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Greek life adapts to COVID restrictions BY HEATHER ROBINSON ASSISTANT DAYTIME NEWS EDITOR
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Kushi Gowda deposits her testing sample in a receptacle after completing a COVID-19 test at the Illini Union on Sunday. Last Monday, saliva tests conducted at the University made up 1.3% of COVID-19 tests nationwide.
World watches UI’s cutting-edge tests BY ETHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR
After two summer months and a move-in week, the returns are in for the University’s saliva-based COVID-19 test, and they’re staggering. Over 70,000 saliva tests have been conducted since the July pilot. Over 10,000 tests were conducted in 24 hours multiple times, with the capacity for 20,000 tests in a day. There are nearly 20 on-campus testing locations, with the average result returned in 5 hours. Last Monday, over 10,000 saliva tests of students, faculty and staff comprised 1.3% of the total COVID-19 tests nationwide, University Presi-
dent Tim Killeen said. With an ever-growing mountain of data, members of the University’s COVID-19 SHIELD: Target, Test, Tell team have modeled out a vision for the semester that would make Illinois the national standard-bearer for University reopening. On Friday, SHIELD representatives Martin Burke and Nigel Goldenfeld, along with University officials and Champaign-Urbana public health administrator Julie Pryde, gathered for a virtual briefing to discuss initial findings. The main consensus: There will be a bump in cases. According to lead modeler
Goldenfeld, around 200 students will bring the virus into the campus area within the first two weeks of school. By Friday morning, around 100 students had tested positive for the virus, with most students isolating in the University’s reserved rooms and others sent back home. These numbers are well within Goldenfeld’s projection. The group was confident that the school’s reopening plan is second-to-none. “If it can’t happen here, there’s no place that it can happen,” Pryde said. Here are the main takeaways from Friday’s meeting, the sources of the University’s confidence and the messages
the group had for returning students.
What measures are in place to control the virus?
It all starts with the saliva test. Developed from May 3 to June 18 by a team of eight University scientists, the method presents several key advantages to control the spread of COVID-19. Initial studies show the saliva test’s sensitivity is on par with or greater than that of the nasopharyngeal swab test. After all, saliva “is the medium that matters,” said Burke, one of the test’s lead developers. By collecting SEE PLAN | 5A
Ten guests maximum at campus parties
A s the Universit y reopens for the fall during the COVID-19 pandemic, Greek life will look entirely different for participating students this semester. According to data from the University Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, there are 90 Greek organizations on campus made up of 7,056 undergraduate members. Since nearly 25% of the University’s current population are members of a fraternity or sorority, Greek life will play a critical role in stabilizing the spread of COVID-19. With in-person recruitment limited, sororities and fraternities are finding alternate ways to get students to go Greek. Eleni Sakas, sophomore in Media, is the historian and Dads Weekend chair at Alpha Omicron Pi. The Panhellenic Council recently announced formal recruitment for their sorority chapters would be virtual this fall, forcing sororities like Sakas’s to communicate with potential members online instead of in-person. “We have had to adjust so much about our recruitment process,” Sakas said. “For example, we are not allowed to tour the girls around the house, which is a vital part in getting the full feel of the sorority.” She added that times are tough socially and financially, and that it has been hard not having students back on campus. At the beginning of every semester, there is an
abundance of social events hosted by fraternities and sororities. This semester, Greek life will have to implement COVID-19 protection measures to abide by the new safety regulations by the state and local governments. “I don’t believe the (socials) will continue on as usual due to the new order that Champaign’s mayor proposed of having no more than 10 people in a certain area,” Sakas said. “At the same time, many girls in the house don’t feel comfortable with others going out to frats, so it’s a delicate balance.” Champaign’s and Urbana’s mayors both passed emergency orders to limit the size of parties to 10 guests, excluding legal residents of the property. Sakas added that she believes Greek life has a chance to keep the numbers down if they all band together. “However, I have heard of frats having parties but requiring attendees to display their negative test results in order to get let in, so an attempt is being made to stay safe, but it’s going to be interesting to see how it all plays out,” Sakas said. “We each have a role in this and need to be looking out for each other.” Zoe Andrew, sophomore in LAS, is the assistant to the house manager at Phi Sigma Sigma. Andrew said this year’s recruiting will be entirely on Zoom with the utilization of breakout rooms for speaking to the potential new members. SEE GREEK LIFE | 5A
