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The University is not fulfilling its “basic purpose,” according to the American Association of University Professors, AAUP. On June 13, the AAUP censured the University for violating Steven Salaita’s rights to academic freedom. Robin Kaler, campus spokeswoman, confirmed that both Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson and President Timothy Killeen are taking measures to ensure the censure’s removal. Here’s The Daily Illini’s breakdown and how it impacts the campus.

What is censure? According to AAUP, a college or university is censured if the association fi nds the academic freedom environment to be unsatisfactory. In its 1940 “Statement of Principles”, the AAUP believes universities exist for the “common good” and are dependent on “free search for truth and its free expression.

+RZ GRHV FHQVXUH Dĳ HFW WKH University? In reality, only the administration is censured. Students and faculty aren’t; however, that doesn’t mean they aren’t affected. Overtime, censure can hurt the University’s ability to recruit the same caliber of its current faculty, therefore harming students’ education. The AAUP guidelines are widely accepted by universities, thus when the association notes a university as in conflict with its principals, professors and researchers may not want to work there.

From an expert: censure won’t be lifted soon John Wilson, co-editor of the AAUP’s blog “Academe,” said the University is not on track to be removed. In order for censure to be lifted, the University must reconcile with Salaita and change its policies. The University changed the timeline of its hiring but has not amended with Salaita yet. He said the outcome of his lawsuit could play a major role in the decision.

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Why was the University censured?

Aug. 22 Students stage sit-in outside of the Board of Trustees Executive Committee meeting

Former Chancellor Phyllis Wise

On Aug. 1, 2014 Salaita received an email from former chancellor Phyllis Wise, stating she wouldn’t recommend his appointment as a tenured professor in the American Indian Studies department to the Board of Trustees. New hires must receive board approval after they’re offered a position. Because it’s rare for the board to reject new candidates, approval was given after a faculty member already began teaching. Salaita’s tweets were criticized as anti-semitic, raising concerns about his position on campus. When Salaita’s offer was revoked, others raised concerns about academic freedom. On Sept. 11, 2014, the board voted not to hire him. The association defi ned Salaita’s tweets as extramural speech, meaning because he was not speaking in a teaching capacity, the University can’t hold them against him.

Then chancellor Phyllis Wise emailed Salaita to tell him he would not be teaching.

Steven Salaita The University revoked Salaita’s offer to teach at the University after he sent controversial tweets.

What is the University doing about it?

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Kaler said there are no specific steps to have the censure lifted. However, Wilson and Killeen are talking with people who are upset about the situation. Additionally, Kaler said Wilson is working to learn more about what needs to be done to lift the censure.

The Board officially chose not to approve Salaita’s appointment at its meeting on Sept. 11, 2014.

The local AAUP Harry Hilton, AAUP local chapter president, said the University has made efforts to have the censure lifted. “We had frank and helpful discussions and all indicated that they were anxious to take appropriate steps that will lead to censure removal,” he said. But, Hilton said he requested to address the board at its September meeting but was declined because the matter is in court. When he requested to speak solely to the executive committee, Hilton said he never received a response. “Such refusals to communicate with an accredited faculty organization is inimical to the shared governance principles and counterproductive to the censure removal process,” he said.

Senate Executive Committee forms the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure Aug. 26

Salaita’s job offer is revoked Aug. 1

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Board of Trustees denies Salaita’s appointment Sept. 11

Aug. 29 University departments issue vote of no confidence in Wise

Salaita files suit against the University in Champaign County Circuit Court for violating the Freedom of Information Act Nov. 16

Sept. 22 Students protest Salaita’s dismissal at the Academic Senate meeting

The AAUP Censured the University on June 13.

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University ordered to preserve all documents related to Salaita Sept. 29

Board reaffirms decision not to hire Salaita Jan. 15

Jan. 29 Salaita files suit against the University in Federal Court

Dec. 23 CAFT recommends the University reconsider Salaita’s appointment

University to make sexual assault resources more gender inclusive

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Education representatives. In addition, Hill served as a part of the It’s On Us task force chaired by himself and Hochman. The task force’s efforts led to the University having the most students sign the It’s On Us pledge, which attracted national attention and a visit from Vice President Joe Biden in April. Hill said he was notified of his appointment to the national committee last week. He hopes to collaborate with his new committee members and provide feedback to further the campaign

Hochman, student senate vice president-internal, and Mitch Dickey, student body president, organized the launch of the White House’s It’s on Us campaign at the University last fall. It’s On Us places an emphasis on community responsibility for sexual assault. Hill helped organize several public service announcements about the campaign with University faculty members and athletes as well as various events such as a “Twitter town hall”, where students could submit questions or comments and be addressed by First Year Campus Acquaintance Rape

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Matt Hill, Illinois Student Senate vice president-external, will serve on a national student-run It’s On Us advisory committee, according to a press release from Generation Progress and the Center for American Progress. The 17 students, who will be on the student advisory committee, were announced Tuesday. The committee is comprised of a group of student leaders who will play an active role of getting new students involved and help shape the national and local strategy of the campaign, according to the press release. Hill, along with Sarah

TGQN = Transgender, genderqueer or non conforming, questioning or not listed

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UI student named to national ‘It’s On Us’ advisory committee

ate students reported they are survivors of sexual assault, according to a survey conducted by the Association of American Universities. The survey defi ned sexual assault in two categories. “One type focused on non-consensual sexual contact involving two behaviors: sexual penetration and sexual touching or kissing. Those two behaviors are what typically

Percent of students reporting nonconsensual sexual contact

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Vice President Joe Biden alongside Matt Hill, Illinois Student Senate vice president-external, puts on an “It’s On Us” shirt at Campus Recreation Center East in Spring 2015.

