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University waits on FY16 budget With no state budget, UI cannot meet fiscal deadlines

BY MAGGIE SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER

Negotiations on a state budget for fiscal year 2016 are at a standstill in Springfield and Walter Knorr, University chief financial officer, said if the state does not act soon the University won’t have a finalized budget for the Nov. 12 Board of Trustees meeting.

“I make no prognostication or comment on when the budget will come,” Knorr said at the Board of Trustees Budget, Audit and Finance committee meeting Monday. “We probably need 60 days once the state has acted to put an operating budget together.”

The University is currently operating under the assumption the budget will be similar to fiscal year 2015 budget. The total operating budget for fiscal year 2015 was $5.6 billion, according to the Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Operating Budget Executive Summary.

Additionally, Knorr said, the state still owes the University $49 million in

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SEC begins process of finding new chancellor Will need to appoint two faculty spots

Mohammad Ljuhani, an undergraduate in LAS, writes on one of the 1,000 shirts covering the Engineering Quad for Suicide Prevention Week on Monday.

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Originally, five of the seven faculty members on the committee, excluding the committee chair, were to

BY MAGGIE SULLIVAN be selected by the senate as STAFF WRITER a whole. The SEC was supThe Senate Executive posed to select the remainCommittee made good on ing two. their promise to call special “We probably shouldn’t meetings for the chancel- include the SEC electing two lor search process if neces- people because that will be sary, and held an extra meet- highly controversial,” said ing Monday to begin the hunt. Bill Maher, SEC member.

“We called this meeting to Nancy O’Brien, an acamake sure we have a docu- demic senator representing ment we’re all comfortable the committee on commitwith,” said tees, said Gay Miller, the SEC is SEC chair. supposed “Now we to select two faculty h ave a members request to serve on from the President’s the comoffice to mittee to initiate the ensure chanceldiversity. “ T h e lor search process.”

ABBAS AMINMANSOUR SEC might SEC MEMBER On Fribe able to day, the provide s e n ate’s balance,” Committee on Committees O’Brien said. “For example, reviewed the Academic Sen- if everyone elected (to the ate’s chancellor search com- committee) was from LAS, mittee document, which they the SEC might say, ‘We need brought to the SEC at Mon- representation from FAA, or day’s meeting.

Engineering, or Business.’”

The document calls for a O’Brien also said the SEC committee chaired by a fac- would choose the final two ulty member and consisting committee members from of eight faculty members, the remaining candidates three students — at least one who were not elected to the undergraduate and at least committee by the academic one graduate or professional senate. Therefore, the SEC student — one dean, one aca- couldn’t nominate any new demic professional and one staff member.

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“I don’t think it’s appropriate for us to try to ensure diversity because I don’t think we can.”

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Michael Bass, senior associate vice president and deputy comptroller, speaks at the Audit, Budget, Finance, and Facilities Meeting on Monday. appropriations for fiscal year 2015.

He said the University submitted a $150 million request to the state. The payment will be deducted from the fiscal year 2016 appropriations once the budget is finalized.

“The state is not accepting this right now because they have no means to accept it,” Knorr said.

He said he continues to receive “almost daily” requests for University budget information from state legislators and he responds to those requests as quickly as possible.

In addition to an undecided budget, he said the University has “rode the roller coaster” of the stock market for the last couple of weeks.

He said 54 percent of University endowment is invested in the stock market and the Dow Jones is down 2.1 percent globally.

Knorr said he will make a more formal presentation on University endowments in the market at the Board of Trustees meeting on Sept. 10.

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Nicholas Burbules, General University Policy chair, attended the Senate Executive Committee meeting on Monday.

John Rogers set to leave campus in Fall 2016 Renowned professor leaving for Northwestern CHARLOTTE COLLINS ASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR

John Rogers, often touted as one of the University’s “star professors,” will leave the Urbana campus for Northwestern University in fall 2016.

Rogers began his work at the University in January 2003. Most recently, Rogers and his research team have developed a wireless antibiotic implant that dissolves after a patient’s treatment is complete.

In 2013 the group developed a tattoo-like sensor that can measure brain waves, heart beats and the contraction of skeletal muscles.

Rogers received master’s degrees in physics and chemistry from MIT in 1992 and also went on to earn a doctorate degree in physical chemistry. After receiving his doctorate, Rogers was a member of the Harvard University Society of Fellows from 1995-1997.

Rogers will work at Northwestern as the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine in the Simpson Querrey Insti-

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The center will be affiliated with their medical school and college of engineering. He will officially begin work at Northwestern in fall 2016, but he still plans to work closely with the University.

“Being able to stay in close geographic proximity to Urbana was really important to me because my whole career is based on this place, the University of Illinois, and it’s been extremely good to me over the years,” Rogers said. “It’s been the best research environment that

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The flexible technology, created by John Rogers, acts similarly to a child’s temporary tattoo and adheres to the user’s skin.

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Q Two 18-year-old males were arrested at Macy’s, 2000 N. Neil St., on the charge of retail theft around 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, bother offenders were apprehended for shoplifting and were issued notices to appear in court.

Q Criminal damage to property was reported in the 200 block of E. Daniel Street around 3:30 p.m.

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Q A 20-year-old male was arrested near the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Church Street on the charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, improper lane usage and illegal transportation of alcohol around 4:30 a.m. Saturday.

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Q Theft was reported at Urbana Middle School, 1201 S. Vine St., around noon Sunday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole the victim’s son’s bicycle and lock from the bike rack outside of the school.

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Gadget Garage opens on campus to reduce waste Garage will teach students, faculty how to repair electronic devices

BY JASON CHUN ASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR

A new tech repair garage is opening up just off campus and aims to fix devices while also teaching people how to fix it themselves.

The Illini Gadget Garage will provide a space for students and faculty to take their broken electronic devices to get them fixed and an opportunity to work simultaneously with staffers to learn and understand how to repair these devices on their own.

The idea is to teach users how to repair and maintain their devices through a collaborative repair process.

As part of the Sustainable Electronics Initiative, one of the main goals of the gadget garage is to reduce electronic waste by prolonging the

life of devices. According to Martin Wolske, a research scientist and faculty member in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, part of the reason the garage was founded was to raise awareness about ethical electronic consumerism.

“There is in an interest in helping to raise awareness about how to select devices that might have a longer life,” said Wolske, who helped develop the gadget garage.

“Helping to understand how some devices are intentionally designed to be disposable as opposed to repairable and the impact that that might have on our environment.”

The gadget garage will service all brands of phones, tablets and laptops. It will also work with any device

that contains an electronic component, such as a coffee maker or other small home appliances. The one stipulation is that it must be small enough to be carried into the garage.

Joy Scrogum, another lead developer of the gadget garage and a coordinator of the Sustainable Electronics Initiative, said this project, to some extent, is an exercise of empowerment.

“We have this tendency to see our electronics as literal black boxes that we just think, ‘Oh I don’t know how that works, I’ll never be able to understand how that works,’ ” Scrogum said.

“One of the things we want to instill in people through the gadget garage project is that you do have the power to repair and extend the useful life of the devices that you own.”

The gadget garage staff will consist primarily of

graduate students from one of Wolske’s classes; they will hold paid positions.

There will also be openings for undergraduates to apply as volunteers to work in the garage.

With help from the Student Sustainability Committee in the form of a $95,000 grant, the Illini Gadget Garage will open its doors on Sept.

14 to all students and faculty, free of cost for its pilot year.

However, an annual membership fee for faculty is being considered. Scrogum said they hope to find a way to make this project financially self-sustainable.

The garage will be open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 2 to 6 p.m. and is located in the Natural History Survey Storage Building Number 3, 1833 S. Oak St., just north of Hazelwood Drive.

ELECTRONIC WASTE 1.87 million short tons: The total amount of e-waste in the waste stream in 2013, which included items such as computers, keyboards, cell phones, among other items.