BY ETHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR
Mayors of both Champaign and Urbana issued emergency orders last week to limit the size of one of COVID-19’s greatest allies: parties. Across all residential areas on campus and all multifamily units in both cities, social gatherings are limited to 10 guests tops, excluding the hosts or legal residents of the property. All attendees must wear face coverings and social distance, and hosts must keep an accurate occupancy count at all times. Champaign Mayor Deb Feinen’s order took effect Wednesday, Aug. 19 at 5 p.m., and Urbana Mayor Diane Marlin’s the day after. “We recognize particularly the first weekend or so that enforcement is going to be key,” Feinen said Wednesday in a press briefing. “We need to be on top of it so students know we’re taking it seriously.” The ordinances will be enforced by University police, Champaign’s and Urbana’s police departments and public health officials. Offenders can face fines up
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Students celebrate Unofficial on Friday, March 6. New emergency orders by Champaign and Urbana limit the size of parties to 10 guests on all residential areas on campus, excluding the hosts and legal residents of the property.
to $750 per violation per day. Since there will be a ticket process for the enforcement of the party ordinance, violations can also lead to University discipline, Feinen said. For both orders, “party” is defined as “a congregation of five (5) or more persons who are not related to one another and/ or who do not have a legal right, whether by ownership or lease, to occupy a residence whether such residence is a single or multiple
family dwelling or dwelling unit,” per Champaign’s emergency order. The “campus area” for Champaign is bound by Wright Street on the east, Canadian National Railroad on the west, University Avenue on the north and Windsor Road on the south. In Urbana, it’s Wright Street on the west, University Avenue on the north, Florida Avenue on the south and Race Street on the east.
During the press briefing Wednesday, Mayor Marlin noted that “it’s not just students for whom parties are a problem.” Off-campus communities contribute as well. “We hear on a pretty regular basis of backyard parties, anniversary parties and birthday parties,” she said. “I got wind of one coming up for something like 200 people at a church. People have to SEE PARTY | 5A
Eleni Sakas, second from left, poses in the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority with her house sisters. Sakas’s sorority has been adapting its recruiting and party practices for the fall semester.
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The University’s Center for Health Informatics started a new initiative this summer in which students can work with health agencies t o help support data science projects relating to COVID-19. So far, students have analyzed social media data throughout the Americas and developed COVID-19 information dashboards for local health departments. The Center for Health Informatics Mobilizing Experts in Illinois, or CHIME in Illinois, is a collaborative effort with the World Health Organization and Pan-American Health Organization. CHIME in Illinois currently has eight different projects, with over 30 volunteers total, including recent alumni, doctorate, master’s, and undergraduate students. Projects typically last one to two months. Ian Brooks, director of CHIME in Illinois, said the idea for the program came about from looking at the structure of Illinois Business Consulting, a studentmanaged professional consulting organization. Brooks liked how IBC allowed students to work
on real-world problems related to their interests. “There was a lot of potential for using the same model with data science and public health,” Brooks said. Having spent years planning the program with the WHO, the rise of COVID-19 facilitated the process in finally starting CHIME in Illinois. “A lot of public health agencies are completely overwhelmed with the need of responding to the pandemic, particularly in the areas of data science, analyzing data (and) visualizing data,” Brooks said. “We are basically providing skilled teams that can help them out.” Siyao Zhang, junior in AHS, has been working on a research project for CHIME in Illinois since mid-June. Zhang has helped to analyze the performance of health data systems in Latin American regions, and was tasked with making visualizations as well as suggesting improvements for each country. Now, Zhang is working with her team to see if they can optimize their data and make a website. Zhang joined the project because it aligned with her extended interests of data analysis and health systems, and said this experi-
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Protesters gather at the intersection of Green and Wright streets during a demonstration following the death of George Floyd. Beginning at the end of May, smaller protests started in Champaign and Urbana.
