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Students crowded the hallway in an impromptu sit-in outside a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees on Friday, August 22 at 2 p.m. Trustees met to consider “pending, probable and imminent” University appointment-related matters. Although the agenda for the meeting contained no specific topics, two mass emails were sent out before and after the meeting regarding Steven Salaita, a former professor at Virginia Tech who posted controversial tweets about Israel earlier this month. Between 10 and 15 students attended the meeting in hopes of speaking in favor or Salaita’s reinstatement at the University but were asked to leave before they could give a statement on the issue.
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Wise around 1 p.m. on Friday explaining her rationale behind a previous email she sent to Salaita on Aug. 1. The email informed him that the University no longer supported his appointment to AIS, and that an affi rmative vote from the Board of Trustees to hire him was unlikely. Wise’s email was followed by a second mass email from Christopher Kennedy, chairman of the Board of Trustees, and Robert Easter, University President around 4 p.m, the same day expressing their support for Wise’s decision. In Friday’s email, Wise wrote that the University’s withdrawal of support for Salaita was unrelated to his beliefs; however she wrote the University is committed to creating,“a welcoming environment for faculty and students alike,” in which they can freely explore and debate controversial topics. “What we cannot and will not tolerate at the University of Illinois are personal and disrespectful words or actions that demean and abuse either viewpoints themselves or those who express them,” Wise wrote.
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Senator Mark Kirk talks with the family of 12-year-old Jackson Cunningham (second from left). Kirk and Cunningham struck up a relationship after Kirk suffered a stroke in Jan. 2012 and Cunningham wrote to him about his own stroke. On Monday, the two raced on the Memorial Stadium field to celebrate Cunningham achieving his goal of running again.
University sets new world record with tomato spread BY ANDREW YOON STAFF WRITER
Nutella no longer holds the Guinness World Record for largest container of spread — the title now belongs to the University of Illinois for the largest jar of tomato spread. University Housi ng employees and several onlooking students poured five-gallon buckets into the 4.6 foot tall container, which holds 105 gallons, on the Ikenberry Commons Quad. More than 1,100 pounds of peaches and 1,250 pounds of tomatoes were used from the Sustainable Student Farm and other local producers. Food preparation took place over
three days, during which sugar, water and balsamic vinegar were added to enhance the fl avor. “We exchanged ideas with Guinness halfway through the second semester,” said Carrie Anderson, executive chef of University Housing. “Initially, it was supposed to be the largest container of BBQ sauce, but that didn’t work out. I suggested a tomato spread after that and that’s what we went with.” After being divided into batches of 20 servings each, the record-breaking spread will be transported in portions to all of the University’s dining halls in hopes that students can
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University Dining staff members pour tomato sauce to break the Guinness World Record for largest container of spread, previously held by Nutella.
taste and enjoy the University’s success. “My job is to expect the unexpected,” said Michael Empric, adjudicator for the Guinness Book of World Records. “It’s cool for freshmen who grew up reading the Guinness World Record books to fi nally be a part of that to start their college experience.” Empric flew back to New York Thursday night and announced that the University of Illinois broke the previous record. The University has annually broken a record during Welcome Week since 2011. Pooja Bag, senior in Engineering, was one of the people on-site during the event. “It’s fun to always set a world record as a collective group,” Bag said. “It’s cheesy but I like it, especially the ‘spread the news’ part.” She said she would like to see the University attempt to break the record for the largest flour taco. Adrian Brandemuehl , freshman in Engineering, stood in the rain as he watched bucket after bucket pour into the container. His high school unsuccessfully attempted to break a world record. Upon breaking the world record, Brandemuehl had a smile of satisfaction on his face.
American Indian Studies program casts no confidence vote in Wise
University Housing continues to break world records
Each year, the University Housing staff coordinates with Guinness World Records to add another record on its back. Here is a look at previous records broken since 2011. 2011: World’s largest smoothie (weighing 330 gallons) 2012: Greatest number of people husking corn at one time (3,463 participants) 2013: World’s largest serving of salsa (weighing 6,840 pounds) 2014: World’s largest jar of spread, beating previous record-holder Nutella
On Sunday, AIS faculty casted a vote of no confi dence in Wise, stating she did not consult with the AIS program or college before making the decision. “The faculty of UIUC’s American Indian Studies program also joins the thousands of scholars and organizations in the United States and across the world in seeing the Chancellor’s action as a violation of academic freedom and freedom of speech,” wrote AIS faculty. AIS faculty further alleged that, “Chancellor Wise’s decision was in fact made in response to external pressures that sought to block Prof. Salaita’s hire, coupled with her objection over the content and tone of his personal and political tweets over the subject of the Israeli bombing of Palestine.”
Board of Trustees send mass mail in support of Wise’s decision
University students received a mass email from Chancellor Phyllis
Sit-in forms outside executive session Chairman Kennedy and President Easter, along with 11 trustees and other members of administrative staff, expressed support for Wise’s “philosophy of academic freedom and free speech tempered in respect for human rights.” However, t r uste e s refused to grant a group of students attending the Executive Committee meeting time to voice their opposition to the withdrawal of Salaita’s position before the executive session began. These students see the University’s move to rescind
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“It was a memorable fi rst twenty-four hours. Maybe next year they can have the spiciest salsa,” he said.
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Committee to form for monitoring tenure hiring BY ANGELICA LAVITO STAFF WRITER
Members of the UrbanaChampaign Senate Executive Committee agreed to move ahead with a resolution to form a committee for instances in which the chancellor or provost fi nd a reason not to proceed with a tenure-track hire that has already been approved by department and college committees at its meeting Monday. This comes after Chancellor Phyllis Wise rescinded an offer of employment on Aug. 1 to American Indian studies professor Steven Salaita. In August, Salaita posted several politically charged tweets regarding conflict in Gaza.
The University has statutes dealing with hiring, but the new task force will specifically explore the process when the provost or chancellor does not agree with a hiring decision despite approval from the department. In conjunction with the Office of the Provost, the SEC Chair will create a task force composed of tenured faculty members and appropriate administrative officers. The group will be tasked with developing a new process, although they can also conclude that the current process is effective. “What we’re facing in this situation is an extraordinary, literally extra ordinary set of circumstances,” said Nicholas Burbules, SEC
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member and professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership. “It’s a perfect storm of problems that all converge at the same time.” Joyce Tolliver, SEC member and associate professor of Spanish, agreed that the hiring process is sensitive. Because of this, she said the University should have a detailed process for rescinding offers of employment when the chancellor does not agree with a department or college committee’s recommendation for hiring. “[Detenure] is something you hope never happens and in fact very, very, very rarely happens,” Tolliver said. “In a situation where you do think it might be necessary,
you do need a very detailed procedure to deal with it.” The Provost and Chair of SEC will meet in the future to talk about the selection process of those on the committee. “The critical issue is putting together a group that won’t be criticized for being unfair or biased,” said Kim Graber, SEC Vice Chair and professor of Kinesiology and Community Health. Burbules added that he does not think anybody anticipates situations like this to come up, but if it does “I hope that we have thorough guidelines of what to do.”
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SIT-IN his job offer as a violation of academic freedom, and believe that he should be reinstated immediately. “It’s nice that you’re here, and now we must say goodbye,” said Kennedy to the students as a motion passed to begin an executive session. Executive Committee meetings on faculty-related matters are closed-door affairs, reserved for members of the Committee and their invited guests. The students were unaware that they would not be permitted to read prepared statements objecting to Salaita’s dismissal. Graduate student in the
Institute of Communication Research, Rico Kleinstein Chenyek, was unwilling to leave the meeting before having a chance to speak out against Wise’s withdrawal of Salaita’s position in AIS. “I just want to make it really clear that this is an issue that really matters for us as students on this campus,” Kleinstein Chenyek said as students exited the conference room. Before he could fi nish his statement, he was cut off by Kennedy, who thanked Rico for sharing his thoughts, but stated, “there’s no way we can conduct our business and allow everyone to speak.” “I understand that,” Rico interjected. “[But] since we’re not being invited to speak, and we don’t have a
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space to speak, I just think it’s important that we make our voices heard just like the professors that hold jobs on this campus.” Despite their objections, the students were removed from the meeting and regrouped in the lobby. Officers from the University of Illinois Police Department arrived in response to the unanticipated demonstration. After 45 minutes of deliberation, the students concluded that if they would not be allowed to voice their opposition to Salaita’s termination, they would stage a sit-in in front of the conference room door. For Stephanie Skora, senior in LAS, not only did the University make the wrong choice when it effec-
tively fi red Salaita, it carried out its decision with little transparency. “We’re also here in formal protest of the clear lack of transparency shown by the administration in the effort to deny students a voice in this matter,” said Skora. Matt Myrick, University Police lieutenant, sat in a chair in the hallway with the students in order to learn more about their reasons for protesting. Roughly two hours later, the doors to the conference room opened. The protesters believed that they were being given a chance to share their thoughts with the board, but were stunned to discover that members had already left the room through an unknown exit. In protest, Salaita’s
supporters carried on with their original plan for the meeting and delivered their written list of demands on video to the empty chairs of the trustees. The video was posted to YouTube with the hashtag “supportsalaita.” In their prepared statements, students listed actions they implored the board to take, including the reinstatement of Salaita to his tenured position in AIS and the creation of a University Administrative Oversight Committee consisting of both graduate and undergraduate student leaders, experienced faculty and members of the Illinois Student Senate, which would hold administrative officials accountable for their actions.