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the percent in 2013 of electronics, such as TV’s, computer products and cell phones, that were ready for end-of-life management and collected for recycling.

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SEC candidates to serve on the committee.

“I think it’s best that we leave it up to the senate,” said Abbas Aminmansour, SEC member. “I don’t think it’s appropriate for us to try to ensure diversity because I don’t think we can. Do we use gender? Religion? Other criteria? There’s no way we can meet all of that. Ask the committee on committees to limit the number of faculty from each college, and let the (academic) senate do the rest.”

Nick Burbules, SEC member and general educational policy professor, said counting senate ballots in the past has proven to him that the SEC needs to select two faculty committee members to ensure diversity.

“I know we’re in an antiSEC mood, but there’s no way in the voting system you can guarantee you’re going to get a balance,” Burbules said.

“This is a legitimate function of the SEC.” Bettina Francis, SEC member, said although she agrees with the intention of enabling

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ROGERS I’ve experienced.”

Rogers said he has worked with numerous medical and engineering collaborative colleges around the nation during his time at the University but he is looking forward to having better access to similar facilities at Northwestern’s medical college for his research.

“I think all of the funda-

the SEC to select two members, she felt too many people would see it as unfair.

Ultimately, the SEC, decided to allow the senate to elect all faculty members to serve on the chancellor search committee, but no more than two delegates from each college can be elected. It also recommended electronic voting to help expedite the process.

“You can’t tell people, unfortunately, how not to vote,” Burbules said.

“There’s a danger that you don’t get a very representative outcome.”

The SEC decided not to retain its power to nominate two of the four faculty members to serve as the chair of the chancellor search committee. Instead, the committee on committees will nominate the remaining two faculty members and the academic senate will select the top two nominees from the group. Finally, President Timotthy Killeen will select one of the two nominees to serve as the chair of the committee.

against allowing a representative of the University of Illinois Foundation or the Alumni Association to serve on the chancellor search committee.

“There were representatives from those two bodies on the presidential search committee,” Burbules said.

“Is a chancellor search different?”

The senate’s bylaws specifically instruct the senate to have full jurisdiction over the chancellor search process without the influence of other constituencies, Maher said.

He said there are other ways for members of the Illinois Foundation and Alumni Association to contribute.

Outside search firms

voted

Katherine Oberdeck, SEC member, asked if it’s necessary to employ a search firm to help with the process.

“We go through this whole process and then there’s this other entity we can’t control,” Oberdeck said.

Burbules said search firms provide a valuable service as long as the search committee keeps them properly in line.

“In the end, it’s just a mat-

mentals are very strong for launching a medical school here (at Illinois), and I think all the pieces are in place to make that happen but it will take time,” Rogers said. “For me, I think we have devices that we want to push in the direction of clinical translation right now.”

Greg Girolami, Rogers’ colleague and chemistry department head, said he helped recruit Rogers to the University and has known him since. Girolami

said Rogers will be “impossible” to replace.

“He is incredibly creative and has just brought a tremendous amount of new scholarship to our campus, and I’m glad to see that he will be continuing his collaborations here,” Girolami said.

While his colleagues argue that his shoes will be unfillable, Rogers said he believes his time at the University has given him more than he could hope to give back.

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ter of the committee and president communicating to the firm, ‘You work for us, you follow what we tell you,’” Burbules said. “I’ve seen really good search committee chairs who have drawn really good lines, and I’ve seen mission creep.”

The SEC decided to keep the search firm as a possibility in the chancellor search committee document and recommended the passage of the revised document.

Aminmansour suggested the committee on committees begin looking for willing candidates for the chancellor search committee before the academic senate approves the document, simply to save time.

“All they are doing is collecting names, they’re not committing anyone to anything,” Burbules said. “I like that idea.”

Miller said she recognizes the need to move quickly.

“The President said in his letter he hopes the position will be filled by the middle of the spring semester,” she said. “So sometime around March.”

mesulli2@dailyillini.com He said the research environment at the University is “in some ways, better than any I’ve experienced before,” noting he studied at MIT and worked at Harvard. “ T he bre adt h a nd depth of the programs of research here at Illinois and the midwestern culture and orientation just really blends together to form a uniquely enabling environment for making progress,” Rogers said.

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Anthony Ambrose climbs up a Sequoia tree after properly rigging it with a rope to conduct drought research in Sequoia National Park, California, on Aug. 5, 2015.

Good, bad news result from giant sequoias checkup SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Sixty feet from the top of a giant sequoia named Kong, biologist Anthony Ambrose studied the foliage around him.

Dense clusters of green leaves grew like shaving brushes from the branches, cones clustered like Indian clubs.

Topping out 25 stories above the ground, Kong was spectacular, an ancient beastly creature well-suited for its name. Its trunk at the base measured 17 feet across.

This broccoli top, Ambrose thought, was doing well, much like the other sequoias he had climbed.

Ambrose is one of four biologists whose work in the trees this summer has led various media to report that the state’s drought could be killing one of California’s most famous treasures.

But researchers say those conclusions are wrong, or at least premature. Despite signs of stress — leaves turning brown after four hot and dry years — most of the sequoias seem to be holding up.

The browning foliage, first noticed last summer, brought Ambrose and fellow University of California, Berkeley biologist Wendy Baxter to the Giant Forest in July to try to find out what’s going on with the sequoias and, in the pro-

cess, unravel the mystery of their internal plumbing: how these enormous trees use the water that’s available to them.

For 15 days, Ambrose, Baxter and another pair of climbers measured 50 trees and installed humidity and temperature sensors in the upper limbs. On Saturday, they returned for more studies.

Their research is one of three projects designed to help the National Park Service manage what is perhaps the best known forest in the world. Yet scientists know less about sequoias than more common species such as pines and firs, Ambrose said.

The drought has made the work more urgent. “It’s a good year to be a researcher, but a bad year to be a tree,” he said before the climb.

He tossed the end of a rope, weighed by a carabiner, over a higher branch and prepared for the next leg of his ascent.

The Giant Forest was named by naturalist John Muir, who walked through these groves more than a century ago. Its landmark, the 3,000-year-old General Sherman tree, is 100 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty.

Kong is younger, probably 2,000 years old, and Ambrose wondered what the future holds for the giant.

“These are tough trees, but we’re entering a whole new era,” he said.

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ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations unit raid to apprehend immigrants without any legal status and who may be deportable on Aug. 12 in Riverside, California Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say they are relying more than ever on costly manhunts to locate immigrants in the country illegally who have criminal records.

244 immigrants arrested in four days across Southern California

BY JOSEPH SERNA AND KATE LINTHICUM TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

LOS ANGELES — More than 240 people were taken into federal custody last week across Southern California after a four-day sweep for immigrants in the country illegally with criminal records, authorities announced Monday.

The enforcement action ended Thursday with 244 foreign nationals in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — the majority of them with at least one felony conviction on their record, authorities said.

It was the most successful four-day sweep of its kind in the region, ICE said.

Among the people captured, 191 were from Mex-

ico and the rest were from 21 other countries including France, Ghana, Peru and Thailand, the agency said. A majority of them had convictions for violent felonies or weapons or sex abuse charges.

The rest had past convictions for “significant or multiple misdemeanors,” ICE said in a news release.

In the past it was easier for ICE agents to locate and deport immigrants who had been convicted of crimes.

The agency would contact local jails and ask that such inmates be held until an ICE van could pick them up.

But last year a federal judge found that practice illegal, prompting hundreds of counties to stop honoring the detainer requests. As a result, ICE

officials say they have to rely on costly and dangerous manhunts or multiday sweeps like the one conducted last week.

The sweep was led by the agency’s National Fugitive Operations program, which fi nds at-large criminals for deportation.

