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In the 2014-2015 academic year, 2,100 University students studied abroad; 450 received the I4I scholarship, but every student’s fees contributed.

The Illinois for Illinois, or I4I, Scholarship is a student-funded scholarship that is awarded to students looking to study abroad. Every year, both undergraduate and graduate students at the University pay a $4.59 fee that contributes to the scholarship fund .

“The $5 fee, it goes into this pot that we use to award the Illinois for Illinois, or I4I, Scholarship,” said Caroline Ewing, international scholarship specialist for the study abroad program. “It was a student-led initiative for this to be applied to accounts.”

Ewing said the fee

was refundable until fall 2012, when a referendum was passed to make it nonrefundable.

Each student who applies for the scholarships submits three application questionnaires, including three short essays, that are then reviewed by the scholarship committee.

“The committee is made up of about 30 campus people, so that could be anyone — from the registrar’s office faculty, staff — a pretty wide variety of people,” Ewing said. “And then we also have students who’ve received the I4I Scholarship in the past, who we put into groups of three or four, and they get

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The Illinois for Illinois Scholarship, or I4I, helps students afford a semester abroad.

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(450 of 2,100) of students who studied abroad received the Illinois for Illinois Scholarship in the 2014-2015 school year

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Student grown produce at the Sustainable Student Farm Open House on Sept. 11.

UI practices Farm to School on food and drinks; 27 percent of the cost is attributed to local food sources, said Dawn Aubrey, associate director of University Housing for Dining Services.

Aubrey said the food sources must not just be local, but sustainable too.

The sources also need to be in line with the Good Agricultural Practices

BY STEPHEN NYE STAFF WRITER

October is National Farm to School Month, a celebration of connections between schools and locally sourced food and the benefits that result from them.

University Dining Services spends $16 million — in dining halls and catering services — every year

audit, which ensures the best agricultural methods are used to grow fruits and vegetables.

Aubrey said the University holds the produce and meat served to a high standard. Meat is sourced locally, for example, some pork is acquired from towns in central Illinois and some beef comes from Mendota, Illinois. Aubrey

said all the meat served by University Dining Services must come from farms that treat animals humanely and responsibly.

She said Dining Services feels accountable for serving students responsibly, by providing good meals and following students’ desires.

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Senate argues background check policies company that has provided background screening services since 1966.

The company will be asked to review potential candidates for faculty positions and report back their fi ndings in three to five business days.

Candidates will be able to opt out of the background check and will only be asked to submit to a background check if offered a position with the University.

Interim Provost Edward

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Anxieties held by some faculty members about the University’s new background check procedures erupted Monday at the Academic Senate.

On Nov. 1, the University will adopt the new background check procedures approved by the Board of Trustees in September.

The background checks will be overseen by General Information Services, a nationally accredited

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Feser explained how the University will begin implementing the new procedures at Monday’s meeting.

“The Board of Trustees established a policy, and we were directed to implement it, so we have two issues sort of going on here; one is the Board of Trustees policy on background checks, and the second is the campus implementation of that policy,” Feser said.

Feser said no new hires

will be made until after Nov. 1.

Although they are currently searching for future hires, nobody will be offered a position until next spring, long after the new procedures are put in place.

“When the senate passed its resolution asking for that implementation to be delayed, the Board of Trustees indicated we were going to delay our

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Killeen announces $24 million in spending cuts DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT

University President Timothy Killeen announced approximately $24 million in spending cuts Monday afternoon in a University news release. The cuts will affect programs “not directly related to teaching and research.”

The decision was prompted by a committee appointed by Killeen in preparation for the impending budget cuts to the University from the state of Illinois.

The committee was chaired

by Christophe Pierre, vice president for academic affairs, and included the provosts and chancellors of each campus and faculty.

The purpose of the committee’s formation was to address cuts the University expects to see following Gov. Bruce Rauner’s announcement of a 31.5 percent cut in the allocation of funds to the University of Illinois.

The spending cuts will include eliminating a central account in which mon-

ey was set aside to pay for the University’s IT system.

The release described the system as the “backbone IT systems used for student accounts, human resources and business functions.”

Additiona l ly, a nother account holding $11 million to fund “critical deferred maintenance projects” will be eliminated.

Pierre said the spending cuts should not effect the University in a “drastic” way. For example, Pierre said, IT services and sys-

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tems “will not be downgraded but certainly will be upgraded in a slower way.”

Additionally, the University will not be able to invest as much in renovations and repairs.

The committee will go on to “explore more cost-saving initiatives,” and similar cuts are being looked into on all three of the University’s campuses.

There are nine other public universities in the state of Illinois also affected by the projected cuts in fund-

ing. Presidents of the other Illinois universities have come together in “calling for an end to the budget stalemate,” according to the release.

However, Pierre said no jobs will be lost as a result of the cost-saving measures.

“The idea was that we need to run the University efficiently and still protect the student experience,” he said.

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• Theft was reported around 1:15 a.m. Saturday in the 700 block of North State Street.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole a book from the victim’s vehicle.

• Driving under the influence of alcohol was reported around 3:30 a.m. Saturday near the intersection of Goodwin Avenue and Nevada Street.

According to the report, the suspect was arrested on the charges of driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident after she hit a parked car at the intersection of Mathews Avenue and Nevada Street.

• Found articles were reported around 10 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of University Avenue and Beringer Circle.

According to the report, a wallet was found on a city sidewalk.

• Unlawful use of weapons, aggravated assault, battery, disorderly conduct and an impounded vehicle were reported Saturday around 5:15 p.m. in the 2600 block of West Springfield Avenue.

According to the report, an officer responded to a report of an offender threatening the reporting party with a gun. The offender was arrested.

• Theft was reported at the Campus Recreation Center East, 1102 W. Gregory Drive, around 4:30 p.m.

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According to the report, a locker door had been forced open and the victim’s wallet was stolen, causing an estimated $500 in damage.

• Domestic dispute was reported around 11:30 a.m. Sunday in the 2400 block of Prairie Green Drive.

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Lifting AAUP censure will require UI to change

BY IMOGEN LINDSLEY STAFF WRITER

On Tuesday, Harry Hilton, president of the UI chapter of the American Association of University Professors, will mediate the chapter’s open discussion, “AAUP Censure, Academic Freedom, and Criminal Background Checks,” in the Illini Union.

Discussions on academic freedom and faculty governance have become increasingly prominent on campus due the national AAUP’s censure of the University on June 13 for academic freedom concerns relating to the dismissal of Steven Salaita last fall. The new criminal background check policy for all new faculty, which will be implemented on Nov. 1, has also raised concerns.

David O’Brien, associate professor in art history, will present “Censure: Where Does the University Go Next?”

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STUDY ABROAD together and review (the applicants).”

Each application is given an application number to maintain anonymity.

While the applications are reviewed anonymously, if a member of the committee feels that they recognize a student, they are encouraged to abstain from reviewing that application, Ewing said.

“We try to keep it as anonymous as possible,” she said.

Ewing said that the essay questions are the

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SENATE implementation until Nov. 1, but in the meantime any hire that occurs would have to have a background check.”

Erik McDuffie, associate professor of AfricanAmerican studies, said he was concerned about the racial aspect of background checks.

“It seems to me to be impossible to disassociate the racism embedded in the criminal justice system to the criminal background checks,” McDuffie said. “I keep hearing about safeguards, but I am not convinced, in fact I am convinced that this policy will discriminate against and scare people of color

“The AAUP censure damages severely the reputation of the University,” O’Brien said. “Shared governance and academic freedom on this campus have suffered greatly in the last few years, but I think that there are positive steps we can take.”

The censure applies exclusively to the University administration.

“The Chicago campus and the Springfield campus are not involved,” Hilton said.

“Except that the onus of having the Board of Trustees censured and the President of course carries across the campuses.”

For the censure to be lifted, the AAUP Committee A will have to agree the University is positively exercising academic freedom and tenure, and a vote will be taken at the AAUP national meeting in June 2016.

