're trying to simplify. That’s what you do in business as well,” he said. Veloo said students might be asked about the best way to raise capital for a specific firm, with their strategies differing based on the size and needs of the company. “For example, if it’s a startup trying to look for funding, it’s going to be a venture capiNEELAN VELOO SENIOR IN ENGINEERING tal firm. Whereas if it’s

“It’s about understanding what stages companies are in, understanding the different ways to finance companies.”

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UIPD also be a factor contributing to the decrease in bike thefts. Although he does not have specific numbers on this, Wade said it is possible the less personal bikes there are on campus, the fewer thefts there will be. Linda Jackson, communications director of VeoRide, said like anti-theft bikes, VeoRides can be tracked down and retrieved using GPS. “The idea is to keep the bikes in circulation, so they are available to the entire campus and UrbanaChampaign community,” Jackson said in an email. Jeffrey Wong, sophomore in Engineering, had his bike stolen last November from the bike rack at Europa House. Wong said he uses antitheft locking nuts on his current bike since the incident. He thinks bikes are very easy to steal because they can be taken apart without much difficulty. “You can disassemble them with a wrench and screwdriver and most bike locks themselves can be cut with bolt cutters,” Wong said in an email. He also said he believes bikes are easy to hide and difficult to track because they do not have a lot of identifying information, such as license plates. Wong said he appreciates the UIPD’s efforts to decrease bike thefts. He said they should also place cheaper locks on several of the anti-theft bikes to stop bike thieves who may be aware of the initiative from simply avoiding the unlocked bikes. “It’s important for these bait bikes to be a good representation of the kind of bikes you normally find around campus,” Wong said. Wade said one way for students to prevent their bikes from being stolen is to purchase a sturdy U-lock rather than just a cable lock, as the cable locks are easier to cut or break. U-locks can cost as much as $5 or $10 more than cable locks, but Wade said it is a small investment that will go a long way. Another step Wade recommends is to register personal bikes with the University. Although this will not necessarily stop theft, the UIPD can track and return the bike more easily if it is lost or stolen using the serial number and description of the bike. “Bikes are out there and being tracked by the police,” Wade said. “And hopefully, we can get the word out that we’re looking for these and we’re hoping we can deter theft.” sekang@dailyillini.com

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PROGRAM the University should do a better job of reaching out to minority students. “Personally, I think I was well prepared enough in high school,” Miranda said. “However I’ve seen students who are POC on campus, and me being active in cultural communities on campus, I just feel like the transition is harder for students of color because finding opportunities isn’t always clear as it is for non-POC.” Gutierrez emphasized the importance of giving minority groups a chance with better education opportunities, especially to those who don’t have the opportunity to visit college campuses. “You are not alone on your journey, there are other students who are just like you,” she said. “At the end of the day, you are no different than anyone else because at the end of the day everyone puts on a pair of pants in the morning.” lvelaz20@dailyillini.com

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Anti-refugee rhetoric hinders college campuses on by news of the asylumseeking Honduran refugees has reminded interCOLUMNIST national students that this administration, and a sizable part of the U.S. caravan” of population, may not want “criminals.” “Ille- them here. While many gal immigration institutions of higher eduonslaught.” “The fault of cation, like the Universiopen-border Democrats.” ty, are fairly diverse, they The rhetoric peddled by are not necessarily well the Trump administration integrated. This is clearly paints a terrifying image of noticeable in social setdangerous criminals and tings, friend groups and job-stealers, marching en cultural organizations. masse toward the southern In a separated environborder of the United States. ment, hostile sentiments What’s happening is echoed by the administrasimply an exodus of disen- tion against immigrants franchised people fleeing and minorities only serve from a violent and poverto make international stuty-ridden Honduras, seek- dents feel more unwelcome ing a better life. The situand less a part of the colation, however, is being lege community. Internaportrayed to the world as tional students regularly an attack on border secuvoice fears of being unable rity in America. Not only to find jobs after gradudoes it create feelings of ation as a result of risfear and doubt among citi- ing negative sentiments, zens, but also hostility despite being academically toward immigrants, legal competitive with domesor otherwise. tic job-seekers. Highly With 1 in 4 Americans skilled workers from other believing immigration is countries have been a drivthe most worrying issue ing force behind economic in country, it is clear an growth over the past few increasing number of peo- decades, especially in Siliple want tighter regulacon Valley. As internationtions on the flow of immial students continue to be grants and their ability to alienated, the U.S. state work within the country. university system will lose This creates uncertainty out on a large source of for international students tuition revenue, and so will at universities, especialthe job market. ly those who study in the The Trump adminisU.S. in the hopes of worktration must recognize ing here and gaining resiand address what the real dency. Xenophobic comthreats to America are, mentary is nothing new rather than inciting fear in the Trump adminisand animosity toward tration. The effects are immigrants. Whether already seen through fall they are refugees seeking enrollment at universia safe haven in America or ties around the country. highly educated internaWith international admis- tional students who want sions dropping by 4 perto contribute to the Americent between 2016 and can economy, these people 2017, students are starting deserve to be treated with to prefer schools in Canada respect. or Hong Kong for a more conducive environment. Agastya is a sophomore in A recent reemergence of Engineering. similar rhetoric spurred agastya2@dailyillini.com AGASTYA BHATIA

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Take care during Dads Weekend Dear dads ... Dads Weekend is a time for families to reconnect. Understanding the time shared is more about family connection than party festivities is important. Fathers visiting this upcoming weekend need to act as adults. While a visit back to a college campus, especially for alumni, can feel like a trip back in time, parents on campus are still required to act like the wiser bunch. Although this weekend can serve as a time to embrace your inner college student, be conscientious of the increased risks during your time spent here. Going out with your child and choosing to drink is entirely your own decision. However, if you choose to do so, you must realize that

your actions have consequences. Buying alcohol for those underage will surely put a damper on the weekend’s festivities, and it’s widely known that every year cops ramp up raiding bars on this particular weekend. Additionally, public intoxication and driving under the influence are equally large risks that many college students seldom consider. As the parental figure, fathers shouldn’t be putting themselves or their child in a risky situation. While alcohol can often be a prime source for risky behavior, the sheer excitement of the weekend can sometimes take over. Remember that while on campus it is important to remain appropriate.