Originally formed to locate immigrants who had failed to comply with a judge’s deportation order, the program is increasingly being used to fi nd immigrants with criminal convictions who have recently been let out of jail. Of the more than 27,000 people whom ICE arrested nationwide last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, 2014, about 78 percent had criminal convictions, according to ICE data.

Among those captured was Vincente OnofreRamirez, 35, who authorities say was convicted in 2002 of sexual abuse with force in New York.

In Sunland, authorities arrested a 50-year-old Salvadorian national convicted of two criminal counts of child sex abuse in Los Angeles County; in Upland, a 46-year-old man from Guatemala who previously served 10 years in prison for sexually abusing two children was arrested.

But not everyone arrested in the sweep was a violent felon. Those who have not been deported before and found to have illegally re-entered the country or aren’t facing new charges will have an administrative hearing with a judge.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The North Carolina attorney general’s office won’t retry Randall “Wes” Kerrick in the death of Jonathan Ferrell, according to a letter sent to Mecklenburg County District Attorney Andrew Murray on Friday.

“Upon speaking with jurors, it is our understanding that the jury had deadlocked by a vote of eight jurors for acquittal and four jurors for conviction on the charge of voluntary manslaughter,” Robert Montgomery, senior deputy

attorney general, wrote.

“In consideration of the jurors’ comments, the evidence available to the State, and our background in criminal trials, it is our prosecutors’ unanimous belief a retrial will not yield a different result. While our prosecutors tried to seek a conviction, it appears a majority of the jurors did not believe the criminal conviction was the appropriate verdict.”

Montgomery said a dismissal of the charge against Kerrick will be submitted.

Goth teens more prone to hurt themselves, study shows This might not surprise you: 15-year-olds who dress exclusively in black, pierce themselves extensively and favor adornments that are ripped, spiky, raunchy or just-plain disturbing may be communicating that they are in psychological pain.

Adults can be a little slow on the uptake when it comes to reading an adolescent’s state of mind. But new research from the United Kingdom is here to help: By the time they were 18, Britons who self-identified as “goth” at the age of 15 were three times more like-

ly to be clinically depressed and five times more likely to cut, burn or intentionally inflict injury on themselves than were young people who did not identify with goth subculture.

Published Thursday in the journal Lancet Psychiatry, the new research set out to plumb the mental health implications of group identity in British teens.

Of all the teen subcultures identified, goths fared most poorly, falling into depression by age 18 at roughly twice the rate as kids who identified as “skaters” or as “loners.”

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EDITORIAL Get vaccinated to stay safe, healthy during mumps outbreak

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here have been 101 reported cases of mumps in Champaign County as of Aug. 26, making this the largest mumps outbreak in a de-

cade.

While number of cases has grown since June 12, when 23 cases were reported, the University and local Champaign health officials are concerned that the infection may spread further.

Although the University requires all incoming students to receive a vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, health officials have found that most of the mumps cases found among students have already received the vaccination at least once.

Therefore, McKinley Health Center and the Champaign Urbana Public Health District are working together to keep the outbreak under control.

It’s crucial that students receive their vaccinations. McKinley offered two free, all-day vaccinations Aug. 26 and 27, and McKinley Health Center continues to offer the booster for those who did not attend the clinics.

The University is using its resources to make it easy for students to get their vaccines and avoid spreading the infection. Taking advantage of the offer is essential in such a highly populated environment.

According to the University, students who are at risk of infection as a result of exposure to the virus or who lack adequate vaccination protection can be restricted from activities within the campus — including class, other events and housing.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one dose of the MMR vaccine is about 78 percent effective at preventing the disease while two doses of the mumps vaccine is 88 percent effective. Considering the terrible social and physical consequences mumps can cause, there is no excuse to avoid a vaccine largely effective in preventing the virus.

From coughing, sharing eating utensils, living in close quarters or even touching surfaces without washing hands are all methods of spreading and contracting the virus.

All of the patients in this outbreak so far had minor flu-like symptoms and swollen salivary glands. While most are University students, some patients are from the nearby community.

For those students who are rushing or plan to live in congregate living arrangements such as dorms or fraternity and sorority houses, the third dose of MMR can be especially helpful in controlling the mumps outbreaks from spreading even more.

Washing your hands, maintaining cough etiquette and staying in distance from those who are sick are simple ways to help manage this illness from spreading further, but students need to make sure to take the most important step: Get the vaccine in the first place.

KAANAN RAJA Assistant opinions editor

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lashback to freshman year at the University: The 11 by 11 square foot room that was “home sweet home,� stumbling out of the smaller-than-average shower stalls and my favorite memory of all, the long-winding stir fry line at the PAR dining hall.

Most of us either have mixed reactions to our college dorm food. While some may shudder at the thought of the “breakfast for dinner� we would sometimes endure, others may have found the University’s multitude of options surprising. Either way, at each meal, our plates would be stacked with mountains of food — even if we knew we weren’t going to finish all of it.

Despite what some naysayers may say about the dining system, the University deserves the recognition it has recently been given. The University was listed in the top 12 sustainable college campuses in the US in a list from The Christian Science Monitor.

As the 10th spot on the list, the campus’s description read, “The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign spends 25 percent of its yearly food budget on locally grown or processed food items.

Campus dining services also exclusively serve fair trade coffee and almost all seafood is sustainably harvested. The University is also very committed to reducing waste and has enacted efforts to recycle cooking oil for biodiesel production and currently a quarter of the meals served on-campus are trayless.�

Up until now, I had no idea how environmentally-driven the campus dining system truly was.

The locally grown food mentioned is

all produced at the Sustainable Student Farm, a production farm that supplies 95 percent of all of its produce to the University’s residence halls with locally grown, low-input sustainable food.

With all the environmentally-friendly ways the campus is saving energy, buying local ingredients, composting waste and catering to vegetarians like myself, one would think the students of this campus would be equally as passionate about the environmental impact we also have.

However, one look at the conveyor belts of our dining halls can simply prove how unaware and apathetic many of us are about the food waste and water usage we’re constantly leaving behind. It’s incredibly hard not to notice the mountains of un-sipped drinks, barely nibbled fruit and still beautifully decorated desserts that meet their demise on the return conveyor belt.

So many of us take advantage of the all-you-can-eat policy that all of our dining halls employ. However, while we’re piling on every type of food from the a la carte menu provided to us, we don’t seem to realize how much food we end up throwing away.

I know that as a freshman, I definitely felt entitled to take more than I could eat, especially so I could get my money’s worth. However, taking advantage of a meal plan and wasting food are not the same thing.

Food waste is not just a problem here on our campus — according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, roughly between 30 to 40 percent of the food supply is wasted. Instead of making its way into our mouths, when we waste food, we are throwing it in our landfills instead. In fact, over 33 million tons of food makes its way to landfills each year. When such food is disposed in landfills, it rots and becomes a significant source of methane — a greenhouse gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon diox-

ide. Reducing the amount of food that makes its way to these landfills would be extremely environmentally beneficial.

Food waste not only has environmental repercussions but social ones as well. As the University dining services take part in the EPA Food Recovery Challenge, LeanPath, Zero Percent and other wastereduction programs that donate leftover food from our dining halls. According to the Recovery Challenge website, “Participants agree to reduce, donate, and/or compost wasted food, and to set annual waste diversion goals.� This ensures that the food that is not eaten by university students can instead be donated to homeless shelters and other organizations.

The Champaign county is very familiar with its ever-present homeless population. Many of us can see the issue from our very own Green Street. On January of 2014, a survey of the county’s homeless population was conducted and found that 222 people in 176 household emergency centers were homeless.

While many of us simply toss our unpeeled bananas and untouched sandwiches into the garbage can without a second thought, with programs such as the ones our dining halls provide, we don’t seem to realize how this untouched food could have been preserved and left at donations within our own very campus, which would also help the environment.