However, several key changes need to made before

lifting censure can be consid- be updated. In order for Uniered, Hilton said. versity professors to be paid, “Number one, we have the they need to be approved by problem of shared gover- the board, but the board’s nance,” Hilton said. “Unfor- bimonthly meeting occurs tunately — and (former) in September, even though Chancellor Wise knows better classes start in August.

— when she wrote to Salaita “Here they were (teachinforming ing), yet that she they could not get paid, wo u ld n’ t because you approve the hiring, could not she did issue a connot contract before sult with the Board the dean of Trustees had of LAS or approved with the it,” Hilton c om m ittee of LAS said. “That that recpart is proommendHARRY HILTON cedural PRESIDENT OF UI AAUP CHAPTER eded the and I think hiring in that can be fixed.” the first place.”

Jessic a Hilton said the Board of Greenberg, associate profesTrustee’s approval policy sor in anthropology, will also for new professors should present “The Problems with

Background Checks.”

The University administration implemented the policy following the controversy surrounding the hiring of adjunct professor James Kilgore.

Teresa Barnes, professor in history and Kilgore’s wife, said she didn’t like the policy’s lack of clarity.

“The procedure also fails to specify whether the ‘Criminal Conviction Review Committee’ makes a yay/nay decision on a candidate with a criminal conviction on its own, or whether it is only an advisory committee that makes a recommendation to the Provost,” Barnes said.

Additionally, she said she objects to the background check policy as a whole.

“A person who has committed a felony and served her or his time in prison has by definition been judged by the entire U.S. justice system to be rehabilitated and ready to

rejoin society,” Barnes said.

“The Criminal Conviction Review Committee will in effect be retrying and resentencing a person for an offense, which is unfair.”

In August 2014, the National Employment Law Project revealed that “one in four U.S. adults – 70 million people and counting – now has a conviction or arrest history that can show up on a routine background check for employment.”

Hilton said the event will aim to create public dialogue about shared governance and academic freedom and bring the diverse prospectives on campus under one umbrella.

“The chapter is not involved in having to do anything, we can sit, we can advise, we can complain, we can suggest,” he said. “But anything that we do that’s extra and doesn’t count.”

most important factor when deciding if a student will receive a scholarship and that a student’s grade point average is not taken into account.

The amount of the scholarship — either $500, $1,000 or $2,000 — is awarded based on the length of the study abroad program.

“So each student application has at least two reviews and then they are assigned points based on their essay questions. And then we also take into consideration financial need, and we pull that data from students who’ve submitted the FAFSA,” Ewing said.

Most of the applicants last year were enrolled in the colleges of LAS, ACES or Engineering. “ The overwhelmi ng majority of our scholarships go to LAS, but we also have an overwhelming majority of applicants from LAS,” Ewing said.

About 20 percent of students who studied abroad received a scholarship, Ewing said. She added, not everyone who studies abroad applies for a scholarship. “[Of] the number of actual students who received the I4I last year, we had 176 in the fall and 203 in the spring,” Ewing said.

“45 percent of applicants in the fall received a scholarship and in the spring, 58 percent received it.”

C ol le en C ava n a gh , senior in Media, received the I4I scholarship for her semester studying abroad in spring 2014.

“I wouldn’t have been able to travel to eleven countries or enjoy my time abroad as my as I did without my scholarship,” Cavanagh said. “I’m extremely lucky to have received it.”

Students currently pay $66 each semester in student-initiated fees.

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from applying to jobs at this University.”

The concerns for systemic racism embedded within the new procedures

cedures promise.

“The policy has many inconsistencies, but the most serious in my view is that the Criminal Con-

to the accuracy of the report, collect an unspecified number of documents, send them to the committee and/or HR, have them review and make a decision in three to five business days?”

In response, Feser said the faculty would be allowed to have more input in how to implement the new procedures.

“This document is a living document, so the implementation procedures are brought up to be something that we are continually revising as we go forward,” Fesner said. “We need to have an implementation approach in order to execute our hiring, and this is why need to move swiftly.”

tainable practices end up costing 25 to 50 percent more than buying from large wholesalers, but Branham said the benefits of the food make up for the increased price.

“It provides a space for students to learn about organic diversified vegetable production,” said Matt Turino, farm manager. “It provides a space for education and research.”

The farm also acts as a testing pool for research by students and faculty. It lets students gain academic knowledge and practical experience in raising crops, a skill Turino and Branham find valuable.

Turino said he wants to see the farm continue to operate because he thinks it is a valuable investment of University resources.

But, he said, the farm is operated almost entirely by volunteer students and they are always in demand.

“On this kind of farm, there’s always something to do,” Turino said.

“The chapter is not involved in having to do anything, we can sit, we can advise, we can complain, we can suggest.”

“It seems to me to be impossible to disassociate the racism embedded in the criminal justice system to the criminal background checks.”

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were echoed by Teresa Barnes, associate history professor.

Barnes also went on to point out the difficult turnaround for official background checks the new pro-

viction Review Committee is supposed to complete the review process in three to five business days,” Barnes said. “How can a person who is being reviewed be notified possibly to speak

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Clinton family linked to Wall Street

BY GREG GORDON AND KEVIN G. HALL TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton has vowed to get tough on Wall Street, but her relationship with the powerful in the financial sector is both complicated and nuanced.

Her record and her family ties suggest a healthy working relationship with Wall Street, if not a cozy one.

Here are five ways Clinton is inexorably linked to Wall Street.

“Students have entrusted us with their dollars,” Aubrey said. “We need to use these dollars in a manner that they would if they were preparing their own meal.”

The Sustainable Student Farm helps the University in its mission to provide healthy options. The farm is a combined initiative between the department of crop sciences and University Dining; it is currently in its seventh growing season, according to Professor Bruce Branham, the farm’s faculty coordinator.

“Sustainability is farming in a way that we could do this forever,” Branham said. “We treat the soul as a living resource.”

Branham said the most important advantage of locally grown food is taste, which encourages people to eat more vegetables and have a healthier diet.

“Taste is the important thing — eating is about taste,” he said. “If the plants taste good, if you actually like what you’re eating, you’ll want to eat it.”

Food security is another benefit of local farming.

Branham said farming locally provides an important safety net against regional issues or crop epidemics, and while the farm only provides 3.5 to four percent of Dining Services’ needs, the security is valuable to the University and its students.

Branham said all of the goods produced by the farm go to the University.

They are either sold to the student body on the Quad or sold directly to Dining Services, at a ratio of approximately one to five.

The small scale and sus-

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Family:

D aughter C hel s e a graduated in 2001 from Stanford University, with a history degree, which she followed up with a master’s and doctorate in international relations from England’s prestigious Oxford University. In 2006, with seemingly little background in high-stakes finance, she went to work for a $12 billion hedge fund called Avenue Capital Group. At the time, Wall Street powerhouse Morgan Stanley held a stake in the hedge fund, which specialized in distressed stocks and bonds. Avenue Capital was run by Marc Lasry, a wealthy Clinton financial backer. Through June 30, 2015, Avenue Capital employees had donated $22,950 to Clinton’s campaign.

Fast forward to 2010.

Chelsea married Marc Mezvinsky, who had been working at Wall Street’s most iconic company, Goldman Sachs. Mezvinsky in 2011 became a co-founder of Eaglevale Partners, a hedge fund that government records show has invested in Greek debt. One of its big investors is Lasry. A New York Times story earlier this year cited unidentified sources as saying friends of the Clintons invested in Mezvinsky’s fund.

Government regulations do not require hedge funds,

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From left, Democratic presidential candidates Jim Webb, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Martin O’Malley and Lincoln Chafee on the debate stage on Oct. 13, in Las Vegas. which pool investments from the very rich, to publicly disclose their investors.

Speaking fees:

Hillary Clinton’s most eye-popping Wall Street relationship i nvolves her and her husband’s acceptance of speaking fees. Of the $150 million in speaking fees that have flowed to the Clintons since 2001, Wall Street ponied up more than $8 million in speaking fees. In 2013, the year she left office as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton earned $1.575 million from big banks, including $225,000 from Bank of America. Among her husband’s fees were $900,000 from Bank of America.