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culture, parents will be hotly targeted by police in the case that Control your dads. they provide alcohol At the end of the to those who are unday, that’s all we can derage. ask. Plenty of organized Every year, Dads events are planned Weekend is a time to around campus for have fun with visiting the weekend, and family members. Ofwhile we should deften, the weekend fesinitely take advantivities include a trip tage of what the difto the bars. During ferent organizations this, time fathers may have to offer, hitting try to relive the goldthe bars is inevitable. en days. While having Have fun and let loose fun with your parents with your parents, but is one thing, getting in be conscientious of trouble with them by law enforcement and your side is another. other families around Dads Weekend is you. prime time for fathers to fall into the trap of trying to appeal to the younger generation, and this can put people in uncomfortable situations. Understand that, while it’s encouraged to embrace the University

Juuling is the lesser of two evils surrounding nicotine on this issue, decrying the dangers of vaping by writing Black Sheep-worthy COLUMNIST listicles like, “How to Tell if Your Kid is Vaping.” These articles are creUUL may be forced ating a moral panic lackoff the market after ing any historical conthe U.S. Food and text. When these writers Drug Administration were our age, America had announced last month a bigger tobacco probthat five e-cigarette lem. According to the U.S. manufacturers — JUUL, Department of Health MarkTen, Vuse, Blu and and Human Services, in Logic — had 60 days to 1976 almost 30 percent of demonstrate how they can high school seniors had stop minors from obtain- smoked a cigarette in the ing vapes. last 30 days, as compared Incidentally, the only to 6 percent in 2016. major news to develop Even further, smokaround this issue since ing was legal for many then was an FDA raid on teens of that era. Until the JUUL Labs’ headquar1990s, Montana, Wyoters to obtain documents ming, South Dakota, Louconcerning the company’s isiana, Missouri and Kenmarketing tactics. Additucky had no minimum tionally, the FDA also tobacco purchase age, and declared teenage vaping in some states like Texas an emerging “epidemic.” and Virginia, the age was These actions have only 16. given JUUL a notoriThe Centers for Disety outside of the high ease Control and Preschoolers, college kids vention provides a better and vapers who know this picture for the effect that hobby all too well. Upon e-cigarettes have had on this declaration, a slew aggregate teenage nicoof New York health writtine consumption. The ers bravely ventured into CDC’s data, best underAmerica’s public schools stood through a summato document the menry made by the Christian ace firsthand. CNN even Science Monitor, shows went so far as to pose the the use of all tobacco question: are JUULS the products is declining “health problem of the with the most precipidecade?” Parental advice tous fall being in cigacolumnists commented rettes. E-cigarettes, like JOSEPH DILLIER

JUULS, are the only nicotine product whose use is not decreasing. They now hold the top spot among teens that cigarettes once had. Despite their newfound popularity, however, they are not widespread enough to reverse the overall decline in teen nicotine consumption. The CDC found that just over 10 percent of American high schoolers had used an e-cigarette in the last 30 days. In a lecture philosopher Slavoj Zizek made for “Big Think,” he explains his suspicion toward our “phobia of smoking.” He believes that many people opposed to e-cigarettes are often not as concerned about the science as they seem to be. For example, many smokingopposed people are also in favor of the legalization of other drugs. They have created an ethic where they are morally, not scientifically, opposed to smoking. Zizek describes how some American airline companies have banned e-cigarette use during flights because “you publicly display your addiction, and that is not a good pedagogical example for others” even though they are safe to use on planes. Additionally, while vaping is by no means healthy

and the negative effects are still largely unknown because it is so new, they certainly contain less carcinogens and produce a vapor that is less dangerous than secondhand smoke. E-cigarette users have healthier hearts, lungs and blood pressure than traditional smokers. JUULS are clearly a lesser of two evils, and that — evil nicotine use — is on the decline anyway. While it is likely in the best interest of public health to regulate and continue to scrutinize companies like JUUL, they should not be viewed as moral dilemmas. If the government removes products like JUULS, teens may move back to regular cigarettes. In fact, they’ve moved a step in the right direction; this pressure has lead JUUL to release pods with less nicotine to help people quit. In a rush to make people healthier, the antismoking crusaders have ran past the science and built a cultural stigma against nicotine addictions of any kind; the goal of which is to make people think smoking is not simply unhealthy, but gross. It is a moralizing and anti-hedonistic philosophy that lost its original “neutral ethics of health,”

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as Zizek would say. They are now trying to get JUUL banned, which is clearly healthier than the alternative: teens smoking cigarettes. Teenagers

will always do risky and stupid things, but Juuling is safer than cigarettes. Joseph is a junior in LAS. dillier2@dailyillini.com

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Older students reflect on age differences, experiences TRISTAN JACOBS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For most students at the University, their ages range between 18 and 22 years old. In many cases, students who leave high school after senior year and enter college the following semester are seen as the societal norm. However, the University also hosts students whose ages vary outside of that traditional range. Josh Reed, 25, is currently a junior at the University. After high school, Reed decided to go straight into work instead of attending a college or university. This went on for a year before he enlisted in the Air Force and eventually landed in Champaign-Urbana in 2018. As a result of Reed’s four years of service, his education is paid for by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This allowed him to attend the University without needing to work another job while he’s in school. “It’s really nice because I have actual time to do the things I need to. Like, I can take a higher course load because I have that free time,” Reed said. Even though most students are only three or four years younger than Reed, he noted the difference in their experiences makes that age gap feel much wider. “It was literally four years, but I’d say it was nine or 10 in terms of maturity,” Reed said.

From his experience, the notion students should take time between high school and college seems like a fair option. “If people took a year or two to get to know who they are and what they want, they wouldn’t run into a lot of issues in college,” Reed said. Examples of these issues are switching majors late in a college career and spending thousands on tuition without an intended path in mind. The break from over a decade of schooling is what he believes will better prepare students. “We start school at 4 or 5 and go until 18, and society wants you to go straight to college, not being mature enough for it yet and being forced to mature in college,” Reed said. Reed’s mother and father said they were happy for Josh when he returned to college because they realized he’d only go back if it was something he wanted to do. Anita Clifton is another student studying past the traditional age range. She has two bachelor’s degrees but is attending the University as a non-degree-seeking student at the age of 47. The biggest obstacle she faces at Illinois is the technology teachers and students have adopted in the classroom. “I do find myself spending more time on a project that requires that much use (of applications) than an average

college student does because of my age and familiarity,” Clifton said. Her struggle becomes an issue in situations that may involve submitting documents or other media electronically. Even with learning how to use applications like Gimp and Google Drive, Clifton is looking ahead and trying to prepare for applications she’ll be expected to use next. “I don’t do Instagram, and I feel like that’s something else that’s coming at me pretty soon, too,” Clifton said. Aside from learning new applications, Clifton has responsibilities she juggles outside of the classroom. “The challenge that I face to get time carved out for assignments and homework is different,” Clifton said. Without having the ability to sit back and relax for a few hours after a day of classes, Clifton is constantly on the go, especially while raising her four kids. “I don’t have much downtime,” she said. Regardless of her busy life, Clifton can stop and reflect on the ideas of fellow students she is interacting with on a daily basis. “What I hear from these kids in the classroom is so much above the level that I was at, at 20,” Clifton said. Annie Clifton is Anita’s daughter and said she looks up to her mother as an example. “If whatever I decide to