As universities across the nation attempt to address the problem of sexual assault on college campuses, one University student is attempting to make sexual assault resources and services more gender inclusive. A lexa ndria Nelson, intern at the Women’s Resource Center and graduate student in social work, has been involved with the First Year Campus Acquaintance Rape Education program all five years she has attended the University. Nelson played a role in changing the script of sexual assault classes to remove gendered pronouns, and according to Molly McLay, assistant director of the WRC, was “instrumental in helping UIUC programs to become more inclusive and safe for LGBTQ students.” “We took gender out of the script. We only use gender inclusive pronouns, so — ‘they,’ ‘them’ and ‘theirs’. We never assume survivors uses ‘she’ or ‘her’ pronouns

or (are) a woman, and we never assume that the perpetrator use ‘he,’ ‘him’ ‘his,’” Nelson said. “We make it very, very clear that sexual assault can happen to anyone regardless of gender and can be perpetrated by anyone, regardless of gender.” The changes to the University workshops, implemented in 2013, come at a time when one in four transgender undergradu-

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Changes come in light of trans student sexual assault survey

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The city of Urbana passed a resolution Monday approving a contract agreement with Passport, a pay-by-cell program, for mobile meters. Champaign has implemented use with Passport already and Urbana will pay into a sublicensing agreement with Champaign for use of the program. The mobile meters app allows individuals to pay for parking meters by way of their cell phone. It also

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ASSAULT make up the criminal definition of sexual assault,” said David Cantor, a University doctoral alumni, who was part of the study’s research team. “Other tactics which are commonly problematic on campuses according to student codes are related to the use of non-physical force (coercion) like a threat to give you bad grades or offer a reward of (a) good grade,” Cantor said. Those identifying as transgender, gender-queer, questioning or not listed — TGQN — were about three times more likely than cisgender individuals to report the coercion tactic as the cause of sexual assault, the survey reports. According to the survey, the most reports of being sexually harassed or stalked and for being survivors of intimate partner violence, non-consensual sexual contact, penetration by force and incapacitation came from TGQN undergraduates.

Despite being more at risk for sexual assault, results showed that TGQN pupils felt that campus offi cials would take their cases less seriously than those of hetrosexual and cisgender individuals, Cantor said. “The AAU plan on doing another survey where all the universities are going to be doing a lot more analysis of their data — looking at the time the events are occurring, the characteristics of the perpetrators and having other researchers using this data,” Cantor said. Nelson said the University is currently in the process of getting approval for a Campus Climate Survey about gender inclusiveness, which will be conducted by the Spring semester. “(The survey) will collect a lot of different information pertaining to students’ gender identities and things they have seen on campus related to climate, with regard to sexual violence but also experiences that they have seen or helped a friend with, or just general feelings and attitudes related to sexual violence. This

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ferent kinds of resources, both confidential and nonconfidential — how to support people, classes that you can take and how to get involved in advocacy and activism,” Nelson said.

on a national level. “I know that all of us (on the committee) come from very different universities,” Hill said. “Whether it be a large public institution or a small private institution, campus sexual assault is an issue that faces students everywhere.” More than 230,000 people have signed the It’s On Us campaign, according to the release. Layla Zaidane, communications director for Generation Progress, said the application process to be on the student-run advisory committee was rigorous and included multiple writing samples and interviews from over 100 applicants nationwide. Zaidane said the goal is for students to collaborate to find new ideas in order to “reach students on other campuses across the country through local strategies as well as national outreach strategies.”

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People gather around during a vigil hosted by the Campus Union for Trans Equality and Support, CUT*ES, at Anniversary Plaza on Nov. 20, 2013. is a really important topic,” said Nelson. Nelson recommended students register for the bystander education program i-CARE because of the high levels of sexual assault that occur on college campuses. i-Care is

part of the University’s new sexual assault website, wecare.illinois.edu, which debuted in July. “(The website) walks you through what to do to report sexual misconduct, where you can go to talk to people —which we have lots of dif-

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California Gov. Jerry Brown signs bill aimed at eliminating gender wage gap for new year

ORLANDO, Fla. — George Zimmerman has posted a letter on his Twitter account claiming that he didn’t intentionally retweet a photo of Trayvon Martin’s dead body. Zimmerman was acquitted of murder in 17-year-old Martin’s shooting death, so when a crime scene photo of the dead teen appeared

RICHMOND, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill aimed at eliminating the pay gap between men and women in California as supporters touted it as the strongest equal pay law in the nation. The measure was introduced by Democratic state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson in response to a study by a civil rights group that found that women in Cal-

on his Twitter profi le in late September many people online were outraged. In a letter posted Monday, Zimmerman says that the photo in the original tweet was marked as “sensitive” so it didn’t automatically display and he retweeted the message, which said “Z-man is a one man army,” without seeing

the image. “The image of the body was blocked on my twitter feed and all twitter feeds,” the letter, embedded below, reads. “Until the user chose to click on the blocked image warning it does not show the image. I did not click on the blocked image and preview it prior to re-tweeting it.”

FAA proposes nearly $2 million fine against Chicago photography drone operator CHICAGO — A Chicago aerial photography fi rm was hit Tuesday by the Federal Aviation Administration with a record proposed fi ne of $1.9 million for flying drones in busy downtown Chicago and New York without permission. SkyPan International — which provides dramatic aerial photography to doz-

ens of high-end property developers and architects, including the Trump Organization — endangered life and property when it flew 64 unauthorized fl ights in New York and one just north of Chicago’s Loop between March 2012 and December 2014, the FAA alleges. Its drone was not registered with the FAA, did not

have a certificate of airworthiness and lacked the two-way radio, transponder and altitude-reporting equipment required by the law for commercial use of drones, the FAA said. A spokesman for SkyPan, which on its website says it’s “fl ight approved” by the FAA, declined to comment on the allegations Tuesday.

ifornia working full time made a median 84 cents for every dollar earned by men in 2013. The California Fair Pay Act builds on existing protections by prohibiting an employer from paying any of its employees at wage rates less than the rates paid to employees of the opposite sex for substantially similar work, not just for equal work or the exact

same job title. The new law, which takes effect Jan. 1, also allows employees to file complaints alleging pay gaps between people doing substantially similar jobs at different worksites, not just at their own site. So grocery workers at one store could challenge higher wages paid to those at another owned by the same employer.

US to release 6,000 prisoners as part of sentencing-reform campaign at month’s end WASHINGTON — The federal Bureau of Prisons plans to release 6,000 prisoners at the end of October, implementing a decision last year to slash the number of incarcerated drug offenders by nearly half. Officials said the nationwide releases over four days starting Oct. 30

will be the largest in U.S. history. Last year, in line with a concerted effort by the Obama administration to reduce the number of drug offenders in U.S. prisons, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to cut drug sentences by an average of two years, poten-

tially affecting as many as 46,000 out of 100,000 cases. In the coming year, an additional 8,550 prisoners will be eligible for release, according to Sentencing Commission spokesman Matt Osterrieder, though he added that not all of them will be approved.