In 2014, as the campaign season approached, she kept a $280,000 Deutsche Bank check, donating between $750,000 and $1.5 million in fees from other banks to the family’s global charity, the Clinton Foundation.

Campaign donations:

Between her 2000 Senate run and June 30, Clinton’s political campaigns have

raised $3.6 million from six major banks, four of which were among her top five donors, according to the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics.

Citigroup’s employees and its political action committee accounted for $824,000, while Goldman Sachs’ employees and its PAC gave $760,000, the group found. The fourth and fifth most donations from one enterprise have come from employees of and PACs for JPMorgan Chase ($696,000) and Morgan Stanley ($636,000).

Total donations from these and other banks still amounted to less than 1 percent of the total of nearly $800 million in contributions Clinton amassed for her Senate run and two presidential campaigns. Through June 30, the $290,000 donated to her presidential campaign by six major banks, topped by $88,000 from Morgan Stanley, amounts to a small fraction of the $47.5 million raised. Wells Fargo’s employees and PAC contributed $47,048 through June 30, while Bank of America’s PAC and

employees donated $18,942.

Geography:

New York is the global financial capital, and Hillary Clinton represented Wall Street as a U.S. senator from New York from 2001 until January 2009. During the first Democratic presidential debate on Oct. 14, she said she told Wall Street bankers to “cut it out” in 2007, suggesting she warned of the coming nearcollapse of the financial system. She was not seen then or now as a voice of early warning.

Deregulation:

Clinton has taken a softer tone than her opponents when it came to re-regulating large banks.

Two of her Democratic rivals, Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, vowed to re-impose past restrictions and break up the biggest banks. While Sanders criticizes Wall Street’s corrupting influence on Washington, O’Malley pointedly assailed Clinton for being too cozy with Wall Street.

First lady Michelle Obama has released her next campaign under the Reach Higher initiative, “Better Make Room.”

Better Make Room is geared toward students aged 14-19 in an effort to get them through the transition from high school to college.

Through collaboration with companies such as Vine, Mashable, The CW Network and Funny or Die, Better Make Room will aim to provide a platform in which student accomplishments can be praised at the same level as those of athletes and celebrities.

The campaign is also reaching out to students through the use of a new, text-based service UpNext.

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WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden is still weighing a decision on running for president, and isn’t expected to make an announcement before the end of the week, people close to him said.

That timing would put the decision just before a major Democratic political dinner

In conjunction with UpNext, Better Make Room will send personalized text messages to students reminding them to apply for college, apply for student financial aid and pay back student loans as deadlines approach.

Other partners of the campaign include College Humor, NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and A+E Networks.

The media companies will promote the campaign through spotlight posts and advertisements, and create PSAs using stars on their own channels.

“With partners in the business, philanthropic, media, and education realm, this campaign will stretch across the country to inspire students and give them the tools they need to reach higher for college,” said the Office of the First Lady in a press release.

next weekend in Iowa, where organizers said the vice president can be accommodated there at the last minute should he jump into the race.

As of Monday morning, Biden had not decided whether to run, said one person familiar with his plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity to tamp down expectations amid reports his announcement is imminent. Another person familiar with the vice president’s planning, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said that if Biden decides in the next couple of days he is likely to share it first privately, with family, close friends and a small circle of staff and supporters.

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tudy abroad experiences are wonderful and should be encouraged, but many University students don’t choose to participate. Still, all University students pay a $5 fee for I4I, or Illinois for Illinois, which is the undergraduate study abroad scholarship.

With 44,087 University students this fall, this adds up to $220,435.

Like we said, study abroad experiences should be encouraged, but it’s unfair to make the vast majority of students who don’t go abroad fund the scholarships to send them there.

For four years of a University education, $20 comes out of students’ pockets for study abroad scholarships. This may not seem like a lot in the grand scheme of things — there are a lot more irresponsible ways to spend $20 —, but the $220,435 total of every student’s $20 is staggering.

That’s enough to pay half of the tuition for nearly 30 Illinois students who enroll this year. And while the total is just a mere 0.4 percent of the amount the state owes the University, for the usual University student, that $20 is a few meals, a few loads of laundry and a few coffees in the morning.

Affording college is no easy feat for everyone, and, as harsh as it may sound, extending the financial burdens of students onto other students who are also struggling isn’t right.

The majority of students at the University don’t study abroad, and it’s an unfair practice for those students to have to foot the bill.

Studying abroad certainly gives students experiences they’ll remember their whole lives, and we understand that some students wouldn’t be able to travel without scholarships.

However, out of the 2,100 students who studied abroad last year, only 450 received a scholarship (which are only up to $2,000 each), said Caroline Ewing, international scholarship specialist for the department of study abroad.

While many programs require studying abroad in their course schedule, we must remember that for the majority of students who study abroad, it’s a luxury.

We also should consider that the majority of the scholarships are going to LAS students — along with students from ACES and Engineering — instead of split evenly between colleges.

We feel money for study abroad scholarships should be coming from another area, such as donors or fundraisers — not from other students’ pockets. Previously, the fee was available to be refunded, but this is no longer true.

Although studying abroad is enlightening, it’s not a necessity. The total, $220,435, is a lot of money, and it could be going toward something more imperative, such as financial aid to students here on campus, or helping to ease the troubles caused by impending budget cuts.

We question whether many University students even know where their student fees are going. If the University administration, faculty and staff really value the importance of studying abroad, we feel this scholarship should be coming from another fund.

College excursions in the 21st century JULIO CESAR Opinions columnist

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ield trips are something that, for many people, seem like a high school activity that they will inevitably leave behind during their more serious college experience. But it shouldn’t be that way.

For many majors, even with all of the digital resources we have in hand, class excursions are still an important experience that should not be left behind.

Back in the days of the first universities and academies, gaining hands-on experience was a much bigger deal. Students visited sites and galleries to not only see the theory they learned in practice, but also to gather experiences by themselves.

For many civilizations, from the Greeks to the Renaissance Italians, contact with working sites, art and even nature was extremely important. In fine arts and architecture majors especially, the experience outside the classroom or studio was a fundamental part of learning.

Without Internet and book image references, going out was the only way to see works of art and gather influences.

This aspect of their education taught those generations of artists and architects their extremely refined spatial and aesthetic notions, which are still praised today.

However, with the many possibilities given through technology nowadays, leaving this old-fashioned excursion method behind seems reasonable, especially when you can visit any place you want at the comfort of your desk.

But as advanced as technology can be, we’re still far away from a moment in which virtual experience can replace practicality. Just the real contact with educational environments can provide a unique and personal experience that can’t be replicated.

The Internet can give information, but many times, it fails to provide experience. When studying artifacts or architectural styles on the Internet, everyone sees the same image; on a field trip, everyone has their own impressions.

At the University, depending on their areas of study, there are opportunities for students for field trips and out-of-classroom excursions. However, we still face problems with this, as many students are seemingly disinterested in participating in these activities, even if they are free.

This past Saturday, for example, the American Institute of Architects organized a

class trip to the Chicago Open House weekend in which students visited important buildings and architecture firms in the city. For such a unique experience, it’s incredible how few people participated.

Karolina Chojnowska, sophomore in FAA who attended the trip said, “Traveling as an architecture student allows you to see with your eyes what you used to see just on screen. The scale feels different and also the context.”

When asked whether the trip would influence her career, Chojnowska replied, “Yes, we saw a bunch of different styles and had (the) opportunity to explore them...It will inspire me to design my own things.”

Every student should aim to get involved in out-of-class experiences based on the opportunities offered by each major. Of course, some areas of study have more activities available outside the classroom compared to others (sorry, computer science majors), but at least there’s always options for every subject you can imagine.

Every area of study or class has their own style or policy when it comes to field experiences. Many student associations for example, especially the ones that extend to a national level, have annual meetings off campus and trips related to their focus.

Some classes also have

excursions planned in their schedule, frequently with trips to spots nearby, such as local farms for agriculture or animal science majors.