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study or do after high school doesn’t work out, I can go by my mom’s example and go back to school to learn to do something that I enjoy more,” Anna said. Regardless of her age, Anita is able to identify with the current traditional age range of students coming through the University. Her ability to self-reflect is what allows her to work alongside and understand younger students. “Folks who are in college

and are 19, 20, 21, 22, they are in a different season of life. I had that season,” Clifton said. Having lived through the ups and downs of college already has allowed her to become a trusted adviser to some students in the classroom setting. “I’ve met students who feel they can tell me things that they may not have told their close friends because they don’t know how they’ll react,” Clifton said.

It’s these experiences that give a unique value to her time at the University. In the cases of Reed and Clifton, they bring a different sense of wisdom to the classroom with “real-world” understanding. “There’s a certain advantage that comes with going to college after being in the real world because I think I’m able to absorb more out of this experience,” Reed said. tjj3@dailyillini.com

Enactus project Circle Cycle clears bike clutter NANDIKA CHATTERJEE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

On a campus as expansive as the University, students try to reach their destinations as quickly and efficiently as possible. Because of this, there are a plethora of bicycles both on and off the streets. Illinois Enactus is trying to address the problem of bike litter and help the environment while doing it. The group at the University has been a key figure behind various sustainability projects on campus and in the C-U area. “Enactus is a registered nonprofit organization,” said Jasmine Tew, vice president of communications for Illinois Enactus and junior in Business. “We do a lot of social entrepreneur-

ship works, and it’s product based. So all the products that we have in our portfolio, students source it. They go through a Capstone program and we make it from scratch, basically.” A few of their projects include Grounds from Growth, Operation Forward, Stay Glassy, En-ableing Entrepreneurs and Lean & Green, among others. Enactus not only touches upon social issues but attempts to reach core problems by tackling them from the root. The nonprofit believes this is the way it can truly ensure its impact makes a difference in society. It is this motto to strive to make noticeable differences which motivated the project manager of the Circle Cycle

project, Hui Yi Koh, sophomore in DGS, to join Enactus. The project’s aim is to repurpose used bikes and solve the bike waste problem on campus. “I’m from Singapore, and back in high school, I was involved in (an organization similar to the Girl Scouts) and Green Council, which ... basically promote(s) environmental responsibility on school,” Koh said. “One thing that I was a bit frustrated with when I was in Green Council was that our efforts didn’t seem to create change that was lasting.” The goal of projects implemented by Enactus is to not only try and fix issues from the grass-root level but to also engage a wide variety of members in the community

when doing so. “At the end of the school year, people (just) dump their bikes. I think that (the) University spends a lot of money on it,” Tew said. “That’s where the idea (for Circle Cycle) came from.” The project will benefit local, low-income high school students. These students will be taught to repair used bicycles, so the bikes can be sold to people in the area. At the end of the training process, the students each get to take a repaired bike home for free. The project will last about a year. Afterward, the entire operation will be passed on to local contributors and become a self-sustaining unit. “We start with research-

ing a need and structuring a project. But our main goal is actually to de-link it to a community partner,” said Krupa Patel, executive manager of Circle Cycle and sophomore in Business. “Eventually (we) have it so it’s self-sustaining and autonomous so that it generates some value somewhere in the community — structure it so that we can hand it off eventually.” Recently, Circle Cycle won a $10,000 grant from the Ford Fund, a competition against six other teams. Three of the teams were international, while three were from the U.S. Patel recalls a few of these teams. “There (were) people from Morocco, from Ghana, from Brazil, a couple universities from the east coast and

then us,” she said. She had full faith in the project, the team, the speakers, but she was still somewhat astonished this novel idea would strike gold. “It was a surprise because it was a new project,” Patel said. “We were going up against projects that had already been established for about one to two years” Now that the project has won the fund, the plan is to be judicious about the money and to really plan out their operations. “I wanted to do something that would create long-lasting change,” Koh said. “I believe that behavioral change needs structures behind it to support it.” nandika2@dailyillini.com

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LIFE & CULTURE

Former refugee offers support in CU Refugee Center director shares experiences as an immigrant BY VISHESH ANAND STAFF WRITER

The Unitarian Universalist Church of ChampaignUrbana, 302 S. Birch St. in Urbana, harbors the offices of the East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual Assistance Center, casually known as the Refugee Center. In this cubbyhole, you will also find Anh Ha Ho, or as she is affectionately known around the office, the “Mother Teresa of Champaign-Urbana.” Ha Ho, 70, is a former refugee from Vietnam who has lived through just about every different type of immigrant status an individual can experience. Since she has traversed and navigated the immigration system several times for herself — Ha Ho remembers filing papers at the immigration offices in France as a child — she wanted to work toward helping others find their own path, from being refugees to self-sufficient individuals. There was a time when she worked as a refugee at the Refugee Center. In the late 1980s when she began volunteering for the Refugee Center, she was mainly an interpreter for Vietnamese and French to English. Today, as director of client services, she does a lot more, and she also translates German and Spanish. “An opportunity knocked on the door, and I got the chance to prove myself,” she said. “I could share what I knew; share my experiences, share my knowledge with (refugees). I knew what agency to go to, what papers to ask for.” In 1949 at 19 months old, Ha Ho had to leave her home in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam, to move to Paris with her parents and five siblings. Her father, Co Huy Pham, had received an academic scholarship and was urged by his family to distance himself from his anti-communist political showings. She lived as a permanent resident in France for 16 years. In the summer of 1965, as the political climate ameliorated economic conditions in Vietnam, Ha Ho returned to her native country for the first time. “I had integrated myself in France; my way of thinking was very French. But I always knew that I was different because I looked Asian,” Ha Ho said. “But when I came back (to Vietnam), it was very hard. I felt like a refugee in my own country.” It was the restrictive

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Anh Ha Ho, director of client services for the East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual Assistance Center, gets involved during the children’s program at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Urbana on Saturday. Ha Ho reflects on her experiences as a refugee and the journey to helping other refugees in Champaign-Urbana.