Explosion rocks recycling plant Two employees dead, 1 injured at plant in Granite City BY JOEL CURRIER MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
GRANITE CITY, Ill. — A mortar round went off at the Totall Metal Recycling plant on Monday morning, killing two people and injuring one, police said. Chief Rich Miller of the Granite City Police Department said the two bodies have been removed and the injured worker is at a St. Louis hospital. Police would not provide the condition or the nature of the man’s injury. It was unclear where the mortar came from. It exploded in an outdoor area at the plant. During a news conference down the road from the plant, Miller said police
are not treating the explosion as a criminal investigation. He described it as an industrial accident. “Nobody in the general area is in danger,” Miller said. “Everybody is safe here.” On Monday afternoon, the company released a statement saying it was cooperating with authorities. “This is an extremely difficult day for our entire Totall Metal Recycling family following the loss of two of our friends and colleagues this morning,” the statement said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families as we collectively cope with this tragedy.” An Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit truck from Scott Air Force Base was on the scene. A police bomb squad went into the property before 10 a.m. Relatives began showing up outside the plant but were kept back by police
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WASHINGTON — The Army said a female soldier at Fort Lee barricaded herself in an office and apparently killed herself in an intense morning event that caused the central Virginia military base to go on a nearly hour-long lockdown. The soldier was pronounced dead at Virginia Commonwealth Univer-
sity Medical Center after the incident, which began about 8:45 a.m., the Army said Monday afternoon. The soldier allegedly entered the Combined Arms Support Command Headquarters building with a weapon and went into an offi ce, the Army said. An alert was then sounded, the installation was put on lockdown, and all
The students believe that the chancellor’s response to their request to speak on the topic directly contradicts the mass email she sent on Friday. “These debates make us stronger as an institution and force advocates of all viewpoints to confront the arguments and perspectives offered by others,” Wise wrote, “We are a university built on precisely this type of dialogue, discourse and debate.” Students from the sit-in will hold a protest to reinstate Salaita this Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. in front of the Swanlund Administration Building.
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The scene of Totall Metal Recycling plant after an explosion there on Monday, in Granite City, Ill. A mortar round went off at the plant, police said, killing two people and injuring one more. Workers claim the conditions at the site are unsafe. officers. Miguel Romo, 41, of Fairmount City, is a maintenance worker at the plant. He said he was inside a mai ntena nce buildi ng when heard an explosion about 6:30 a.m. Monday. Romo said his brother, Rudolfo Romo, 46, died in the blast. Ryan Cerentano, 29, of Affton, was standing on Missouri Avenue, down the road from the plant.
He had been fi red from the plant in May. He showed up Monday morning, yelling at the company from behind the police lines, and police told him to calm down. He said one of those killed was his half brother, Tyler Muenstermann, 24, of Edwardsville. “He was the best of all of us,” Cerentano said. “It’s far more than I can fathom right now, and I’m having a real hard time deal-
ing with it.” Cerentano claimed conditions at the company were not safe. “There’s a lot of unsafe stuff there,” he said. OSHA has cited Totall Metal’s facility in Granite City for serious violations in 2011 and 2012 for violations of lead and respiratory protections, Priddy said. He said the company also has another facility in Fairmont City.
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access gates were closed temporarily. “Fort Lee police responded within two minutes of the incident being reported and quickly established contact with the individual,” the military said. “During the course of negotiation with the soldier, she reportedly turned the weapon on herself.” An “all-clear” message was issued at the base
shortly around 9:50 a.m., just over an hour after the incident began. All gates were then reopened for normal operations. The soldier’s name has not been released, in accordance with Department of Defense policy, but Fort Lee said on its Facebook page that she was a sergeant fi rst class and had 14 years of service. No other injuries were reported.
Special agents from the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command are looking into the incident, the Army said. Fort Lee is the thirdlargest training site in the Army, according to the base’s website. Its daily population averages about 34,000, including members from all branches, their families, civilians and contractors.
The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for the Champaign area, which will be in effect from noon Monday until 7 p.m. Tuesday. The heat index could reach as high as 107 degrees Tuesday, with a forecasted high of 93 degrees. The heat will peak from noon to 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. Champaign Central High School will dismiss at 1:05 p.m. Tuesday due to the high heat index. The intensity of the weather could quickly bring on heat exhaustion and heat stroke with minimal exertion. Avoid heatrelated illnesses by drinking fluids, staying in air conditioned rooms and out of the sun, and rescheduling any strenuous activity to the early morning or evening, according to the National Weather Service. Common signs of heat exhaustion include dizziness, fatigue, muscle cramps, nausea and fainting, according to WebMD. com. It is recommended that anyone that is overcome by heat exhaustion should be moved to a cool and shaded location. If there are signs of a heat stroke, call 911.
In Ferguson, mourning and protests continue for Brown Community comes together in solidarity during funeral
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FERGUSON, Mo. — Relatives of Michael Brown urged mourners Monday to turn their anger into a catalyst for change as thousands attended the funeral for Brown, an unarmed black man whose death at the hands of a white police officer has focused attention on what protesters say is racial profiling by law enforcement. “Michael was a big guy, but he was a kind, gentle soul,” said one of several family members who spoke to those gathered inside the packed Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. “I love you Mike. That’s all I’ve got to say,” Bernard Ewing, another relative, said as he choked back tears. The casket containing the body of Brown sat at the front of the church as ushers guided mourners to their seats. Large photographs of Brown flanked the black-andgold casket. A huge bouquet of red roses and a St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap sat atop it. Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, wearing a cardinal red dress, stood for several minutes at the casket before going to her seat. A single tear ran down her face, and she shook her head back and forth as if in disbelief, oblivious to the crush of people filing into the service. They included the Rev. Jesse Jackson; Al Sharpton; filmmaker Spike Lee; actor Wesley Snipes; Sen. Claire McCaskill and Rep. Maxine Waters. But it was the regular citizens who formed the bulk of the mourners. Many did not know Brown, who was 18,
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The casket of Michael Brown exits Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church at the end of his funeral on Monday. Dozens of mourners attended his funeral in solidarity with him and his family. or his family personally, but spoke of them and wept as if they were family. “This is just so, so heartbreaking,” said Monica Jackson, one of the mourners. “They shouldn’t be burying this boy. He should be going to college. Not to a cemetery.” A line of several hundred people stretched outside the church hours before the doors opened _ women in church hats, men in suits and ties, occasionally singing “We Shall Overcome” as they waited during the sweltering, muggy morning. “We love you!” members of the crowd shouted as McSpadden emerged from
a limousine and entered the church. Greg Davis, 57, of Ferguson, was among the first in line at the church. Davis said he knows Brown’s great-uncle, who was to deliver the eulogy, and that he had come to support the Brown family and to draw attention to police brutality and racial profiling — the problems that protesters have said led Officer Darren Wilson to shoot Brown. “Change starts with us as a community,” Davis said, gesturing to police nearby as he stood outside the church about 7 a.m. “Justice for me is to stop profiling us.
I would love to see them walk the beat, get to know the residents. Right now, it’s hard for me to call them.” Davis wore a pin with Brown’s picture that read simply: “Justice.” Other mourners wore brown T-shirts printed with the refrain that has become the rallying call for protesters: “Hands up, don’t shoot.” Witnesses have said Brown had his hands up and was trying to surrender when Wilson shot him on Aug. 9. Police have said Brown attacked Wilson and that the officer fired in self-defense. A grand jury began hearing evidence in the case Aug. 20.
Davis said he had been thinking a lot about the video, widely shown on TV and social media, of Brown’s body lying in the middle of the street for hours after the shooting. The image has angered some protesters who said it smacked of disrespect for Brown. “That’s something I can forgive,” Davis said. “Some people can’t.” Indeed, marches have continued nightly on Ferguson’s West Florissant Avenue, near the shooting scene, since Brown’s death. Lately they have been peaceful, with no signs of the looting or teargas lobbed by heavily armed
police — images that stunned the city and the nation in the days immediately following Brown’s killing. But marchers have said they will not stop their protests and hope that Brown’s death serves as a catalyst for change in a community that they say has long needed it. Eric Davis, a member of the extended Brown family, said that at least Monday should remain peaceful in honor of Brown. “Today is for peace. Peace and quiet,” Davis told mourners inside the church. “We don’t say goodbye,” he said of Brown. “We say good journey, until we meet again.”