CU protests against police brutality BY SALEM ISAF ASSISTANT DAYTIME NEWS EDITOR
Following the death of George Floyd in late May, protests and civil unrest rose up around the nation, and the Champaign-Urbana area was no exception. While C-U didn’t see an intensity that matched major cities like Chicago, hundreds of protesters filled the streets, blocked intersections and faced down police stations during the summer. Beginning the last weekend of May this year, small protests began to pop up in Champaign and Urbana. On Sunday, May 31, the city’s first and only instance of largescale looting occurred, taking place mostly in northern Champaign along North
Prospect Avenue. Windows and doors to Marketplace Mall, Target, gas stations and liquor stores were smashed along with other businesses. Some of this extended to campus, where several individuals shattered business windows. That Sunday saw small protests as well, with one taking place alongside looters on North Prospect Avenue, as well as demonstrators marching down Green Street that night. The following day saw the summer’s biggest protest in the area, with close to 1,000 people marching from the Urbana Police Station through campus and downtown Champaign to the Champaign Police Station. The initial protest, orga-
nized by Champaign-Urbana Black Lives Matter, initially was only meant to take place in Urbana. After this protest ended, student activists gathered demonstrators and continued the march. Throughout the month of June, protests continued every weekend and some weekdays, but the frequency slowed down heavily in the month of July. Drake Materre, recent graduate of the University and co-creator of the Champaign County AntiRacist Coalition, organized and spoke at many of the demonstrations. Another influential group this summer that organized demonstrations was Paign to Peace, created by local high school students. Some of the protests had
elements directed at the University and campus community. One protest specifically was held on Green Street, with demonstrators marching back and forth between two campus bars, The Red Lion and KAM’s. This was meant to bring attention to alleged racist practices by both the owner of the bars, Scott Cochrane, and various bar staff. While the demonstrations slowed down in July and early August, organizers have promised protests would pick up again as classes started at the University. “This is the start of a new age of Champaign,” Materre said during a march in June. isaf2@dailyillini.com
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COVID-19 has prompted several major adjustments for Champaign-Urbana’s bus system. Riders may have already noticed how boarding now occurs in the middle door of buses for those who don’t need to use the accessibility ramp. However, on Friday, the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District reduced its route schedule for some campus and late night routes, in direct response to pandemic ridership. “The decision was made after extensive analysis of service demand, workforce availability, and new demands related to adequate COVID-19 pandemic response,” the MTD news release reads. During the weekdays and weekends, the 22/220 Illini will run on a 20 minute frequency schedule instead of the usual 10 minute frequency. All late night routes will end shortly before or after 1 a.m. both on weekends and weekdays. During fall and winter breaks, MTD will extend their reductions and decrease more routes’ frequencies. All changes can be found on their website. MTD has continued to take steps towards preventing the virus from spreading and encouraging social distancing. Fare danghel2@dailyillini.com collection and pass valida-
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samples from where the virus is spread — saliva aerosols — the testing “likely provides a more relevant indication of infectiousness.” Also, it’s scalable. Compared to the swab, the saliva test necessitates far fewer healthcare workers, since the saliva is self-collectable. It’s more comfortable and repeatable than the swab and presents less risk for false positives. Sometimes, swabs can pick up dead virus from the nasal cavity. The rapid turnaround of results is the greatest advantage, however. Thanks in part to the VetMed diagnostics lab — now converted into a human COVID-19 testing facility — and the Safer Illinois app’s test communication, students, faculty and staff can know their status within hours, instead of up to six to 10 days later from the swab test. In mid-July, test positivity briefly peaked at 1.5% due to spreading at reopened bars and restaurants, before dropping to 0.2% by the end of the month. Positivity is rising, but the University projects it to peak at around 2%, well below the 8% guidance in Phase 4 of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s state reopening plan.