societal pressure, according to her, that negatively affected her experience upon returning home. Compared to the open and accepting aura of her community in France, Vietnamese culture was very orthodox to her. Ha Ho experienced more social strain when her father decided to run for president on an anti-communist platform. “I was in the shoes of Chelsea Clinton,” she said. “We were campaigning, organizing speeches and so on.” While Huy Pham lost the elections in 1967, he did not censor his nationalist rhetoric while leading the Thang (translates to ‘Win’) newspaper. After the Vietnam War in 1976, he was arrested and sent to a re-education camp, operated by the communist government of Vietnam, to be politically indoctrinated for three years. During this time, Ha Ho attempted to flee the country by boat many times but could not find a passage out for herself, her husband and two children. In 1983, Ha Ho’s brother

— Hai Huy Pham, a retired medical specialist — provided sponsorship for them to immigrate to Montreal. While she was settled there for two years, she was separated from her husband, Dang Dac Ho, for one year when, in 1984, he left for a medical training program in Oklahoma. She tried to make visa arrangements several times but to no avail. “It was a very hard period,” Ha Ho said. Eventually, the couple reunited after her husband accepted a medical residency at the University and was granted a J-1 visa, a nonimmigrant exchange visa, and she was eligible to be approved for a J-2 visa. After moving to Champaign-Urbana in the summer of 1985, Ha Ho never left — even when times got tough. Two years later, Dac Ho was offered a permanent job with the University. He enlisted the assistance of a lawyer to navigate the immigration process. That was a mistake, Ha Ho said. “The lawyer turned out not to be so competent,” she said. “What she advised us

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to do should not have been done. And we lost our permanent residence status from Canada. We were in no man’s land.” Ha Ho and her family had no choice but to apply for political asylum. They lived as refugees in limbo for two months before receiving a permanent resident status. That was followed by a long, laborious path to attaining American citizenship in 2000 — “a year to remember” for more reasons than one — according to Ha Ho. “My first daughter got married, our garden was featured in the ‘Garden Walk’ and I became an American citizen,” she said, with a grin that stretched from ear-to-ear. In January 2019, Ha Ho will complete 28 years at the Refugee Center. In addition to rendering her services as an interpreter, she manages a range of day-today tasks, from filling out applications, accompanying clients to court and even helping them lower their rents and electric bills. “We are their guiding voice,” Ha Ho said. “They received a stack of paper,

and they have no clue of knowing what it is. So it’s our responsibility to explain to them and to lead them step by step.” Mary Danner, 27, administrative manager, works in close proximity with Ha Ho and feels inspired by her. Danner’s mother was an immigrant from Ireland, and she feels it’s really important to help incoming refugees. “The way that Ha is with refugees is amazing, I don’t think many people cater to the personal side of helping with refugees,” Danner said. It amazes Danner how supportive Ha Ho is of refugees, even the ones who are not her clients. Hezbollah Akmal, 38, Ha Ho’s client, came to Champaign on a special immigrant visa from Afghanistan in October 2017. Fleeing threats from the Taliban and other insurgent groups, Akmal had to start over with his wife, Sosan Durani, and five daughters. Akmal said he received financial help as well as support with bureaucratic proceedings from Ha Ho.

Ha Ho believes America can help many more individuals like Akmal. “This country was built by immigrants,” she said. She added that it’s acceptable to be selective when it comes to granting visas and political asylum; however, the country’s administration needs to help in more ways because it can. A few years ago, Champaign was supposed to receive 1,000 Syrian refugees. The entire community reached out to the Refugee Center to provide support and banded together. “The whole city woke up,” Ha Ho said. However, before refugees arrived, Executive Order 13769 was instated by President Trump. Only one refugee from Syria arrived, a 79-year-old woman. To Ha Ho, that is simply unacceptable. “(Refugees) suffer so much; we need to empathize with them. But they contribute in their own ways when given a chance because they are just looking for a better life,” Ha Ho said. vanand8@dailyillini.com

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FOOTBALL

SOCCER

Illinois defense makes changes BY TATIANIA PERRY STAFF WRITER

Memorial Stadium will celebrate the University’s annual Dads Weekend as well and Military Appreciation Day on Saturday. However, the recent situation for Illinois has offered little to celebrate. After a 63-33 loss to push the season record to 3-5, Illinois football defensive coordinator Hardy Nickerson resigned due to healthrelated issues. Nickerson missed a game last season in which head coach Lovie Smith stepped in and did the play-calling, and Smith is confident he can step into the role again for the remainder of the season. “It’s tough right now,” SEE DEFENSE | 3B

VOLLEYBALL

O’Brien’s play aids in recent victory BY RACHEL SPENCER STAFF WRITER

After defeating reigning national champions Nebraska on Saturday, the Illinois volleyball team has plenty of reasons to be proud. Illinois saw itself rise to the fourth-ranked team in the nation after the win. The only Big Ten team ranked ahead of them is No. 3 Minnesota, as the Illini continue to put together the team’s best overall season since 2011. And for the only Illinois native on the roster, Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week Morgan O’Brien, wearing the orange and blue is nothing she takes for granted. “I looked at other placSEE O’BRIEN | 3B

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The Illinois soccer team celebrates during its Big Ten quarterfinals win over Wisconsin. The team won its first tournament game since 2012 by going 3-0 in penalty kicks.

Illini head to Big Ten semifinals Top-seeded powerhouse Penn State poses threat BY EVAN VISCIONI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For the first time since 2012, the Illinois soccer team is headed to the semifinal round of the Big Ten tournament. The team was able to defeat No. 4-seeded Wis-

consin in a thrilling fashion. The Illini beat the Badgers 3-0 in penalty kicks after extra time. After falling behind 2-1 early in the second half, the Illini tied the game when senior midfielder Katie Murray connected with sophomore midfielder Hope Breslin on a free kick cross that sailed just over the Badger goalkeeper’s hands and into the back of the net to knot the match up at 2-2 in the 65th minute. “We actually have prac-

ticed that same play a couple times,” Breslin said. “That free kick was a little far for shot, so we decided it out, and when we ran away from the ball, there was no one on us, so it was an easy one touch in because there was nobody to mark me.” Aside from Murray and Breslin’s heroics during regulation, it was newly named All-Big Ten second-team junior goalkeeper Jaelyn Cunningham who stole the show in extra time for the Illini. Cunningham kept a clean

sheet in extra time and made three saves in the penalty shootout. “I was actually pretty excited to go into a shootout,” Cunningham said. “I think the big thing about (penalty kicks) is that they are expected to make it, so it’s important to just be confident and have fun. I feel as if I didn’t play my best the first 120 minutes of the game, so I was happy I got to redeem myself.” With the win, No. 5-seeded Illinois is set to meet with Big Ten soccer powerhouse and

top-seeded Penn State. The two teams will battle it out for the right to play in the Big Ten Tournament Championship and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The team that emerges victorious will play the winner of the other semifinal between Nebraska and Minnesota. The last time Penn State and Illinois met, the Nittany Lions left Champaign with a 2-1 overtime victory. Illinois jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the SEE BIG TEN | 3B