It is therefore up to us students to choose how we would like to address the issues this campus faces; while our dining services provide countless ways of staying sustainable and addressing issues such as food and water waste, it is ultimately the students’ decisions to see how much of an impact we would like to make on the Champaign community and the world.

Kaanan is a sophomore in LAS. kraja2@dailyillini.com

Conversation on gun control can’t fade MATT SILICH Opinions columnist

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Aug. 26, Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, were shot and killed during a live interview for the WDBJ-TV news station in Roanoke, Virginia.

The shooting was partially captured on air. Minutes after the shooting occurred Wednesday morning, the gunman posted two horrifying videos to Twitter, taken while committing the homicide. “Next week, it isn’t going to be a story anymore, and everybody’s gonna forget it,� said Andy Parker, father of Alison, in an interview with Fox News. “I’m going to do something, whatever it takes, to get gun legislation, to shame people, to shame legislators into doing something about closing loopholes in background checks and making sure crazy people don’t get guns.�

There’s certainly something to be said for allowing an appropriate amount of time to grieve the loss of the victims of this horrible tragedy and the other ones like it, but in 2015, news moves faster than ever. Like Alison’s father, I believe people should learn about the potential benefits of either banning guns altogether or greatly increasing the difficulty of acquiring one while the emotions from a shooting are still raw.

By the time we finish grieving, the collective mind of the world has moved on to the latest drama and the attention paid to articles arguing in favor of gun control or increased mental illness awareness decreases monumentally.

That’s why it’s no surprise that the family of the victims, at least in this case, agreed that the perfect time to pressure pro-gun legislators is immedi-

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ately in the wake of an incident.

So, let’s talk about gun control. Naturally, such a despicable action occurring with such widespread exposure caused a firestorm of reactions online. Many gun enthusiasts immediately clutched their pearls and started defending their right to bear arms in various ways, each representing varying degrees of misguided.

You’ve probably heard pro-gun activists say they use their guns to protect themselves. However, in 2011, the Violence Policy Center put together a study, later cited in the New York Times, questioning how often guns were used to protect people instead of harm them.

The study found that from 2006 to 2010, there were 44 criminal homicides committed with a firearm for every one homicide committed with a firearm in self-defense.

The numbers are somewhat dated now, but it’s not hard to imagine them getting even more lopsided over the last few years as shootings have become more and more frequent.

Other arguments often claim criminals are going to acquire weapons regardless of whether they’re deemed legal or illegal.

This would be a compelling point, were there not scores upon scores of evidence showing that either banning guns or highly regulating their purchase would quickly decrease the quantity of homicides.

A researcher named Joshua Tewksury compiled firearm-related death data from various highly developed nations and compared it to each country’s guns owned per capita. He found a clear positive relationship between the number of guns owned in a country and the number of its gun-related deaths; more guns means more killings.

America has exponentially more guns than any other country, and thus has exponentially more firearm-related

deaths. Logically, just taking any quantity of guns out of the market would thus help decrease the number of deaths.

When the Australian government chose to enact a gun buy-back program in 1996 and ban the personal ownership of firearms, the country saw drastic changes in gun violence. As of 2012, gun-related deaths per year in Australia decreased by greater than 50 percent. Australia has yet to endure a mass shooting since the one that prompted those changes. Even though criminals were still able to acquire some guns, the ultimate result was relative peace.

If there is action the United States can take to reduce the number of deaths due to firearm use each year, then it must be taken; it doesn’t have to be perfect.

There is no catch-all policy that can completely eliminate gun-related deaths and mass shootings in the U.S. But there doesn’t need to be — just some sort of improvement from our current situation. Enforcing strict background checks, disallowing the ownership of non-handguns or banning guns altogether could all decrease the high amount of gun violence in America.

Yes, people make the ultimate decision to kill other people, but they use readily available guns to do so. Guns don’t need to be harder to obtain because of the responsible citizens who own them, they need to be harder to obtain for the tiny minority of citizens who use them to commit murder.

To argue in favor of the right to bear arms is to aid in the killing of thousands of innocent people every year.

Shooting after shooting will continue to occur unless gun control is implemented in America. We can’t wait until weeks after each massacre, once all is forgotten, to fix this problem. The time to amend the second amendment is now.

Matt is a junior in Media. silich2@illinimedia.com

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STEPHANIE YOUSSEF Opinions columnist

In the midst of University scandals, our engineering program was ranked number four in the world. What do you think this credit will do for the University and students?

“Let me just say, it’s unfortunate that random party school rankings with zero rational selection processes go 100,000 times more viral than academic rankings.�

“It shows that despite the scandal with the administration, University professors work hard to deliver a quality education.

As long as that stands, students can still experience the best of this university.�

President Obama is renaming Mt. McKinley to Denali this week to call attention to global warming. What are your thoughts about his recent climate change pushes?

“I’m sure we can trust President Obama when he promises us that change is going to come.�

“I wouldn’t listen to Miley Cyrus’s album even if she paid me, so I guess I side with Taylor.�

Miley Cyrus released her album for free at the VMAs; Taylor Swift refuses to put her catalogue on Spotify because she believes music should be paid for.

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“Our engineering program has always been exceptionally strong. I think the ranking just helps prove the University is an academically rigorous institution, regardless of any scandals.�

“It proves that no matter what the University is facing, we still can make education the number one, constant priority of the school.�

“I think renaming the mountain is excessive and his plans to address climate change are disorganized and unclear.�

“Climate change is one of the most important issues of our generation.

I think Obama’s push to address climate change had been great. I’m also supportive of his clean power plan.�

“I really admire his push to address climate change. It’s pressing and needs immediate attention. Anything we can do to draw attention to it is so important.�

“Miley Cyrus and free music.

The copyright laws for the entertainment industry are ridiculous and unreasonable.�

“Music probably should have a price in order to support artists. However, it’s incredibly easy to find music for free through completely legal channels.

Although I agree with Swift, I’m guessing her fans will be able to access her music for free anyway.�

“Miley Cyrus. People are going to find ways to get music for free. Might as well steer into the skid rather than being naive about the industry.�

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Hurricane Katrina yields reflection 10 years later

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Hope, horror remembered as Biloxi rebuilds

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BILOXI, Miss. — The desperate voices on the phone told emergency dispatchers Hurricane Katrina was much worse than anyone imagined — “We’re drowning!” — but until Desiree Hernandez stepped from the windowless bunker at a Biloxi, Mississipi, fire station into the air outside, she had no idea.

“I looked down to Highway 90 and there was nothing there,” she said. “And it was just so surreal. When you knew all the businesses — and you knew, ‘OK, that was Ruby Tuesday’s, that was the Shell station, that was that.’

“Where’s all the hotels?

Where did all that stuff inside of all those buildings go? ... Where are the signs? ... Where did it go?”

Kelvin Schulz and three of his children were among the desperate that day. But he was in Bay St. Louis, not Biloxi. Katrina’s hurricaneforce winds extended 115 miles from the center when it made landfall Aug. 29, 2005, on the Mississippi-Louisiana line.

The Schulzes were on the second floor of a two-story brick building that 36 years earlier had survived what everyone considered the worst hurricane imaginable, Camille.

Hurricane Katrina, they and thousands of others discovered, was even worse.

The family swam out of the building as it fell apart, but Schulz’s mother-inlaw, Jane Mollere, refused to budge. Water lapping at her calves, the 80-year-old looked at him and simply said, “Kelvin, I’m too old for this.”

A survivor of Camille, the frail woman knew what lay ahead. She was one of 167 South Mississippians who lost their lives to Katrina.

Ten years out, the empty lots stretching from Waveland to Pascagoula, including the one where Mollere perished, attest to Katrina’s strength. She was a hurricane like no other, but should not serve as a barometer of the next storm. And there always will be a next hurricane.