What’s on the horizon?
In comes the model. Headed by professor Goldenfeld, the University is taking a comprehensive approach to projecting the future. The model maps out common student movements through campus, projecting the spread of the virus down to the aerosols bouncing through classrooms, bars and restaurants, and how mitigation strategies of masks, testing and contact tracing will do to counteract that spread. However, the model also makes “conservative, worstcase assumptions,” Goldenfeld noted. It assumes contact tracers fail to reach 50% of the contacts, that class size will be the same as it was during this time last year: 45,000, which, due to students opting to stay home, won’t be reached this semester. It assumes that students will party and socialize at normal rates, many without masks. Without any precautions in place, the model predicts
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Professor Nigel Goldenfeld explains the expected path of COVID-19 cases on campus based on his model. The SHIELD team predicts a ‘bump’ of 200 student cases, followed by 500 more community-spread cases through the semester.
20,000 students would get the virus in the first month, with 31,000 having been infected by the end of the semester. With campus-wide twicea-week testing and other mitigation layers, the University predicts around 700 students will be infected by semester’s end, including the 200 projected imports. Goldenfeld said the effects of this will go away within two to three weeks if the projected isolations, precautions and contact tracing occurs. The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District has beefed up its contact tracing capabilities. Thirty-five new full-time tracers have been trained and onboarded, bringing the department total up to 150 employees. Provost Andreas Cangellaris said the University has invested $6 million to put the current testing capabilities in place. On Monday, the school began its COVID-19 online dashboard, where the public can view the total numbers of tests performed, positives per day and moving positivity rate from on-campus saliva tests.
How big of a role do students play in this?
With how many mitigating layers have been implemented in this plan, it may appear failsafe. But officials said student behavior still plays a key role in success. “We do not assume that everybody is a perfect angel, and we don’t want to demon-
ize the social aspect of being at a University,” Goldenfeld said. “We know it’s part of the experience and it’s critical to the models.” Though the model plans for some indiscretions, is that a free pass for reckless abandon? No. “That doesn’t mean everybody can just say ‘party on.’ No, the message is: party safely,” he said. “Everything one does that captures a superspreader event puts a burden on the community, puts a burden on the public health department, puts your friends, your family at risk.” Local governments have come down on social gatherings in the last week. Both Champaign and Urbana’s mayors instituted emergency orders limiting the size of parties to 10 guests or fewer, excluding the hosts and residents of a property in Campustown. Beyond a maximum $750 fine, the University can also discipline repeat offending students, all the way up to suspensions, Chancellor Robert Jones said. Faculty and staff can face consequences from human resources for disobeying local ordinances as well. Jones said the University has spoken with campus Greek life organizations and social groups, and that it’s been “aggressive” in emphasizing the potential public health consequences. However, Burke and other officials trust the student body will take the virus
seriously. “(We’ve heard) young people are irresponsible, shortsighted, and they’re going to make bad decisions that will disrupt our SHIELD process,” Burke said. “And I always smile and look at them and say ‘you’ve never met a University of Illinois student!” Burke “knew this was going to work” on Wednesday afternoon, when he drove past a row of campus fraternities. What he saw brought him to tears. “They had pulled a ping pong table outside, with their masks on, playing ping pong, having fun, catching up on all the things they’ve done over the summer,” he said. His message for the student body: “The world is watching.” With the FDA Emergency Use Authorization, there’s a potential to bring the saliva test to locations across the country. Last week, the Smithsonian contacted the SHIELD team, asking for them to “start building the Smithsonian display they’d show at the national museum if this works.” “So wear your mask with tremendous pride,” Burke said. “Don’t have a party in a basement and cause a superspreader event. Take great pride in reminding each other, wear your mask, stay apart, wash your hands and together, we can absolutely crush this thing.” ecsimmon@dailyillini.com
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dents at this point last year to an estimated 700 so far. Andrews said while her sorority does not have any social events planned yet, there will be fewer than usual due to virus risk. “I hope Greek life understands that COVID cases are not something to mess around with, and having social events are not more important than human lives,” she said.