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Team relies on young talent as season nears Large roster turnover puts Underwood, team to test BY BRIAN BINZ STAFF WRITER

As the month changes from October to November, the Illinois men’s basketball team gets closer and closer to kicking off its 2018-19 campaign. With a large number of familiar faces from previous years replaced by young talent, the Illini are predicted by most to finish in the bottom half of the Big Ten. Few teams in the nation have experienced more roster turnover this summer than the Illini. Despite this, there are some things about the 2018 Illini that will still be similar when the season tips off against Illinois Wesleyan on Nov. 2. Barring an injury, sophomore Trent Frazier will be the starting point guard for Illinois this year, looking to continue building off of a Big Ten All-Freshman year.

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Trent Frazier, Leron Black and Te’Jon Lucas help up teammate Da’Monte Williams during Illinois’ 86-93 loss to No. 6 Purdue on Feb. 22.

Frazier took over the helm of head coach Brad Underwood’s Illini 16 games into last season, and after that transition, he put together

one of the best freshman seasons in Illinois history. Frazier averaged 14.1 points per game in the conference, the most out of any

freshman, to go with almost four assists and two rebounds a game. Frazier also led the Big Ten in steals at 1.7 a game. It’s likely Frazier will be

the leader offensively for the Illini as he is their leading returning scorer, but this year, he should get more help on offense from other places. One of those helpful assets will be Kipper Nichols, who for the first time at Illinois got to train with the same coach for a full offseason. While Nichols was kept out of the starting lineup until the second half of last year, the proven Big Ten scorer put up some of the best scoring games for the Illini. Nichols averaged 10 points and 4.2 rebounds per game for Illinois last year, both good for third on the team. Standout performances included 27 points in 22 minutes against Michigan State and 31 points in 33 minutes in the team’s season-ending loss to Iowa. As the only returning front court player, Nichols will see a good amount of minutes at the power forward spot where he will have to improve his rebounding and defense from last year. The two other returning players from 2017 are sophomore Da’Monte Williams and senior Aaron Jordan. Both will likely see a good amount of time early in the year with

Underwood, trying to find which combination of players works for the Illini. Williams is finally healthy after tearing his ACL in his senior year of high school, and Underwood said during one of their open practices he’s the healthiest he’s ever been in Champaign. Jordan also had somewhat of a breakout season in 2017. After being buried on the bench for former coach John Groce, Jordan made the most of his minutes for Underwood and for a while, led the nation in three-point percentage, finishing at a scorching 46.3 percent. Both Williams and Jordan provide Underwood with relatively experienced depth, and unless they both take a step back on the court this year, they will probably be parts of the rotation, even seeing some spot starts. After those two, however, the Illini’s roster becomes a lot more unfamiliar. The eight newcomers for the Illini are led by freshman guard Ayo Dosunmu, who comes in as the highest-ranked recruit to play SEE ROSTER | 3B

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Illini cope with adversity, defensive struggles BY GAVIN GOOD STAFF WRITER

No team expects to lose a coach during the season, much less a coordinator. But eight weeks into the 2018 slate, sitting at 3-5 and losing their last three Big Ten games by a combined score of 158-60, that’s where the Illini stand. Now, the team must move on without defensive coordinator Hardy Nickerson, the leader of its 125th-ranked FBS defense. “There always has to be another plan when things go wrong or go a different direction,” said head coach Lovie Smith. “We have a plan in place on what we’re going to do. I’ve been involved with the defense; I’ll call the plays defensively this week.” Smith is moving thirdyear staff member and firstyear defensive analyst Rob Wright to take over the linebacking coaching duties, which Nickerson previously handled. Wright was a graduate assistant the past two seasons, after working on Miami’s staff for five seasons. “He’s been in the program for three years. Rob knows everything he’s supposed to do,” Lovie said. “Bright guy, been around football for a long period of time. Under the circumstances, we have a good backup plan.” While the offense has improved statistically from 2017 under first-year coordinator Rod Smith, the defense worsened under Nickerson. Illinois has the No. 116 rushing defense and the No. 120 passing defense, two marks that don’t bode well for a team facing Big Ten competition. The Illini are also rated 105th in sacks but are 19th in the country in turnovers gained as of last week’s performance.

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Redshirt freshman Lere Oladipo was arrested early Sunday morning on domestic battery charges — one of domestic battery/bodily

harm and two of domestic battery/physical contact. Oladipo pleaded not guilty on Monday in court but was suspended indefinitely from the team on Sunday. “Right now, it’s about the charge,” Lovie said. “That’s all we know; what he’s been charged with, no more. I believe in letting things play out, letting an investigation occur and letting the truth come out, and that’s where we are right now.” The Huntley, Illinois, native’s pretrial is set for Dec. 21, but the Illini must move on in the meantime. The defensive lineman made his debut against South Florida after missing the first two games of the season with an injury, making three tackles against Wisconsin and one at Maryland. Lovie said at his press conference on Monday he, his staff and the team speak often about how to act as a member of the team. “Do people step outside from time to time and do some things that maybe they shouldn’t? Yes,” Lovie said. “If that’s the case, there are consequences behind it like there are in society as a whole. But as far as us constantly teaching our players how to be a man and a man’s responsibility and doing what’s right and wrong, that’s daily.”

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True freshman quarterback M.J. Rivers wasn’t connecting with receivers at Maryland, going 3-for-13 for 45 yards. But matters got worse when former Illini Tré Watson hit Rivers helmet-to-helmet in the second quarter and knocked him out of the contest. Rivers is now going through concussion protocol, but little is known about whether he’ll be ready to play against Minnesota or how long he could be forced out for.

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Illinois offensive lineman Nick Allegretti (53) blocks for running back Reggie Corbin (2) on his way to the end zone during the game against Western Illinois at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 8.

