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White student union pages cause stir across U.S. BY SAMANTHA JONES TOAL STAFF WRITER
While protests at Mizzou meant to bring the issue of racism across campus to light, white student union Facebook pages created this month claim to exist for the same reason. The Black Solidarity Rally that occurred on the Quad on Nov. 18 sparked the creation of the “Illini White Student Union” Facebook page. The page was swiftly dismantled by Facebook and the University due to copyright infringement. Since then, white student union Facebook pages have been created under the name of the University as well as dozens of other universities across the nation. “It’s a little bit disappointing because it shows where we’re at. Not just as a school but as a nation,” said Ron Lewis, Illinois Student Senator and cochair of Being Black At Illinois. Currently, there are around 30 white student union Facebook pages. Most appear to be acting strictly in cyberspace, but some suggest action outside of social media. According to a University of California Santa Barbara “White Student Walk Out” Facebook page, students will leave their classes at 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 19 to “show solidarity for our brothers and sisters of European descent.”
The page also shows multiple posts questioning the legitimacy of the event. Currently, the “University of Illinois White Student Union” Facebook page has around 670 likes. However, scrol li ng through the faces of those that like their posts and shared articles, it is unclear how many University students are involved with the page. Most of the “likers” are from the Urbana-Champaign area, but not associated with the University. Circe Neraida is not a student or alumni of the University but “likes” the Facebook page. “For me at least, it represents true equality. A message is sent that all whites are to blame for things in the past. And with that, it is legitimate to hate all whites and to say that whites can’t be discriminated against,” she said. “Everyone has the right to be proud of their race, culture and heritage including whites. This is what the page represents.” Another “Illini White Student Union” Facebook page is also in existence but has significantly fewer likes. On this page a man posted, “It’s time to stand up against anti-white discrimination.” His profile states he is from Australia.
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The members of the Marching Illini perform at the 89th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York on Thursday.
Marching Illini makes Macy’s parade debut in New York BY MARYCATE MOST ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Orange capes flying and trumpets blaring, the Marching Illini made their triumphant entrance onto the TV screens of over 65 million people this Thanksgiving when they performed at the 89th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The band was one of 12 bands chosen out of 175 applications in May 2014. Their performance in front of the Macy’s store in Manhattan began with a rendition of “Blues for Santa” and they made their exit while performing the Illini fight song. While in New York, the band also had the opportunity to explore the city, starting their visit with a trip to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in Battery Park. The Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Rockefeller Center and Empire State building were also on the group’s agenda. Drum major Rose Craig was honored during the parade when the Bob and Dolores Hope Charitable Foundation recognized her as an “outstanding band member” performing in the parade. The 375 Marching Illini members prepared for the event by practicing the parade route on the Memorial Stadium field, said
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Students demonstrate support at Black Student Solidarity rally on the Main Quad on Wednesday.
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(left) Barry Houser, Band Director, and (right) Tom Jozefowicz, sousaphone player in Marching Illini, wait to step off at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday. Barry Houser, director of athletic bands. “I just really want to provide a very exciting opportunity for my students because I know how great it is to do the parade, so I’m excited for them to experience New York,” Houser said before the trip. “Most importantly representing our university campus.” Amelia Mugavero, senior in Media and the Marching Illini’s feature twirler was
thrilled to be performing at the event. “I’ve watched the parade since I was a little girl and it’s a dream come true to be a part of it and also to be a feature twirler for a college with the first college band ever to be established in the nation, there are no words to describe the excitement and honor,” Mugavero said.
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Coca-Cola expected to remain University’s main beverage provider “We just have the small cans at the bottom of the very last section of our cooler, so it’s hard to notice right away.” The lack of Pepsi products on campus is due to an exclusive contract the University has with Coca-Cola. According to Forbes Magazine, the Coca-Cola brand is estimated to be worth $56 billion, making it the fourth most valuable brand in the world. Aside from soft drinks, this empire also encompasses various products that most consumers aren’t aware are under the Coke banner. According
IF SOMEONE WERE TO LOOK FOR A CAN OF PEPSI OR MOUNTAIN DEW ON CAMPUS, THEY MIGHT HAVE A HARD TIME OF FINDING THEIR FAVORITE SOFT DRINK. ON A CAMPUS THAT IS DOMINATED BY THE COCA-COLA BRAND, THERE ARE FEW PLACES WHERE MARGINALIZED PEPSI DRINKERS CAN GET THEIR FIX.
“There will be customers that don’t recognize that we do carry Pepsi cans and they immediately ask, ‘Do you have any Pepsi here?’” student supervisor at the Quad Shop Kristopher Long said.
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to their website, Coca-Cola owns other non-soda products like Dasani, Monster and Honest Tea. “I drink Coke,” said Monica Hamada, junior in Global Studies. “That was just always the drink we had in my house.” Hamada’s drink of choice stayed the same into her college life. Coca-Cola products can be seen everywhere around campus. This is due to Coke’s partnership with the University, which began in the 1990s, said Kevin Mor-
for their current position, he expects other beverage companies to join in the bidding process. “When we consider everything that’s responding to the bid we look at the best that can provide services to students and staff and faculty, sponsorship programs and those types of things,” DeLorenzo said. “At the time, Coke won that bid for the process. When we rebid we’ll be open to anybody else that wants to try. I would suspect that, beyond Pepsi, that other companies might band together and try
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Coca Cola is contracted to be the exclusive beverage provider of the University of Illinois.
ris, vice president of public affairs and communications at Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola is the official beverage provider to the University, said Michael DeLorenzo, associate chancellor Michael DeLorenzo said. The agreement only allows for select places, such as the Quad Shop in the Illini Union, to carry beverages other than Coca-Cola. The most recent contract with the University was signed five years ago but is due to expire in 2019. Although DeLorenzo believes Coke will rebid
The United Steelworkers Union and the International Labor Rights Fund sued the Coca-Cola Company.
it. That’s a changing industry, so I would suspect, but I’m not sure.” Coke and Pepsi have both been contenders for the official beverage distributors of the University. In the past, student opposition protested Coca-Cola’s agreement with the University. According to their website, the Coalition Against Coke Contracts (CACC) formed in Champaign-Urbana in 2005 in order to combat Coke’s presence on campus. They cited Coke’s numer-
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2007 The University’s contract with Coke expires. This coincides with a plan to make Pepsi the official beverage provider of Illinois.
The Coalition Against Coke Contracts forms as a community and student group in Champaign-Urbana dedicated to getting the University to end their contract with Coca-Cola.
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University rebids for their official drink provider. Coca-Cola won the bid and is now the 2003 Court dismissed the United Steelworks University's main provider of beverages until 2019. Union and the International Labor Rights Fund case.
1886 Coca-Cola invented by Dr. John S. Pemberton.
Coca Cola issued a new Human Right Policy.
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Occidental students end weeklong sit-in, pledge to fight bias on campus BY TERESA WATANABE TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Student protesters at Occidental College have announced that they are ending their weeklong sit-in, vowing to continue their fight against racial bias at the liberal arts campus. “While the occupation is over, the movement is not,” said Abhilasha Bhola, a movement leader and senior majoring in diplomacy and world affairs. Since Monday, students had occupied the Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center, demanding greater funding for minorities, more diverse faculty and the resignation of President Jonathan Veitch, among other things. The protests had started the previous week, when more than 500 students, faculty and staff held a rally for racial justice at Occidental and in support of other students of color at the University of Missouri, Yale University, Ithaca College and Claremont McKenna College. Veitch refused to step down. But he announced that he agreed with several of the student demands last week, including diversifying the faculty, creating a black studies program, increasing funding for
diversity initiatives and training all campus staff on minority student needs. All 80-plus faculty members who attended a recent meeting on the issues voted to support the student demands for more diversity.