“Technolog y a lways causes problems, and having a lot of people on one call can be a little hard to navigate,” Andrew said. “Also, potential new members won’t be able to see our houses, and it might not be as personable because we can only see them through a screen.” According to Andrew, the rush numbers have gone hrr4@dailyillini.com down significantly, from approximately 1,100 stu-
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telling us ‘my kid is planning a party at such-andsuch location on this date,’” Feinen said. Both cities implemented face covering guidelines under their emergency orders as well, in accordance with Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Phase 4 guidance. Everyone above 2 years of age without a compromising medical condition must wear a mask or face covering in public areas where social distancing cannot be maintained.
understand that this is one of the most consistent ways to spread this disease and one of the riskiest behaviors to be engaging in.” Community tips have already been flooding in for planned on-campus parties, and the tippers haven’t always been from the campus population. “You might not be surprised to know that we are already receiving emails from some (University of ecsimmon@dailyillini.com Illinois) students’ parents
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Dining facilities on campus have overhauled their procedures to provide meals for students in a COVID-19 environment. There are now two ways students can retrieve their meals in the dining halls that limit in-person contact, and dining in isn’t one of them. “The first option is the one that we’re really advertising the most and that is carry-out. They will build their meals from a selection and tell dining services staff what specifically they would like in their to go container,” Housing spokesperson Chelsea Hamilton said. “These meals will be placed into single use containers. Students can carry up to two boxes of food and two beverages out of the dining hall.” The dine-in option has been nixed while the University observes the effects of COVID-19 on campus and limits the number of student gatherings. “We are looking into offering the dining option for our dining halls but we are not going to launch that until we get past Labor Day. We want to watch COVID-19 numbers and see how everything kind of shakes out on campus,” Hamilton said. Before entering the dining halls for carry-out, University officials recommend students use the Illinois app and decide what they want to eat from the menu to decrease traffic. The second option available is the express pick-up option which allows students to choose from four prepackaged meals for quick pick-up and limited contact. “The carry-out one is more if you’re planning on eating right then and there. The express one allows you to take your meal for the road and heat it up whenever you want. Either way it’s great,” said Mearieta Clemente, sophomore in LAS. “Sometimes they’ll let you buy dinner ahead of time too if you’re lazy and don’t want
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Above: A student swipes his i-card to enter the Ikenberry Dining Hall on Sunday. On-campus dining facilities created new adjustments in the wake of COVID-19. Below: Students walk into 57 North in the Student Dining and Residential Programs Building on Thursday.
to leave your dorm.” All the dining facilities have the same menu to encourage students to use one dining hall on a regular basis. “That way, students can stick to the dining hall that’s closest to them and not travel all over campus to kind of help social distance from our residence,” Hamilton said. “We just want you to kind of get in a routine of picking which dining hall you’re going to visit on a regular basis.” Students with dietary restrictions will also have the ability to communicate with the University to order meals that fit their requirements. “For our students who have strict diet restrictions, we are asking them to continue working with our dietician within dining services, through our Inclusive Solutions program,” Hamilton
said. “Dieticians would then work with those students to create the menus of the day and the daily meals that those students need to meet their dietary plan.” Housing’s convenience stores, like 57 North at Ikenberry, will remain open for the semester but will abide by the Center for Disease Control guidelines to ensure the safety of community members on campus. Hours and occupancy limits have been altered in order to follow these rules. Specialty restaurants such as FAR Out Pizza and Dish have been removed because the University is trying to limit the number of students traveling around campus. The dining halls in BuseyEvans and the Illini Union are also no longer available — the renovated ISR dining hall will retake their place. alizam2@dailyillini.com
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Food recap: Bars, restaurants adapt to indoor dining restrictions BY ETHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR
Looking to get some grub at your favorite Champaign-Urbana restaurant or bar? There’s a wave of new city orders and restrictions for customers and businesses to abide by. With the arrival of thousands of students to the University campus, Champaign and Urbana mayors rolled out several emergency orders and initiatives last week to restrict indoor dining at campus restaurants and bars and slow the spread of the virus. Until Labor Day, all Champaign restaurants and bars in Campustown are limited to outdoor service only. For all other restaurants and bars in C-U, patrons must be seated to receive and consume their orders.