There are even classes offered in the summer or winter semesters in other countries which are based on field experience alone. Urban Planning and Development also offers a class that takes place partially in Japan.

Depending of your conditions and priorities, you can talk with an adviser and consider planning in advance to take one of those classes at the most suitable moment during your career at the University.

More than learning purposes, traveling with your class can be a good way to integrate yourself with your classroom and make new contacts and friends — something that should always be welcomed and can help improve your undergrad life. It was one way that the old scholars were great, and can make us even greater.

It’s up to the student to evaluate if they want to get involved or not. But if there’s something that should be guaranteed, it’s that college excursions can bring influences and experiences that go much further than simple high school amusement.

Julio is a freshman in Engineering. drjmnzs2@dailyillini.com

Housing decisions: Only fools rush in HARSHA BELLAMKONDA Opinions columnist

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ver the past two weeks, I have been asked by no fewer than seven people where I will be living next year. I replied the exact same way each time: “I don’t know. I haven’t even thought about that yet.” They were all surprised by my response, but I was surprised by their questions.

It’s hard to tell how early is too early to be thinking about housing options, as many students have already started looking for places to live next year.

Obviously, college students should start exploring housing choices early, especially due to the high demand. However, students should slow down and take their time rather than rush to sign a lease fall semester. College students should take the time to organize and plan out their housing search to reach a wellinformed final decision.

The vast variety of living options can confuse even the most organized of people.

There are a large number of

potential homes spread out over campus including apartments, houses, Private Certified Housing and University Housing. If one thinks about it, an overabundance of choices isn’t necessarily beneficial when it comes to choosing a place to stay.

Not only that, but there are a multitude of factors that affect our decision on where to live such as location, price, size, number of roommates, cleanliness, etc. These factors not only sway our decisions immensely, but also keep changing. It’s too early at this point to tell what our final preferences will be.

Maybe now you have three roommates lined up, ready to live with you. Perhaps a month later, one of them might pull out. You might have wanted a big apartment at first, but now you’d compromise with a smaller one depending on the cost.

The point is, when you still have a big gap of time before you actually move into your new home, it’s easy for your preferences to switch around.

Nikolaos Kontakos, freshman in Engineering, agrees.

“My initial preference was to live in my fraternity house because I already knew everybody, and it would be con-

venient to get to fraternity events,” he said. “But now I’m leaning toward an apartment over my fraternity house because there’s less people.

It’s easier to manage and there’s more space.”

Taking into account Kontakos’ experience, it’s not a bad idea to wait longer to start looking for a future home or to sign a lease. Making a decision too early could hurt you later on, especially if your priorities change.

Another problem with rushing into a decision is that many students might miss little factors with significant consequences, such as there not being a bus stop close by, which could be important in the winter, or shabby upkeep, which students in a hurry to finalize their plans might not notice.

These reasons are why college students should start their search and make their decision later. But people do have their misgivings.

Many people fixated on finding apartments might argue about the high demand, but these worries shouldn’t be as severe or dire or as many students think.

The myth that we college students have to sign a lease or housing contract before

fall semester ends just to get a good place for the next fall semester isn’t true now that the vacancy rate has grown.

Close to campus, although most three, four and five-bedroom furnished apartments go on the market in October for move-in the following August, not all available rooms are leased immediately.

By the end of December, many of these larger apartments are filled, especially if they are in Champaign, south of Green Street and east of Second Street, but many are still on the market for months after that.

Still, that allows students more time than is typically perceived to search for apartments and find a good fit.

Basically, unless you’re adamant on living in one of the most popular apartments, you will not end up homeless if you start looking later in first semester or spring.

While deciding where to live is a major decision, it shouldn’t cause students immense worry and lead them to make a quick decision that might not be completely informed. We should plan out our search and decision so that we end up picking the perfect home.

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A hopeful health rebound

Get ready for lines out the door at Murphy’s and Legend’s, a constant queue for Alma pictures, families enjoying nostalgic tours of the Quad and a constant sea of that beautiful orange and blue. It’s Homecoming week at the University and everyone is excited. Go Illini, beat the Badgers, and welcome back all alums!

Basketball player and ex-husband of Khloé Kardashian Lamar Odom’s condition is reportedly improving following an overdose last week. Considering that last week’s news reports stated his family members and close friends were preparing for the worst, hearing that he’s hopefully on an upswing and on the way to restored health is amazing. Get well soon, Lamar!

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BLIND PIG “I just felt that there were other things in life that I was simply better at,” Knight said. “I knew that I was very different from my colleagues. We were cut from a different cloth. They were often excited about the latest research and theoretical quantum mechanics, and I just wanted to have a drink at the bar.”

Knight opened his very first bar in 1990, calling it The Blind Pig. The bar was located in the space that is now Cowboy Monkey in downtown Champaign.

But Knight wanted to go beyond serving beers to his customers. He wanted to provide an experience similar to that in Europe; thus, he drew in a crowd and had live music five nights a week.

For a chemist and unexperienced bar owner, this proved to be challenging.

“It just a very difficult business to run,” Knight said. “You can’t make any money having live music so often ... You still have to pay the band even if no one shows up. In fact, for the eight years that I owned The Blind Pig on Taylor Street, I was making less than I would’ve been if I

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was working at McDonalds. My average income was about $17,000 a year.”

But after learning from his errors and building a successful business strategy, Knight sold the space in 1998 after eight years. The Blind Pig moved into a new location — one that was bigger than the original.

By cutting the live music and bringing in a consistent crowd, The Blind Pig boomed more than ever before — and Knight’s paycheck started to finally pay off, too.

Knight’s bars have also helped pave the way for craft beers in Champaign.

“Twenty-five years ago, there were no imported beers on tap at any bar in Champaign — just Budweiser, Bud Lite and Miller,” Knight said. “We were the first bar to serve a craft beer on tap; we were the first bar to start serving in pints.”

Today, The Blind Pig competes with many breweries in downtown Champaign; however, it has pleased Knight watching bars pop up over town.

“If you wanted an imported beer 25 years ago, you could get Heineken and that was pretty much it.

There were two bars in downtown Champaign, and it seemed to me (that) there should be 20. People told

me I was crazy,” Knight said. “But today, downtown has become a destination again, and there are actually around 20 bars.”

Along with its two locations, the Blind Pig also owns a nearby warehouse with a packaging line to bottle the beer, so it can be sold in stores soon.

Alex Hallerberg, senior in LAS, partakes in the atmosphere at The Blind Pig. “I went there for Dad’s weekend and really enjoyed it. It’s kind of a medieval setting but dark and intimate with cozy lighting,” Hallerbeg said. “Much nicer than the bars we have on campus.”

As Knight’s right-handman, Andy Gravlon, Blind Pig manager, appreciates the freedom Knight grants him while running the bar.

“Working at The Blind Pig is different because I work so closely with Knight, and he lets me be really hands-on with a lot of things as the manager,” Gravlon said.

Knight hopes that people will come to his bars to have a drink and relax for the evening.

“It’s supposed to be a place where you come, and you want to stay,” Knight said.

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41-year-old overcomes addiction, joins college

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DALLAS — Wendy Birdsall wears her SMU-themed sunglasses almost everywhere she goes.

The black-and-red glasses, with the motto “World changers shaped here,” represent a new life for Birdsall, who was homeless at 16 and a repeat felon and drug addict by her late 20s.

She’s been clean since 2010, and now, at age 41, she’s studying biology at SMU. “They say that SMU breeds world changers,” Birdsall said. “I don’t know if I’m going to be a world changer, but I’m definitely a game changer.”

Birdsall isn’t ashamed to talk about her past. She believes she’s a stronger, more driven person because of it.

When Birdsall was about 14, she and her two younger sisters moved from Southern California to North Texas with their mother. Their mother and father divorced soon after.

Within two years, Birdsall found herself without a home after her mother kicked her out one night.

A few days later, Birdsall returned to her family’s Hurst apartment to find that her mom and sisters had moved out.

Her youngest sister, Carrie Sheffield, often wonders how Birdsall survived.