The Gulf Coast has prepared by building a stronger backbone: hardened harbors and public buildings, homes constructed or remodeled to stronger codes, and emergency response communications designed to work through disaster.

“We got flattened,” Haley Barbour, the governor who presided over Katrina recovery, told the Sun Herald. “We actually bore the brunt of the worst natural disaster in American history and after awhile, the American people realized that. And they watched Mississippians, the courage and character of these strong, resilient, selfreliant people. And there’s no doubt in my mind that, when all was said and done in the wake of Katrina, the way our Mississippians responded did more to improve the image of our state than anything that’s happened in my lifetime.” **** The night before Katrina hit, Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove and emergency responders were on Henderson Point, monitoring the water level, which was already rising.

“When I got out of the truck,” Hargrove said, “I took a flashlight and shined it on the ground. And I knew we were going to be in trouble at that point because there

“We hitched up our britches and went to work.”

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to war.

“It’s certainly the most devastating thing that had ever happened,” Gray said.

“When something like that happens — I have seen it many times — you rise to the occasion and worry about it later.

“World War II, women who had never done a thing in their life went to work in the factories. Here, people went out and pulled debris out of the street and hauled it to trash cans and did things they never thought they would do.”

Or, as Haley Barbour put it, “We hitched up our britches and went to work.”

In the weeks after the storm, sunflowers bloomed in the ruins as if to demonstrate rebirth had begun. Volunteers from all parts of the country arrived in waves, returning again and again to help rebuild. **** A crucial early step in recovery was convincing the state Legislature to allow casinos to rebuild on land. Once legislation was approved, the Coast appeared to be on a roll. Casinos rebuilt and Hard Rock Biloxi opened two years past its scheduled opening date, which coincided with the hurricane.

Harrah’s Entertainment and Jimmy Buffett partnered on a planned one billion dollar investment in Margaritaville Casino Biloxi on the beach. But the recession hit.

Construction at Margaritaville slowed in 2008, then stopped altogether.

Availability and affordability of wind insurance

was a growing problem, with major insurance carriers moving off the beach. The Federal Emergency Management Agency also expanded special flood-hazard areas, requiring higher elevations for structures that had to be rebuilt.

Then the BP oil catastrophe erupted in the spring of 2010 and lingered through tourist season. The Mississippi Coast and its barrier islands were awash in tar balls, but were spared from most of the oil that gushed from the busted Macondo well in the Gulf.

“What’s not done yet is the economic recovery,” said community leader Gerald Blessey, who directed housing recovery. “Despite some yeoman efforts, here we are 10 years later and, for instance, Harrison County is not back to pre-Katrina jobs, we’re not back to pre-Katrina hotel rooms.

“On the other hand, you can’t blame it all on Katrina because we were doing pretty good in economic recovery until the recession, and then on top of that, we get hit with the BP oil spill, so it had this sort of triple whammy economically, especially in the tourism industry, but also with other businesses.”

Blessey said creative thinking will be needed to get the economy moving again.

He thinks the focus should be on what he refers to as four legs of the stool: education, economic development, environmental sustainability and quality of life.

“I think you have to look at a community as an ecosystem,” he said. “It’s not just one thing.

“We have a beautiful area here and the quality of life, traditionally, has been great. If you have that kind of stool and any one of those legs is weaker than the other and begins to collapse, the whole thing collapses.” **** Katrina altered the landscape and lives. Families that lost homes near the waterfront had to decide, would they rebuild there, or move north? Couples were sometimes torn, with one wanting to leave the waterfront and the other longing to stay.

Residents whose homes were lost or damaged are finally feeling like they have resettled to a new normal.

Michael Kovacevich, who lives on East Biloxi’s peninsula, rebuilt his mother’s house next door and his own home.

When the storm started, he had nine people in his house.

By the time it ended, there were closer to 30.

“People say, ‘You’re a hero,’” he said. “No. You’re sitting on a porch and you’re looking at little kids across the street going underwater, you go get them, you know?

That’s the thing to do. The water’s not over your head yet, you can go get them early.

“It’s when we got to the point where everybody was here, we were in uncharted waters. We had no clue what to do next. We were as high as we could go. There’s no more higher.”

Kovacevich’s neighborhood is mostly vacant lots, but he’s happy to be there nonetheless. The storm has changed his outlook.

“It was rough and it changed a lot of lives,” he said. “A lot of difference in the way you live, too. Before the storm, I had a lot of antiques and I would go to auctions.

“That don’t mean nothing anymore, all that. You can forget all those antiques and all the fancy stuff and just live comfortable. Enjoy life.”

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were insects moving to the north, towards high ground.

And I’ve always been taught by my parents and my grandparents — old folklore — that if the animals and birds and insects start moving and flying away, something bad’s fixing to happen, because they have a second sense about them. “ ... That just reinforced the information we were getting about how bad this was going to be.” **** In Bay St. Louis, Charles Harry Gray returned after evacuating to find Katrina had leveled the new home he had fashioned from a 1911 Ford assembly plant. The silk brocade walls and marble floors were demolished, as were his fine antiques.

The Greek Revival home where he previously lived on the beach was gone, too.

The donated building downtown, where he had nurtured the Hancock County Historical Society, also was heavily damaged.

“I was standing out front just about to have a stroke,” the 81-year-old Gray said in his patrician Southern accent. He didn’t, of course.

He and his friends combed his scoured lot as if on an archaeological dig, uncovering sterling silver miniatures, china from the 1800s and other treasures. Similar scenes played out across the Coast, with residents combing through the rubble for lost possessions.

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SECOND FLATLANDS DANCE FILM FESTIVAL BUILDS, EDUCATES COMMUNITY

PHOTO COURTESY OF “SHAKE THE DUST”

An image from “Shake the Dust,” by Adam Sjoberg, a film that will be making its Midwest premiere at this year’s Flatlands Dance Film Festival.

Understanding dance through film creates fresh perspective

BY SUSAN SZUCH COPY CHIEF

Champaign’s Flatlands Dance Film Festival holds the title of being the only festival of its kind in the Midwest — and they’re gaining a lot of attention after opening the short film competition to the international community.

“This year, we had 73 applications from 13 countries,” said Rebecca Ferrell, dance faculty member and festival co-curator. “It’s growing; we’re still a baby, as you would say.

We’re the newest ones on the scene, but we’re all really happy with the growth and the publicity.”

For its second year, the festival kicks off at the Art Theater Co-op on Tuesday at 7 p.m. with the Midwest premiere of the documentary “Shake the Dust.” The festival takes place on Sept. 1, 8 and 15, with each night hosting a different event. The second night of the festival will showcase a selection of short films, and a short-film contest judged by community members will take place on the third night. The festival will give the winner a “Loie Fuller award,” named after one of the pioneers of modern dance.

The Flatlands Dance Film Festival’s pieces are not what most think of when they hear the words “dance film.” Unlike “Step Up” and “Black Swan,” these films focus on telling a story through dance rather than using it as a plot device.

The festival strives to educate and expose the community to the unique medium of dance on camera, Ferrell said.

“Our big thing is that those two worlds are really prominent in the C-U community. We have a great film community and a great dance community, so to have a medium like dance on film that collides the two is really unique,” Ferrell said. “So we want to bring those two worlds together and let the community know that this is just a new medium that’s out there.”

They do this through screening a feature film as well as short films. This year’s feature film will be “Shake the Dust,” a documentary about how breakdancing brings people together in war-torn countries. The shorts range in dance genre and production value; however, according to Mark Rhodes, one of the community judges and department donors, choosing which film to show was a difficult task.

“The competition films were a challenge just because there were so many films that were really very good. We’ve got this block of time we can show films; what are the

best of the best we can show?” Rhodes said. “All three of the community judges were very happy with what was selected, but were also disappointed that some of the films that we liked we weren’t able to show in the film festival.”