Additionally, people under 21 years of age can no longer enter Champaign’s bars past 9 p.m. Customers can still enter Campustown bars and restaurants to place orders, get takeout or use the restroom, but masks or face coverings are required. “I realize that these changes will be inconvenient for our residents and businesses, but they are necessary to flatten the curve and prevent a large increase in COVID-19 cases in our community as the fall semester gets underway,” said Champaign Mayor Deb Feinen Tuesday. By Friday, outdoor cafes had been established near KAM’s, Illini Inn, Legends, Murphy’s and The Red Lion. The areas are permitted for business from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., though alcohol
consumption isn’t allowed in these zones. Likewise, 11 parking spots were reserved last week by the City of Champaign for curbside pickup at businesses on the north side of Green Street’s 500 and 600 blocks. It wasn’t an easy summer for the food service industry; mass shutdowns of inperson service in March began a rocky period for bars and restaurant revenue that hasn’t ended. Illinois food service jobs were down 40% by the time Phase 4 of Illinois’ reopening plan rolled around in late June. In C-U, the reopening of bars led to a spike in coronavirus cases countywide in late July. After a week of 20 to 30 new cases per day, Champaign saw 55 new cases in a single day on July 28.
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FDA approves University COVID-19 saliva test BY SAMANTHA BOYLE MANAGING EDITOR FOR REPORTING
The saliva-based COVID-19 test that University students, staff and faculty will be taking at least twice a week was authorized for emergency use by the Federal Drug Administration on Thursday. The FDA granted the authorization because the direct saliva testing performs “at least as well as the recently approved saliva-testing protocol” headed by Yale University. Initial studies show the University’s test may be “eight times more sensitive” than the Yale counterpart, said Dr. Martin Burke, one of the developers of the Illinois saliva test, at press briefing Friday. The authorization was announced Thursday at Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s coronavirus briefing. It opens the door for other diagnostic laboratories to use the University’s test and scale it across the nation. “Today’s news puts the University of Illinois and the entire state of Illinois on the cutting edge of testing innovation on a national level,” Pritzker said at Thursday’s briefing. “And let me just say to President Killeen, the State of Illinois looks forward to being your biggest customer.” More than 70,000 saliva tests have already been carried out on the ChampaignUrbana campus. Pritzker said there are plans to spread this “game-changing” test to other Universities across the state, and to potentially introduce the test to K-12 schools in the state, along with residents of long-term care facilities. “As you heard from the governor, the pioneering salivabased testing developed by our leading-edge researchers in Urbana, produces results that allow and permit large scale surveillance testing,” UI President Tim Killeen said in Thursday’s briefing.
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Above: Aisha Shekara spits into a tube to be tested for COVID-19 at the Illini Union on Sunday. University students, faculty and staff must take the test at a minimum of twice a week. Below: Students wait in line to be tested at the Illini Union on Sunday.
“That combination is a key to curbing the virus, allowing isolation early enough to limit the spread of the infection, and it also identifies and isolates people with asymptomatic cases who would otherwise spread the virus unknowingly.” Killeen also mentioned the formation of SHIELD T3, an organization dedicated to spreading the test technology nationwide. Students, staff and faculty at the University are required to get tested at one of these facilities at least twice a week in order to remain in good academic standing. A recent negative test must also be presented either through the Safer Illinois app or website in order to get into academic buildings. sjboyle2@dailyillini.com
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The organizers of the Urbana Sweetcorn Festival set up a stand in the parking lot of the Lincoln Square Mall. Community members can drive by and pick up bags of sweet corn as well as commemorative totes and face masks.