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dministrators felt they had the University’s best interests in mind when they chose not to appoint Steven Salaita to a tenured faculty spot in the American Indian studies program. The comments that Salaita made on Twitter regarding the conflict in Gaza were inappropriate and offensive, thus the University was consistent with its statutes in deciding not to hire Salaita. The statutes express that faculty have the same freedom as citizens, but only to a certain extent, which we think is contradictory. Chancellor Wise and the board cannot say the decision still supports the ideas behind open discussion and the ability to express one’s own perspectives when decisions concerning Salaita’s employment were made behind closed doors. In a mass email sent out to University students and faculty on Friday, Chancellor Wise wrote that “a pre-eminent university must always be a home for difficult discussions� and the University holds many diverse opinions where “debate makes us stronger.� While these are admirable guidelines to uphold amongst University students and affiliates, it contradicts the actions that were made to terminate Salaita’s appointment as a professor for expressing an opinion. In a follow-up to Chancellor Wise’s message, the board acknowledged the words used by Salaita were contributing to “disrespectful and demeaning speech,� and it was essentially the words he used that contributed to the rescinded offer by the University. Not only were Salaita’s viewpoints silenced, but a group of students who took their protest of Salaita’s firing directly to the August 22nd Board of Trustees executive committee meeting were not allowed to voice their opinion as the meeting went into a closed session. Board members later exited this meeting through a private exit instead of the hallway where the students remained. We think it is important to consider the outcry and response to Salaita’s position termination by students and University affiliates, as well as other concerned citizens and professionals across the country. These responses by others uphold Chancellor Wise’s emphasis on the importance of debate, discussion and differing viewpoints, and therefore these voices should be heard and considered in a situation with this much backlash. The Board of Trustees’ lack of willingness to listen to the concerns of the University community did not back up a core mission of encouraging different perspectives. To reiterate, we understand the basis of the decision made by the University. We take Chancellor Wise and the Board’s words into consideration as they highlight the importance of welcoming discussion, new perspectives and creating a comfortable environment for all, but we do not believe the statutes or their actions reflect all of these missions.
Lack of campus inclusivity hurts students EMMA GOODWIN Opinions columnist
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recently read an article published by the Chicago Tribune that stated that nearly ten percent of this year’s University freshmen are students who came from China. While this is a great opportunity to learn about different cultures and diversify our education, I can already see why this could pose a problem for our current underclassmen after going here for just one year. If you’re a student of any nationality here, you’ve probably noticed an extreme cultural gap between international students and students born and raised here in the United States — from the various languages spoken to the way people get on the bus, and everything in between. Despite the various, but limited, inclusion programs at the University, each cultural group seems to be secluded from one another, which is problematic when trying to form a cohesive student body. Even the comments on some University-oriented social media sites include rude and offensive words about international students who are supposed to be our peers, which makes it clear that there is a disparity between international students and students from the states. With the added benefit of extremely steep prices on any
foreign student’s tuition, it’s understandable why the University wants them to compose such a large part of our student population, in addition to diversifying the campus. What’s not understandable, though, is why it seems like there are limited programs to make us feel like one student body. Instead, there is a stark feeling of separation. Yes, freshmen have a brief orientation program within their own majors. Yes, we have the I-Connect Diversity and Inclusion Workshop. Within the dorms, there are differ-
What’s not understandable ... is why it seems like there are limited programs to make us feel like one student body. ent cultural programs (that, to me, always seemed to educate American students about other countries but not vice versa) hosted throughout the year. But the fact of the matter is that many of these programs throw unenthusiastic students into a classroom with a few student supervisors. Many
sign in for credit and mentally check out for the rest of the seminar. And then the University decides that the onehour program is a sufficient ice-breaker, that one hour is enough to work through cultural and language barriers and make everyone best friends with sunshine and rainbows for the entire year, apparently. However, this isn’t enough to break through all of the frigid ice and bring international students out of secluded friend groups, and the same goes for students from the United States. With the Global Crossroads Living-Learning Community and limited dorms that stay open during break periods, it makes sense why most students who are studying abroad at the University get filtered into PAR and ISR residence halls. Even still, this should not serve as an excuse for the limited integration done by the University to ensure that transfer students and American students mingle, talk or even meet. It’s unfair to the entire student body to have such limited programming. It can give international students a disjointed, and sometimes cold, impression of what America actually is. And it doesn’t help that the language barrier is only fixable on a one-way street. While any non-native English speaker wanting to study here must take an English test, there are many different components to being proficient in a language. While you might be an excellent reader of a certain
language, you might not be able to easily pick it up while listening or speaking. And even if you feel like an excellent speaker in the classroom, it is much different being immersed among native speakers when slang and dialects are incorporated. The burden of socializing is then put, unfortunately, almost entirely on Chinese students, as they speak English, but Chinese is not a language frequently taught in American schools. If most transfer students were from Spain, Mexico or France, more American students might be able to more comfortably and confidently start conversation, and vice versa. This language barrier is the fault of nobody, and yet, we are all facing the consequences of it due to what I feel are limited integration attempts by the University. Instead of throwing everyone into the same student body, adding fuel to various prejudices, taking in big tuition payments and calling it a successfully diverse University, more effort should be put into trying to teach American students about international culture and international students about American culture. There are so many different components to creating a cohesive, spirited and successful student body, and we have a long way to go to make campus inclusiveness as effective as it could be.
Emma is a sophomore in LAS. She can be reached at egoodwi2@dailyillini.com.
Termination of Salaita is censorship STEPHANIE YOUSSEF Opinions columnist
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August 1, Chancellor Phyllis Wise and Vice President Christophe Pierre emailed Steven Salaita to notify him of their decision to terminate any further action by the Board of Trustees to offer him a tenured position with the University faculty. According to a later email from the chancellor, this decision was based on inflammatory tweets on Salaita’s Twitter page about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the fact that the language he used goes against the University’s commitment to creating a welcoming environment. Debates surrounding the implications this decision has on the University’s stance on freedom of speech have been heating up. Despite the fact that the University administration claims to uphold the principles of academic freedom, the actions that the administrators have taken against Salaita endorse censorship. The road to a censored community is a slippery one because defining what a student or faculty member might find inflammatory or offensive is a matter of opinion. In a recent email sent out to University students by Chan-
cellor Wise, she claims that “all of us — my administration, the University administration and I — absolutely are committed to (academic freedom).� Allow me to point out a discrepancy between the actions of the administration and this claim. The principles of academic freedom and freedom of speech come without qualifications; you are either free to say what you want or you aren’t. Although the Chancellor claims that it was how Salaita presented his political views in his tweets, not the stance he took that threatened the University’s learning environment, it doesn’t matter. With true freedom, one should have the ability to present any view, regardless of how extreme or how offensive the wording may seem. To uphold freedom of speech, you uphold it in its fullest — uncensored, untempered and unabbreviated. Chancellor Wise’s email continued, “What we cannot and will not tolerate at the University of Illinois are personal and disrespectful words or actions that demean and abuse either viewpoints themselves or those who express them.� The Chancellor and the Vice President drew the line between constructive academic debate and words that demean other viewpoints based on their standards and opinions. What
the University administration deemed offensive, Salaita deemed tweetable. For the University administration to claim that people at the University can only express opinions within limits is the definition of censorship. So, despite the fact that the Chancellor and the Board had the power to not give Salaita a tenured University faculty position, in this case, they are not upholding the principles
The actions that the administrators have taken ... endorse censorship. of academic freedom. To me, emailing the student body in an attempt to hide the administration’s decision to uphold institutional censorship is misleading at best. Given that the University went against the true doctrine of freedom of speech in order to control the learning environment, how far is the University administration willing to go? Since faculty and students alike contribute to the learning environment, where does the University administration’s “commitment to creating a welcoming environment� end?
If I were to start tweeting with the same fervor as Salaita, would the University administration come knocking on my apartment door? Should faculty members exercise caution with every word they use so as to avoid stepping on administrators’ toes? Are they going to start banning books and websites that are deemed abusive or demeaning by the standards of the Chancellor and the Vice President? The entire premise has Ray Bradbury rolling in his grave. In light of this event, the University administration should come to terms with the fact that their actions against Steven Salaita are the actions of censors, and in doing so, they are not in support of freedom of speech. Additionally, the administration needs to define exactly what kind of learning environment they want to outline and abide by at this University: an academically free environment where students and professors express their opinions without restrictions, or a censored one, where we have to worry about what words administrators may deem improper.
Stephanie is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at syousse2@dailyillini.com. Follow her on Twitter @syoussef22.
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Louis Vuitton Angela Yang, senior in Media, was no stranger to meeting high-profile people either. As an intern at Louis Vuitton in Chicago, Yang helped with private client events. The events had servers hand out champagne and desserts, while a Ford model tried on Louis Vuitton outfits for the clients. One time Yang helped Albert Pujols at the store, but did not know it was him until after Pujols left. Another time, Yang said George Lucas and his wife came into the store. She said she learned about asset protection, merchandising and working with clientele. But what she really appreciated was having great coworkers in a big city. “The Louis Vuitton in Chicago had this family environment that I really appreciated,� Yang said. “I’m hoping to find something similar to that at my new job after graduation.�
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A 6.0-magnitude earthquake left four homes destroyed by fire and at least two others badly charred at the Napa Valley Mobile Home Park in Napa, Calif., on Sunday. The community was left without water and power, and many home were damaged by the early morning temblor.