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EDITORIAL Embarrassingly public doubt of our academic freedom

he University is currently on a fairly embarrassing list for academic freedom when compared to other higher education institutions. On June 13, the American Association of University Professors voted to censure the University. Although students might be unaware of how grave this is and show indifference to our placement, being on the list of censured schools brands the University with scar marks representing a tumultuous past few years. Founded in 1915, the AAUP has worked toward preserving the standards and procedures of quality education and academic freedom in universities, according to the association’s website. The censure list is published to inform the public, universities and association members of the violations of academic freedom and tenure that have occurred at universities across the country. The AAUP stresses that censure is not placed on faculty members or the institution as a whole, but only on the administration, including the officers and governing board. The University joins other institutions, such as Grove City College, which has been on the list the longest — since 1963. The University is currently the only Big Ten institution on the list. Although the list doesn’t affect the University in any physical or legal way, it changes the atmosphere of higher education and the way professionals view the University. It also impacts future students. Students and parents might not be aware of the censure list, but future faculty members definitely are. Both well-known, highly-esteemed and ordinary faculty look toward the AAUP for guidance, according to the website. If the administration cares at all about the students of the University, they should be working as hard as possible to get off this list. Future University students deserve the best and brightest faculty and by remaining on the censure list, we are putting ourselves in a damning situation with the potential to harm the academics we value so strongly. If the University is to continue to be a top educator, this needs to be fixed.

The addiction that is social media STEPHANIE YOUSSEF Opinions columnist

few months back, many of us watched the semiinspirational slam-poetry YouTube video called “Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?”. During the three-minute video, the poet told us to look up from our phones, called our generation “selfish and separate” and described how members of our generation are the most connected, but at the same time, still feel the most alone. At the time, some of us shared the viral video and some gave it a thumbs up, but in the end, we nodded our heads, picked up our phones and our technology-driven lives ensued as usual. Fast forward to a recent study conducted by researchers at Baylor University that found phubbing, the act of interacting with a phone while ignoring someone you are with, is linked to dissatisfaction in relationships, conflict and depression. The study found negative effects of phubbing, even if an individual only glanced at their phone occasionally for a few

seconds. In light of this new thing we do is reach for our phubbing study, the obvious phones and start scrolling.” argument to make is that we Technology has evolved to a should all spend less time point where the virtual world on our phones and more of entertainment is available time interacting with others at the touch of a screen. Even directly. Let’s be real here with modern advancements, — though few would actually this study speaks to the admit it, most of us already fact that happiness and knew that. Even with the satisfaction in a relationship continuously are still growing earned evidence that from direct our use of interaction technology is and paying interfering attention in with person. relationships Daisy in our lives, Salgado, the vast senior in majority of LAS said, us don’t do “Sometimes anything I’ll be at about it, dinner with DAISY SALGADO and that’s friends and SENIOR IN LAS the bigger look up and problem. everyone will On be staring at campus, between classes, their phones while they eat at restaurants and during instead of talking. What’s lectures, almost everybody the point of meeting face-tois continuously scrolling face, if our faces are directed through their phones. Our towards our phone screens the cell phones have become such entire time?” an inescapable and integral Salgado’s narrative speaks part of life, that phubbing is to a frustrating scenario now seen more as a modern we have all most likely practice rather than a rude encountered and been guilty habit. of. But the unfortunate Juhi Gupta, a junior in truth is that hardly any of LAS says, “We all know that us read the Baylor study when we are bored, the first and immediately shut off

“What’s the point of meeting face-toface, if our faces are directed towards our phone screens the entire time?”

our phones. After this study leaves the trending topics section of Facebook, we will all more likely than not just nod our heads again and continue our lives on the same track. The great irony of our generation’s behavior is that our aggressive consumption of online social networks available at the touch of a button disconnects us from the people in the real world in favor of a virtual world. Our relationships are suffering at the hands of this disconnection, and while we are aware of this, there are few active efforts toward any change. With regards to relationships, the reality is that 99 percent of the people we meet aren’t our soulmates and, as it currently stands, more than fifty percent of our “soulmates” end in divorce. In our personal lives, rates of depression have increased dramatically over the last fifty years in the United States and are still on the rise. We are scientifically and statistically becoming alone and unhappy, and that should scare us. So let’s take our heads out of our phones and do something about it.

Stephanie is a senior in LAS. syousse2@dailyillini.com

Journalism’s evolution into the new media MATT SILICH Opinions columnist

the end of my freshman year at the University, I made a difficult but necessary decision to change my major. The act alone isn’t uncommon — plenty of students at every university change their major, sometimes multiple times before graduation. However, I’d venture to say that few made a change as drastic as I did when I moved from Industrial Engineering to News-Editorial Journalism, and every time I’ve discussed my career path adjustment thereafter, I’ve heard a familiar refrain. According to most people, the practice of journalism is dying. Countless people have advised me to consider other career options because they’ve read the stories about newspapers cutting staff sizes across the globe. There’s no denying that newspapers are struggling to deal with a new generation of media consumers. USA Today, one of the more widely circulated papers, cut over 50 jobs in September 2014 alone. In May, the San Diego Union-Tribune fired nearly a third of its roughly 600 employees. Many papers are fighting decreases in print advertising and slightly lower circulation numbers than in the past. The