Urbana Sweetcorn Festival held virtually BY ELIZABETH SAYASANE FEATURES EDITOR
The city of Champaign held its first Sweetcorn Festival 45 years ago in 1975. It gathered the community together and created a long tradition celebrating local performers, local businesses and, of course, the locally grown sweet corn. With the country in the midst of a global pandemic, the festival could not be carried out in its usual fashion. However, the Urbana Business Association and the Urbana Arts and Culture
Program ensured that the city would not go entirely without celebrating. Abigale Racine, marketing and events manager for the UBA, helped coordinate the virtual festival this year. “It was super heartbreaking and a difficult decision for us to cancel this event, but we know it was the safest one for a community and we’re always always going to put the safety of our community first,” she said. Though Racine just moved to Urbana about a year ago, she said she has been prepar-
ing for the festival the whole time. After she settled into her new position with the UBA, she would often get questions about the progress in planning the festival. “I have people in the dead of winter asking me about how preparation for the Sweetcorn Festival is coming along and they always share how excited they are about it,” Racine said. She understood how important the Sweetcorn Festival was. It was not just a way to promote the small businesses and local per-
formers, but also a way to bring the community together. Since deciding to cancel the in-person event several months ago, Racine, along with UBA Executive Director Darius White, have been planning how to adapt the festival. On Friday, the city hosted a drive-through corn event at the Lincoln Square Mall parking lot. The first 300 customers received half a dozen sweet corn and a reusable Virtual Urbana Sweetcorn Festival 2020 tote bag for $5.
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They also sold sweetcorn by the dozen as well as a commemorative PPE mask. Madeline Molina, a summer intern for the Urbana Arts and Culture Program, volunteered at the event distributing sweet corn. Molina is from Urbana and attended the festival last year. She said even though an in-person event with all the vendors and performers was not possible this year, it was a good idea to have a sociallydistanced alternative. “I think it’s really important during these times to not put everything on hold and to still try to continue things as much as we can,” she said. “This is just a really great community trying to bring some light and positivity to such an unprecedented situation.” On Saturday, the Urbana Sweetcorn Facebook page hosted a Facebook live event from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. This event included performances for children including story times, a demonstration of toys and games from the prairie and a video about wildlife in their own backyard. A majority of the virtual festival, though, was comprised of past performances at the Sweetcorn Festival. Scott Schwartz, the University’s director and archivist for music and fine arts for the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music has been
largely in charge of coordinating this effort. Schwartz has been doing the Sweetcorn Festival’s One Community Together programming for more than 10 years. When trying to figure out how to adapt the festival, Schwartz proposed doing a remembrance of performances from years past. “We want to remember what makes our community such a wonderful place to be and essentially that’s the whole purpose for the One Community Together,” Schwartz said. Each piece consisted of a full performance from a variety of past musicians, whose music played while photos of the bands performing were on the screen. This event showcased the great musical talent living within Champaign-Urbana. Schwartz hoped to convey how exceptional the city is in regard to the performing arts and history. “Our community is a diverse (and) rich cultural hub that is able to produce great music we have great museum collections great exhibitions and so forth,” he said. “You don’t have to go to Chicago, D.C. (or) New York to see great historical stuff or just great music. It’s all here, it’s all local and that’s what makes us so special.” eis3@dailyillini.com
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Campus resources shift accessibility adhering to the safety procedures put in place. They will have options for online appointments, phone consultations and virtual outreach programming. They will also be switching to a phone triage system to best serve the needs of the community. They will no longer be accepting unplanned drop-in meetings with counselors; patients must call the office in advance Students whose healthcare is provided through the University will have access to online counseling services using BetterHelp. In order to receive remote counseling through the University, however, law requires the student to be located in Illinois. They encourage students with mental health concerns who are studying remotely for the semester to call for a phone consultation. While they cannot provide actual therapy during these consultations, the counselors will be able to help students find alternative options for their mental healthcare.