“I think about my kids,” said Sheffield, who’s now 34.

“I’ve got a son that’s going to be 12. I cannot imagine, in my wildest dreams, in two years just leaving him.”

Birdsall tried to stay in school, couch-surfing in friends’ living rooms for a while, but eventually dropped out and took a job at a nightclub in Arlington.

In the club scene, Birdsall experimented with drugs — first marijuana, then more intense drugs such as Ecstasy and acid.

She stopped using drugs when she gave birth at age 21, but started again — becoming addicted to crack — after losing custody two years later to the girl’s father.

Birdsall racked up felony arrests for assault, drug possession and car theft, to name a few, and stayed high for days, sometimes passing

out in a motel room.

“Hey, are you still alive?” police officers would ask, shaking her.

Birdsall knew she’d hit rock bottom in 2007 when she saw the life she was missing at a McDonald’s not far from the Arlington motel where she was living.

She watched as a family of four parked its minivan and walked into the restaurant: two young girls skipping and smiling, each holding a parent’s hand.

That day, Birdsall told her friend she was done with the drug scene.

“I realized that living the life I was living, I was never going to have anything,” she said. “I was going to end up dead in the street someday or locked up in prison on a life sentence.”

A few weeks later, she enrolled at the Nexus Recovery Center, a substance abuse rehabilitation facility for girls and women.

Like many recovering addicts, Birdsall was optimistic she’d sustain her sobriety after rehab.

But three months later, she relapsed and became a functioning addict, working during the day and getting high at night.

“When you’re high all the time, you’re numb,” Birdsall said. “You’re numb to what’s going on around you. You’re numb to your actions.”

While serving time for shoplifting, she reached another turning point in an unlikely place for a self-professed atheist.

Birdsall was participat-

ing in a faith-based program at the Collin County Jail when she was moved to tears. Her fellow inmates huddled around her, praying for her as she sobbed.

She was given five years’ probation. She walked out of the jail a Christian.

“Once you sober up, it’s like somebody takes a bottle of Windex to your eyeballs and wipes them off,” she said. “You start seeing things you don’t normally see.”

Birdsall now needed a cushion between jail and the outside world, a place to practice sobriety. She moved into the Compassion House, a nine-month boarding house program in South Dallas.

Zoe Shepherd, who ran the house with her husband, said Birdsall came in with the social skills of a child in elementary school.

Birdsall got her GED in jail and, while at the halfway house, started working toward an associate’s degree at El Centro College.

She surprised herself and her professors with her high grades and youthful gusto.

“I wish I had a thousand more students like her,” said Len Fortuna, her intermediate math professor. “When you get students like that, it’s not only a pleasure to teach them, it’s a pleasure to watch them grow.”

This summer, Birdsall got a call from an admissions officer at Southern Methodist University: She’d been accepted as a transfer student.

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yeglasses angled, nestled in the slight curvature of his upper nose, the professor snatched a book from the jumbled, roomlength bookshelf strewn with reference books in English and Portuguese. From his accumulation of scattered soon-to-beedited articles and manuscripts, he retrieved a copy of his latest work, “The Brazilian Economy: Growth and Development.”

Professor Werner Baer, the Jorge Lemann Professor of Economics at the University, has contributed to the economic world in ways rarely noted by his students. Through the endowment of the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies within the Center for Latin American Studies, the Harvard graduate is one of only two chairs to regularly receive funds for personal research, following an endowment by a Brazilian industrialist.

This grant was not given unfairly.

Baer, 84, who specializes in the economies of Latin America, specifically Brazil, has worked tirelessly alongside numerous colleagues to understand the high levels of inflation and income inequality that have plagued Latin American countries for decades. And more noticeably, the professor, who speaks English, Spanish, Portugese, French and German, has become a recruiter and mentor for students who choose to pursue graduate degrees in economics.

Baer, who earned his Ph.D. in Economics, decided to specialize in Brazilian studies due to his interest in its people.

“I just like Latin America. I like the Latins. What I like about them, especially about Brazil, is that they’re happy people,” he said.

“They have a tremendous sense of humor, which I like … and, to a certain extent, Brazil is like the United States. Especially the southern part of Brazil. It’s full of immigrants ...

I especially believe in immigrant economies.”

Baer, who visits Brazil every summer, founded the Brazilian Association in Graduate Studies of Economics.

According to Dr. Carlos Azzoni, a colleague of Baer’s, and dean of the School of Economics at São Paulo

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University in Brazil, Baer’s influence has had an astronomical effect on the teaching methods of Brazilian universities.

“In Brazil, (Professor Baer) is very important in the sense of what he established. When he started coming here, we were on the French tradition or European tradition of courses. More reflection, more reading, fewer classes,” Azzoni said. “So when he came to Brazil, we had graduate student studies only scattered in some places. There was nothing organized. So he was fundamental in putting that together.”

For the past 25 years, Baer and Azzoni have organized summer workshops for University students

to study Brazilian economics in São Paulo. Through his orchestration of these programs, in addition to his connections with the economics department heads of numerous Latin American universities, Baer has had the opportunity to encourage students in pursuing degrees in economics.

According to Azzoni, Professor Baer influenced nearly 500 students in attaining a Ph.D. in Economics.

Among those instructed by Baer, either in undergraduate or graduate programs, include the heads of the Brazilian, Columbian and Paraguayan Central Banks, as well as Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador.

Even with this success, as Azzo-

ni humorously pointed out, Baer still chooses to fly economy instead of business class for every visit to Brazil.

“He’s very modest. He’s a picture of excellence. He’s a one hundred percent teacher…he’s generous and available,” Azzoni said. “Anyone that wants to talk to him will be received with respect.”

For Baer, this success is just about doing what he loves.

“I enjoy what I’m doing. I enjoy teaching, I enjoy students, I enjoy my research, I enjoy traveling. So, I’m doing precisely what I like,” he said.

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The face behind The Blind Pig’s success Chemist turned entrepeneur continues to build community in downtown Champaign

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Chris Knight’s world revolves around bars.

Specifically, the Blind Pig bars, as the owner of the bars located in downtown Champaign.

Soon, however, Knight will also be the owner of the Blind Pig beers. He is currently putting the fi nishing touches on his newest creation: bottled beer that will hopefully be sold in local stores this December.

Business is good, he said, but he has not always had this title.

In 1984, Knight made the venture from England to Champaign for a job in the University’s chemistry department.

Not knowing what to expect, Knight settled into town and began his life in the United States.

However, he said he was thoroughly disappointed.

“When I came here, there was absolutely nothing,” he said. “Downtown had been slow-

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It’s Homecoming week at Illinois and the legacy of the “Gray Ghost” will be present during the Illini’s game against Wisconsin on Saturday.

For the second straight year, the Illini will honor legendary Hall of Famer Harold “Red” Grange, the Galloping Ghost, by wearing alternate “Gray Ghost” uniforms.

Last year, players wore the uniforms to honor the 90th anniversary of Grange’s historic homecoming performance against Michigan.

In that 1924 game, Grange scored four touchdowns and ran for 262 total yards in the first 12 minutes. He would then run for a fifth touchdown and throw for a sixth.

The gray uniforms brought a little magic to last year’s performance when Illinois beat Minnesota 28-24 in a fourth quarter comeback led

by Reilly O’Toole.

On Monday, head coach Bill Cubit joked with the media about Saturday’s gameday attire — he pretended not to know about the uniform announcement.

“We have gray uniforms?”

Cubit asked with a laugh.

The players are excited to break them out and are hoping for another victory in

gray.

“I love the gray uniforms,” T.J Neal said. “They’re a really good look. It’s a change of pace and a chance to do something different.”

It’s Illinois’ 105th Homecoming game and celebration. The Illini have won three of their last five Homecoming games and are 8-2 in homecoming games against the Badgers.

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It is likely that the Illini offense will once again be without senior running back Josh Ferguson, Cubit said Monday, calling the starter’s status “questionable.”

Ferguson suffered a shoulder injury in Illinois 14-13 win over Nebraska.