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NAPA, Calif. — The little-known West Napa Fault shook for about 20 seconds early Sunday, enough to leave the San Francisco Bay Area with its biggest earthquake in 25 years — wrecking historic wine country buildings, buckling streets, emptying store shelves, rupturing gas and water lines, and sending about 170 people to the hospital. The 6.0-magnitude earthquake, centered about six miles south of the city of Napa, was a reminder to Californians that it takes much less than the dreaded Big One to unleash substantial damage and fray a community’s nerves. If there was consolation in the small towns and bucolic countryside of Napa County, home to hundreds of wineries, it was that the quake struck at 3:20 a.m., when most people were home in the relative safety of their beds. No one died and only half a dozen suffered serious injuries, including a boy crushed by a falling fireplace. Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for the area, where more than 30,000 residents from Napa, St. Helena, Santa Rosa, Sonoma and American Canyon were still without power by late afternoon. A series of minor aftershocks sustained an air of tension for residents and visitors, who were crowding the area during the peak tourist season of late summer. The magnitude was less than the 6.9 of the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, which killed 63 and caused $6 billion in damage. But that was of no solace to those terrorized by Sunday’s temblor, with shaking so violent residents described struggling to get out of bed. “You anticipate the Big One all your life,� said Kim Northrop, owner of a vintage shop in Napa that was damaged. “It’s part of what you expect living in California. Just not on some Sunday in August.� The quake caused a series
of secondary emergencies. Broken gas lines in the Napa Valley Mobile Home Park touched off a fire. With water lines in the neighborhood also broken, firefighters could not immediately douse the flames, and four mobile homes burned to their concrete foundations. Many of the 60 water main breaks in Napa remained unrepaired Sunday evening, said Napa Public Works Director Jack LaRochelle, who predicted that it could take a week to get service completely restored. Inspectors red-tagged at least 15 commercial buildings and 100 homes, the designation marking the structures as unsafe for entry, pending further review. Some of Napa’s landmark structures — including the Sam Kee Laundry, Goodman Library, the Napa County Courthouse and Vintner’s Collective building bore some of the worst damage. Napa City Councilman Alfredo Pedroza feared that the vintner’s building and the library could be total losses. Although Napa took the brunt of the temblor, Vallejo — several miles south of the epicenter — sustained “quite a bit of damage,� said Mark S. Ghilarducci, director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. In downtown Vallejo, part of the outer wall of the First United Methodist Church, built in 1922, crashed to the sidewalk. Inside, the floor was littered with plaster and paint chips, and a stuffed toy had fallen from a shelf, but there was little other visible damage, said the Rev. Renee Rico. Inside, congregants were attending its Sunday service. “I’ve had churches that had major fires,� Rico said. “So this is nothing.� An early-warning system being tested at the University of California, Berkeley signaled the quake about 10 seconds before the shaking, said Richard Allen, director of the university’s Seismological Laboratory. The quake could disrupt the region’s signature industry. Wineries, shops and pri-
vate cellars were littered with broken bottles and barrels of wine. The crisis came at a peak business period, with the Napa Valley teeming with wine-tasting excursions and wedding parties. “Napa could not be any more full than it is right now,� said Karen Lynch, owner of the Inn on Randolph, who took in guests from another bed and breakfast that suffered serious damage. “The harvest just started. We just hit our high season. There is not a room available anywhere.� Lynch felt fortunate that she had paid for a seismic retrofit on the inn three years ago, bolting the building to the foundation. The $115,000 job was “a bite� but the structure suffered only minor damage, she said, adding, “My husband looked to me this morning and said, ‘Best decision we ever made.’ “ Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa treated most of the injured. A dozen people were admitted, seven for broken bones and five for cardiac or respiratory distress. The fi rst wave of patients consisted largely of those who had cut their feet on broken glass. Walt Mickens, chief executive of the hospital, expressed pride at how his staff performed, rallying to serve the community despite minor injuries to some staffers and the need for emergency generators after power went out. He said his staff responded “in an extraordinary fashion to a very significant event.� The 13-year-old boy injured by a falling fireplace was in serious condition at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. As in many disasters, the psychic injuries from the quake could be harder to assess. Nicol Turner, a wedding planner, said many of the cake toppers and party favors she kept as mementos of past events had been broken, not to be retrieved. “It’s jarring,� Turner said. “It’s very unsettling. It reminds you that you’re mortal.�
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Cristina Valdez stands in the United Nations’ Security Council Chamber in New York City on Aug. 4. Valdez was one of the few applicants accepted into the U.N.’s internship program this last summer.
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UI students land competitive internships said he thinks his enthusiasm for the company was what set him apart from very year, summer internships other applicants during the interview can give University students the process. opportunity to do everything “The biggest thing that Boeing looks from meeting international dip- for is people who are passionate about lomats to feeding seals through Boeing,� he said. “A lot of the things these opportunities. they do, they can teach you how to do it. Companies and organizations such as What they care about is making Boeing Boeing, Louis Vuitton, Microsoft, Unit- great, not just making yourself great.� ed Nations and Brookfield Zoo take thouRallo interned in corporate finance sands of applicants each year. This past at the St. Louis branch of Boeing. As summer, five University students were the company’s second largest branch, able to experience working at these the St. Louis location received over a competitive locations. thousand applications this past year, but only accepted 20 to 50 United Nations interns in his departCristina Valdez, ment. Rallo said he managed budgets for senior in LAS, said six managers to make she screamed with joy when she got the sure projects were on email that she was track while working offered an internship at Boeing. at U.N. in New York Rallo said his most City. U.N. internships memorable experiusually only accept TYLER RALLO ence at his internship SENIOR IN BUSINESS was when he got to six to eight percent of applicants, accordfly in a flight simulator. Though the flying ing to Valdez. Valdez was a protocol intern. She sat was simulated, Rallo said he appreciin on high-level meetings of the U.N. ated how the internship allowed him to Security Council, Economic and Social take what he learned in the classroom Council and Trusteeship Council. She at the University and apply it in realtook notes as major political figures dis- world situations. cussed the war in Gaza, the political “Finance is finance no matter what it unrest in the Ukraine and the down- is,� he said. “What makes you love your ing of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. job is making something you think is “I had to constantly remind myself awesome.� that I was sitting in on the meetings that I usually read about in The New Brookfield Zoo York Times,� she said. Valdez said she worked outside of Jenna Epstein, senior in ACES, said meetings, too. She assisted the U.S. she was inspired by what she learned Ambassador to the U.N. and one of from studying abroad in South Afriher role models, Samantha Power, in ca last year when she applied for planning diplomatic events with world- her internship. In South Africa, she renowned diplomats, CEOs, journalists, observed veterinarians helping wildsenators and foreign ministers. Valdez life at Kruger National Park. Her expesaid her favorite was personally escort- rience led her to intern at the Brookfield ing Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary Gener- Zoo this past summer. al of the U.N., at an event. Brookfield Zoo had over 500 appli“This internship has opened many doors for me and has made me realize 6HDWWOH that international relations is truly my passion,� she said. BY REBECCA JACOBS
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cants for 22 internship positions, according to Epstein. Her position allowed her to prepare the buckets of fish and assist in training behavior sessions. During the Dolphins in Action presentation, she stood at the doors to control the crowd and answer questions the public had about the show. Epstein said she learned about positive reinforcement training and even got to go behind the exhibits, allowing her to meet seals, sea lions and dolphins. “It’s amazing to experience how trusting they are of you and to build a relationship with these animals,� she said.
Microsoft Emily Tran, senior in Engineering, interned in a completely different work setting: Microsoft. She went through phone screenings, on-campus interviews and was even flown to the West Coast for technical interviews that involved coding and product design. “It was really competitive because Microsoft is one of the companies at the career fair that receives tons of resumes and online applications,� she said. Tran worked on business intelligence features for Microsoft Excel. She was a program manager for two projects, working on competitive analysis and user-interface designs, in addition to volunteering at demo fairs. After her internship, she said she was offered a full-time position after graduation and took the opportunity. Interning at a company as large as Microsoft comes with perks, she said. Every year, Microsoft hosts an Intern Signature Event. This year, Tran went to the Puyallup Fairgrounds, complete with a David Blaine magic show and free Xbox Ones for each intern. Tran said she learned about Office products in-depth and the processes of developing software to improve existing products. Tran even participated
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Power rankings DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
Editor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini football staff ranks the football teams in the Big Ten 1-14 and compiles the lists into its own Big Ten power rankings.
1. MICHIGAN STATE The Spartans are poised to defend their Big Ten title after winning the Rose Bowl last season. The offense returns quarterback Connor Cook, as well as senior running back Jeremy Langford.