Among the shorts showcased is “Globe Trot,” a film by Bebe Miller, and is comprised of people all over the world performing the same dance. The film is diverse in the age, gender, race and body type of the performers. Ferrell said representation of these different groups is important in showing the community dance on camera.

For junior in Engineering Dhara Patel, who regularly attends music and film festivals, representation and inclusivity are important aspects.

“I really value inclusiveness in a festival because I think festivals are a place for conversation about whatever is being celebrated — and all-inclusive conversations are the most productive and interesting, in my opinion,” Patel said.

Ferrell said that through dance on camera, the choreography and cinema “become a dance in and of itself,” and it allows people to view dance in a way they aren’t able to at performances.

“People are so used to seeing dance on a stage: You sit down, and it’s presented to you from the front. With dance on camera, you can see different angles,” Ferrell said. “Where if you’re sitting and maybe just looking at one person downstage, maybe you’re missing a whole duet that’s happening upstage. With the film aspect, your eye is manipulated the whole time, and you see things you would miss.”

Aside from exposing the community to dance on camera, Ferrell said that the festival tries to stay current and find new content.

“That’s one thing we really want — what’s new, and what’s the pulse on the scene,” Ferrell said.

“I think the cool thing about the competition is that we had so many names that I recognized, but so many that I didn’t, so I think, to have a mix of the established and emerging, is really exciting.”

Rhodes views the festival as a way for the community to come together and bring attention to the Art Theater.

“I think just the film festival itself, it’s an opportunity for the University and the community to work on a project together and build a relationship.”

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Cubit sets tone for Illini players, fans Games to be broadcast in Mandarin Chinese, captains for season opener named

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Bill Cubit made sure he set the tone in his first Monday press conference.

The new Illinois head football coach wore an orange dress shirt and a dark blazer with an Illinois shield pin on his left side. Cubit made many in the room laugh with witty remarks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; something his predecessor was much criticized for his inability to do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always done it,â&#x20AC;? Cubit said of wearing a blazer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really believe in a professional manner. I get to represent a great university, administration and I want to make sure I present a good image.â&#x20AC;?

Illinois held practice on Friday and Saturday, and the players performed well, according to Cubit. The coaches ran drills differently, and Cubit explained what he wanted in each drill and why he made the changes.

The playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reaction to the changes has been mostly positive. Five-year players like offensive lineman Ted Karras and running back Josh Ferguson have gone through coaching changes, and now they need to move on. Freshmen and sophomores have only known one coach and were taken to the side to talk about how coaching changes are commonplace in college football.

Despite the changes, play-

ers know they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lose focus with their first game at the end of the week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Knowing that you have a game in five days (helps us stay focused),â&#x20AC;? Ferguson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been different, a lot more off the field stuff than weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to deal with, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re focused on still having practices with a game coming up, so it hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been that hard staying focused.â&#x20AC;?

Cubit mentioned that the past three days have been crazy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he said he has gotten very little sleep and hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eaten much. He received calls from all over the nation from fans who wanted to voice their support of the team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You saw a lot of enthusiasm out there,â&#x20AC;? Cubit said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rallying.

My hope is that the students, alumni, the parents, everybody out there rally around this football team because these kids deserve everything that they can get.â&#x20AC;?

Illinois to start Chinese broadcast Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season-opener against Kent State will be the first to be broadcasted in Mandarin Chinese.

Illinois athletics and the Fighting Illini Radio Network will broadcast every home game at Memorial Stadium in Mandarin Chinese online through FightingIllini.com.

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Offensive Coordination Bill Cubit celebrates a touchdown against Cincinnati on Sept. 7, 2013. Cubit is now serving as head coach, and is making changes to the way the team does things. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had some great success with our international students services group,â&#x20AC;? said Brad Wurthman, associate athletic director for marketing and fan development. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted to try to do something they were interested in partnering with, so it became a mutually beneficial partnership.â&#x20AC;?

The University is trying to

connect with the over 4,500 students from China. Junior Bruce Lu and sophomore David He will broadcast the games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are excited to launch our Chinese broadcast team as we try to reach out to that community here locally and inform them,â&#x20AC;? Wurthman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to be the Big Ten team of Asia.â&#x20AC;?

Team captains named Illinois announced its five captains for Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season opener against Kent State.

Wide receiver Geronimo Allison, STAR Eric Finney, Karras, quarterback Wes Lunt and linebacker Mason Monheim will serve as the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s captain. Each player

noted the honor that comes with being named a captain, especially for the seniors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great honor,â&#x20AC;? Karras said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the biggest honors Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever received to be voted captain by my team and I will not take that lightly at all.â&#x20AC;?

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Searching for the right coach Possible candidates who could be next head football coach

BY CHARLOTTE CARROLL AND MICHAL DWOJAK STAFF WRITER

While the search for a new Illinois head coach wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t officially begin for a few months, there has been plenty of speculation on who will be given the job. Here is a list of the top names being talked about currently. Many of these names have been discussed during Illini struggles over the past few years.

P.J. Fleck One of the most talkedabout options is the current head coach at Western Michigan, who replaced interim Illini head coach Bill Cubit there in 2012.

In 2014, Fleck orchestrated the best turnaround in school history and the second-best turnaround in MAC history: The Broncos went from a 1-11 record in 2013 to a 8-4 record in 2014.

Fleck was named MAC Coach of the Year for this achievement.

Lane Kiffin Kiffin had two unceremonious exits from his

two previous head coaching jobs: at Tennessee and USC. Currently he is Alabamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offensive coordinator â&#x20AC;&#x201D; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the biggest name on this list.

Bill Cubit Now the interim head coach, performance and investigation results will determine whether Cubit sticks around longer than this year. The Illini offense has been much-improved under Cubit, jumping from 122nd to 71st in his first year alone. He could provide continuity, and is one of only two Beckman assistants who remains under contract past 2014, earning an added $100,000 extra a month for four months as interim coach.

Justin Fuente In 2014, Fuenteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third season as the head coach at Memphis, the Tigers posted a 7-3 record. He made the third-year jump at Memphis that Beckman couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make at Illinois.

He also was an assistant at Illinois State for six years and knows the Mid-

west, which is valuable for recruiting

eron was the head coach at Mississippi.

Brock Spack

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Illinois State head coach since 2009, Spack led the Redbirds to a 2014 Missouri Valley Football Conference championship.

Illinois State appeared in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs two times in the last three seasons. With seven Illinois State players from Chicago, Spack could also get Illinois back in the Chicago recruiting game.

Fickell was Jim Tresselâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interim replacement at Ohio State in 2011, but was passed over in favor of Urban Meyer for the starting job. Despite that, Fickell remains as Ohio Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defensive coordinator. He has proven he can lead a team in crisis, and has spent 12 years in the Big Ten, all at Ohio State. If heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s willing to depart from his beloved Buckeyes, Illinois is an ideal place for him to land.

Ed Orgeron Orgeron last served as interim head coach leading USC to a 6-2 record in the last eight games of the 2012 season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the year the university fired Lane Kiffin. However, this season he will be coaching the defensive line at LSU. He was out of coaching for a year before taking this job and perhaps a head spot is in his future at Illinois.

He is best known for his enthusiasm and his successful recruitment of Michael Oher when Org-

Dino Babers Entering his second season at Bowling Green, Babers is ready to improve his 8-6 record with the Falcons. His team won the inaugural Raycom Media Camellia Bowl over South Alabama to cap off his first season.

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure you have all heard by now, the goof that coached our football team for a while got fired.

Some fans want interim head coach Bill Cubit to be the long-term head coach for the Illini, others are looking to hot names like Western Michiganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PJ Fleck or Alabamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lane Kiffin. While it makes sense to look to experienced, proven coaches like the names listed above, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the athletic administration needs to look past its own campus to find its next head coach.

Why not hire a student?