“While the occupation is over, the movement is not.” ABHILASHA BHOLA
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UNION Despite this, the White Student Union pages claim to reflect the views of University students. The creator of the “University of Illinois White Student Union” Facebook page said in a press release the pages are not the work of the white supremacy group that attempted to start a white student union at Towson University in Maryland. The group,TradYouth, publicly praises the efforts to protest anti-white hatred and bigotry among young college students. “From my knowledge this has been very many discontented individuals acting 100% by themselves
after being inspired by the first page,” the administrator of the TradYouth page said in the public statement. They also said the emergence of the pages were not a centralized or coordinated effort and most administrators of the pages are in no way connected with any white supremacist groups and are anti-supremacy. However, some pages have similar and seemingly copy-and-pasted mission statements. Along with New York University, Kent State University and many others, Iowa State University has an “Iowa State White Student Union” Facebook page operating under their university’s name. “Much of the community goes looking through our
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pages with a mission and mindset. This mindset is find the error and hypocrisy,” said the creator of the Facebook page in a message. “The problem with this is, it leaves no room for the person to actually see what the group is here for.” The creator said they’re a student majoring in communication at Greenlee school of journalism at Iowa State. “Well what started as a retaliation against black lives matter turned into real concern – that antiwhite was a real factor that people were scared to speak up about,” they said. The creator said they have experienced support for the page and cites interviews with “non-white supporters” in a Facebook post.
In response to these white student union Facebook pages, some universities have organized rallies and created pages against the white student unions. “We’re not responding specifically to those white student unions,” said Lewis. “Our purpose is not to respond to negative people who try to weigh us down on what we’re doing. Our response is just to continue what we’re doing and try to impact as many people as possible.” Lewis said that the emergence of the pages isn’t completely negative. “It just shows that as a movement for African Americans and allies, we are making a difference. So it’s bad, but it’s good at the same time because it shows we are making an impact,”
he said. Student Trustee Jaylin McClinton supported the removal of the first “Illini White Student Union” Facebook page but wrote an open letter to University President Timothy Killeen about the lack of administration concern. He said it was “disturbing” that Killeen and the Board of Trustees had not voiced their concern about “this extreme form of bigotry.” Lewis said there should be some kind of conversation between administrators and students that shows that the administration supports diversity on campus and reassures the safety of students. After the first page, Interim Chancellor Barbera Wilson said the Uni-
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versity will continue to strive to promote respect and community on campus in a Massmail. Following her statement, Jeff Christensen, University of Illinois Police Department police chief, sent a Massmail stating the department would continue to monitor the Facebook page. “We know that incidents like this create a sense of fear and shake your confidence in the safety of our campus,” Christensen said. Christensen said the University’s cultural and resource centers will be available for students who need a support or a safe space for conversation as they arrive back on campus.
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UI to hold discussion on cuts to center Spending cuts could affect quality of Center for Advanced Studies
event expenses, Schiffer said at the meeting. Budget cuts will impact the number of faculty, staff and administrators, but will not affect how CAS programs are administered, Schiffer said. Each year, the center brings in BY MARYCATE MOST speakers from on and off ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR campus, hosts a sympoVice Chancellor for sium or conference and Research Peter Schiffer presents one faculty or and Interim Provost Ed graduate student seminar. Feser will hold an open disSchiffer estimated the cussion about the Univer- total cost of the staff sity’s Center for Advanced and programs is between Studies programming. $400,000 and $500,000 — The discussion — which an amount he considers to will be held at 11 a.m. on be “too much.” T uesday Some in room faculty 1005 at the voiced Beckman concerns about the I n s t it ute — follows impact c oncer ns that these cuts could from faculty about h a v e the Union t he ver sit y ’s research center. ability to “If you sustain SUSAN DAVIS cut staff, the qualCOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR ity of the you cut c enter capacity,” said after an announcement about a Susan Davis, communicaneed to cut spending. tions professor at the facThe faculty senate dis- ulty senate meeting. “If cussed a proposal for CAS you cut capacity, you’re budget cuts at their meet- cutting quality. It is just ing on Nov. 16. The cen- not possible to argue any ter currently operates on a other way.” budget of over $1 million — The open discussion will $422,000 accounts for fac- act as a forum for debate ulty support, $374,000 for regarding the effects this the salaries of five faculty change might have at CAS. members and $227,000 for other administrative and most2@dailyillini.com
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COKE ous involvements in human rights violations as a reason for their distain. “That was probably seven or eight years ago, it was before I was involved,” DeLorenzo said. “There was a committee that reviewed that (Coca-Cola Co.), and Coke i nter nationa l ly changed the way they did business in third world countries and also other social
responsibility initiatives, so Coke really took upon itself to change its business practices and they did that. To my knowledge, that is not an issue anymore.” The CACC almost achieved their goals for a Coke-free campus when a 2007 deal with Pepsico made Pepsi the official drink distributor of Illinois state entities. However, that contract was abandoned when Pepsi was unable to deliver as promised.
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Papa Del's Pizza will soon close its Campustown location at 206 E. Green St. and its second location at 2510 Village Green Place in Champaign, in favor of a relocation on Neil Street at the former home of Orange & Brew Saloon & Grille at 1201 S. Neil St.
Papa Del’s to permanently close Green Street location over break BY JASON CHUN ASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR
Papa Del’s will close the doors of its Green Street location over the University’s winter break in preparation for the opening of its new location. The Green Street restaurant, 206 E. Green St., has been open for about 40 years. There is no set date for when it will close. The new location, 1201 S. Neil St. —where the Orange & Brew Saloon & Grille once stood — may seem farther from students on campus, but Andrea Seten, Papa Del’s general manager, said it’s
“Pepsi won that contract, but when they started working with individual units there was concern whether they could meet the requirements of the contract,” DeLorenzo said. “It was the same time that there was a change in the governorship in the state of Illinois. They decided that, ‘Well, state entities can go out on their own, do their own bids.’” DeLorenzo said there are currently no student protests against Coca-Cola. A
actually quite the contrary. “(The new location) is actually closer to campus,” Seten said. “It is technically in Campustown, although it doesn’t seem like it since it’s on the other side of Neil.” Seten isn’t worried about the move affecting the flow of customers though. She said college students have a lot more access to transportation than when she graduated from the University in 1999. “When I was in school, maybe one kid on a floor in the dorm next to you had a car,” Seten said. Papa Del’s decided to
rebid made Coca-Cola the official provider again in 2010. Although he is uncertain when the University will reopen the bid for their beverage provider, he believes it will occur in the next few years. “If I have it in my mind that I want to drink soda, I think I grab Coke,” sophomore in aerospace engineering Shree Das said. “Just the plain one, none of the variants, just classic Coke.”
change locations due to the lack of space available for an expansion on Green Street; she said adding additional parking was especially a concern. The new location will have 160 parking spots and be able to accommodate 500 people. Seten said the Neil Street location will have a different vibe to it too. Instead of the small, tavern feel of the Green Street location, the new place will have a more, “industrial and factory feel.” Some of added amenities of the new Neil Street location will include a larger,
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more “sporty” bar and 53 televisions, including three projectors. Seten said the smallest television is 50 inches. While the Green Street location is closed, Papa Del’s restaurant at the Crossing, 2510 Village Green Place, will remain open and handle campus deliveries, however there is no dining room at this location. All of the locations will be closed for a small window of time as they make the final move into the Neil Street location.