“(Rivers) said he felt better (Monday) when I saw him,” Rod said. “But he’s in protocol right now.” If he’s not cleared and healthy for Saturday, graduate transfer AJ Bush will make his sixth start of the season. Rod expressed his comfort in using Bush as the Illini’s quarterback despite having given Rivers the start at Maryland. After Rivers’ injury, Bush came into the game and completed 11 of 19 passes for two touchdowns and 216 yards, though he threw a costly interception in Maryland territory on his third play in the game. “I have two guys I think we can win a football game with;

I think we’ve got three,” Rod said. “Which one prepares the best, plays the best, has the hot hand is probably who we’ll roll with.” Regardless of whether the first-year offensive coordinator has a choice between the two at quarterback, he wants his receivers to step up their production. Numerous Illini receivers dropped passes that were catchable at Maryland — it’s been a recurring theme this season. “We’ve got to catch some balls for (Bush); we’ve got to help him,” Rod said. “Lots of dropped passes Saturday that we’ve got to make sure we (are) secure. I think our guys will probably look a lot better statistically than

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Upper Marlboro, Maryland, his hometown. He gave all the credit for his performance to the offensive line, which was at times able to open up seams for the 5-foot-10, 200-pound back to slip through. “The way they’re blocking, I think anybody could rush for how many yards I had,” Corbin said. “Credit goes to them; those boys are working their tails off, and that chemistry is starting to pay off.” However, senior guard Nick Allegretti wasn’t satisfied with his unit’s performance, but he acknowledged there was some positive play. “Taking a look at the film, I think the o-line did some really good things,” Allegretti said. “We weren’t as consistent as we needed to be; some plays off here and there. We need to get rid of that.” Headed into the season, there was speculation about how the unit would gel together as it lacked proven Big Ten experience and depth in areas, exemplified by defensive line convert Kendrick Green. Through two-thirds of the season, Green and the line have been relatively solid for the Illini. At the very least, the unit hasn’t been one of the team’s major weaknesses, unlike the defense. The offense, especially late in the game, was able to move the ball well against Maryland. The Illini racked up 493 yards of total offense, averaging 8.2 yards per pass play and 6.6 per run play. The issue came when Illinois advanced into Maryland territory, too many times coming up short of a touchdown, instead relying on kicker Chase McLaughlin to convert on 32-, 34-, 39-and 26-yard field goals. Allegretti knows his guys need to help finish for the Illini to finally get back in the win column.

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ments, earning her careerbest finish in Dallas. While Hallinan has only competed as an individual, she still feels the energy from the team victories. “(The team win) feels great,” Hallinan said. “Everyone has played super well this season, and I think it’s just a good way to end as we start our preparation for the spring. It’s the offseason now, and we are still preparing for what’s next, but this win is very exciting.” While the Illini finished a successful fall season on a strong note, the team emphasized it will continue to improve its physical and mental game in the off-season. Illinois’ spring season will begin on Feb. 3 in Orlando at the UCF Challenge.

first half but couldn’t stop Penn State’s late surge. Coming into the game, Penn State is riding an eight-game winning streak dating all the way back to late September. The Nittany Lions finished conference play with a 9-2 record and have outscored their opponents 37-11 this season. Despite the recent success of Penn State, senior forward Patricia George and the Illini are excited and ready for the challenge. George appeared in all 19 games for Illinois this season and racked up over 1,600 minutes of playing time. “Last time we played them, I really think we as team learned that we can play Penn State,” George said. “In past years, I think we have gone into this game on low like, ‘Oh my god, we have to play Penn State,’ but this year, we think and know as a team, we can beat them.” That mindset is exactly what head coach Janet Rayfield is looking for in her team. “We’ve talked about mindset and having that whatever-it-takes mentality ever since that beginning of the season,” Rayfield said. “It’s all about doing your job and doing whatever it takes. Whether it’s making sure the ball stays out of the net or making sure to put that extra effort is what’s going to help us be successful.” Rayfield knows a thing or two about postseason soccer. In her 17th season with the Illini, this will be her 12th Big Ten tournament appearance to go along with 11 Big Ten tournament wins and 10 NCAA tournament appearances. “I’m so excited for this team and certainly the juniors and seniors who have really plugged away at it these last couple of years,” Rayfield said. “They were the ones who have really been invested in this team and this program and made this season happen.” Kickoff is set for Friday at 10 a.m. at Grand Park in Westfield, Indiana. The game will air on the Big Ten Network.

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The Illini women’s golf team poses for a picture after taking home a first-place victory at the Cardinal Cup in Louisville, Kentucky. on Oct. 21.

Illinois caps off successful fall season BY GABBY HAJDUK STAFF WRITER

The No. 18 Illinois women’s golf team closed out its fall season in Dallas at the Trinity Forest Invitational. Appearing in the tournament for the first time, the Illini outpaced top-50 ranked teams like Tennessee and Oregon State by at least nine strokes to take the title. The first-place finish gave Illinois its third team title this season as well as backto-back tournament wins. The last time the program recorded three wins in the fall season was in 1975 under Betsy Kimpel’s coaching. The Illini led the competition after the second round on Monday and continued their lead through Tuesday, posting a score of 8-over-par (872). Illinois posted 44 birdies during the tournament, leading the 12-team field.

Despite tough weather conditions both days, the Illini were led by senior Bing Singhsumalee and freshmen duo Crystal Wang and Korknamol Sukaree. All three Illini finished in the top five. “Embracing the wind (was key),” Singhsumalee said. “We had pretty windy conditions the past two days, so I think just embracing it instead of trying to fight it helped us out.” To finish her final fall season, Singhsumalee posted a score of 1-under-par (214) for a second-place finish, one stroke behind Oregon State’s Ellie Slama. Singhsumalee and Slama were the only golfers to finish under par. The Illini’s lone senior posted four birdies in the second round to contribute to her 3-under-par score (69). Singhsumalee stayed consistent in the first and

third rounds, posting a score of 73 (+1) with three birdies in each. The Naperville, Illinois, native earned her first consecutive top-three finishes in her collegiate career. “I feel pretty good (about the tournament),” Singhsumalee said. “I feel like I have been playing pretty consistently and also pretty under, so I think it was a good way to end the fall season.” After placing third with a 1-over-par score of 217, Wang earned her second topthree finish of her collegiate career. A consistent force for the Illini, Wang started off the tournament strong with a first round score of 71 (-1). Wang followed up in the second round posting a score of 2-under-par (70) with nine birdies throughout the tournament. Sukaree played steady

throughout the tournament, posting scores of 73(+1) in the first and second rounds, then 72(E) in the third. Finishing in the top-10 for three consecutive tournaments, Sukaree tied for fourth with University of Colorado’s Kristy Hodgkins. The freshman recorded 12 birdies, five in the second round. Rounding out Illinois’ lineup were junior Tristyn Nowlin and Ali Morallos, tying for 29th and 34th, respectively. Both Illini posted even-par rounds during the tournament and had a combined total of 13 birdies. Competing as an individual for the Illini was freshman Katie Hallinan who tied for 24th, posting a score of 226 (+10). Hallinan has showed steady improvement after playing in the past three tourna-