Pew Research Center reported that print advertising revenue was down to $16.1 billion in 2014; in 2005, print advertising revenue peaked at $47.4 billion. But as much fun as it would be for some people to exist in a world without the media coverage they claim to hate, this widespread belief that journalism is on a steep decline across all platforms doesn’t have much logical weight to it. Journalism is not dying; it’s just changing. The decline of newspaper advertising revenue certainly does not indicate the death of an entire industry. People haven’t just canceled their newspaper subscriptions and subsequently stopped reading news stories altogether. Millennials have grown up concurrently with the rise of the Internet. As our generation enters adulthood, we’re beginning to crave news and are going online to find it in lieu of picking up newspapers. We understand more than anyone else the changing climate of how people access their news. Journalism, like plenty of other professions in the world, is adjusting to the relatively new culture of online media consumption. Newspapers will always have a place in journalism because of the localized coverage they provide, but national news seems to be headed towards a largely digital future. Consider BuzzFeed, one of several prime examples of the

metamorphosed media companies of the future. When it began, BuzzFeed was a small company that primarily focused on creating viral content for the web. Its staff looked for shareable images or videos, compiled them into list articles now known more commonly as listicles and attempted to rake in page views by any means necessary. BuzzFeed became wildly popular for young web users like college students to share these trivial articles on their social media network of choice. I hated it. It’s certainly a bit curmudgeonly to dislike posts like, “29 Photos Of Puppies That Will Change The Way 90’s Kids Think About One Direction’s Nutella Song.” But I was frustrated by the lack of journalistic standards on BuzzFeed’s behalf — as a huge part of digital media, it poorly represented the field by relying on some inexperienced writers who resorted to plagiarism and rarely sourced their articles. I worried that this website, and others similar to it like the Huffington Post and Upworthy, were going to become the kings of online journalism and leave responsible, professional writers by the wayside. But as BuzzFeed has grown, it has begun engaging in some reporting that rivals what one might see at a big-city newspaper. BuzzFeed has used the massive ad revenue and clicks it gets from those shameless listicles to help fund real

journalism. And this isn’t a strategy exclusive to BuzzFeed. SB Nation produces a ton of viral sports-related content, but also has an entire section of its website devoted to long form journalism. Vox has its fair share of attention-grabbing headlines, but also puts together extensive pieces dissecting current political events. ESPN’s Grantland boasts frequent podcasts and videos as well as in-depth analyses of the latest sports and entertainment news. Digital media companies are appealing to the new generation’s lust for brief, shareable content in all sorts of fun ways. Then, they use the revenue gained from those posts to help provide more traditional investigative and analytical articles. These websites all have faults, but each is also doing something not really seen before in journalism. Instead of being dismissed as unprofessional or biased compared to newspapers, it’s worth considering the possibility that these unique websites are the future of media. Their success would certainly seem to support that claim. Citing the exaggerated decline of newspapers while bemoaning the loss of esteemed journalism ignores the significant advances made in online journalism over the past several years.

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Exploring genetic impact on exercise Chambana Science Cafe hosts visiting speaker BY CHRISTINA COMO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

A lecture on exercise is running to campus this week. On Wednesday, the Chambana Science Cafe will host Michael Saul, postdoctoral research associate at the Institute for Genomic Biology, to discuss his research on motivation to exercise. “This is Your Brain on Exercise: How Your Brain’s Genes Influence Your Motivation to Work Out” will be held at PizzaM at 5:30 p.m. “This one will be especially easy for the audience,” said Ariel James, co-organizer of the Chambana Science Café. “It’s something that the audience is going to have personal experience with.” The Café, which meets on the first Wednesday of each month of the semester, gives scientists an outlet to discuss their work with the public. “Science cafes are actually a global phenomenon, started in Europe, that have since popped

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DATING “It’s really the same way you develop a crush on someone you meet at the bar and then ask to get coffee with after,” Rockwell said. Since Tinder is mostly focused on “surface attraction,” Rockwell said that it can make the process of getting to know one another easier than confessing attraction in real life. “Tinder removes one of the hardest parts of getting to know each other, which is admission of sexual attraction,” he said. “It’s nice to get that out of the way.” However, Brian Ogolsky, professor of Human Development and Family Studies, said online dating can lead to unrealistic dating expectations. “There are myriad dating apps, niche sites, and the like, which has expanded the pool of eligible partners,” Ogolsky wrote via email. “One of the consequences of these options is what I would call decision paralysis. That is, many feel as

up informally in various locations,” James said. “The current chapter was started in 2012 by then-post doctoral fellows Joe Toscano and Jessica Love. Joe had attended science cafes at his graduate school and really enjoyed them, so he wanted to have something similar here at the U of I.” The Science Café is currently sponsored by the Beckman Institute and the Institute for Genomic Biology. These sponsorships assist in advertising and provide free pizza to the audience. It transferred from Espresso Royale to Pizza-M last December to accommodate its growing audience, James said. “I think on the one hand, people are very interested in scientific research and find it relevant to their lives, but on the other hand, lots of us feel intimidated by scientific fields that we don’t have lots of experience with, and it’s hard to dive right in to formal research reports outside of your field,” James wrote in an email. She also explained that science cafes are a great way to introduce people to a very specialized topic, but in a fun, digestible way. James said the cafe benefits the researchers, too. “It gives them an opportunity to talk about their

work in a different way than they might be used to, and sometimes the questions that come from people outside of our field are very inspiring,” she said. Saul’s lecture focuses on his research findings on how exercise, like a lot of different behaviors, can be modeled in various animals in different ways. “In mice...there’s a really easy way to measure the amount that they exercise,” he said. “And that’s just the really familiar pet store way of looking at things, how much do they run on the wheel?” Findings from these experiments ca n be applied to humans, Saul explained, because we share some of the same genomes with mice. He said that this startling degree of similarity between motivation in humans and in mice can be used to come up with new ways of manipulating human motivation. “I guess the goal is to come up with some sort of magical treatment that you can (give) to people that will make them really happy and want to exercise a lot,” Saul said. “It doesn’t have to be a drug, it could just be a more fundamental understanding of the brain system as well.”

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their professor. Chris describes the room as, “Indiana Jones meets H.P. Lovecraft, with a bit of the ‘90s TV show, ‘Legends of the Hidden Temple’ for good measure.” Last weekend, Pat East, University alumnus, tested out this escape room. “It was thrilling to feel fully immersed in the puzzles and working with a team to solve them,” East said. The owners said that the rooms will change throughout the year to offer new challenges. Plans for future rooms include horror, medieval

and spaceship-themed rooms. Those interested in trying out C-U Adventures will be able to reserve a time slot at www. cuadventures.com once booking goes live. “The most exciting thing about starting it (in Champaign-Urbana) is not only being located by University of Illinois and the young student body, but also the technology connections so we can create more interesting puzzles for the future,” Chris said.