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“If I have it in my mind that I want to drink soda, I think I grab Coke.” SHREE DAS
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Kansas colleges prepare for gun-toting students BY DION LEFLER TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
As Kansas moves toward a time when guns will be as welcome on university campuses as laptops, students are starting to take notice and talk about how they’ll handle that day when it comes. For many, it’s no big deal. For students who grew up in a largely rural state, surrounded by guns, having the student at the next desk carrying one in pocket or purse doesn’t feel particularly unfamiliar or uncomfortable. Others are predicting disaster when any student or employee over 21 can carry concealed on campus, without a permit or training in how and when to deploy a deadly weapon. The Students Advisory Committee, made up of student-body presidents from all state universities, has invited all students in the system to take a survey to gauge attitudes toward guns on campus. Results aren’t expected until sometime next month. But it has stirred a new interest among students who, until now, have been mostly silent on the
subject. Interviews at University of Kansas, Kansas State and Wichita State found a range of opinions. The biggest pushback against concealed carry so far has been at KU, where vocal student activists have demanded a gun ban on campus as part of a list of demands for more diversity and “safe spaces” for students, especially minorities, to pursue their education. It probably won’t matter much what students think. The decision forcing universities to allow guns on campus was made by the state Legislature in Topeka. The Board of Regents and university administrations are charged with writing policies to accommodate the law. In 2012, the Kansas Legislature passed the Personal and Family Protection Act, requiring that concealed-carry permit holders be allowed to carry their weapons in almost all public buildings. This year, the Legislature followed up with a bill revoking the permit requirement and allow-
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A committee of student body presidents from Kansas state universities has invited students to gauge attitudes toward guns on campus. ing anyone who can lawfully own a gun to carry it loaded and hidden without a permit or training. To ban guns in any particular building, a public agency has to provide “adequate security measures to ensure that no weapons are permitted to be carried
into such building.” Adequate security is defined in the law as “use of electronic equipment and personnel at public entrances, “including, but not limited to, metal detectors, metal detector wands or any other equipment used for similar purposes.”
The Legislature allowed universities to keep banning guns on their campuses until July 1, 2017, to give them time to adjust to the new requirements. The regents have circulated a draft policy that would ban open carrying of firearms, which the regents
are still allowed to do, while allowing concealed carry, which they have no choice but to accept. The policy will identify campus locations where guns won’t be allowed and the security measures necessary to ban guns while complying with the law.
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Facebook page reveals endemic nature of racism
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a University, we can’t seem to stay out of the headlines. While it seems like a majority of the scandals are caused by our faculty leaving, in recent months, the gross misrepresentation of our school has been caused by a select group of individuals. On Nov. 18, a Facebook page titled “Illini White Student Union” surfaced after a student solidarity rally was held on the Main Quad. University officials asked Facebook to take the page down, resulting in the original page being removed. But sub-
sequent pages were put up in the predecessor’s wake — curtailing copyright agreements by swapping the word “Illini” for “The University of Illinois.” But a simple Facebook search reveals how many other universities have similar pages to this. Harvard, New York University, University of Texas in Austin … the list goes on. These shameful pages only serve to illustrate that racism still permeates college campuses in forms some may not recognize. However, a rally calling for racial equality shouldn’t be capped off by this page springing up to highlight how deep the issue of racism goes. While
the page represents a vast minority of opinions on this campus, we now know there are direct sources of racism at the University. And that is shameful. Those students should be ashamed. This isn’t subconscious (even though subconscious acts of racism need to be handled and reversed as well), instead, this is a choice. Liking this page — supporting an organization that stands to put one race inherently above another — is an act against the minority students of the University and it needs to end immediately. As a newspaper and as an editorial board that works on the basis of free speech, we woe-
fully understand that the University cannot request the page to be taken down now that copyright infringement is no longer valid and no other violent threats have been made. Moving forward, students and administration can only distance ourselves as far as possible from the page and let our voices staunchly oppose it. We stand for the equality of all students, and on a more broad scale, we stand for the equality of all races. While no Facebook page can change the things we stand for, it informs us how far we still have to go, and reminds us how much harder we have to work to ensure equality.
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Students and community members join at the Student Solidarity Rally Nov. 18 on the Main Quad. Signs reading “Revolution not Reform” and “Which Side of History Will You Be On?” were just some of the many posters seen at the rally meant to voice opposition to campus racism. There were also speakers and performances at the event. On the same day of the rally, the Facebook page “Illini White Student Union” surfaced and was subsequently taken down after University administration reported the page. Since then, several replacement pages have sprung up, both at the University and other colleges across the nation.
Public needs to change view, discussion on HIV following Sheen announcement 3
MOLLIE HENRY Opinions columnist
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case you haven’t heard, Charlie Sheen is HIV positive. Since he revealed his condition on the Today show earlier this month, news sources and social media sites have been filled with comments and criticisms about his condition. Sheen, 50, is most recently known for his very public meltdown in 2012 where he spent several months openly discussing his numerous sexual exploits after he was fired from his starring role on “Two and a Half Men.” In light of his promiscuity, Sheen has been the brunt of many jokes and comments on social media indicating that it is no surprise he contracted HIV and that he deserved what he got. However, negative reactions such as these only contribute to a culture in which people affected by HIV and AIDS feel unable to seek the help and support they need. Sheen, who was diagnosed with the disease four years ago, says since his diagnosis, he has never missed a dose of his medication and has informed all of his sexual partners that he is HIV positive. What seems to be at the center of many of Sheen’s criticisms however, is the belief that Sheen should have been more forthcoming about his diagnosis to his sexual partners and
those who worked closely with him. For example, multiple news sources have speculated that there will be an HIV epidemic in the porn world because of Sheen’s notorious sexual relationships with porn stars. Similarly, several porn stars have announced potential suits against Sheen for allegedly failing to disclose his condition and endangering their health. However, as Sheen revealed on the Today Show, he has been paying extortion money for years to keep people whom he has informed of his disease from going public with his diagnosis, which would seem to indicate that there were many people who were aware of his condition. The negative reaction to his diagnosis creates an environment in which it is not safe to be HIV positive. No one gets HIV on purpose. And by making Sheen’s situation about what he could or should have done differently, we contribute to the negative stigma of sexual promiscuity and drug use associated with HIV instead of fostering an atmosphere that is focused on helping treat and cure the disease. HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system and the cells we need to fight diseases. When enough cells have been destroyed, our bodies can’t fight off infections, which is when the virus develops into AIDS. Jenny McCarthy suggested that Sheen should have informed her he was HIV positive because she briefly played his love interest on Two and a Half Men and they often had to kiss. HIV is transmitted through blood and other bodily fluids and is most commonly passed from one
person to another through sex or the use of infected needles. HIV is not transmitted through saliva and therefore, is not contracted by kissing. Suggestions such as McCarthy’s and implications that Sheen “deserved what he got” only further the ignorance surrounding HIV, an ignorance that can keep people from getting the medical help they need. As a campus, we can also change the conversation surrounding HIV/AIDS by taking advantage of McKinley’s services and encouraging your friends to do the same. McKinley offers free HIV testing for all students. Even if you don’t have insurance through the school, the testing is included in your health services fee. Secondly, if someone discloses to you that they have HIV, instead of saying things like, “How did you get it?” or “How long have you had it?”, consider asking if they have started treatment, or simply if you can be of support in anyway. At the University, we should be striving for an atmosphere where people from all backgrounds feel supported and safe to get the help that they need. Changing the way we think about and discuss HIV is the first step in changing how we perceive the disease and the people that it affects. By changing the conversation around diseases like HIV, we can help to create a culture on campus where everyone is #winning.