2. OHIO STATE Braxton Miller’s season-ending shoulder injury puts the Buckeye’s season in question. The expected Heisman Trophy candidate’s void leaves the offense in the hands of freshman J.T. Barrett, which could be troubling early in a somewhat tough nonconference schedule starting with Navy on the road. ZIANG XIAO THE DAILY ILLINI
Illinois’ DeJazz Woods tackles Geronimo Allison during the annual Orange and Blue Spring Game at Memorial Stadium on April 12.
DEFENSE GROWING UP
With returning experience at nearly all positions, Illini eager to show development from last year BY SEAN NEUMANN STAFF WRITER
The saying goes “the best defense is a good offense.� But even Illinois’ 426.7 yards per game on offense couldn’t make up for their abysmal defense last season. “There’s no question that the fundamentals were something that (we) lacked,� head coach Tim Beckman said. “We did not tackle well last year or rush the passer very good. There’s a lot of things we didn’t do good on defense.� The Illini defense allowed an average of 481.5 yards per game last season, ranking 110th in the NCAA and 11th in the Big Ten. With the team’s returning experience and depth, Beckman is hoping the Illini
will have a turnaround season on defense. Seniors Austin Teitsma and DeJazz Woods are returning on the defensive line alongside junior Kenny Nelson and Teko Powell. Junior college transfer Jihad Ward sits in the second-string position with freshman Paul James III and senior Jake Howe. The Illini defensive line has enough depth for Beckman to feel comfortable implementing Howe on offense at fullback, starting Saturday against Youngstown State. “When you look down there and there’s three defensive ends who could play for you and you’ve got really four or five defensive tackles that can step in a game and play for you, that breeds a little bit of confidence,� Beckman said. “You could see
it. You can feel it, and you can understand why they are getting better.� Defensive coordinator Tim Banks is
“We’ll be much improved and you’ll see a stouter defense that’s faster.� GREG COLBY DEFENSIVE LINE COACH
looking for the defensive line to prove itself Saturday against the Penguins’ rusher Martin Ruiz, who ran for 1,129 yards in 2013. “To me, we’re going to live and die
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Illinois volleyball seeks consistency Illinois’ intrasquad scrimmage reveals team’s need for improvement
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nother August has rolled around, signaling the return of yet another season of the NFL. We are entering the 49th year of the unified National Football League, but this marks my fi rst year as your venerable Fantasy Doctor. Tending to all of your fantasy football cuts and bruises will be taxing, but I’m committed to your fantasy football health if you are. I may make bad picks this year, but the next week I’ll come right back brimming with confi dence and with new picks in hand.
Running back Mark Weisman will look to lead the Hawkeyes through an easy schedule that can see the team reach a probable 10-0 before hosting Wisconsin and Nebraska at home.
5. NEBRASKA Running back Ameer Abdullah will look to lead the Cornhuskers to the top of the Big Ten West but will have to run through Michigan State, Wisconsin and Iowa to get there.
6. MICHIGAN The Wolverines struggled the past two seasons. Quarterbacks Devin Gardner and Shane Morris’ versatility will look to boost the offense against tough competition with their annual games against Michigan State and Ohio State.
8. NORTHWESTERN The Wildcats lost running back Venric Mark after he transferred following a team disciplinary issue. The loss damages the team’s promising offense, which goes up against a nonconference schedule that includes Cal and Northern Illinois before entering Big Ten play.
9. MARYLAND Maryland’s 7-6 record in 2013 will look to be improved as the Terps transfer to the Big Ten with 17 returning starters. But the team’s nonconference slate holds away games at South Florida and Syracuse, while they host West Virginia at home.
10. MINNESOTA The Golden Gophers will likely have trouble in Big Ten play with games at Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin, but they might be able to close the gap with a relatively easy nonconference schedule. FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINI
Illinois’ outside hitter Jocelynn Birks attacks the ball during the Alumni Match on Saturday. The orange and blue teams tied 2-2.
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4. IOWA
The Nittany Lions return sophomore quarterback Christian Hackenberg and running back Bill Belton.
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The Badgers’ first test comes in Week One against LSU on Saturday night. Running back Melvin Gordon should help the Badgers in their run to take the Big Ten West division.
7. PENN STATE
BY NICHOLAS FORTIN
The Illinois volleyball team may need to be concerned about consistency. After the Illini’s intrasquad scrimmage Saturday, there was a general sense of unhappiness surrounding the team’s play. “We had a lot of issues getting ourselves pumped up and getting energy after points we won,� junior outside hitter Jocelynn Birks said. Illinois’ inconsistency may have been caused by the match’s format. The Illini were split into an Orange and a Blue team with each team switching a few players in between sets. The Orange and Blue teams played a total of four sets, with the Orange team taking the fi rst and second set 25-19 before the Blue team bounced back to take the fi nal two 25-21 and 25-18, respectively. “I was just surprised to see a group that has played so much together seem tentative to start off with� head coach Kevin Hambly said. “They had a hard time fi ring up to play and they seemed disinterested at times. It’s an odd thing to play when you’re playing against each other. It’s like practice in front of people.� Aside from becoming more consistent, Birks said Illinois needs to focus on passing and serving, a sentiment that Hambly echoed.
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3 up, 3 down Every week I will lay out three players who should be on your free agent radar and three who should be off your squad or benched.
Wild Card Every week I will also add a player or two who could have a bang-or-bust week. So now, to give you a taste of the season ahead, here are three up and three down for the beginning of the 2014 season.
No. 1 Up: Nick Foles, QB Eagles Peyton Manning may have had a record-setting season in 2013, but it was Nick Foles
who led the NFL in passer rating at the end of the year. Foles will be successful in the second year of Chip Kelly’s high-flying Eagles offense, because defenses will be spending significant time focusing on the Eagles stud running back LeSean McCoy.
No. 2 Up: Eddie Lacy, RB Packers Lacy was the NFL’s offensive rookie of the year in 2013, and should follow up last season with a strong sophomore campaign. Running play action with Aaron Rodgers, and riding an above-average offensive line should allow Lacy to rack up some big time points for your team.
No. 3 Up: Randall Cobb, WR Packers
Cobb is certain to be better than last season, when he vanished after breaking his leg in Week Six. With a healthy Rodgers, Cobb is bound to get some passes thrown his direction this season, especially if Jordy Nelson’s hamstring continues to bother him.
No. 1 Down: Chris Johnson, RB Jets As a big Patriots fan, I hate the Jets, but this is an easy one. Johnson is following in LaDainian Tomlinson’s footsteps towards insignificance. Johnson won’t be able to thrive in a platoon and probably isn’t worth a spot in your
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11. ILLINOIS The focus is on whether Wes Lunt can deliver as the new starting quarterback, but it might depend more on the defense. Illinois’ record will depend on whether it can stop an opposing offense.
12. INDIANA The Hoosier’s set a Big Ten record in 2013, but not the one they wanted when the defense allowed an average of 560.2 yards per game. New coordinator Brian Knorr is looking to shake things up, but isn’t likely to do so in his first season.
13. RUTGERS Rutgers will have a tough transition into the Big Ten, having to play at Ohio State, Nebraska and Michigan State, while also facing Michigan and Wisconsin at home.