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es around, like Wisconsin and Iowa, stuff kind of in the same area, but I wanted to be in my home state,” O’Brien said. Like many of her fellow students at Illinois, O’Brien hails from the suburbs of Chicago. Before coming to Illinois, she helped lead Libertyville High School to the Illinois Class 4A state championship match during her sophomore year and set her school’s record for digs during her senior season. Even though she’s just a sophomore, O’Brien is a key player in the Illini backcourt. Throughout the 2018 season, she’s taken over as libero, been named to an all-tournament team and snagged a career-high 32 digs against Nebraska this weekend. When discussing the team’s win on the road, O’Brien accredits Illinois’ defense. “On everyone’s part, it was a really good defensive match, and we had been working on that a lot, and it really showed in that game,” O’Brien said. “We were getting a lot more balls up, and previously, we would touch them but not get a play out of them, and we were converting a lot of them to points.” As the weeks dwindle

said offensive lineman Nick Allegretti . “The team is obviously going through a lot with the loss of the coaching, but that’s when you have to have leaders step up.” Minnesota comes into Champaign with a 4-4 record after defeating Indiana 38-31 on Friday night. Saturday’s game will mark the 71st meeting between the two teams. In the overall series, Illinois trails 29-38-3, but the Illini are 17-16-1 alltime against the Gophers in Champaign, though Minnesota has won seven of the last 10 meetings. Last season, the Golden Gophers defeated the Illini 24-17 on Minnesota’s Homecoming in Minneapolis. The game was tied 10-10 in the fourth quarter until Minnesota began to pull away following the debut of former Illini quarterback Cam Thomas as a true freshman. As for this weekend’s quarterback, speculation still looms. After last week’s collision with former Illini Tre Watson, current true freshman quarterback M.J. Rivers is currently undergoing concussion protocol. After the hit to Rivers, AJ Bush stepped back in to finish the game and threw an 84-yard pass to Dominic Stampley, the third-longest passing play in Illinois history. On the ground, running backs Reggie Corbin (8.03) and Mike Epstein (6.85) rank first and fifth in the Big Ten in yards per carry. Corbin ranks second in FBS while the currently injured Epstein sits at 14th. The Illini are averaging 226.9 rushing yards per game, good for 23rd in FBS and third in the Big Ten.

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Illinois defensive specialist Morgan O’Brien gets ready to dig the ball during the match against Iowa at Huff Hall on Sept. 28. The Illini won 3-0.

down and the postseason looms on the team’s schedule, Illinois is trying to stay sharp. Earning multiple Big Ten wins, securing a conference record for senior Ali Bastianelli, and solidifying a victory against the reigning national champions would be enough to lull less experienced teams and players into a false sense of security. However, a little bit of confidence wouldn’t seem out of place, according to

O’Brien. “We know how good we are, and we work really hard, so I think we have a right to have that confidence because we put in the work every day,” O’Brien said. O’Brien and the Illini will certainly need that little bit of confidence as they face four more weeks of Big Ten play. While they won’t encounter No. 3 Minnesota again, No. 13-ranked Purdue will close out its Big Ten

season at home. But finishing out the Big Ten season can be fun when you come from the Midwest like O’Brien. The final few games may even come with familiar faces. “Everyone I played in club (volleyball), everyone is dispersed in the Big Ten; a lot of the people from the Midwest just stayed in the Midwest,” O’Brien said.

the ball with frequency due to sharing the back court with Frazier, Dosunmu will compete to be the Illini’s best perimeter playmaker and defender, and he’s shown good range in practice on his jumper. With Frazier and Nichols shouldering a lot of the scoring burden, Dosun-

mu should be free to impact the game in other ways. The additional newcomers include JUCO point guard Andres Feliz, graduate transfer Adonis De La Rosa and additional freshmen Tevian Jones, Alan Griffin, Giorgi Bezhanishvilli, Samba Kane and Anthony Higgs.

Only missing Adonis De La Rosa and Anthony Higgs due to injury, Underwood will expect to put almost all of his tools to the test this Friday night against Illinois Wesleyan in the team’s first exhibition matchup.

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The mark is over 120 rushing yards per game better than last season’s average per game (105.6). Although the statistics show quite a bit of offensive improvement, the score at the end of the game does little to reflect this. “What didn’t go wrong Saturday?” Corbin said. “We didn’t score enough points on the offensive side; that’s just on us. We have to do better.” The Illini defense has been underwhelming throughout the season with only spatterings of strong performances. However, it is ranked No. 24 nationally in turnovers gained per game (1.88). For the Illini to make a postseason bowl game, they must win at least three of their last four games. “There’s so much football left to go, and we’ve gone through an awful lot, but eventually, you get over the hump,” Smith said. “We want to be one of those teams that went through some things but came out of it even stronger and ended up finishing it up the right way.” @tati_perry14 tp3@dailyillini.com

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on issues happening around the world or issues prevalent to college students. “Hear My Voice is a lot about encouraging open dialogue,” Midha said. As the group continues through its restructuring phase, Midha hopes the community will grow in both numbers and diversity as most members are in the Colleges of Media and LAS. They meet biweekly to discuss assignments and plan future activities on their Facebook page. Midha is working to make the club more geared toward the student body in general, so that anyone interested in highlighting social issues can be a part of Hear My Voice, regardless of their interest in journalistic or scholarly writing. Midha said her vision for the club is to create a space for open dialogue. “(I went to get) a group of passionate people together to create a social media page that sparks healthy conversation on difficult topics that may be polarizing and create an environment for everybody’s perspective to be heard respectfully, so people feel that they can express themselves and learn from people who have completely different ideas.”

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Then I came to campus, and through the College of Media, I found Hear My Voice. It’s nice to do the same things that I do in my blog within a community.” Midha is working this semester to change the structure of the organization from a journalism class format to a flexible community. The student-written articles are moving from the website to a Facebook page, where students can post articles relevant to world events, their personal beliefs, reactions to the news, personal narratives or more formal articles. “As of now, I run the meetings and give out weekly assignments. I’m trying to make Hear My Voice more of a social-media based group, where I sit in a really informal space and discuss contributing to the Facebook page,” Midha said. “I’m trying to make it a smaller commitment in terms of time and encourage more people to share their voice, especially if they are marginalized or not heard enough.” Midha hopes the shift to social media will encourage more student and community interaction and participation with Hear My Voice.