Mollie is a graduate student in Art and Design. opinions@dailyillini.com
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Actor Charlie Sheen makes his entrance during Comedy Central’s Roast of Charlie Sheen at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, Sept. 10, 2011.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
University’s general education requirements put students at large disadvantage
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quick note on the proposal to add an additional cultural studies class to the graduation requirements for students. Most of my experience teaching undergraduates comes from students in the College of Engineering. These students are already laboring under a demanding course load, and on average, take over 4.5 years to graduate. When the cost of a degree is already pricing many students out of the market, adding yet another requirement will increase both time to degree and financial burden for our students. It is a bad idea. I believe that the University should move in the opposite direction, helping students reduce debt and time to graduation by cutting back the general education requirements. I think it makes sense to let students and programs decide on the skills students need to prepare for their futures. A cynical view is that the push to increase general education requirements is driven by the wish of an area to boost enrollment and justify additional financial resources and faculty. While I don’t believe this is the case, it is my impression that most general education classes are taught at a low level. A few years back, a movie came out titled “Gen Ed.” It was a comedy for a reason. The world is changing, and university is a wonderful opportunity to explore new areas and grow as a person. Treating students like mindless drones unable to choose for themselves is a hallmark of an earlier, paternalistic “Father Knows Best” era, unworthy of a great institution like Illinois. With the proliferation of streamlined educational opportunities which put students on a fast track in their chosen field, the current general education requirements place Illinois students at a competitive disadvantage, costing them both time and tuition. It is time to rethink and reduce the University general education requirements, or at least delegate decisions about general education requirements to the individual colleges.
Written by Henry Schenck, University mathematics professor.
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MARRIAGE Bowers also works with the Intentional Harmony and Illinois Extension program, who helps working couples learn how to balance their careers with their home life through planning and organizing, valuing a good relationship work ethic and
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healthy communication. She wrote that support from partners is key in relationships. “I believe it’s important for partners to have realistic expectations of each other; maintaining intimacy, ensuring your partner feels appreciated and understood, engaging in active listening about your partner’s day, making time for date nights, and being
intentional with one’s relationship work ethic in general takes time and energy. For some, it can feel emotional exhausting to do this while in college,” Bowers wrote. While the Bill and Olivia have only been married for four short months, they do have advice for those who are married or are thinking of getting married. “Don’t keep score about
things. I was always taught that from my dad. There will be couples where the one will say something that the other won’t like and the person won’t bring that up until later when they’re fighting and make things worse,” Bill said. “And we’ve never been like that.”
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Bill Karr and Olivia Russel-Karr cut the cake at their wedding.
American Asian Association welcomes Wong Fu BY JANET KIM STAFF WRITER
After seven years, YouTube sensation Wong Fu Productions, known for their sketches, short films and video blogs, came back to the University on November 18 to screen their new movie, “Everything Before Us,” released last April. Hosted by the Asian American Association, Philip Wang and Wesley Chan, two of Wong Fu’s co-founders, came to the Illini Union to meet and greet students, screen their film and answer questions. Christine Chen and Taylor Chan, two of Wong Fu Productions team members, also attended. The Daily Illini spoke with Wang and Chan to discuss their movie tour and what it is like to make major milestones since their conception 10 years ago. Daily Illini: In a previous video, I heard you say that “Everything Before Us” was based on things that happened in your personal lives. What particular events sparked this idea?
Philip Wang: As we get older, we go through a lot of different relationships. What if people actually knew what your history was? If they could just look at you and know. It kind of stemmed from that. It was originally going to be this much more serious thing, like love trials and love crimes, but we decided to lighten things up. We wanted to do a story that covered both young love and a more mature love because that is the kind of our experiences in life. We had those high school and college moments, and we grew from that, so we wanted to have a movie that gave both perspectives. DI: What are the most rewarding and challenging aspects of pursuing what you guys wanted to do? Wesley Chan: The rewarding aspect is probably being able to influence and affect people in the world. The challenging aspect is probably just trying to figure how it’s going to keep going, like how Wong Fu is going to continue to grow and evolve into creative sto-
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The team behind YouTube sensation Wong Fu Productions came to the Illini Union Nov. 18 to screen their new movie and answer questions from students.
rytellers. Because we’re pretty old, not just in age, but also for this industry and this field that is emerging. We were here in 2008. To come back here is a good checkpoint because it means we are doing something right. But it is really hard, trying to figure out how to satisfy everyone’s expectations of what we’re supposed to do in the community but also being creators and artists and how to satisfy our own passions too. DI: Was there ever a point where you felt that this was the right path for you guys? Did you ever have a specific feeling come to you in your career? PW: I think we’re still getting that feeling. We are still discovering it and just kind of going back to how I said there’s no real path ahead of us. We’re kind of just figuring it out as we go along, so every step that we take is like, ’‘Oh yeah, this feels really good, and oh yeah this feels like what we’re supposed to do.’' Growing our team and expanding to work with people that believe in us and also have the same kind of like-minded goals and style is really encouraging for us “Hey, this Wong Fu thing brand or voice or style goes beyond just Wes, Ted, and myself, like it wasn’t like some kind of weird fluke.” WC: There wasn’t one moment where it was like ‘light bulb.’ There might be something close to that, like when we finish a really big project or when we go out to events like this. Also, when we finished our movie that was a big moment — when we made a movie with the fans, and it is done. Now, we’re on tour with it, and that’s a big reason to believe that this is what we should be doing, and it’s fun. It’s definitely fun. Then, you hear these stories from a fan that they’ve been following (us) for so long. Because we’ve definitely been touring for so long that we remember certain fans; we see them grow up, and they still stick with us. So certain moments like that, it’s like wow. It’s a reminder of how long we’ve been going and what a crazy journey it’s been. DI: Do you have any advice for people want-
ing to pursue similar paths as yours or pursuing something that isn’t what there parents want for them? PW: I would definitely encourage them to not be afraid. If they really are interested in this, first of all, do it for the right reasons. If you really are passionate about either art or writing music, you’re going to want to do that regardless if that’s your job or not. It’s going to be that one thing you think about at the end of every day, and the first thing you think of when you wake up. I’m not saying this to discourage people, but the work is part of the journey. We’ve been doing this for 10 years, and we’re still going. If you just want to get famous real quick then don’t do it. It’s not worth the trouble; it’s not worth fights and arguments with your parents. Acknowledge the amount of work and really get serious about it. WC: In regards to parents, they grew up in a different time, so for them to understand and try to reason with their children about a career that they have no idea about, it makes sense. All they know is that being a doctor makes sense, and it’s prestigious. It goes the same with being an engineer or a lawyer. You’re exercising your intelligence in a very tangible and very apparent way. The arts are always something risky, so I think first is to respect the parents because you wouldn’t even have a choice if it weren’t for them. Just because you have a passion for music, but you’re studying finance, it doesn’t mean that you can’t ever do both. Study finance and get your degree; get successful. You can always go back to music. I feel like a lot of people think like this is my one chance to chase my passion.We definitely took a big leap and just went for it, but if we were to have other jobs and eventually find ourselves here, it would be good too. Many people put a lot of pressure on themselves, so that shouldn’t be the discouraging element.