14. PURDUE The Boilermakers’ dismal 2013 season isn’t likely to make a turnaround in head coach Darrell Hazell’s second go-around with a team that’s still young.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Illogical MLS decisions show league still lacking MICHAL DWOJAK Assistant sports editor
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a year in which soccer captured the hearts of many Americans over the summer, Major League Soccer showed why it still can’t rank itself with the four major American sports. On Sunday, it was announced that the U.S. Men’s National Team’s Jermaine Jones would join the New England Revolution after a blind draw between the Revolution and the Chicago Fire. Yes, you read that right. Jones will be playing for the Revolution because MLS commissioner Don Garber randomly picked the Revolution’s envelope over the Fire’s. Jones is going to play for the team that the MLS practically assigned him to, rather than going to play for the team that he wants to play for, the Fire. The MLS has created many different ways to acquire players such as weighted lotteries and homegrown signings, but this new way just boggles the mind. Jermaine Jones made his name famous during the 2014 World Cup, scoring the goal that tied the game for the Americans against Portugal. Jones expressed interest in joining a team in the MLS during this past winter, but no deal was reached. He moved from German giant Schalke, the team he had played for the past seven years, to Besiktas in Turkey LIU DAWEI MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE for the second half of the Euro seaU.S. National Team member Jermaine Jones will play for the New England son. After an impressive stint with Revolution after another bizarre gimmick by the MLS. the U.S. national team in Brazil, the Chicago Fire began the process of trying to persuade him to come to the home, Toyota Park has natural grass Stern. Both clubs are not considered club. and he had a positive conversation strong and are pushing for a playoff Like his fellow national team mem- with the Fire leadership. spot. bers Clint Dempsey and Michael The issue for the Fire began Jones wanted to play for the Fire Bradley, Jones wasn’t subject to the with a MLS protocol that requires and would’ve been an essential corallocation order because “Designated the league to run a player’s name nerstone for a rebuilding franchise. Players of a certain threshold — as to every team in the league that is It was not a shock that the statedetermined by the League — are not financially capable and interested. ment the team released was filled subject to allocation ranking.” This Jones rejected the Fire’s offer three with negativity, although the team was bad news for the Columbus Crew, weeks ago causing panic for the said it would “respect the decision.” who would’ve been first in that order, MLS. They needed to get Jones if the The decision was made by pickbut these are the MLS rules. league wanted to continue to grow, so ing up a blank envelope, it was up Jones would have preferred to play they ensured he would make a cerin the air, just like it’s up in the air in Los Angeles because he has famtain amount of money with the only whether the MLS will ever get it ily there, but neither Los Angelescatch being that he would not get to right. area team had the capabilities of pick his team. Michal is a sophomore in Media. offering him a contract. Of the two Jones was not allowed to make his He can be reached at dwojak2@ teams that made him an offer, he pre- decision; the MLS made it for him. dailyillini.com and ferred to play for the Fire. Chicago This was not a Chris Paul to the Lak@bennythebull94. was appealing because it is closer to ers trade being blocked by David
Morgan State mourns loss of player BY EDWARD LEE AND JOE BURRIS MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Marquese Meadow, an 18-year-old freshman at Morgan State University and defensive lineman on the Bears football team, died early Sunday morning at Johns Hopkins Hospital two weeks after becoming disoriented at practice, school officials said. Meadow, a Washington, D.C. native, was transported to Good Samaritan Hospital, and then to Hopkins, following practice on Aug. 10, according to Clinton Coleman, director of public relations and communications at Morgan. Coleman said Meadow was hospitalized since then, and was showing signs of improvement before his condition began to deteriorate Saturday. “Our prayers go out to the family for comfort at this time,” Coleman said. “He was a well-liked young man on the team.” His death is the second college football practicerelated death in Maryland this year, following
the March death of Navy freshman Will McKamey, who collapsed following a non-contact drill. The running back from Knoxville, Tenn., died three days later at Maryland Shock Trauma. Attempts to reach Meadow’s family were unsuccessful Sunday. His mother, in an interview with FOX 45 Sunday, said her son was healthy before the Aug. 10 practice. A Johns Hopkins spokesperson was unable to comment. Morgan State head coach Lee Hull, through an athletics department spokesman, declined to comment Sunday. At Friendship Collegiate Academy, a charter school in Northeast Washington D.C., Meadow was known by his nickname “Skinny Fatz” for his attempts to wear clothes that made him look slimmer than his 6-foot-2, 300-pound frame, according to former head coach Aazaar Abdul-Rahim. “Marquese was a great kid,” Abdul-Rahim recalled. “He was one of my team cap-
tains in his senior year. He was a kid who could always brighten up a room. A real outgoing person with a lot of personality. Had a lot of good friends on the team. Was really able to blend with a lot of people on the team.” Abdul-Rahim, who said he is a defensive analyst at Alabama, said someone from Friendship called him Sunday morning to inform him of Meadow’s death. “I spoke to his mom this morning,” Abdul-Rahim said of Benita Meadow. “He and his mom were extremely close. She was a part of our football family as well. So it was devastating for her. Less than two weeks ago, he was a healthy kid in his freshman year of college.” Abdul-Rahim said he had heard that Meadow, who was versatile enough to play nose guard, tackle and end in Friendship’s 3-4 base defense, had made an impression with members of the Bears coaching staff. “As far as I know, he had already cracked the two-
deep at Morgan State,” Abdul-Rahim said, suggesting the freshman was slated for regular playing time. “So he was doing a good job up there.” Meadow had been recruited by several colleges but chose to attend his father’s alma mater. Maryland assistant coach Mike Locksley, who plays a key role in the Terps’ recruiting of the D.C. area, posted on Twitter Sunday: “My prayers go out to the Friendship and Morgan St football families for the loss of a great person and player Marquese Meadow.” Classes at Morgan begin Monday. The Bears are slated to play their first game Aug. 30 at Eastern Michigan. On the eve of the first day of class at Morgan, amid a calm campus, it was evident that Meadow was already making friends on campus.
Baltimore Sun reporters Fred Rasmussen, Sean Welsh and Colin Campbell contributed to this story.
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FOOTBALL with what we do up front,” Banks said of the defensive line. “If those guys play at the level that we think they’re capable of playing, then it will bode well for the Orange and Blue.” Defensive line coach Greg Colby said the team’s junior college transfers and incoming freshman class will be the ones to turn around the rush defense, which ranked 116th in the nation a year ago, allowing an average of 238.6 yards per game. “You’ll see a different defense out there,” Colby said. “I’m not going to say we’ll be top in the country, but I will say we’ll be much improved, and you’ll see a stouter defense that’s faster.” The Illini secondary will be returning with experience, having been forced to play freshmen and sophomores throughout all of last season. The unit allowed 242.9 passing yards per game.
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Ju n ior c or nerb ack V’Angelo Bentley can relate to playing at a Big Ten level without much experience, having played all 12 games his freshman year and 10 as a sophomore last season. At linebacker, the Illini lost leading tackler Jonathan Brown to graduation and lost junior Mike Svetina earlier this fall after he broke his left foot in training camp. Illinois’ depth allows room for injury, which coincides with Beckman and his staff’s excitement for an experienced and deep defensive look in 2014. But Beckman’s concern in perfecting his players’ fundamentals in tackling and stopping the rush remain the defense’s biggest question heading into Saturday’s home opener against Youngstown State. “We have to prove ourselves, too,” Beckman said. “The only thing we’ve got to worry about is ourselves.”
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FANTASY DOC starting lineup.
No. 2 Down: Martellus Bennett, TE Bears A successful fantasy tight end needs to rack up lots of points in the end zone, especially on throws inside the red zone. Unfortunately for Bennett, the Bears have two premier red zone targets in wide receivers Alshon Jeffrey and Brandon Marshall, who will catch most of Jay Cutler’s end zone lobs.
No. 3 Down: Knowshon Moreno, RB Dolphins Moreno had a good 2013 behind Peyton Manning in Denver’s recordsetting offense, but 2014 won’t be as nice for Knowshon. In Miami he’ll run behind quarterback Ryan Tannehill and will have to compete with Lamar Miller for serious carries. Last season’s numbers will be hard to
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VOLLEYBALL “I don’t care about missed serves that much. But 25 on both sides, that’s a lot of points you’re giving up,” Hambly said. “It was a really high error game and we’re going to be in trouble if we play that way.” Although the mood after the match wasn’t ecstatic, Hambly’s disposition changed as he began discussing the positive parts of the scrimmage. Hambly is lea ni ng towards starting freshman defensive specialist Brandi Donnelly at libero to begin the season because of her preseason defensive play. “For her first day she was tentative passing, but she dug and she was playing great defense,” Hambly said. “You can tell that Brandi’s going to be — if she ends up being the bro (libero), which is kind of where it’s leaning — is going to be a great defensive player and at times she can be a great passer, but she’s a rook and she’s trying to figure it out.” Donnelly played well on the defensive end through-
Wild Card: Tom Brady, QB Patriots Although he inevitably leads his team deep into the playoffs, my beloved Patriots quarterback spent last season searching for a reliable target and putting up poor fantasy numbers to boot. The health of his receivers and the strength of the Patriots’ ever-changing backfield will determine whether Brady returns to his status as an elite fantasy quarterback. The biggest piece of that is the availability of Rob Gronkowski, who has missed 14 regular season games over the last two seasons due to injury. If Gronkowski plays, Brady owners can sleep well at night. If Gronk is out, they’ll be having nightmares.
Peter is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at at baileyw2@ dailyillini.com or follow him on Twitter @ pbaileywells22. out the scrimmage, tallying a team-high 25 digs, and seemed to be one of the few Illini players whose play wasn’t marred by inconsistency. Sophomore outside hitter Katie Roustio and Birks both played well, finishing with 14 and 13 kills, respectively. Hambly praised a considerable number of player’s contributions and called the scrimmage a good learning experience before turning his attention to the future. The Illini start their regular season this Friday and in order to compete, Hambly said Illinois will need to improve its consistency and limit its number of errors. “ E ver yo ne sh owe d glimpses of things that were good,” Hambly said. “It wasn’t like everything we did was awful, but it wasn’t the level we’re going to need to play to be ready to compete with Long Beach State.”
Nicholas is a junior in Media. He can be reached at fortin2@ dailyillini.com and @IlliniSportsGuy.