Cubit said receiver Marchie Murdock may “not be game-day ready.”

Wide receiver Geronimo Allison will return to play after undergoing concussion tests and resting during the bye week. The Illini are hoping the bye week will help propel them to another win, they were 1-1 last season after off weeks.

Receiver Mike Dudek will be out Saturday. Dudek tore his ACL during spring practice Cubit said Justin Hardee

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Illinois’ Geronimo Allison gives high-fives to young fans after the homecoming game against Minnesota at Memorial Stadium on Oct. 25, 2014. will run a little in practice this week. Hardee and Cubit have talked but ultimately the choice of sitting out for the rest of the season will be up to Hardee because the senior is set to get his masters degree at the end of the school year.

Cubit was less optimistic about Dudek’s proposed return date.

“I still think Mikey is a couple weeks away,” Cubit said.

“I don’t think (Dudek returning is) going to happen.”

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Cubit has made a point to keep connecting with fans throughout the season.

Each Thursday before the game, Cubit has gone out

around the Quad and Green Street, meeting students and asking them to come out and support his team.

He said the response to this year’s team is much different from previous, and he’s had people come up to him in restaurants and even airports, yelling “I-L-L.” With a different practice schedule this week to accom-

modate the Homecoming program, Cubit will be out at the Homecoming parade and pep rally Friday night.

“There’s excitement out there,” Cubit said. “I’m happy for the kids and I want the kids to go out there and have fun.”

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1. OHIO STATE (LAST WEEK: 1) — The

Buckeyes put together their best game of the season in their 38-10 win over Penn State. J.T. Barrett once again finished drives when he ran in two touchdowns in the first half and took over for Cardale Jones in the third quarter — he also had two touchdown passes.

2. MICHIGAN STATE (3) — Spartans fans might still not believe the end of Michigan State’s 27-23 win over Michigan. Jalen Watts-Jackson picked up the mishandled punt and ran it back 38 yards for a touchdown in the closing seconds of the game.

3. MICHIGAN (2) — All Michigan punter Blake O’Neill had to do was punt the ball away, and the Wolverines would’ve likely won the game. The senior mishandled the ball and the rest will remain history in Michigan’s 27-23 loss to the Spartans.

4. IOWA (4) — Iowa’s back-up running back

Akrum Wadley made history in the Hawkeyes’ 4010 win over Northwestern. Wadley ran for a school record of four touchdowns and 204 yards after Jordan Canzeri left the game with a sprain.

5. WISCONSIN (6) — The Badgers played

a complete game to hold off Purdue 24-7.

Wisconsin’s defense allowed a season-low 191 yards for the Boilermakers, and Joel Stave threw for 322 yards while Alec Ingold ran in two touchdowns.

6. PENN STATE (7) — The Nittany Lions’ offensive line had another hard time protecting quarterback Christian Hackenberg against Ohio State’s defense. The junior was sacked five times and threw for 120 yards and a touchdown in the 38-10 loss.

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Fans’ focus shifts from recruiting ALEX ROUX Illini hoops columnist

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the leaves turn and the sun sets earlier with each passing day, college hoops fans’ mindsets shift from recruiting watch to game mode.

Especially at Illinois, especially this year. The fall early signing period begins just three weeks from Wednesday, and the Illini’s fi rst game is two days after that on Nov. 13. Head coach John Groce has only secured one recruit — Milwaukee point guard Te’Jon Lucas— in the class of 2016, so it makes sense that the return of actual basketball is generating more buzz than Groce’s fourth recruiting class at Illinois.

As signing day creeps closer, it appears more and more likely that Lucas will be the only early signee in Illinois’ 2016 class. Sure, another commitment could happen in the next several weeks, but at surface level it appears that meaningful relationships with remaining 2016 recruits just don’t seem to be there at the moment.

Still, expect Groce to aggressively scour the available pool of talent throughout the winter in hopes of adding another piece in 2016, whether that be another high schooler or a fifth-year transfer.

Injured point guard Tracy Abrams fully expects to be back for his sixth year of eligibility in 2016-17, which leaves one scholarship left to be fi lled next year. Allowing it to

roll over to 2017 would mean that Groce was unable to convince even a decent prospect to take it and would be a disappointing reflection on the state of the program. I don’t think that will happen.

The next few weeks of recruiting are worth keeping an eye on in case Groce coaxes a late fall commitment, but Illini fans’ sights have been set on the 2017 class for a while now. The amount of instate and regional talent and potential has made this particular class headline-worthy for the last couple of years, and two of its key members are going through transitions that could affect the Illini’s chances of landing them.

Jeremiah Tilmon and Alonzo Verge are both Illini targets and were considered in-state prospects for Illinois just two weeks ago until both announced their intentions to transfer to prep schools out of state.

Tilmon is a consensus top-20 player in the 2017 class and is considered one of the best big men in the country. He played his fi rst two years of high school ball in East St. Louis, but an ongoing teacher strike at his high school led Tilmon to explore other options this year to avoid jeopardizing his academic standing. Tilmon is transferring to La Lumiere School in La Porte, Indiana, where he will play his junior and senior years at prep school.

Even without a teacher strike precipitating the move, this transition makes sense for a player of Tilmon’s caliber. La Lumiere is one of the top high school basketball programs in the country and is loaded with high-major prospects.

The move is also interesting in regards to Groce’s recruitment of the coveted big man.

Illinois will have to beat out schools like Kansas and potentially Kentucky in its pursuit of Tilmon, and his move to La Lumiere could be spun as a positive in Groce’s favor. Illini freshman Jalen Coleman-Lands went to LaLu, and Groce has hosted the entire LaLu team on campus for an unofficial visit. He also has clearly developed a relationship with LaLu coach Shane Herriman to some extent.

Even if that potential Illini edge is wishful thinking, Tilmon’s transfer to La Lumiere certainly doesn’t hurt Groce’s chances.

Verge is an elite guard prospect from Willowbrook. Like Tilmon, Verge visited Illinois since the end of last basketball season and has drawn high-major interest. Verge announced Saturday he is transferring to Arlington Country Day Prep in Florida to fi nish his high school career.

With a deep pool of talented guards still within driving distance in the 2017 class, it will be interesting to see if Groce bothers maintaining his pursuit of Verge, who is rumored to have disciplinary issues as well.

This fall continues to feel relatively sluggish for Illini fans with the overall lack of recruiting developments. For now, you can’t blame fans for shifting focus to the upcoming season from Groce’s 2016 recruiting class, his quietest yet.

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7. ILLINOIS (8) — A bye week was a perfect

time for many Illini players to heal after the first six games of the season. Quarterback Wes Lunt is fifth in the Big Ten in passing yards per game (237.7) while wide receiver Geronimo Allison leads the conference in receptions per game (6.7) and receiving yards per game (100.2).

8. NORTHWESTERN (5) — The Wildcats’ offense struggled to gain any momentum in Northwestern’s 40-10 loss to Iowa. Clayton Thorson threw for 125 yards, one touchdown and one interception while Justin Jackson ran for 30 yards on 10 carries.

9. NEBRASKA (11) — Tommy Armstrong Jr.

helped Nebraska right the ship after an 0-2 start to conference play. The quarterback threw for 261 yards and three touchdowns as the Cornhusker won the Broken Chair Trophy against Minnesota 48-25.

10. MINNESOTA (9) — The Golden Gophers’ offense tried to keep their game against Nebraska competitive, but Minnesota’s FBS-worst pass defense created too big of a deficit. Mitch Leidner threw a career-high 26 passes and for a careerhigh 301 yards in Minnesota’s 48-25 loss.

11. RUTGERS (12) — The Scarlett Knights

escaped the Big Ten dungeon this week with a comeback win in Bloomington, Indiana. Rutgers scored 22 points in the fourth quarter while Chris Laviano threw for 386 yards, three touchdowns and one interception in Rutgers’ 55-52 win over Indiana.

12. INDIANA (10) — Hoosier players said they

thought they had their game against Rutgers all wrapped up. Rutgers turned three fourth-quarter turnovers into touchdowns in Indiana’s 55-52 loss to Rutgers.