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Being friends with exes doesn’t have to be hard BY MARA SHAPIRO STAFF WRITER
For Autumn Langdon, sophomore in LAS, remaining friends with her ex-boyfriend wasn’t easy. Two years ago, when Langdon was a senior in high school and her boyfriend was a sophomore, he ended things with her because of their age difference. “Everything was great. We were really close. He basically freaked out because he was two years younger, and I was going to college,” Langdon said. “He stopped talking to me after he broke up with me. I didn’t know what happened.” Langdon tried to get back together with her ex, but he refused, and the two stopped
talking. After some time, the two resumed their friendship, and learned to battle their pre-existing feelings. “We really liked each other as friends; it was the foundation of our relationship,” Langdon said. “A mutual teacher who he really liked passed away, and I called to check on him and make sure he was doing okay.” While the two don’t talk as much as they used to, they do still check in on each other to catch up. Marie Pritchard, owner and therapist at New Dawn Counseling Center of Central Illinois, explains why people feel the desire to remain friends with current partners after a breakup. “A common issue with
someone who is trying to be friends with an ex-partner is trying to do this too soon after the break-up. There may have not been enough time to grieve and come to a new understanding of what the relationship is,” Pritchard wrote via email. Langdon now sees herself as a sort of mentor to her ex, giving him life advice when it comes to girls, relationships and applying to colleges. And for Langdon, her ex is a piece of her hometown for her. Langdon’s current boyfriend of 10 months sees no issues with her maintaining a friendship with an exboyfriend, as he, too, keeps up a friendship with his ex-girlfriend. “He knows you can just be
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friends. He knows the entire history,” Langdon said. Michelle Kenny, junior in Social Work, also maintains a friendship with her ex-boyfriend. The break-up in April was mutual for the former couple, after they had been dating for a year. Kenny explains that she and her ex-boyfriend tried to stay friends right after the break-up, but it was not successful. “We decided to hang out as friends the very next day (after breaking up). It did not go well,” Kenny said. Kenny said they text each other everyday to catch up. She also said the two will hang out twice a week, both in group settings and one-on-one.
“It’s enough balance between being alone and hanging out. It took a while to figure it out,” she said. Pritchard said that a onesided friendship can frustrate the other partner. “I have had clients tell me how hard it is to get over someone when that person is calling and wanting to connect. Sometimes, you will find the person who did the breaking up feels guilty about hurting their former partner,” she wrote. But Langdon said closure can affect that reconciliation. “There can be hurt feelings. You can feel rejected and feel angry. My ex gave me an apology and gave me that closure,” Langdon said. Overall, Pritchard says
that there is no correct way to deal with a former partner. Instead, she advises her clients to focus on what is best for that individual person above all else. “I would tell a student there are no right or wrong answers to the friendship question. Every situation is different,” she wrote. Kenny thinks that if a person wants to remain friends with an ex, they should have a discussion with their former partner post break up. “Talk it out, but don’t languish over the situation. Sit down with your ex and figure out clear-cut parameters for how you want the friendship to function.” she said.
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Bill Karr, University graduate student, married Olivia Russell-Karr in July.
Couple balances marriage with other commitments BY MARA SHAPIRO STAFF WRITER
To Bill Karr, graduate student in LAS, marrying his high school girlfriend seemed natural. Karr and Olivia Russell-Karr, University alumna, met while taking ballroom dancing lessons and working on tech crew in school plays. “Getting married was easy,” Bill said. “The proposal was much scarier.” After Bill nervously proposed to Olivia on Jan. 1, 2014, the two married at the University’s Saint John’s Catholic Newman Center over the summer on July 11. Bill knew he wanted to marry Olivia since 2013 after the passing of his grandfather, who died from Leukemia only six months after being diagnosed. “I thought about it at the funeral. I told my dad and grandmother about it. It was very eye opening. I thought, ‘If we wait three more years, then how many other family members won’t be here to see it?’” Bill said. “My family was very supportive. I also talked to Olivia’s parents and met with them in person. They also were supportive.” Now, the newlyweds are learning how to balance married life with their school and work commitments. Olivia works at The Pavilion Behavioral Health System, and if Bill is home, he will try to pick her up after work. Bill said neither were in a rush to get married prior to his grandfather’s passing, as they were already living together and figured they were going to stay together for a while. Olivia said she thinks it’s a good idea for couples to live together prior to getting married. “It’s more of a trial run to see how you get
along,” Olivia explained. Bill agreed and praised her as a roommate, saying they are both good about cleaning up after themselves and taking care of their cat. Olivia said she is impressed with Bill’s thoughtfulness toward her, especially when he brings pizza when he picks her up after work. But even though the two have found married life to be fairly easy so far, they are adjusting to introducing themselves as a married couple to people around campus. “I have to introduce myself and say, “I’m actually Bill’s wife,” she said. Bill Karr said the title has taken some time to get used to. “On a campus where nobody is married, it’s interesting to tell people I’m actually married. We are the old married couple,” Bill joked. When the couple is not busy with work or school, Bill DJ’s at Chester Street Bar in Champaign. The couple also likes to debate politics, with Bill identifying as a libertarian and Olivia as a liberal. While Bill agrees that couples should live together pre-marriage, he says people shouldn’t do that unless they are fairly positive they will get married. “Don’t end up living together if you are not planning on getting married because it can be dangerous if you become financially dependent on a person you don’t end up marrying,” he said. Even though Bill and Olivia are happily married, Jill Bowers, researcher and project coordinator at the University’s Family Resiliency Center, explains that this is not the case for everyone, including herself when she was in college. “Many individuals who get married while
in college have motivations, priorities, and everyday experiences that differ from traditional students,” Bowers wrote in an email. “College and the responsibilities that come with earning a degree can be overwhelming for many people, regardless of marital status. Those who are married may place additional pressure on themselves or experience more distress due to the work/life balance.” Furthermore, Bowers explained that it can be difficult for married students to find a good balance. “Finding that balance may not be easy when you are going to school, working at least a part-time job, and managing household chores, caring for others’ needs in your house and striving to maintain positive relationships,” she wrote. “Additionally, students who are married may feel disconnected from their peers or classmates when their daily lives and responsibilities seem so different.” Bowers began her first year as an undergraduate with a child, and had two by the time she was earning her Ph.D. She explained that she felt frustrated when fellow students would complain to her about their seemingly lesscomplicated lives. “I remember being an undergraduate and listening to my peers talk about how busy they were and feeling frustrated to learn how very little they really had on their plate compared to the responsibility I felt. … I realize that was not fair to seemingly assume I was busier than other more traditional students whose perceptions of their busy schedules were very real, yet I felt lonely and disconnected at the time,” Bowers wrote.
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Storage, repairs for bikes left out in cold BY LILLIAN BARKLEY ASSISTANT COPY CHIEF
As winter break gets closer and deadlines start piling up, things are forgotten. Usually it’s small things, like quizzes or worksheets. But often, it’s something larger: bicycles. University Facilities and Services will issue impoundment warnings to bikes that appear to be abandoned, and Neutral Cycle will tag bikes with winter storage offers as the semester ends. “We’re trying to just mitigate the number that we have to go sweep,” said Stacey DeLorenzo, Campus Bicycle Coordinator. Facilities and Services works with the parking department to find and tag bicycles that are abandoned, though they don’t have the funding for a dedicated division. “The eyes and ears are the bicyclists every day,” she said. Students can call in the location of an abandoned bike and a parking employee will tag it. “We try to be as expedient as possible at removing them,” DeLorenzo said. Facilities and Services does their largest bicycle sweep in the spring around commencement. Parking department employees will look for bikes that are fallen over or have a rusty chain. “We are not able to just make the decision to immediately declare something abandoned,” DeLorenzo said. Employees have to wait for a few weeks before removing the bike to give the owner a chance to claim the bike.