Rutgers fostering momentum from inclusion in Big Ten BY MARC NARDUCCI MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — The expectations from the outside are low as Rutgers begins its first season as a Big Ten football team, but the future financial projections are much better. In a writer’s poll organized by Cleveland.com, Rutgers was picked to finish seventh and last in the Big Ten Eastern Division. While Rutgers adjusts to the rugged competition, there is excitement about the benefits that being in the Big Ten will bring the football program. Already, there are tangible results. A program-record 30,721 football season tickets have been sold, breaking the old mark of 30,500 in 2009. Rutgers High Point Solutions Stadium has a capacity of 52,454. The school has projected that over the next 12 years the increase in revenue from moving to the Big Ten will approach $200 million. Like the team’s adjustment to the competition, the financial boom will take some time.
According to Rutgers CFO Janine Purparo, Rutgers has a six-year integration period before it will be able to receive full shares of the Big Ten broadcast revenues. Each Big Ten school received about $25 million last year from the league, with the primary source coming from television. The Big Ten is giving Rutgers the same amount it got from the Big East, about $10 million annually. Rutgers competed in the Big East from 1991 until 2012 and played last year in the American Athletic Conference, with many former Big East members. “We have seen an uptick in fund-raising contributions,” Purparo said. “People are showing a lot of excitement for the Big Ten.” It’s obviously exciting to the players in the program, who couldn’t have even dreamed about playing in such a prestigious league when they first came to Rutgers. “It’s a pretty big deal,” said senior quarterback Gary Nova, who has start-
ed 28 games. “Growing up watching those programs play, you dream about playing those teams and things like that in those big stadiums, so having that opportunity will be great.” Paul James, a junior running back from Glassboro High and Rutgers’ leading returning rusher, expressed similar sentiments. “It’s great playing in such a prestigious conference,” James said. “We have the toughest schedule in the Big Ten, and I can’t wait to be part of it.” As far as being in the Big Ten, third-year Rutgers head coach Kyle Flood has already seen the benefits while going on the recruiting trail. Flood mentioned being in the Big Ten surely helped the program with the additions of two true freshmen — quarterback Giovanni Resicgno from Detroit, and tight end Logan Lister of Katy, Texas, along with quarterback Hayden Rettig, a transfer from LSU who hails from Los Angeles. “I don’t know if those players would have had interest
in playing in the Big East,” Flood said. “But for the Big Ten, they are here.” One person who has a particularly keen outlook on joining the Big Ten is Rutgers defensive backs coach Darrell Wilson. A Pennsauken High graduate, Wilson later played in the CFL and NFL, and was an assistant coach 13 seasons in the Big Ten. In 2000 and 2001 he coached at Wisconsin and then spent the next 11 seasons at Iowa. Wilson, a former head coach at Camden’s Woodrow Wilson High, feels the Big Ten name will get Rutgers in the conversation with recruits. “I really think it will, especially when talking in state and you tell recruits that they can play on a big stage and don’t have to leave the state,” Wilson said. And he feels there will be benefits when recruiting out of state players as well. “This is big-time college football at its best,” Wilson said. “Once the young men throughout the country realize that Rutgers is in the Big Ten, they will come.”
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Rutgers coach Kyle Flood reacts during second-quarter action against Central Florida on Nov. 21, 2013.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
State schools depending more on fees
Athletic departments across state rely on money from student fees BY JARED HOPKINS MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
In 2008, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville began its transition from Division II to Division I athletics. Today, its men’s basketball games are broadcast to millions and ticket sales are at historic highs. Donations more than tripled in 2013 from five years earlier. But joining the big boys comes with a cost — one that has placed a growing burden on students at the small school about 20 miles outside of St. Louis. In 2005, the fee students pay to help fund the athletic department was $113 per year. One of almost a dozen fees students pay, it reached $235 by 2009. This school year it will be $352.80. Student fees account for more than half of the athletic department’s revenue. The powerhouses of college athletics — from the Big Ten to the Pac-12 — have so much money from ticket sales, television contracts and other sources that they don’t need student fees. But that’s not the case for many schools in Division I, including some in Illinois, where students are beginning to head back to college and families are opening their checkbooks. SIU Edwardsville, Western Illinois in Macomb, Ill., and Chicago State are examples of mid-major schools — they all have fewer than 12,000 undergraduates — hoping to stay relevant by turning to students for the cash they need, even if those students don’t have a say in how much they contribute or even have an interest in attending games. “I don’t care to subsidize soccer teams and swim teams. That’s not doing any benefit to my kids’ education,� said Jeff Smith, a business professor at South Carolina Upstate who has been critical of the use of student fees. “College presidents and boards feel they’ve got to be in this arms race.� The Tribune reviewed fees for five years for the nine public institutions in Illinois with Division I programs, plus the most recent financial reports schools must submit separately to the NCAA. The Tribune found that eight schools, all except the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, relied on stu-
dent fees for at least a quarter of the athletic department revenue over the five-year period ending with the 2013 academic year. When student fee revenue is combined with direct support from schools — lump sums the university provides, as opposed to “generated revenue� like ticket sales — the athletic budgets show that the two figures account for more than half of income for all schools but U. of I. Those five-year combined totals ranged from 55 percent at NIU to 84 percent at SIU Edwardsville. School officials said athletic fees — as well as their recent increases — are necessary because of state funding drops and required to compete at top levels. They also said athletics are an integral aspect of experiencing college, similar to extracurricular activities that may receive fees such as the theater and music productions, and should be a shared cost. “Intercollegiate athletics is really part of the DNA that we have here at NIU and has been for a number of years,� NIU spokesman Brad Hoey said. “All of our students get into every single athletic event for free — basketball, football, soccer. That’s one of the benefits.� In contrast, the biggest schools rarely charge athletic fees. U. of I. reported that about 5 percent of its total athletic revenue comes from fees and direct support from the school. The $34 fee has gone unchanged since 1997, according to the school. The largest is at SIU Carbondale, which charges more than $600 per year, although it increased by less than 10 percent. The largest increase over the five-year period belonged to Chicago State, which rose by 54 percent to $240 from $156. Besides Chicago State, four other schools — Western Illinois, SIU Edwardsville, Northern Illinois and Illinois State — have seen their fee increases outstrip inflation significantly from 2009 to 2013. At the same time, records show, paychecks for coaches and administrators running the athletic departments are rising at most of these schools. At Western Illinois, salary costs for coaches increased from $1.9 million to $2.8 million. Chicago State spokesman Thomas Wogan said school
officials inherited an underfunded athletic department and are trying to improve it. He said fees also help provide recreational facilities like the gym and pool used by students not playing sports. Generally speaking, students provide input to fee increases through student groups, surveys and participation in advisory committees, according to the Illinois Board of Higher Education. They are set by schools’ boards of trustees . Many schools provide fee information online, and in 2010 the federal government began requiring schools to report separate figures for tuition and fees. Still, Ridpath described the level of transparency as “terrible.� “Most students and parents have no idea what goes into fees, and bills are not itemized,� he said. “If athletics is so important to overall health and promotion of the institution, why not be transparent about the bill and what students are paying?� Illinois distinguishes itself from other schools in the state with the most undergraduates (32,281), the biggest athletic budget ($80 million), 21 varsity sports and the luxury of millions from media rights and Big Ten distribution. “We have advantages that ... all the other state schools don’t have,� Illini spokesman Kent Brown said. Still, Illinois is one of just two members of the Big Ten that charge athletic fees. In 2013, the school reported fee revenue of $3 million. It is used to pay off debt service for sports stadium renovations, Brown said. SIU Edwardsville began competing in sports during the 1967-68 school year, a decade after the institution was formed. The Cougars would capture a number of championships in Division II in the 1970s and 1980s. But recruiting and academic scandals forced an overhaul of the program and sent it into decline. It wasn’t until Hewitt’s tenure that the Cougars returned to consistent success. It began exploring whether moving to Division I was possible and became fully certified in 2012. Hewitt said fees — and the increases, however substantial — were needed because competition at a higher level requires additional investment: more travel, for example. He also said the school is hobbled by the tuition freeze that
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SIU-Edwardsville’s transition from Division II to Division I has come at a cost to its students, who now pay an annual fee of $352.80 that accounts for more than half of the athletic revenue. locks tuition for freshmen for five years at all schools in Illinois. Reaction has been a financial boon. Ticket sales have increased — the $87,000 in 2013 was a 60 percent spike from five years earlier. And Hewitt said the school has benefited from more applications, more students and additional donations. All this, he said, while keeping a high graduation rate among athletes. “Schools like ours — with no football program, and without a multimillion-dollar conference television contract — must utilize student fees to sustain their athletic programs,� he said. ISU athletic director Larry Lyons said the school’s leadership believes the cost of all
activities, including sports, should be shared by students. But, he said, “it’s also incumbent on the athletic department to do its best to raise other revenues.� Tommy Bell, who became Western Illinois’ athletic director a year ago, said he is leading a five-year strategy to revitalize its finances. Plans include creating ticket packages common at other schools, and he’s already hired someone in Chicago for fundraising. He said he wants the school to reduce its dependence on student fees and direct institutional support, but he acknowledged that a small rural school faces limitations. “We’re putting things in place, but you can’t click