Why not hire me?

I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be pretty good at it. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my list of the top-10 reasons why â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as a representative of the student body â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I should be the next head football coach for the Illini.

10. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played A LOT of EA Sports Madden football over the years. I started with Madden 99 on Nintendo 64 and havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stopped playing since â&#x20AC;&#x201D; how different could the real deal be? I come with 15 years of virtual football experience. Unlike any other candidates, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve grown up in a digital football age.

9. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I could use the money. Have you seen tuition costs here?

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ridiculous. Coach Beckman was set to make $1.8 million in 2015. My agent and I are willing to settle for half of that right now. Fifty percent off â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a screaming deal.

8. I bleed orange and blue. This has my doctors very concerned, but I think it sets me apart from the other candidates. This program needs a coach that has pride in the University. I can be that guy.

7. I look fabulous in a visor and headset. Any good football coach has to be able to pull off the visor-headset-look.

Wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you rather see my long, luscious locks underneath that navy blue visor rather than some old

geezer with gray hair?

6. I really could use a transportation upgrade.

Both Tim Beckman and his wife received University-owned vehicles. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not married, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll save the football program some cash, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not even asking for a car. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just hoping for one of those mopeds that Illini football players have. It would serve as a significant upgrade from my blue 1994 Schwinn bicycle.

5. I can yell louder than anyone I know. While this is a difficult one to prove in a print article, I can assure you that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true.

Every successful football coach needs a good set of pipes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and I can yell and scream with the best of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em.

4. I would love the membership to Champaign Country Club. As part of his contract benefits, the University paid for Tim Beckmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s membership at the club. Now that Beckmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got plenty of time on his hands, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking for a playing partner. Sure, it might be a little awkward since I will have taken his job, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be fun. Maybe his wife can prepare us lasagna afterwards.

3. I already have four years of head coaching experience as the powderpuff football coach at my high school. Beckman made the jump from the University of Toledo to the University of Illinois â&#x20AC;&#x201D; so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not too much different.

2. My mom said I should give it a try â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she says Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be good at it. Reference No. 1, check.

1. Compared to the other candidates, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got youth on my side. Teams always talk about how they want a young, energized coach to revitalize the program. Makes sense to me. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m 19 years old, easily the youngest candidate, so letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s make a deal.

The ball is in your court, Illinois. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be dropping off my application later today.

Kevin is a sophomore in Media. komccar2@dailyillini. com @KevOMcCarthy

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Recruits stuffed Huff, experienced Illinois

Volleyball’s record is good for Illinois athletics and recruiting season

BY ELI SCHWADRON STAFF WRITER

As detailed in Daily Illini basketball columnist Alex Roux’s Monday story, 2016 basketball recruits Xavier Sneed and Xavier Simpson attended Friday night’s volleyball season opener.

While it’s common practice for prospects of any sport to check out another program’s game or match while taking their official visits, Stuff Huff is easily one of the best events to showcase what being a member of the Illini community is all about. And it doesn’t hurt that the No. 8 volleyball team is downright nasty this year.

The annual Stuff Huff festivities kicked off with a carnival — free food, moon bounce, etc. — at 5:30 p.m.

Friday outside Huff Hall.

That’s cool and all, but the real attraction was on the other side of Huff’s walls an hour and a half later, when head coach Kevin Hambly’s squad began its regular season against Louisville before 3,344 fans.

In the student section, a wave of Illinois faithful rocked rhythmically back and forth like a giant orange sea. The crowd was littered with similarly colored headbands. One fan proudly raised a specially made, fivefoot-tall Hambly fathead.

Another donned a furry, striped costume complete with a rubber horse head mask. Higher up, families of former and future Illini nestled into every nook and cranny of bleacher space.

And on the court, where it matters most, the Illini took care of business, sweeping the Cardinals in three nailbiting sets.

Simpson, a 5-foot-11 point guard from Lima, Ohio, took in the action alongside his father and Illinois assistants Paris Parham and Dustin Ford. Meanwhile, Sneed, a 6-foot-6 wing from Florissant, Missouri, watched from the

stands with junior forward Malcolm Hill, who’s expected to carry much of the load offensively during the 201516 season.

Whether or not the X-Men know a lick about volleyball, what matters is they were exposed to a terrific sporting event and surrounded by thousands of Illinois diehards. Amid news of former head football coach Tim Beckman’s firing and an ongoing lawsuit against women’s head basketball coach Matt Bollant (not to mention the school’s chancellor and provost stepping down), it’s dope that Simpson and Sneed could experience a schoolsanctioned event executed to near-perfection.

Stuff Huff was just a slice of Simpson and Sneed’s weekend-long visit, but I’m willing to bet seeing freshman setter Jordyn Poulter rack up 35 assists in an electric atmosphere had a positive effect on them. At the very least, we can be fairly certain the match didn’t reflect poorly on Illini athletics — which doesn’t sound like much — but has to be counted as a win with all the negative news surrounding Illinois programs lately.

Friday night’s victory wasn’t a fluke, either. Illinois volleyball is now 32-10 alltime in season-openers, and the team is looking to compete for a national championship this year under Hambly’s tutelage.

Accordi ng to Roux’s Monday column, Simpson’s father Quincey said they have some future visits set up at other schools, but they may cancel them. Two things Quincey did make clear when speaking to Roux was that they are going to make a decision soon, and that they liked Illinois a lot. Now, the wait begins.

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Danielle Davis serving the ball during the Orange and Blue game on Aug. 22.

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The women’s soccer team sprints to embrace Jannelle Flaws after she breaks the Illinois alltime scoring record with her 48th goal in the game against St. Louis on Sunday.

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Soccer sweeps SLU

BY MATT GERTSMEIER STAFF WRITER

Not only did Jannelle Flaws’ hat trick performance break the Illinois soccer career goals record, it also helped the Illini (4-00) set the tone early in the 3-1 win over St. Louis.

Flaw’s three goals were scored within a span of nine minutes and all before the 25th minute in the first half.

Coach Janet Rayfield said it was assuring to see her team jump to a quick lead.

“In other games earlier in the year, we started slow and finished strong,” Rayfield said. “We flipped the table tonight. I loved the way we started.”

Illinois recorded 10 shots on goal in the first half compared to the Billikens’ three.

The Illini failed to continue the goal-scoring frenzy and were scoreless in the second half. St. Louis mustered one goal late in the second half to cut the deficit to two.

Despite not scoring in the second half, Illinois registered nine shot attempts.

Rayfield would have liked to see the Illini convert on some of those second half chances.

“I just told the team, ‘it’s hard once you take the foot off the gas’, which I think we did at about the 30 minute mark, to get it back and going again,” Rayfield said.

“But that first 30 minutes was some great soccer.”

Flaws moving past record, focused on team success

Before the season began, the biggest headline surrounding the Illini was Flaws’ pursuit of the career-goals record. Now, that she has broken the record, the focus can shift back to the team.

“It’s nice to finally get it, (but) it’s also kind of nice to finally put it behind me and keep moving on,” Flaws said of breaking the record. “It’s nice to finally be able to focus on the team again and not be constantly worrying about me breaking this record.”

During Flaws’ pursuit of the record, Illinois has jumped out to a 4-0-0 start, their best start since 2008.

The 2008 team finished 12-9-2 and qualified for the NCAA Tournament — something this year’s team would certainly like to accomplish after missing the tournament last year.

Rayfield believes Flaws’ motivation was always team success and with the record broken, outsiders’ attention will be solely on the team.

“It’s not about the record for her, it’s about the wins, and it’s about this team and this season,” Rayfield said. “I think that’s what we’re going to focus on now.”

Flaws also realizes that her team’s success could very well dictate her playing career after this season.

“I want to get my name out there. I want to play after college,” Flaws said. “Any way I can I want that recognition,

but I can’t get it without the team’s success.”