“This is your mode of transportation — treat it like a car,” she said. “You can’t just park your car wherever you feel like it; you can’t drive your car down the wrong side of the street, and you can’t just leave your car in a parking lot for three months and expect it to be there.” At the end of the semester, the parking department takes any unmoved bikes to a storage unit where they are checked for registration and held for a minimum of 30 days. The storage unit can hold 300 to 400 bikes “if we pack it,” DeLorenzo said. She said the amount of bikes actually held in the storage unit varies by year — it can range from 100 to 1,000. “That’s what makes it long and tedious because we don’t have room to store 1,000 bikes,” she said. Once a bike is impounded and put into storage, there are three possible outcomes: It can be repaired and sold, scrapped for parts or the owner can request to have their bike back. Some bikes are still in good enough shape to be fixed up at the Campus Bike Center. “After the semester ends we get a lot of bikes coming in, and as the semester begins we sell a lot of bikes, and over the winter we build up a stock of ready-tosell bikes,” said Joel Sarmiento, senior in Engineering. “The employees have more time to build up bikes instead of helping a customer fix their own.” Bicycle with missing wheels,
rusted gears and bent frames are taken apart and used for the Bike Project’s “Build a Bike” program. “Basically if the frame is damaged at all we’ll try to take parts from it,” he said. “Even bikes that are in really bad disrepair we’ll consider selling.” Bikes that can be repaired cost $150 on average. “What strikes me about some of them is not the disrepair because that’s kind of what you’d expect. They’ve been confiscated, they’ve been left out for a long time, no one cared about them,” Sarmiento said. “Sometimes you find really nice bikes that have been donated or confiscated that are in pretty nice condition.” Students with an impounded bike are required to pay a $40 fee. “If you’re a student, it’s a good chunk of change. We want to use it more as an education tool for people to ride safely, operate safely, be a good bicycle citizen,” DeLorenzo said. Over the winter, Neutral Cycle works with Facilities and Services to offer winter storage. “We don’t have the space to do something like that,” DeLorenzo said. Neutral Cycle’s program is a good option for students living in the dorms who don’t want to take their bike home for break. DeLorenzo added that the residential halls have the highest amount of impounded bikes. Winter break storage is $15, and spring semester storage is
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A bike locked on the rack north of the Henry Administration Building has rusted gears and handlebars and is missing a wheel. Parking department employees tag bikes like these before taking them to the Campus Bike Center. $45. While this may seem expensive, it keeps the bike out of the elements and away from impoundment — and the $40 fee. Tyler Kappelli, freshman in Engineering, is planning on taking his bike home for the winter. He said he was surprised by how many bikes were abandoned. “I go to the same building, and I notice the same bikes are there, and they don’t really move,” he said. “It’s surprising considering bikes cost a considerable amount
of money.” Kappelli registered his bike at the beginning of the year. Registration is mandatory, but he also wanted to protect against thieves. He said he was interested in seeing how many bikes stayed up after winter break. “One, you’re wasting money; two, you’re wasting space,” he said. “The rust is only going to get worse.”
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Illini finish regular season with a loss BY MICHAL DWOJAK STAFF WRITER
CHICAGO — The Illinois football team showed apathy and undisciplined play in a must-win game against Northwestern on Saturday. The Illini (5-7, 2-6 in Big Ten play) needed a sixth win to become bowl eligible and faced off against the Wildcats (10-2, 6-2) for the second straight season to earn postseason play. But players forced costly penalties and gave up big plays in Illinois’ 24-14 loss at Soldier Field. “It’s pretty deflating,” senior linebacker Mason Monheim said. “We were in a similar situation last year, do or die, and we came up short. It’s certainly not the way we expected the season to go.” Northwestern entered Saturday’s game with the 12thranked scoring offense in the Big Ten, averaging 23 points per game. The Wildcats came out quick against the Illini, scoring 21 points in the first half. A 48-yard pass from Clayton Thorson to Dan Vitale, highlighted the first scoring drive, which ended in a Vitale touchdown reception. Illinois’ defense almost escaped the following drive, but Caleb Day jumped over the line trying to block a punt and was called for a 15-yard personal foul for jumping into the punting shield. Thorson led the Wildcats down the field after the penalty and scored on a three-yard Warren Long run. The Illini committed another 15-yard penalty, this time a facemask by Eric Finney, on Northwestern’s next drive, which ended with a three-yard Justin Jackson touchdown run. The defense settled down after allowing three straight
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Linebacker Mason Monheim dives over the goal line to return an interception for a touchdown during the game against Northwestern at Soldier Field on Saturday. scores and were more disciplined after a sloppy start. Senior linebacker Mason Monheim provided some points when he intercepted a pass near the end of the third quarter for 58 yards and the touchdown. The Wildcats were limited after the quick start. Thor-
son finished with 146 passing yards. Jackson finished with 172 rushing yards. Illinois’ offense hit all the right cylinders to start the game, driving 47 yards on 12 plays, which ended with a scramble into the end zone. But the Illini returned to their old habits that have plagued
the group for the entire season. Illinois punted the ball seven times and went threeand-out five times. Receivers also dropped the ball numerous times in key situations, ending drives before they even started. Lunt finished with 241 yards and one interception
and Josh Ferguson finished with 40 rushing yards while Ke’Shawn Vaughn finished with 62. The quarterback pointed at himself when asked about the woes Saturday. “I didn’t play really play really well today,” Lunt said. “I felt bad because I wanted
to send these seniors out in the right way.” The loss came after interim athletic director Paul Kowalczyk announced that head coach Bill Cubit would be the team’s head coach for next season. Cubit’s twoyear extension comes amidst
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Despite loss, Cubit says he’s ready for head coach role BY CHARLOTTE CARROLL STAFF WRITER
CHICAGO — Bill Cubit received a standing ovation when he was introduced as Illinois’ new head coach this morning. He didn’t tell his players or even his son, Ryan, beforehand. Instead faculty representative Matt Wheeler made the announcement to a room filled for a team meeting that was only 40 minutes after he found out the news himself. It was right before the Illini boarded buses from their Chicago hotel to head to their game against Northwestern at Soldier Field. After weeks of speculation, the University and Cubit agreed to a two-year contract taking the pressure off of Illinois’ head coach Dressed in a suit after his team’s 24-14 loss to the Wildcats, Cubit was optimistic about the program’s future. “There’s a lot of positive vibes out there,” Cubit said. “But my job is to convert the naysayers. The biggest thing to me is you can’t be negative. Negative has not done well around here.”
Cubit added there is plenty to work on but now he has time to add his own spin on coaching. This is time he didn’t have when he was named the interim head coach a week before the season. Seniors agreed Illinois football needs a positive voice to take it in a positive direction. While they won’t be back next year, they are confident Cubit has the trust of underclassmen to lead the team. “When the guy came in and said ‘I’m introducing a new head coach,’ I saw a few guys look around like ‘Who is it going to be?’” senior safety Clayton Fejedelem said. “But I knew it was going to be him.” But Cubit’s son, quarterbacks coach Ryan Cubit, had a different take, knowing well enough to wait until the official word. “In this business you never know,” Ryan Cubit said. “Until something is signed, there’s nothing you can control. You can only go out there and do your job.” Interim Athletic Director Paul Kowalczyk spoke with media before the game. With an interim chancellor and interim
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Head coach Bill Cubit congratulates senior Tim Clary before his last game as an Illini against Northwestern at Soldier Field on Saturday. athletic director, Kowalczyk said the University made the decision to keep Cubit to add a little stability to a program rocked by changes this year. Illinois dismissed previ-
ous Athletic Director Mike Thomas after the release of the final Franczek Radelet report on allegations of abuse of football players under previous head coach Tim Beckman.