though they need or want to find the perfect available partner rather than one that might be great. In this context, it can lead to unrealistic expectations and dissatisfaction.” Ogolsky also said he agrees with Rockwell that Tinder can alleviate some nerves and tension that come with meeting someone in real life first. “In a lot of ways, Tinder is not all that different from walking into a bar and deciding on who to talk to. It reduces the decision to a simple assessment of attraction, which in some ways is an improvement over complicated matching sites,” Ogolsky wrote. Corvon Brooks, junior in AHS, said that he has noticed that a lot of University students are using Tinder as a way to meet romantic interests, and he believes the app helps students that don’t have a lot of time to go on dates. “It’s convenient for when we’re not that busy and see who’s available and match and go off from there,” Brooks said. “A lot of my friends have met on Tinder.” Yet, Lavine Luo, sophomore in FAA, said online

dating can come with a lot of negatives. “I feel like dating in college is not about the person, but more about the action,” she said. “When you actually go out of college you’re thinking about marriage, looking at a person. More people are looking at a experience over who you’re with and the possibility of staying with that person.” Rock wel l sa id he acknowledges that online dating has its pitfalls. He he didn’t know his girlfriend’s initial intentions as they were chatting on Tinder, and she later told him she was unsure what he was looking for too, with Rockwell labeling this as a “parameterless relationship.” Even with the ambiguity associated with the app, Tinder remains popular on college campuses. “The reason Tinder is so great is it makes a game out of your sexuality. When you see someone you’re attracted to, Tinder can either reward you or punish you,” Rockwell said.

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Upon walking into the first escape room at Champaign-Urbana Adventures in Time and Space, teams will notice the professorâ€™s typewriter and copy of â€œHidden Treasures in Literature: Book One.â€? C-U Adventures challenges players to â€œsave the world.â€?

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in Time and Space. Located in downtown Urbana at 123 W. Main St., C-U Adventures is bringing the escape room phenomenon to the area this October. Escape rooms are a real-life gaming experience, and the industry has seen rapid growth since 2012. Teams of players have 60 minutes to fi nd clues, open secret doors and fi nd a way to escape to â€œsave the world.â€? â€œThe (escape rooms) are essentially a movie without the cameras and a theater without the actors,â€? Chris said.

Tinder opens opportunities for romantic interests BY MARA SHAPIRO STAFF WRITER

A photo from Yosemite National Park drew Cameron Rockwell to Sara Fundator. The junior in LAS met Fundator on Tinder, and nine months later, theyâ€™re still together. â€œAs anyone who is familiar with the Tinder experience knows, I had the moment where I knew I was going to swipe right and I was hoping for a match to occur right after,â€? Rock-

well said. â€œLucky for me, it worked out.â€? Rockwell explained that he and his girlfriend had casual conversations on the app for about two weeks. Then, they progressed to texting each other for a week and fi nally met up. After getting to know one another, he realized they had a lot in common, including the same taste in visual artists and museums.

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Allison catches touchdown pass in final seconds against Nebraska BY CHARLOTTE CARROLL STAFF WRITER

Editor’s note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down each week and decides which Illinois athlete or coach is our Illini of the week. Athletes and coaches are evaluated by individual performance and contribution to team success.

ide receiver Geronimo Allison thought he had the gamewinning touchdown the first go around Saturday against Nebraska — he told quarterback Wes

Lunt just that while officials were reviewing the play. But Lunt told him to wait. When the call came back, Allison had to focus on the next play and the Illini’s next chance to win. “I didn’t get down,” Allison said. “I knew I could win this route on this guy. Wes was trusting and kept saying ‘we’re going to get this.’” And Allison got one, with just 10 seconds left on the clock. He dove and grabbed the pass low in the end zone, sat up on his knees and spread his arms wide. With the ball still grasped in his right hand, he raised his face to the darkening sky as his teammates surrounded him in his celebratory touchdown glory. There was no question the throw was heading to Allison: five of the six pass attempts in the red zone were thrown in his direction

In his second year at Illi- ing in the top 20 nationally nois amid a slew of offensive in both categories and has injuries, Allison has become been added to the Biletnikoff Illinois’ go-to receiver. And Award Watch List. with a team that has 30 He is already close to surdropped passpassing es on the seahis 2014 son, Allison season is a trusted t o t a l presence on — he the field. had 41 “There’ a catches lot of presfor 598 sure on G-mo yards. and Wes to H e received play well,” plenty of head coach GERONIMO ALLISON support Bill Cubit WIDE RECEIVER going said. “But I like that they into the are embracgame. ing the role to play well.” One of his old junior college In the Nebraska game, coaches, who is from NebrasAllison had eight catches for ka, texted Allison before the 91 yards and broke the 1,000 game, telling him he was on career receiving yard mark Allison’s side and not root(1,051). He leads the Big Ten ing for his home state’s in both receptions (32) and Cornhuskers. receiving yards (453), rankAfter the game, that coach

“I knew I could win this route on this guy. Wes was trusting and kept saying ‘we’re going to get this.’”

posted a picture of Allison to Facebook pointing out his game winning play as exactly the reason for his allegiance. Lunt said Allison carries a quiet confidence. “He knows he’s the guy,” Lunt said. “It’s like the way I’m playing too — just knowing you’re the starter and the guy everyone is counting on, that’s huge.” Allison said the toughest part of adjusting to Big Ten play from junior college is trusting in himself and learning the appropriate routes from reading coverages. His change hasn’t happened overnight — he’s taken a year to develop his leadership skills. While he may not be vocal in the locker room, he is more accustomed to the environment, even if he didn’t expect to be a senior captain at Illinois. “Never in a million years would I have thought to been

Honorable Mentions Jocelynn Birks (volleyball) — The redshirt senior is now Illinois' alltime attacks leader after adding 57 in the team's loss at Minnesota. Birks now has 4,808 attacks in her time at Illinois. Claire Wheatley (soccer) — The junior goalkeeper only allowed one goal in the team's tie game against Ohio State. She had seven saves in the game. in this type of atmosphere to make these type of plays,” Allison said.