13. MARYLAND (13) — Nothing has changed for the Terrapins during their bye week. Maryland is 2-4, 0-2 in the Big Ten and its total offense ranks 12th in the conference and its total defense ranks 13th.

14. PURDUE (14) — Another game, another loss for the Boilermakers. David Blough threw for 136 yards and scored Purdue’s only touchdown on a run in the second quarter as the Boilermakers lost their fifth-straight game, this time 24-7 against Wisconsin.

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Women’s golf stays positive despite losses

BY RYAN WILSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Illinois women’s golf team has two weeks remaining in its fall schedule, but the Illini are doing more than practicing golf: They’re relaxing and thinking positively. Head coach Renee Slone said that will be key to finishing the fall season strong.

The Illinois team routinely meditates and does yoga and Pilates. They also do breathing exercises through a program called HeartMath. The program is supposed to help lower stress and improve

one’s focus. It can cause a 50 percent drop in fatigue, 46 percent drop in anxiety, while improving focus by 24 percent, according to its website.

“We draw information from a wide variety of sources that are beneficial to us,” Slone said.

She also encourages players to take breaks between shots at tournaments to relax and think about a positive phrase, place or song.

Illinois finished 12th of 13 teams at the Jim West Challenge on Oct. 4-6, but Slone does not want the team to dwell on previous

scores. Instead, she wants the team to think about its accomplishments: Shooting

an Illinois best 6-under in her first college round.

“Progress is not a steady

“There are bumps along the way and sometimes you take a step backward in order to take five steps forward.”

RENEE SLONE

WOMEN’S GOLF HEAD COACH

the eighth lowest 54-hole tournament in the team history at the Minnesota Invitational on Sept. 14-15 and Bing Singhsumalee going

incline,” Slone said. “There are bumps along the way, and sometimes you take a step backward in order to take five steps forward.”

Dana Gattone echoed her coach’s remarks. Gattone said the Illini need to stay positive and not forget about their potential.

Gattone said Illinois struggled in the first two days of the Jim West Challenge, but even then, she was proud of her teammate Grace Park. Park finished 23rd after shooting a season’s best 1-under the final round.

“I think overall, we all had at least one or two rounds that were pretty good,” Gattone said. “And seeing Grace to be our top finisher for our team and to

finish in the top 25 is really big, because that was a huge accomplishment for her.”

Jan Prapassarangkul and Singhsumalee each shot under par in a round at the Jim West Challenge.

Assistant coach Jenny Coluccio said one of the team’s goals is to compete in its first National Championship.

“The goal is definitely reachable,” Coluccio said.

“But we are going at it one step at a time.”

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Illini win first match at home after month-long road trip

BY DANIEL DEXTER STAFF WRITER

The Illinois volleyball team (12-7) snapped its four-game losing streak against Iowa on Friday. It was the team’s first win at Huff Hall since the Illini Classic in August.

The streak started against Wisconsin, which came at the tail end of the Illini’s month-long stint of road games. Following a loss to Minnesota, the team returned home to play top-10 teams Penn State and Ohio State in the same weekend.

Following this past weekend, Iowa (10-11) remains one of three teams in the Big Ten yet to record a conference win — the Hawkeyes sit at 0-8 in the conference.

Illinois took advantage of its opponent’s weaknesses and put together its first sweep since playing at Rutgers on Sept. 26. The team posted a .284 hit percentage in the match against the Hawkeyes while limiting them to just .157.

“We worked really hard in practice this week, and I think we all put our heads in it together,” opposite hitter Naya Crittenden said.

“There are still things we need to improve, but I think we did a good job (against Iowa). Especially at

the end, it was kind of up and down, but we finished it.”

using her in different ways and putting her in different spots and starting to understand her.”

Crittenden sees bigger role in lineup

Hambly looks for Poulter to attack more Illinois seems to have found a

powerful force on the court in Crittenden. The first-year transfer student started both games for the Illini over the weekend, and came up big in both.

The junior tied for most kills on the team in both matches with 10 and nine against Iowa and Nebraska, respectively. She also scored efficiently, posting .571 and .368 hit percentages in the respective matches. Defensively, she added two blocks in both contests.

Crittenden said she felt more comfortable this weekend than she did last week against Ohio State, when she only managed a .091 hit percentage. She added that head coach Kevin Hambly’s film sessions during the week have helped her identify what she needed to improve on.

Hambly said Crittenden is one of the better blockers on the team, and he praised her work ethic in practice. “(Crittenden) was good (against Nebraska),” Hambly said. “We’re

Freshman setter Jordyn Poulter has already made a name for herself as a stellar passer, but Hambly would like to see her add another dimension to her game: attacks.

According to Hambly, Poulter’s size and leaping ability make her a serious threat to score off dumps.

The setter attempted only seven attacks and had three kills over the weekend.

Hambly added that Poulter is a distributor by nature, but defenses are leaving her open to make a play. He said he wouldn’t mind seeing Poulter attempt more than five attacks a match.

“We are telling her that, ‘You have to dump at times. We need you to be offensive because hitters are leaving you wide open and they are perfect passes. You are 6’2” and have a 34-inch vertical; go up and jam the ball down,’” Hambly said. “She could be one of our better weapons.”

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and Sunday, Illinois tied and lost twice.

The draws helped the Illini hang on to a spot in the standings that would secure them a Big Ten tournament berth.

Stucky said the win against the Cornhuskers is just the confidence boost the Illini need to keep momentum.

“I think we fi nally got momentum,” Stucky said.

“We were able to combine with multiple players: three different girls got assists today.”

Stucky is not the only player who feels that the team has benefi ted from loosening up and going back to the basics.

Sophomore forward Kara Marbury echoed Stucky’s comments, and gave all the credit to Rayfield.

“Janet (Rayfi eld) after Thursday’s game has really been focusing on us going back to being the team where we have fun when we play, we are positive, and we have a lot of confi dence,” Marbury said. “This practice this weekend was based on fun, going back to the team that we were during preseason where we were winning, where we were a positive team, we were a family, so I think we really took that to heart.”

BY JONATHAN JOFFE STAFF WRITER

If the Big Ten tournament started today, Illinois would be the last team to qualify.

He ad c o ach Ja n et Rayfi eld and her players are well aware of their place in the standings, but are doing their best to not look ahead.

“We’re going to take this one game at a time,” Rayfi eld said. “Certainly it’s nice to be in that top eight, but we just want to keep climbing, we just want to keep winning games and see where that puts us at the end.”

Rayfield told her players to control what they can and not worry about Minnesota yet, who Illinois faces in two weeks to close out the regular season.

She wants her team’s focus to be on Northwestern (11-4-2, 5-3-1 Big Ten), who will travel to Champaign to play Illinois on Saturday.

“We’re going to wipe this one clean and act like it’s another one-game season,” Rayfield said.

Rayfield believes that individual game focus along with a communal sense on the field will make or break the Illini’s season.

“We just want to see this team playing together, and no one person is going to solve the problems,” Rayfield said. “No one person is the answer to any game.”

BY THOMAS POLCYN STAFF WRITER

After nearly two months of preparation, the Illini men’s wheelchair basketball team is fi nally set to begin this year’s campaign. The team will travel to Southwest Minnesota State this weekend for a tournament.

One player in particular that is looking forward to getting started is Derek Hoot. The junior is originally from the Madison, Wisconsin, area but decided to attend Illinois because of its wheelchair basketball program and strong academic reputation.

On the court, Hoot is a small forward: he fi lls a mixed role of scoring, rebounding and stout defense. Although he plays a different position, he really admires Golden State Warriors point guard and NBA MVP Stephen Curry.

“He is not really my position, but I love Steph Curry,” Hoot said. “I love the way he plays, and I love the energy that he plays with.”

Position differences aside, both Curry and Hoot love to shoot the ball. Curry is typically known for his superior outside shooting from the point, while Hoot is normally a post player that fi nds his looks around the blocks.