Illinois’ focus will be on the search for a new Athletic Director, who will then have his or her say on the next head coach. Cubit’s extension includes a buyout provision.
“Obviously it’s not ideal,” Kowalczyk said. “For now, I don’t think it will put a dagger in the heart of the program.”
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aturday’s IllinoisNorthwestern game wasn’t a particularly interesting affair — it had all the excitement of a game of solitaire — because the decision that came Saturday morning stole the show. When Paul Kowalczyk and the University agreed to extend Bill Cubit’s contract just hours before kickoff, they unleashed a tidal wave of emotions — positive and negative. Cubit’s players gave him a standing ovation when the Illinois football team’s faculty representative, Professor Matt Wheeler, introduced Cubit as the team’s new head coach — the interim gone from his title. Some fans had an equally strong reaction, in the other direction. “Thanks for stealing
our money, Bill!” That’s what an angry Illini fan barked at Bill Cubit as Illinois’ newest head coach trudged off the field following his team’s 24-14 loss to Northwestern at Soldier Field on Saturday. This was a poor decision. Not because of Cubit, and not even because of the length of the contract, but because of something interim Athletic Director Paul Kowalczyk said just before Saturday’s game that the decision they made was “not ideal, but for now, I don’t think it’ll put a dagger in the heart of the program.” You bet it wasn’t ideal. Giving Cubit a two-year extension means being scared that he might do a bad job. Illinois athletics doesn’t need scared right now — whoever the new coach was going to be needed the full-throated support of the administration, and Cubit didn’t get that. And that’s not even considering the fact that
he might not be the best man for this job. Look, I like Cubit as a person, and I think he genuinely cares about his players. There are reasonable arguments in favor of having him stick around as the team’s head coach. But there are just as many reasonable arguments for not having him as the program’s leader going forward. Perhaps Kowalczyk and interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson took one look at the short list of head coaching jobs available across the country — including USC and Miami, arguably two of the top-10 jobs in the country — and turned to the devil they knew, rather than trying to lure in a devil they didn’t. That’s a scared decision and I think most U of I fans have had enough with being scared, especially on the athletics front. Just because the team hasn’t been great on the field doesn’t mean the off-the-
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Head coach Bill Cubit watches his team from the sidelines during the game against Northwestern. field administration decisions can’t be great — or at least definitive. To his credit, Cubit isn’t likely to get complacent because he has a contract extension. He seems like he’s willing to work for his job. But the Illini head coach shouldn’t be perpetually ambivalent; He shouldn’t be forced to fight
for a job week in and week out. A two-year extension just extends the amount of time the ripple effect of Tim Beckman bounces around Memorial Stadium. Get rid of that joker once and for all, please, U of I, because giving a two-year contract to his top assistant sure
smells like “we’re worried about coaching decisions because we’ve made bad ones recently.” And worst of all, Saturday’s decision entirely overshadowed senior day for a bunch of Illini veterans playing their final game. The game was an
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uncertainty in the University, with an interim chancellor an an interim athletic director. Illinois finished the season with a 5-7 record, and a 2-6 mark in the Big Ten. Although the Illini didn’t finish with six wins, there is still a chance that Illinois can qualify for a bowl game. There might not be enough teams with six wins and the NCAA might have to fill bowl spots with five-win teams. Illini players would’t be against an invitation to play in a bowl if they are offered to play in one.
Kowalczyk added he wished the decision was made earlier, but there was a lot of communication between University personnel and they have confidence in Cubit to keep the program moving forward. And while Illinois’ new full-time head coach was in a suit in front of the media after Saturday’s loss, he said he’ll be in the back in the office working at 8 a.m. the next morning. “I’ll go out there and I’m going hard,” Cubit said. “I really am.”
afterthought for everyone but the players, which is pretty much representative of how Illinois football and the University as a whole have been in the last few years — coaches, administrators and adults just screwing things up for students. Please change it, U of I, because there are a lot of us that love this school, student-athletes and regular students alike, and you’re disappointing us.
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Rutgers fires football coach and athletic director Rutgers president Robert Barchi wasted no time in assessing blame for the school’s 4-8 football season. He fired head coach Kyle Flood and athletic director Julie Hermann on Sunday. Flood and Hermann’s downfall was not only the losing record, but the chaos around the program as seven players were arrested, several others received suspensions, and Flood was suspended three games and fined $50,000 for improperly approaching a professor to discuss a player’s mark in the classroom. A search for a football coach begins immediately, but Barchi announced the hiring of a new athletic director — Patrick Hobbs, Dean Emertus of Seton Hall University’s Law School. He was Seton Hall’s acting athletic director in the past and he will head Rutgers’ search, with input from Board of Trustees members Greg Brown and Ken Schmidt and Barchi. “We all believe that Rutgers football can be competitive in the Big Ten Conference and we will find the right coach who get us to that place,” said Barchi. Flood became the head coach in January 2012 when Greg Schiano left for the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was 27-24 in four seasons as RU coach, including a 46-41 loss to Maryland on Saturday in the season finale. He brought three teams to bowl games. Hermann came to Rutgers in 2013 from Louisville, where she was an assistant athletic director for 15 years. Her tenure was plagued by controversy, beginning with allegations that she verbally abused her players when she coached volleyball at Tennessee and that she was part of a sexual discrimination lawsuit at Louisville in which the university ultimately lost a court decision.