your fingers all at one time,� Bell said. “At a lot of these mid-majors, student fees are imperative.� Looking into the future, Ridpath said problems could arise because schools outside of the major conferences will try to keep pace with the richer schools, but doing so will probably mean either dropping sports or raising fees. “How do you combat this? You be who you are. I don’t agree with the claim that being (Division I) football — frankly for many in name only — is some kind of marketing and promotion panacea for an institution, especially for schools that will never have a chance to realistically ever compete in big time Division I football.�
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Exec: Playoff not just for money
BY JOHN HARRIS MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Former BCS executive director Bill Hancock tried to explain at SEC media days why Division I-A college football needs a playoff system. Hancock, the college football playoff executive director, attempted to reassure that the new system isn’t a money grab. “Yes, everybody benefits from the revenue. There will be more money in this for everyone,” Hancock said. “But the playoff wasn’t done for the money. The playoff was done because we heard the fans who wanted more football, and they wanted a bracket.” Still, consider the financial windfall, according to estimates Hancock provided USA Today: - -T he five power conferences — ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and Pac12 — are expected to receive $50 million each in the first year of a 12-year contract. That’s nearly double the amount each conference received in the final year of the BCS ($27.9 million). - -T he ot her five Football Bowl Subdivision conferences (Conference USA , M id-A mer ic a n, Mountain West, Sun Belt and American) will split about $75 million. The conferences shared about $13 million a year ago. --Television revenue from the playoff is expected to average about $470 million annually, with another $40 million to $50 million annually from ticketing, merchandising sales and sponsorship deals. --Conferences annually will receive $6 million for each of their teams selected as a playoff participant (not including the championship game) and $4 million for each member participating in a non-playoff bowl such as the Cotton, Fiesta and Peach. That doesn’t include individual contracts that
conferences have with the bowls. --Each conference will receive $300,000 for each school that satisfies the NCAA’s minimum academic progress rate to participate in a bowl game. To be sure, the college football playoff is the gift that keeps giving. “It’s good for everybody,” Hancock said. “There’s more money for everybody.” At least for everybody but fans and the athletes starring in the games, which generate crazy revenue gleaned from corporate sponsors and advertisers that permit coaches to become millionaires and executives such as Hancock to earn six-figure salaries. “It’s just the evolution of college football. It’s the evolution of sports,” said Mark May, an ESPN college football analyst and former Pitt standout. “You can call it chasing the dollar, and it is, but you have to keep up with the Joneses.” Selecting the best. Unlike the men’s college basketball tournament, which is operated by the NCAA, the college football playoff will be managed by conferences and led by a board of directors featuring university presidents and chancellors. And unlike the NCAA ba sketba l l sele c t ion committee dropping a team one seeded position to prevent a rematch from the regular season or conference tournament, rematches can occur in the football playoff. “More revenue,” playoff CEO Michael Kelly said. “Unlike every other sport in which the NCAA manages and maintains a championship, this championship is managed by conferences. “The playoff system allows us to deliver that in a big way.” The winners of the two bowl games in the four-
team playoff advance to the national championship game. The Rose and Sugar Bowls will serve as semifinals for the playoffs this season. AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will host the title game. Sites for the semifinals and title game will rotate annually. In 2015, when the Rose and Sugar Bowls aren’t semifinal playoff locations, the four conferences contractually tied to those bowls — Big Ten and Pac12, and Big 12 and SEC, respectively — would receive about $40 million from those contracts. That’s above the $50 million payout from the college football playoff. A 13-member selection committee chaired by Arkansas athletic director and former Pitt AD Jeff Long — and including West Virginia AD Oliver Luck and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — will create a Top 25 every week beginning Oct. 28 and concluding with the announcement of the four playoff teams Dec. 7. “We’ve found a way to incorporate and maintain college football bowl traditions in terms of making it a part of our semifinal system and have so many more meaningful games as a part of this new arrangement,” Kelly said at Big Ten media days. Alabama coach Nick Saban won three BCS championships with the Crimson Tide and another at LSU. He said he had no complaints with the former system and isn’t upset about the new one. Saban, however, wonders whether the new playoff system goes far enough in selecting the best teams — the same complaint the BCS faced. He also is curious how the system will affect student-athletes away from football. “When you look at the history of the BCS, they
RODGER MALLISON MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Bill Hancock, executive director of the College Football Playoff, said the financial benefits are only part of the reason the playoff replaced the BCS. usually got it right with their process,” Saban said at SEC media days. “The criticism always came when there were more than two teams that were deserving. “Now the same thing is going to happen with a fourteam playoff because there’s always going to be a fifth team that could have been deserving that will create controversy.” May agrees. “(People say) we should increase it to eight (teams), we should increase it to 16,” he said. “Well, we haven’t had a four-team playoff yet, and you are talking about increasing it. There are always going to be people who complain.” Hancock defended the format, explaining the selection committee will rely on four criteria when determining who advances to the playoff. “Strength of schedule, head-to -head results,
results against common opponents and whether the team won the conference championship,” Hancock said.
Drawbacks A playoff system means more games, which also means more missed class time for athletes, some of whom already feel the pinch from a long season that becomes even longer should their team make a national championship run. Saban, whose Alabama teams won three national championships in four years, said he believes something should be done so athletes aren’t penalized for playing on winning teams. “I think if we continue to expand,” Saban said at SEC media days, “we’re sort of getting to the saturation point when it comes to how many games can a football player play without sort of overdoing it relative to
the responsibilities he has academically and the other things going on in their life.” Under the playoff system, teams advancing to the national title game would play an exhausting schedule. Saban points out that could be too much football, considering Florida State won last year’s BCS championship playing a total of 14 games. “There’s a potential for a player to play 15 games in our league (SEC), with a (conference) championship game as well as two playoff games,” Saban said. “There’s only going to be a few teams that do that, and I’m sure every coach certainly would like to be one of those teams. “But I think we have to take the student-athlete’s well-being into consideration if we continue to play more games.”
Recent racing death raises safety questions BY GARY SCHWAB, AMES ALEXANDER AND DAVID SCOTT MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Two of every three deaths in U.S. auto racing over the past three years occurred at short tracks, which have been slow to embrace changes that are saving lives in racing’s major leagues. The most recent tragedy happened Aug. 9 in New York when auto racing star Tony Stewart hit and killed 20-year-old sprint car driver Kevin Ward Jr., who was standing on the track and pointing toward Stewart’s car coming toward him while the race was under caution. The two had just tangled in a turn seconds earlier, sending Ward’s car into a wall. Ward became one of more than 520 people across America who have died in auto racing in the past 25 years, an Observer study shows. His death prompted NASCAR to adopt a new rule prohibiting its drivers from leaving their cars and walking onto the track to confront other drivers after accidents. That’s the way most safety changes happen in auto racing, spurred by tragedy. NASCAR has not had a death at any of its top levels since investing millions of dollars in safety after Dale Earnardt’s death on nation-
al television at the Daytona 500 in 2001. The effort produced mandatory headand-neck restraints, crashabsorbing walls at NASCAR’s top series tracks, and a new, safer car. Most short-track owners have not mandated headand-neck restraints or other safety features to cars. Much like NASCAR’s reaction to Earnhardt’s death, the smaller venues have responded to individual tragedies. But unlike NASCAR, short tracks haven’t made sweeping safety changes. “Short track racing is usually mayhem, hopefully controlled,” said H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler, former longtime president of Charlotte Motor Speedway. “That’s what people want. It’s like ice hockey with cars.” Of at least 523 racing deaths since 1990, 53 percent have been at short tracks. That has climbed in the past three years to about 70 percent. Short tracks are also where most U.S. racing takes place. Twenty-two percent of the deaths in the past 25 years were at drag strips. The number of racing deaths annually appears to have dropped in recent years from an average of more than 20 to about 15 over the past five full years. There were at least 40 deaths in 2001 alone
STEPHEN M. DOWELL MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Dirt flies as Tony Stewart (14) wrecks in front of Carl Edwards (99) at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach on July 6. Recent racing death of Kevin Ward Jr. in a wreck by Stewart has raised concerns about short-track racing safety. when the Observer began its study. No one in racing keeps track of how many people die, so it’s possible that the Observer’s count doesn’t include all fatalities. Saturday night shorttrack racing goes back more than 50 years to the sport’s roots in the
South. Unlike the sprawling superspeedways where NASCAR’s top drivers now compete, short track races typically feature up to 24 drivers who jostle for position on oval tracks less than a half-mile around. Cars can travel at treacherous speeds of up to 130 mph. Fans often stand just
feet away. Drivers at short tracks generally prefer to spend money on tires and parts to make their cars go faster, rather than safety equipment that could keep them alive. Randy LaJoie, a former NASCAR driver whose company builds seats for
drivers, runs a nonprofit called the Safer Racer Tour — a project that has sent him to more than 100 tracks, offering safety tips. It’s a message, he says, that some drivers don’t want to hear. “I’ve almost gotten into fights telling people they’re not safe,” LaJoie said.
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