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Groce, Illini hoops recruiting slows down ALEX ROUX Illini hoops columnist

or the fi rst time since classes started, a weekend devoid of any basketball recruiting visits came and went on the Illinois campus. Sometimes recruits take official visits, other times they’re unofficial. We’ve seen them scheduled far in advance, and others have materialized at what seems like the last moment. But all was quiet on the basketball front this weekend as the football team knocked off Nebraska in thrilling fashion. The Illini hoopers cheered from a few hundred feet away at the Ubben practice facility, watching on TV following their second practice of the day. It’s been widely speculated that Illinois could be in a favorable position to land a deep and talented 2017 class, but it’ll seem like an eternity in recruiting time before those dominoes start to fall. With the November signing day for the 2016 class still over a month away, one would think that the collective focus would still be leaning heavily on targets in this upcoming class. Illini head coach John Groce got a commitment

from 2016 Milwaukee point guard Te’Jon Lucas in early September, and fans celebrated. But after the congratulatory noise following the Lucas decision has died down, it seems like Illinois hoops recruiting has settled back into a lull. Groce and his staff hosted the entire La Lumiere prep school team for unoffi cial visits two weekends ago, hoping to build their relationship with La Lu’s center James Banks. Banks is a very solid player, ranked

in the top 60 in the class of 2016 by 247sports.com. However, he also holds offers from a wide variety of other schools, and there isn’t much reason to believe he favors Illinois over any of them. If you look back at other 2016 visitors from the fall, this particular class seems increasingly shallow. Xavier Sneed committed to Kansas State, and Xavier Simpson chose Michigan. Over the summer, it felt like Illinois could be the favorite to land Chicago guards Charlie Moore and Zach Norvell, but the overall lack of meaningful noise out of either camp makes me think that mutual interest between the parties is low. It’s starting to feel like Groce is Will Smith’s character in the movie ‘I Am Legend,’ wandering empty streets where recruits

usually roam and waiting to hear something besides his own echo. I know there’s still plenty of time to land another player or two in the 2016 class, but where is everybody? I really don’t think Groce will allow his 2016 class to start and end with Lucas. He still has two scholarships to work with in 2016, and landing a big man would make the most sense. If Banks doesn’t bite, another fi fth-year transfer could take a scholarship, with the fi nal open ride going toward Tracy Abrams’ sixth year. Some new 2016 names might surface as well, even into the spring. As we’ve seen, recruits can pop up a coach’s radar as suddenly as a thunderstorm in July. Maybe we’re unequipped to handle such radio silence after becoming accustomed to the wild swings of Groce’s recruiting adventures the last three years. Maybe after all of the disappointing news (not just recruiting, but injury and discipline-related as well) we’ve been exposed to over the last few years, a reprieve isn’t the worst thing. But don’t let the silence fool you. Groce is still hard at work.

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Illini rugby tops Hawkeyes for first win BY CARLEY KULENKAMP CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Illinois men’s rugby team pulled off its fi rst win of the season this weekend at Iowa in a 51-10 victory. Illinois bounced back after a tough loss to Ohio State the previous weekend to get their fi rst conference win. Illinois struck fi rst, scoring on a try by senior Mario Lozano. The Hawkeyes quickly responded, scoring on a try of their own just five minutes after the Illini. Iowa’s scoring was short-lived as it wouldn’t score again until late in the

second half. Lozano completed two more tries for the Illini and Illinois’ Justin Peebles had a hat trick, all in the second half. Both players were humble about their high-scoring games. “I attribute my scoring to the great play of our pack.” Lozano said. “Two of my tries came off of strong mauls led by John Heaney.” This weekend marked the senior’s fi rst tries of the season, a milestone that Lozano said makes the win even more special. Hat tricks are a rare

commodity in rugby, and for the second-year rugby player Peebles, this milestone was a fi rst. “The main reason I was able to score three times was due to my teammates creating space and moving the ball out to the wing quickly.” he said. Peebles has recently switched positions from outside center to wing. This new position allows him to have more open space to run, another attribute that aids his scoring. Illinois went into this matchup without Matt

Ramsey, whose ACL injury sidelined him for the season. The team captain served as the team’s fly half — the “quarterback” of the team. Freshman Joey Lincoln fi lled in for Ramsey at fly half. Ramsey was also the primary kicker for the team. Lozano took over this responsibility for Illinois. Even though it was a new job, Lozano said that kicking was not an unmanageable task because he has practiced place kicking in the past. He said he looks

forward to having time to practice and perfect his kicking during this upcoming bye week. Overall the team recognized a big improvement since its fi rst game, a blowout loss to Indiana. Rich Daniels, the president of the club, said the team has showed tremendous improvement from the beginning of the year, especially on defense. The Illini have a bye week this week but are immediately getting back to work in preparation for a home game on Oct. 17.

Minnesota has had a tough season so far, losing to Michigan State 65-5 and Wisconsin 88-0. "(The team) will be using this bye week to our advantage by going to the gym and adding more conditioning to our practice schedule,” Peebles said. Along with strength and conditioning, the Illini will be working on their defensive structure and resting to protect themselves from injury.

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After weeks on the road, volleyball comes home BY ELI SCHWADRON STAFF WRITER

Five weeks on the road can take its toll. The No. 13 Illinois volleyball team (11-4) has strictly played away matches since the Big Ten/Pac 12 Challenge in University Park, Pennsylvania on Sept. 4-5. At the start of the season, head coach Kevin Hambly was adamant that the amount of travel makes no difference. But after finishing the road trip with losses against No. 16 Wisconsin and No. 11 Minnesota, the

seven-year head coach said the lack of additional practice time cost the Illini. “I just saw things slipping away in the way we were performing, the way we were executing our systems and our skills,” Hambly said. “That happens when we’re not training … But we couldn’t train. We would’ve buried (our team).” Though Hambly noted that additional training could’ve helped to prevent the 3-1 and 3-2 losses to the Badgers and Golden Gophers, he thought his

team managed the fatigue well. He said the Illini were fi ne physically, but skillwise, the group began to unravel in its fifth week on the road and second week of Big Ten action. Despite losing their third and fourth matches, a positive takeaway from the weekend was the play of fifth-year outside hitter Jocelynn Birks. The week prior, Birks was sidelined in consecutive sweeps against Maryland and Rutgers due to back spasms. Trainers worked on Birks’ back all

week between the matches against Rutgers and Wisconsin. She said her back is feeling great; the time off helped, and everything has been “pretty calm” since the Wisconsin game. Like Hambly, Birks said such little practice time hurt the Illini against Wisconsin and Minnesota. “We hadn’t touched a ball, we hadn’t had a practice,” Birks said. “A lot of our last memories in our minds were still on what was happening in that Wisconsin game on Friday, so I think this whole

week of practice to train and do what we need to do can only help.” Apart from the additional training, Birks said the team is glad to be back in Champaign for other reasons. “One, just that we get to play in Huff this weekend,” Birks said. “And school has been a huge stressor on everyone — leaving in the middle of the week and at the end of the week and missing classes for five straight weeks. It’ll be nice to get back in the routine and get back on track.”