Fans shouldn’t be upset with Iowa State loss
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oral victories don’t count in the winloss column. Illinois lost 84-73 to No. 4 Iowa State on Saturday night in the Emerald Coast Classic Final, dropping its record to 3-4 on the young season. But I doubt you could find an Illini basketball fan who doesn’t feel better now about John Groce’s squad than it did roughly a week ago. Yeah, Illinois let a golden opportunity for a marquee nonconference win slip away when it let Iowa State (5-0) go on an 18-3 run to effectively end the game late in the second half. The Cyclones overwhelmed the Illini with
stellar point guard play and six legitimate players who were threats to score from nearly anywhere on the floor. Second-chance buckets killed the Mike Thorne Jr.-less Illini, who sat out the second half with an apparent leg injury. Still, the Illini looked much more like the Groce teams we saw and appreciated before last season’s end-of-year meltdown. They competed, trading blows with a team that could unseat Kansas for the Big 12 title this year. Illinois came out the aggressor, grabbing an early 12-6 lead and showed no trace of the listless bunch we saw get its doorsblown off in Springfield time after time. Illinois, who trailed Chicago State by 14 in the second half just five days prior to the Iowa State
game, looked like a legitimate Big Ten team in two neutral site games. And that’s encouraging for Illini fans, no matter the final outcome of Saturday’s title matchup. Aside from Michigan State and Maryland, the Illini probably won’t face a more talented team than Iowa State the rest of the season. With a deep and veteran roster, the Cyclones looked like a legitimate national contender. Georges Niang is the best four-year player in the country, and his 23 points and eight rebounds were just the first of the Illini’s concerns. Abdel Nader dropped 18, and point guard Monte Morris did his best John Wall impersonation with 20 points, nine rebounds and six assists. The Cyclones’ skill and athleticism were too much for
the Illini in the end. Everyone knew the return of Kendrick Nunn would make a difference, but the scope of his impact on this team wasn’t fully appreciated until this past weekend. Nunn is a massive upgrade at the shooting guard position and has transformed the Illini offense from limited to dangerous. When Nunn is on the floor in Groce’s ideal lineup, Illinois has four legitimate scoring options for opponents to worry about, with another one in Jalen Coleman-Lands off the bench. Not only has Nunn’s arrival had a huge impact, but it came earlier than many expected. Groce gave no indication before the weekend that Nunn and point guard Jaylon Tate would be healthy enough to play,
but both joined Leron Black in a return to the lineup Friday against UAB. Nunn scored 37 combined points over the two games and was named to the Emerald Coast Classic’s All-Tournament team alongside teammate Malcolm Hill, who was exceptional as well, Saturday, scoring a teamhigh 20 points. Nunn’s return has helped shift the tone of this season, which was shrouded in doom and gloom last week. As him, Tate and Black continue to acclimate themselves to the lineup (assuming Thorne’s injury isn’t too serious), the Illini have the potential to be a potent offensive team. There’s still work to do on defense, and the offense can’t sputter down the stretch like it did Saturday night
against the Cyclones going forward. After a Tate layup gave the Illini a two-point lead with 11:33 to play, Illinois managed just two more buckets in the next nine minutes. Hill, who had been efficient offensively all evening, barely touched the ball. Illinois will need to bring a similar effort to what they showed in the first 32 minutes Saturday against their next opponent, Notre Dame, at the unveiling of the new State Farm Center Wednesday night. The Illini have potential to evolve into a good team as the season progresses, but fans’ tolerance of moral victories will wear thinner with each additional loss.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. — Notre Dame couldn’t win for losing this season. Not for losing twice by two points — to the No. 1 team in the country in a monsoon on the road and again Saturday to the nation’s No. 9 team more than 2,200 miles from home. Not for losing 12 starters, including eight to seasonending injuries. Saturday proved to be the date fate dealt the Irish out of the College Football Playoff discussion for good, thanks to a 45-yard field goal as time expired to give Stanford a 38-36 victory. “It’s never about one series or one play,” Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said. “It’s a culmination of the game, and the reality is, we’re two plays away from being the No. 1 team in the country — one play at Clemson and one play here at Stanford.” After starting the season as an afterthought on Notre Dame’s sideline, not to mention its depth chart, Kizer finished it on his back, in disbelief, as Cardinal players celebrated around him. “I’m completely blank inside,” said Kizer, who with 30 seconds left tied the score on a 2-yard run before Justin Yoon’s goahead extra point gave the Irish a 36-35 lead. “It’s hard
to describe how you feel in a time like this.” And while Kelly is right about one series or one play, there were a couple Saturday that left Kizer, defensive lineman Sheldon Day and many others in white and navy and gold, in disbelief. Stanford began its march for the uprights at its own 27. An innocent 1-yard run by quarterback Kevin Hogan turned into a 16-yard gain when Isaac Rochell was found guilty of a facemask penalty that cost the Irish 15 yards. Two plays later, the back of the Irish defense was exposed again when Hogan found Devon Cajuste for a 27-yard completion, setting up a kick Conrad Ukropina will never forget. One the Irish wish they could. “I wish we could go back and do something differently,” Kizer said. “But that’s how the cookie crumbles.” And so that’s how Notre Dame’s dream crumbles too. “This team all year made a point to let everyone know what our mission was,” Kizer said. “We truly thought we were one of the best teams in the country. We know that kind of fell away with this loss.” On a macro level, six points separated Notre Dame from a chance at accomplishing its mission, a mantra married to
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Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly shouts instructions in the second half against Georgia Tech at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana on Sept. 19. the “Culture over scheme” motto adopted by the team before the season that suggested anything less than a national championship was a failure. That mission lured right tackle Ronnie Stanley, a sure-fire first-round pick, and defensive lineman Sheldon Day, same as Stanley, back to South Bend for another crack at a dream. One a micro level, there
were cracks in the foundation that suggested a scenario such as Saturday’s was a possibility. Eleven times in the last two games Notre Dame advanced to the red zone. The Irish came away with one touchdown — Kizer’s 2-yard dive Saturday. Three other trips resulted in Yoon field goals Saturday. Twenty-five times this season the Irish allowed
touchdown drives of at least 75 yards. They needed a last-second scoring pass from Kizer, in relief of Malik Zaire, to defeat Virginia. They barely beat Boston College. They won by four against Temple. Still, a bowl game awaits the Irish, though it’s not the one they had envisioned. “It still hurts to go out this way, as far as the end of the season,” said linebacker
Jaylon Smith, another likely high first-round pick who had a game-high 15 tackles. “But it’s definitely a learning lesson for all of us in our lives. A lot of unique situations where things aren’t going your way. It’s all about how you respond.” Notre Dame will have one more chance to do that, though it’s not quite the response it was hoping to have to make.
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Linebacker Mason Monheim (left) and defensive lineman Jihad Ward (right) celebrate Ward’s sack during the game against Northwestern at Soldier Field on Saturday. Illinois lost 24-14.
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Defensive lineman Jihad Ward makes a tackle causing Northwestern running back Solomon Vault to fumble the ball at Soldier Field.
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Linebacker Mason Mannheim celebrates in the end zone after returning an interception for a touchdown against Northwestern on Saturday.
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Illinois head coach Bill Cubit didn’t help himself with some of his playcalling, despite being locked in for the next two seasons. All season, Cubit and his team have shown little urgency in crucial moments when the offense needed to move fast and this apathy arose again at the end of Saturday’s first half. The offense moved the ball down the field, but the players weren’t quick to get to the line and snap the ball and Cubit failed to use his timeouts wisely in the last minute, which might have cost Illinois a shot at some last-minute points There was some playcalling that was questionable at times but players also failed to make plays. The offense has been limited the entire season due to injuries and Saturday was no different, with starting center Joe Spencer having to leave the game with an injury — Wes Lunt bobbled a pair of Teddy Karras snaps when Spencer was sidelined. Defensive schemes could’ve been better, but at the end of the day, the players failed to execute when they needed to the most.
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The defense gave up 21 points in the first half to a Northwestern team that averaged 23.0 points per game heading into Saturday’s game. Needless defensive penalties like a facemask penalty and a penalty on Caleb Day for vaulting the punting shield cost Illinois on two scoring drives. Northwestern added a field goal in the fourth quarter to put the game away for good. After the fast start to the game, Illinois’ defense took control. The Illini forced five three-and-outs and limited quarterback Clayton Thorson. Senior linebacker Mason Monheim brought Illinois closer when he intercepted a Thorson pass and returned it 58 yards for a touchdown, but by the time the defense figured. Thorson finished with 146 passing yards, a touchdown and an interception — he also ran for seven yards. Justin Jackson led the way on the ground with 172 yards and one touchdown.
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Sept. 19 @ North Carolina — (L 48-14)
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Sept. 5 Kent State — (W 52-3)
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The Illini showed the bad habits that they’ve exhibited all season long against Northwestern on Saturday. Illinois got off to a hot start, scoring on its first drive, but the early success stopped after quarterback Wes Lunt scrambled into the end zone to give Illinois a 7-0 lead. The receiving corps continued with its struggles of dropping passes, finishing with 10 and recording more than 60 on the season. The drops hurt the team when it tried to gain momentum and move the ball downfield. Illinois was 6-for-18 on third down and converted once on its two tries on fourth down. Lunt finished with 241 passing yards but threw an interception in the fourth quarter in Northwestern territory, trailing by 10. The quarterback also had trouble completing some throws and scrambled in the sloppy grass at Soldier Field. The running game was as ineffective as its been all year. Ke’Shawn Vaughn finished with 62 yards and senior Josh Ferguson finished with 40 in his last game as an Illini.
Scoring by quarter 1st 14 7 0
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Editor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini football staff will be giving out grades following the Illinois football game. The staff will be grading offense, defense, special teams and coaching.
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