Hoot began his basketball career in seventh grade when he was approached at a clinic to play for a wheelchair basketball team called the Mad City Badgers. He ended up playing for five years for the Badgers and then Hoot began playing for a men’s team called the Milwaukee Bucks, which he still occasionally plays with in the offseason.

Hoot has a prosthetic leg and does not use a wheelchair for everyday purpos-

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Illinois’ Derek Hoot attempts a contested shot during the game against Missouri at the Activities and Recreation Center on Friday, February 13. The Illini won 53-46. es, which is why he at fi rst Hoot said he has a huge thought he would not be focus on school where he eligible to play wheelchair studies political science basketball. with a minor in Arabic stud“As an amputee I didn’t ies. Working toward the know that was an option Arabic studies minor, he has already ava i l able t a k e n to me ,” advanHoot said. tage of “I went the study to a pracabroad tice and pr o g r a m since then by spendI’ve just i ng six conti nued playing.” weeks in He was Morocco r e c r u ite d over the DEREK HOOT to play for s u m m e r.

WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL PLAYER the IlliIn addition to that ni during trip, he is his junior year of high school and considering making anothwas immediately sold on er one to Jordan to study its Illinois’ academics and the dialect because of its relewheelchair basketball pro- vancy to Arabic law. gram. Since then he has not Hoot doesn’t know what looked back. he wants his concentration

“As an amputee, I didn’t know that was an option available to me. I went to practice and since then I’ve just continued playing.”

to be, but he is pursuing some sort of career in law.

He is planning on taking the L-SAT in June and is looking at studying pre-law at Illinois.

Hoot and the team have some high goals set for this season, but with enough work they think they can be very successful.

“It is going to be a challenge starting off,” he said.

“We have a totally new team dynamic after graduating three starters last year. As the season goes on we’re going to be a much stronger team and when we gain some chemistry we will be a very cohesive unit. We’re all excited this weekend the preseason has been really long. We just want to get on the court.”

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“We just want to see this team playing together, and no one person is going to solve the problems.”

Before Illinois’ victory aga i nst Nebraska on Sunday, the team had not won since Sept. 27 against Maryland.

While the lack of success could be attributed to numerous areas of play, junior midfi elder Allison Stucky believes a bad mindset was the culprit.

“I think what we were missing in the past couple of games was just having fun,” Stucky said. “We were just so uptight, and (we) just thought it was a job and that we had to win.”

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

THE DAILY ILLINI | WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM

NOTEBOOK

Illinois hockey splits weekend without captain Illini rally late, win 5-3 against No. 7 Robert Morris

BY COLE HENKE STAFF WRITER

The Illinois hockey team was without its captain this weekend against Robert Morris.

Senior forward John Olen is expected to miss 4-6 weeks with a broken ankle that he suffered against Alabama two weeks ago.

Not having Olen on the ice was noticeably different for the Illini players.

Olen recorded two points in four games played with one goal and one assist.

According to sophomore forward Eric Cruickshank, the Illini will miss his leadership on the ice even more than the numbers on the stat sheet.

Unlike other sports, Olen does not sit on the bench with his team. He sits up in the stands with the other players that do not play, which keeps him from giving his teammates advice until in between periods rather than during the game.

“He is one of our best players,” Cruickshank said.

“Those are really big shoes to fill. It takes a full team effort to make up for a loss like that.”

As a forward, Olen left a vacuum on the offensive side of the puck. The loss was glaring in the first game against the Eagles — the Illini only scored one goal. But his teammates picked up the slack in the second game.

Cruickshank recorded a hat trick, sophomore Shaunak Pal scored his second goal of the season and junior center Josh Belmont scored his fifth goal of the season.

The CSCHL is up for grabs On paper, the CSCHL is the best conference in the ACHA this year. According to head coach Nick Fabbrini, it is perennially the best conference in the league.

All five teams are ranked in the top 15 of the conference, and so far the five have proven that those rankings are not flukes.

No. 1 Ohio University started conference play with two wins — one in regulation and one in overtime

— but Lindenwood swept them in two games this past weekend. Lindenwood sits at the top of the conference with a 3-0-1 record.

Illinois and Iowa State have played two fewer conference games than the other three teams.

Iowa State is last in the conference with a 0-2-0 record.

According to Pal, Illinois (1-1-0- CSCHL) established itself with a split against Rober t Mor r is th is weekend.

“That win could not have come at a better time,” Pal said. “Especially with Ohio coming into our rink next weekend for homecoming.

It gives us momentum for the weekend.”

Illinois sits in the middle of the conference, but with 14 more conference games left to play, there is plenty of time for anything to happen, according to Cruickshank.

“The CSCHL is wide open this year,” Cruickshank said. “Lindenwood sweeping top-ranked Ohio proves that.”

Spreading the love on offense The Illini have recorded 73 total points so far this season, but only two players have recorded 10 or more points.

Cruickshank has 11 points and sophomore

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Top: Left winger Jack Soneson takes a shot on goal during Illinois’ 5-3 victory over Robert Morris.

Bottom: The Fighting Illini hockey players salute their fans after beating Robert Morris 5-3 Saturday at the Ice Arena.

James Mcging has 10 points.

Besides those two outliers, there are 21 other players on the team with at least one point. Over all of last season 26 players had recorded one point for the Illini, and the

Illini have only played 10 games so far this year.

Cruickshank leads the team in goals with seven, while Mcging leads the team in assists with eight.

The dispersed offense

has served the Illini well when dealing with early season injuries.

“We always need people to step up and fill in for injuries,” Cruickshank said. “Hockey is a team

sport. There is never one player that can do it all for a whole game. We need 20 plus guys every game playing together.”

cehenke2@dailyillini.com

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Left Justin Peebles dives to score a try against Minnesota on Saturday afternoon at the Complex Fields.

Right Martin Giannetti outruns a Minnesota player and scores a try during Illinois’ victory at the Complex Fields on Saturday afternoon.

Rugby continues conference winning streak Illini defeat Gophers with second half scoring barrage

BY CARLEY KULENKAMP CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Illinois men’s rugby team took on the Minnesota Golden Gophers this weekend looking to reach .500 for the first time this season.

The Illini came out of the gates quickly Saturday afternoon, scoring on a try by Danny Lyons in the first six minutes of

play. Minnesota answered with a try of its own by Jay Kim. The game proceeded to go back and forth with each team answering the other’s scoring calls for the remainder of the first half.

“Our strengths were their weaknesses and their strengths were our weaknesses,” senior fullback Martin Giannetti said. “They were pounding, pounding, pounding with their forwards and that’s our weakness because we like playing away using our hands and our speed.”

After the Golden Gophers scored early in the sec-

ond half, the Illini defense stepped up and Minnesota didn’t score again.

The second half of the

“Our offense was very good at identifying spaces and taking advantage of opportunities,” Giannetti

“Our offense was very good at identifying spaces and taking advantage of opportunities.”

MARTIN GIANNETTI RUGBY PLAYER

game was dominated by the Illini offense, which scored a total of five tries with four conversions to lead the team to a 57-20 victory.

said.

A strong wind caused mayhem for both teams’ kicking games, but Mario Lozano was still able to go 6-8 on conversions for the

Illini.

Lozano, last week’s D1A Player of the Week, continued to prove his skills this weekend, leading the Illini in points scored with 17.

Illinois’ Elijah Seay added two tries, one in the first half and one in the second half.

Despite the win and overall satisfaction with the Illini’s play, club president Rich Daniels would have liked to see his team commit fewer penalties and hold the Golden Gophers to one score.

Illinois is still looking at ways to improve its game, especially while heading into the last stretch

of fall play. The Illini will be working on defense in particular; Daniels emphasized that he thought his team could have held the Gophers to fewer points.

Illinois is now No. 4 in the nine-team D1A Big Ten standings. The team has beaten conference bottom-feeders Minnesota and Iowa and lost to the conference’s top two teams, Indiana and Ohio State.

The next matchup for Illinois is Purdue. The Boilermakers have had a tough season, sitting now 0-3.

kulenka2@dailyillini. com @ckuley07