Flaws’ most memorable goal is still to come After Sunday’s game, Flaws has 50 career goals, and with 14 games remaining on the schedule, her total is more than likely to increase.

Even after 50 goals, Flaws can still remember her first, during her redshirt freshman year against Pepperdine.

She said her first season was frustrating since she only scored three goals. However, she knows that first goal was the start of her journey to No. 48.

“I guess it meant something to me, but I was not very fond of that season,” Flaws said of her first goal.

“I don’t know if I would say it was a huge (or) proud moment, but it was definitely the start of my goal scoring here.”

While Flaws said she will always remember her recordbreaking goal from Sunday, her most memorable goal may have not yet occurred.

“Each goal in each game, they have different moments and different feelings, depending on the game,” Flaws said. “(The goal) definitely will be very memorable, I don’t know which one will be the most.

Maybe one later in the season.”

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The Illinois hockey team can credit much of its success last season to the emergence of then-freshman Eric Cruickshank.

His 32 points were the second-highest on the team, and the team voted him Rookie of the Year for the 2014-2015 season.

Cruickshank is now heading into his sophomore season with the same mentality.

“I plan to keep contributing to the team as much as I possibly can,” Cruickshank said. “Whether that be scoring goals, blocking shots, or killing penalties.”

A forward that spent time at center and left wing last year, Cruickshank netted 15 goals and 20 assists through the regular season and playoffs.

Head coach Nick Fabbrini knows how good Cruickshank is, and says he always expects the best from him.

“My expectations haven’t changed necessarily,” Fabbrini said. “What we need from him may have changed.

Since he got here he has been one of our most talented players on offense, and we are going to need him to build on how he played last year in order to perform at our best.”

Cruickshank was also voted one of the team captains this season, and he has begun to take on a leadership role for the team. According to Fabbrini, his leadership on and off of the ice will be just

as important as his play this season.

Now that he is established as a strong player, other teams know that he is that the Illini have to offer, but Cruickshank doesn’t see that as added pressure.

“I am going to go into this season with a similar approach,” Cruickshank said.

“You have to stick with what works.”

Five pairs of skates to fill The Illini lost defensemen Joshua Baker, Robert Kokoszka, and William Nunez, along with forwards Jonathan Langan and Jacob Matisyak all to graduation.

The Illini brought in six new players to fill the gaps that the graduated players left behind. Freshman Tyler Opilka is posed to make an immediate impact. Nunez and Baker left big holes in the defense — Nunez was voted the team’s best defensive player, but Fabbrini thinks Opilka shows great promise.

Opilka, a St. Louis native, played in the USPHL junior league, which is the best junior league on the east coast.

Three other freshmen will join the Illini on the ice this year — Ben Jeon, Valentino Wilson and Liam Dadie. Jeon and Wilson both played in the state of Illinois in the Midget AA league before making their way to Illinois, and Dadie played at a prep school in Massachussetts.

The other two incoming players for the Illini are David Heflin and Connor Robbs. Heflin is a transfer from Division III school University Wisconsin-River Falls, while Robbs made the team at open tryouts. Fabbrini wasn’t even aware that Robbs was going to be there.

Fabbrini knows that the guys who graduated left a big hole in the program, but he is confident that the team will be fine. “(The team) hopes that the new guys can step in and help fill that void.”

Flosi out for the season The Illini will be without key forward Matthew Flosi this year.

Flosi is expected to miss the entire season after he had surgery to repair a torn labrum this offseason.

He was a top line forward last season for the Illini: he recorded 14 points in 27 games. He also had seven goals and seven assists.

Though Flosi was a strong contributor to the team, Cruickshank believes that the team will be able to recover and still achieve their goals of being the best team in the CSCHL. “We know that we are capable of reaching our goals,” he said. “If we get 20 guys in the lineup who all play their roles at 120 percent every game.”

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Illinois’ Eric Cruickshank makes a short pass during the CSCHL Playoffs semi-finals against Ohio University at the Ice Arena on Feb. 21. Illinois lost 3-5.

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Fantasy Doctor: Position by position help JOEY FIGUEROA Fantasy doctor

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ello, and welcome back to the doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad you all could make it for your second weekly check-up with the fantasy doctor, I hope you enjoyed the magazines in the waiting room. This may be a free clinic, but with the draft guidelines Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be providing today, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll feel like you visited the Mayo Clinic.

OK, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enough medical puns, Sorry.

Assuming youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made it this far into the column without tossing the newspaper off a very tall building, here is a positionby-position breakdown of how to approach this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fantasy football drafts. From most to least important, this is how the skill positions stack up, along with my favorite sleeper and rookie for each one.

Running backs Running back is always the position to target first. Including the flex position, most teams end up starting three backs every week, and the supply of quality runners simply does not match the demand of every roster. So take these guys early and often.

This season is a little different because of how top-heavy most positions are, especially true of RBs. In no particular order, Jamaal Charles, Leâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Veon Bell, Adrian Peterson, Marshawn Lynch and Eddie Lacy should be the first five players taken. Personally, Charles has been at the top of my list for years and that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed.

After those five, the position falls off a bit. The next tier of backs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; DeMarco Murray, Matt Forte, Lesean McCoy, etc. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; should still be taken in the second and third rounds after the top tiers of quarterbacks and wide receivers are gone. If you find yourself in the fourth or fifth round without a running back, you can always try again next year.

Sleeper: Latavius Murray. The second-year back made waves toward the end of last season and is set to be the featured runner in Oakland.

Rookie: Melvin Gordon for the

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Sleeper: Charles Johnson. Teddy Bridgewater is set to break out in Minnesota and he has great chemistry with Johnson.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an WR3 with upside.

Rookie: Amari Cooper. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Rookie of the Year candidate.

first month, and then Todd Gurley once the Rams let him loose.

Wide receivers A shift among the NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elite receivers occurred last season and there are some new faces in the top tier of pass catchers. Calvin Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reign of terror as the obvious No. 1 receiver came to a sudden halt, making way for the likes of Antonio Brown, Dez Bryant, Demaryius Thomas, Julio Jones, A.J. Green and Odell Beckham, Jr. Along with Johnson, those guys make up the first wave of receivers that should all be taken by the third round.

Brown, Bryant and Thomas are all viable first round choices (especially in PPR leagues) as long as you scoop up a back or two in the next few rounds.

Once again, the position falls off pretty hard after that, but there are plenty of receivers to

could be Colin Kaepernickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 1 option this year.

Rookie: Nah.

so far.

Quarterbacks

The Seahawks defense is usually taken around the seventh round, but if you can nab them around the eighth or ninth, do it.

If not, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d wait until one of your final two picks. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re probably better off just streaming a different unit off the waiver wire every week. Always look out for defenses facing the Browns or Jets since they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t score against anyone.

Sleeper: New York Jets. Revis Island, baby.

Very unlike actual football, the quarterback is the least important skill position in fantasy land. Unless you can nab Andrew Luck or Aaron Rodgers in the second round, you can wait a very long time before picking a signal-caller.

Let everyone else go for the mid-tier guys like Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan and stock up on RBs and WRs instead. Unless your league starts more than one QB, you should have no problem landing Tony Romo or Cam Newton in the eighth round or later.

Sleeper: Sam Bradford. Dude went 10-for-10 with three touchdowns on Saturday.

Rookie: Marcus Mariota. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out-played Jameis Winston

Tight ends Gronk is the indisputable No. 1 here. He can be clumped with the top-tier receivers at the end of the first round. Jimmy Graham and Greg Olsen are the next best targets and then its a black hole of mediocrity after that. If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t land one of those three guys by the fifth round, just wait for someone like Owen Daniels in the later rounds.

Sleeper: Vernon Davis. He

Defenses

Kickers Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not worth the time â&#x20AC;&#x201D; mine or yours. Draft who you like.

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