In addition to increased accessibility and interaction, Midha and the other members of Hear My Voice are planning to expand their forms of expression. Mariel Elopre, sophomore in Media, has been creating concept art and panels for a web comic she hopes to debut on Twitter that holds relevance to the organization’s mission of shedding light on marginalized groups and perspectives. “This web comic (I’m working on) is called ‘ExtroIntro,’ and it’s about this transgender introverted freshman named Anx who tries to reinvent himself as an extrovert,” Elopre said. “The comic will cover other marginalized or controversial topics as well.” Hear My Voice plans diversity-encouraging events on campus. “Outside of just the website writing, we have the Diversity Fest event once a semester that is usually an open-mic night giving students and even community members who aren’t a part of Hear My Voice to express their ideas of empowerment through music, dance, spoken word and other means.” Elopre said. The organization also works to create events where students can hear people from different groups speak

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John Isberg works behind the camera on his upcoming film, “Magnetic Fields.” Isberg’s newest documentary, “Where it Begins”, is about Champaign’s punk rock music scene and will be released in the spring.

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Nearly three years ago, while filming behind-thescenes footage for Champaign’s Pygmalion Festival, local filmmaker and musician John Isberg had an idea for a documentary addressing the music scene of Champaign. Now, after 75 interviews, roughly $20,000 and innumerable miles traveled cross-country, “Where it Begins: 1977-2000” is almost ready for release. Isberg has always had a passion for filmmaking. As far back as middle school, he and his friends would run around with a camera to film, using a sheet of plexiglass to reflect images of the TV and create a Star Trek holodeck effect. He even attended a semester of film school at Southern Illinois University. Despite his lifelong passion, Isberg’s career in the field really began in 2014 when he interned on a film for a local production company, Shatterglass Studio. “I interned on it as a grip, and it just totally changed my life,” Isberg said. “I was

like, ‘This couldn’t have come at a better time.’ I was going through a lot of hard stuff at that time, and I felt like that gave me just a huge self-esteem boost.” Finally, after some time filming music videos, Isberg grabbed a camera and started calling himself a documentary filmmaker. Originally starting as a documentary on Pygmalion, “Where it Begins” quickly changed focus and is now about the punk rock scene in Champaign and how it has influenced its audience. “There was just something about that alternative era and grunge that felt like you in a way,” Isberg said. “I think the music spoke to you emotionally, and it kind of touched that kind of teenage angst and anger thing that people have sometimes.” The documentary contains interviews from some memorable names from the scene, including Kim Deal of “The Breeders” and “Pixies” and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Buddy Carlos, as well as lesser-known local bands from the era such as The Elvis Brothers.

Isberg, a member of the band Tiger Beats and previous member of three other bands, says his experience in music aided him during his interviews. “It’s just having that common shared experience that makes it ... I feel like I’ve been able to go talk to Buddy Carlos who’s this insane Hall of Fame drummer, but within two minutes we’re just talking like normal people,” he said. The documentary is almost entirely self-funded aside from an Indiegogo campaign that brought in around $7,000. This meant that for out-of-state interviews, Isberg had to drive himself there. “I remember I went to New York to interview this guy, John Fine,” Isberg said. “So I was in New York City, and I left immediately after that to go to D.C. to go interview Ian MacKaye from Fugazi. And then right after that, I think I went to Florida to the fest, all literally within three or four days or something.” Isberg hasn’t only been working on the documentary these last three years.

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He’s currently working on three other projects alongside it. One project is a short web narrative made in cooperation with the University physics department, called “Magnetic Fields.” He, along with Professor Nayda Mason, created the series that appealed to eighth through 12th graders and encouraged underrepresented populations to get excited about science. Isberg, a former teacher himself, mentioned how he enjoyed writing the dialogue for the high school age characters. “I thought a lot about them (his former students) and the things that they would say. I’d try to keep it as realistic as possible. And so sometimes it was just funny to write their dialogue because I just start laughing and be like, ‘I remember that day,’” Isberg said. He is also working on another documentary, “Ghost Cowboy” — the story of a stroke survivor and ghost hunter named Bob — that he started to work on even before “Where it Begins.”

As a former teacher of children with emotional disabilities and as someone whose grandparents had strokes, Isberg said it was special for him. “I’m a pretty big advocate for disability rights, and both my grandparents had strokes, and so watching this guy go in old haunted houses, to me it was cool to see that his passion was what was feeling his rehabilitation, you know?” While “Where it Begins” originally was planned to be released in time for the fall festival season, it is now expected for spring 2019. Despite the delay and all the stress the film has brought on, Isberg was quick to point out how he enjoyed the experience and the sense of community he felt. He hopes the audience gets a feel for that when they watch the film. “I really want to just wreck them emotionally, you know?,” Isberg said. “But then, make them immediately want to go out and start a band.” liamd2@readbuzz.com

The University of Illinois is famous for its diverse campus and the varying opinions, cultures and ideas of its students. Students can often find others with shared thoughts or customs, but some students can feel marginalized or excluded from campus culture. Added to today’s polarizing politics and societal issues, some students might feel as if their voices have been silenced. Dr. Janice Collins, a journalism professor at Illinois, and Indira Midha, junior in Media, are working to create a space where all marginalized voices can be heard. Hear My Voice is a student organization started in the Spring 2016 semester based on Dr. Collins’ work on Active Centralized Empowerment. “ACE means ‘to actively center yourself within what is unique and special about yourself.’ It could be that they are rich, poor, black, white, LGBTQ, spiritual, etc.,” Collins said. “This uniqueness gives them cross-cultural competence which empowers them to move from the margins. A place of freedom and autonomy is offered, but it is up to the individual to actually move from the margins to the core of existence and empowerment.” Midha said that the organization’s goal is to establish an environment where everyone’s opinion can be heard respectfully and where others can listen to it as well. In this environment, students can learn while keeping their own personal beliefs aside and without feeling like someone is trying to convert them. Midha is the student president of the Hear My Voice registered student organization and runs the meetings, Facebook page and events in collaboration with Dr. Collins. She joined the group in the second semester of her freshman year and was made president her sophomore year. “I started a blog called Indira’s Inner Beauty that covered topics that I think aren’t covered often in mainstream media,” Midha said. “As a biracial woman and a child of immigrants, I blogged as a solidification of my own identity. SEE VOICE | 5B

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