On Friday, Illinois faces No. 3 Penn State (14-1) — the reigning champions — in its first home match in over a month. The Nittany Lions, led by star outside hitters Megan Courtney and Aiyana Whitney, are coming off a 3-0 win over the Iowa Hawkeyes. Prior to that victory, the Nittany Lions lost their first match of the season to No. 4 Nebraska 3-2. Last season, Illinois went on the road and defeated Penn State.

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Left: Illinois’ Jocelynn Birks (7) attempts to hit the ball during the game versus Louisville at Huff Hall on Aug. 28. Right: Huff Hall.

Years of running pay off for Illini cross-country’s Winter BY MICHAEL GASICK CONTRIBUTING WRITER

A child’s first experiences with sports are often monumental. Maybe it was the fi rst time they scored in a soccer match, hit a t-ball or made a basket. Popular sports like soccer, baseball and basketball are outlets for children to participate in physical activity and have fun. But, for Illinois women’s cross-country junior Hanna Winter, there is no specific memory from her ear-

ly childhood athletic career that sticks out to her. Unlike many of her peers in elementary school, Winter quietly chose running as a hobby. Winter started running in fifth grade because she saw that some of her good friends were starting to run for enjoyment and thought she would give it a try. She eventually wanted to become more of a competitive runner. Winter attended Saint Viator High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, where she

was a four-time state qualifier in cross-country and three-time state qualifier in track. Winter limited her college options to Purdue and Illinois because she wanted to be in a prominent conference like the Big Ten. She ultimately chose Illinois because she felt it offered her a quality combination of athletics and academics. Winter likes her team’s bond and looks forward to spending time with her teammates whenever she has the

opportunity. She noted that bus rides to away meets are one of the most enjoyable parts of being on the team. “I really like the relationship we have as a team and how we can be competitive with each other,” Winter said. “We can be really fun and caring toward each other.” Winter is someone who’d rather help to accomplish team-oriented goals instead of her own. The team would like to stay in the top half of the Big Ten this season, and

Winter wants to provide a major contribution to that. She has some momentum from the spring track season that she is looking to carry over to the fall. Running the 1,500 meters, 3,000 meters and the 5,000 meters she recorded one win and four total top five finishes. Her victory came in the 3,000 at the Black and Gold Invite. It’s not all serious business for Winter, though, who thinks she brings a more fun aspect to the Illini — something she believes is neces-

sary in order to keep them loose over the course of the season. Winter has participated in two of the team’s three meets this season. She was the fifth Illini to finish at the ISU Invite and third at the Roy Griak Invitational. Winter will look to keep the positive mood for the Illini going in light of their next race — the Pre-Nationals on Oct. 17 in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Jake Arrietta was just having fun. At least that’s what the Cubs ace said Tuesday when he was asked about his recent trolling of Pirates fans on Twitter as the two teams prepare to meet in the National League wild-card game Wednesday night at PNC Park. “I think it is a big part of the fan-player interaction and it is all in good fun,” Arrieta said. “I don’t mean anything negative towards anybody. It is kind of a build up to the

game.” Arrieta caused a stir earlier this week on social media when a Pirates parody account tweeted to him that there was going to be a “sea of black” waiting for him at PNC Park. He responded “whatever helps keep your hope alive, just know it doesn’t matter.” He then responded to another fan who said the crowd was going to be loud by tweeting “Bring out all the reinforcements. I need it LOUD.” Fun has been the theme of the Cubs this year, and a lot of

that starts with their manager Joe Maddon, who said he has worked hard to try and keep things light because he believes a loose team is a team poised to perform best under pressure. “When you are growing up playing (sports), I’m serious, the guys that you don’t want to be like are the ones you learn the most from,” Maddon said. Arrieta, a Cy Young candidate after a season in which he went 22-6 with a 1.77 ERA, said that his familiarity with the Pirates lineup will be an

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advantage because he knows how to approach each hitter. Arrieta has faced the Pirates five times this year, going 3-1 with a 0.75 ERA. He struck out 33, allowed only 18 hits and walked only five hitters over 36 innings. But the flip side is the Pirates have gotten a chance to see him a number of times, so while it still comes down to executing pitches, he said there is also a game of cat and mouse involved in terms of his pitch sequences. “This is a team that I am extremely comfortable scout-

ing, analyzing and pitching against,” Arrieta said. “It is an extremely balanced group of hitters in that order who can make a lot of things happen. But I feel confident I can neutralize a lot of their power and a lot of their speed guys with different sequences, and I intend to have pretty good success tomorrow.” Maddon said he watched Arrieta transform himself from a talented pitcher to a dominant pitcher, and it has to do with his confidence growing along with his success. “The main difference in

him now is his fastball command. He knows where his fastball is going,” Maddon said. “He is a strike-thrower. And I think the true definition of a really good major league starting pitcher is he can throw a fastball when he wants to, and he has arrived at that point.” The Pirates (98-64) finished one game ahead of the Cubs (97-65), which is why Wednesday’s 8:08 p.m. game is at PNC Park. The Cubs, however, won the season series between the two teams.

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What is your favorite song at the moment?

If you could have a superpower, which would you choose, and why?

What is one place youâ€™ve always wanted to travel?

What is your favorite sports memory?

â€œâ€˜Like Mariahâ€™ by Fifth Harmony.â€?

â€œI think I would choose to be invisible so that I could watch people, because I like peoplewatching.â€?

â€œI really want to go to any part of Europe. If I had to choose one country, probably Italy.â€?

â€œBeating Penn State at Penn State last year.â€?

â€œâ€˜Sweet Child Oâ€™ Mineâ€™ by Guns Nâ€™ Roses.â€?

â€œTo fly. Itâ€™d be cool to fly wherever you want.â€?

â€œAthens, Greece.â€?

â€œBeating Minnesota at Homecoming.â€?

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Northwestern showing early Big Ten success not a fluke defense must be looking on with absolute glee at the prospect of playing these impotent units. With the exception of Purdue, every other team in the division scored fewer than 14 points â€“ and none of them competed against a defense of the caliber of Northwestern. Obviously, the Wildcatsâ€™ fantastic defense is what gives them a prime opportunity to win the division, but they showed other strong facets of their game in the conference opener. Northwestern controlled the tempo via its rushing attack which â€” led by Justin Jacksonâ€™s 120 yards â€” ran for 184 yards. This efficiency on the ground allowed the offense to keep possession for more than 34 minutes. True freshman quarterback Clayton Thorson had another admirable performance, rushing for two scores and â€“ most importantly â€“ not committing any turnovers. It is still important for Thorson to acclimate himself as more of a passer for Northwestern to become more balanced offensively. The Wildcats also got major contributions on special teams, notably in the punt return game:

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a nippy Chicago fa l l afternoon, the ferocious defense of the Northwestern Wildcats forced the Minnesota Golden Gophers into the meat grinder that Ryan Field has become. The 27-0 win over the Gophers was Northwesternâ€™s second shutout of the season. That dominant performance is another exploit of a Wildcats defensive unit that has been one of the surprising stories of the Big Ten through the fi rst five weeks of the season. The defense has only allowed three touchdowns all season and limited Stanford to two field goals in Week One â€” those are two staggering statistics. Northwesternâ€™s commanding performance against Minnesota was forcefully punctuated by a fourth-quarter fumble return TD by Anthony Walker. Consideri ng how poorly the rest of the offenses in the Big Ten West performed in Week Five, head coach Pat Fitzgerald and his

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Illinois' Mason Monheim (43) and T.J. Neal (52) tackle Northwestern 's Treyvon Green (22) during the game at Ryan Field in Evanston, Ill. on Nov. 29. Miles Shuler ran back an electrifying return to set up a touchdown. Fitzgeraldâ€™s squad has all the necessary pieces to go undefeated. The Wildcatsâ€™ 5-0 record will be test-

ed this weekend, however, when they visit Michigan â€“ a team with an equally destructive defense that is coming off consecutive shutouts. Believe it or not, this

matchup between two of the Big Tenâ€™s surprises has playoff implications to it. As long as the defense continues to fly around the field, the Wildcatsâ€™ stout defensive unit is

strong enough to carry the team to the conference title game â€“ frustrating offenses along the way. It might be time to start calling â€œChicagoâ€™s Big Ten team â€œthe

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Fantasy Doctor: Early season trade tips, tricks JOEY FIGUEROA Fantasy Doctor

Eh.

That’s how I’d describe my fantasy season thus far. Four weeks in, my teams have gone 3-1, 2-2 and 2-2 in three separate leagues, which is good for third, fourth and fifth place, respectively. But more important than my personal success is the advice I provide as a certified fantasy doctor. It’s about that time in the season when plenty of owners, myself included, start taking a long look at their rosters and either settle with what they have or decide to make some moves. There’s a fine line between players who can contribute at a similar level all the way into the playoffs and players who start off hot only to fizzle in the later weeks. Most times, it’s a tossup, but if you can coax another owner to bite on a trade for someone who has had unsustainable scoring

stretch for a more leveled player, this is the time to do it. Weeks Four to Six usually constitute that awkward time when you can’t tell how good a player is going to be despite a decent amount of showings. So it’s the perfect time for some trades. Here are targets at each position to sell for a high return. Next week, I’ll go over who to buy with low risk.

Quarterback Josh McCown, Kirk Cousins, Cam Newton. McCown is coming off one the best games of his career and has eclipsed 20 fantasy points in each of his last two starts since returning from injury. This is most likely the climax of the perennial backup’s season in Cleveland, so force him on someone desperate for a QB. Fresh off an upset win over the disappointing Eagles, Cousins has led a decent Redskins offense to a 2-2 record. He’s thrown the ball more than 45 times in his past two starts and already has more than

1,000 passing yards, but Cousins makes too many errors to trust. He’s in the same boat as McCown. Newton is by far the best of this bunch but has a bye this week before a torrid four-game stretch against Seattle, Philadelphia,

the Muscle Hamster finally got loose this past Sunday for 106 rushing yards and a score. That’s exactly what less-competent owners like to see when you try to trade them Martin for someone much better.

But more important than my personal success is the advice I provide as a certified fantasy doctor. Indianapolis and Green Bay. He’s usually worth a start, but if there’s someone out there pushing a high value for Cam, it may be worth finding a different play caller (cough, Tyrod Taylor, cough).

Running Back Doug Martin, Jeremy Hill, Devonta Freeman Tampa Bay has been terrible this season, but

Hill is turning into one of those dreaded players that goes off whenever I bench him and stinks it up when I start him. His three-touchdown performance from my bench left a bad taste in my mouth but also makes him a perfect candidate to sell high, especially since Gio Bernard still outtouched him on Sunday. Freeman has been fantasy’s Undisputed

World Heavyweight Champion the past two weeks but running-mate Tevin Coleman returns this week. You may not want to jump the gun on a Freeman trade just yet, but if he’s relegated to a timeshare, throw him on the block.

Wide receiver Eddie Royal, Ted Ginn, Vincent Jackson With Cutler back under center on Sunday, Royal had a nice PPR day along with a touchdown this week. Alshon Jeffrey should return soon, though, and Cutler tends to lock in on his best weapon, which is Jeffrey by far. Get some value for Royal while you can. Ted Ginn has been in the league for like 47 years and always seems to scrape together a patch of fantasy relevance every few years. He’s in the midst of one of the stretches in Carolina but was targeted three times on Sunday. Let someone else hope for another random Ginn outburst. Like much of the talent in Tampa, V-Jax is experiencing a downturn

in his career. He was targeted a ridiculous 15 times on Sunday, though, so there has to be a few dim owners out there who think that’s sustainable.

Tight end Coby Fleener, Gary Barnridge Fleener was the beneficiary of a handful of Matt Hasselback dumpoffs with Andrew Luck and fellow TE Dwayne Allen both sidelined Sunday. The Colts will return to a more vertical attack with Luck back, and Fleener’s role will be reduced once again. Barnridge has been one of McCown’s favorite targets, but he will only go as far as his QB can take him. Against Baltimore, Denver, St. Louis, Arizona and Cincinnati in the next five weeks, that won’t be very far.

Defense of the week The New York Giants should have no problem handling San Francisco at home.

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