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Campus is seeing several changes to its everyday operations in order to comply with COVID-19 safety procedures. Several resources that many students rely on have changed how they can be accessed. Here is a list of campus resources and how they have adapted for the fall semester.
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The University Library will not return to its full services until the state of Illinois reaches Phase 5. The library will not provide collaborative spaces and general study for students and faculty this fall semester; however, the library staff is investigating how they can offer limited study spaces in the Grainger Engineering Library and Undergraduate Library. The library will also continue to offer remote reference and research consultation. All digital services and collections will remain available while continuing to add capacity to lend and scan books in a digital format. Items that cannot be delivered digitally will be available for pick up in the Main Library’s Marshall Gallery or in the Grainger Library Engineering Information Center. While all University owned and licensed material will be made accessible to members of the community, this request may take up to 14 days to complete. Before entering any University library, students must present the Safer Illinois App on their mobile device, showing that they have tested negative in the last four days as well as to prove their building access is “Granted” on the screen.
Campus Recreation
At this time, the ARC is the only recreational facility on campus that will be open to the public starting August 24; CRCE will be used as a COVID-19 testing site. Amenities such as the cardio and strength equipment, track and Gym 4 cardio space will remain open. Multi-purpose areas and services such as Learn to Swim, Intramurals, Instructional Kitchen, Food Assistance & Wellbeing, Campus Bike Center, Mindfulness Space, Group Fitness, Facility Rentals, Locker Rooms/Showers and the Auditorium will remain open.
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Students sit at the Courtyard Cafe at the Illini Union on Sunday. Due to COVID-19 safety protocols, new guidelines are in place to prepare for an increase of students on campus.
In order to ensure the safety for all students, faculty and staff, the ARC has developed several safety protocols. Everyone is required to wear a face covering at all times, with the exception of those unable to do so while participating in a strenuous exercise. Everyone also must keep in accordance with social distancing guidelines, staying six feet apart. No gym spaces will be allowed to have more than 50 people at one time, per IDPH guidelines. The ARC will also be implementing enhanced cleaning protocols including disinfecting agents against the virus.
The Union
The Illini Union usually operates as a hub of student activity on campus. This semester, it will be open with several new guidelines in place. Everyone is required to wear a cloth face covering everywhere in the Illini Union. Common areas and high frequency touch surfaces will be cleaned and
disinfected regularly using electrostatic disinfecting machines throughout the Union. Meeting room furniture on all floors will be reconfigured to allow for maximum space between people. Stairwells will have signs for either up or down traffic and elevators are limited to two riders at a time. Floor decals have been installed all over the union areas where customer lines form. Additionally, plexiglass shields have been added to every front-line customer service desk and counters. Doorways also have been designated as Entry, Exit or ADA to streamline foot traffic. Also hand sanitizer is available throughout the Union and students are encouraged to regularly sanitize their hands. The size of gatherings and student programs will be based on standards under the state reopening guidelines throughout the fall and beyond. The Rec Room will undergo extensive cleaning every
day and has been configured to enforce social distancing. The maximum capacity in this space is 50 people. Bowling lanes will continue to operate with a maximum of three bowlers per lane. Billiard tables will only accommodate half of its original occupancy. Arcade games are limited to one player per machine unless otherwise specified and will be cleaned after each use.
McKinley Health Center
The McKinley Health Center has developed several guidelines to help them better serve the health concerns of students on campus. All COVID-19 testing procedures will be, in part, facilitated through McKinley. Students must be tested twice a week, at least every four days. McKinley also offers the self-administered but supervised anterior nasal surveillance method to students who qualify for an exemption to saliva-based testing. McKinley visits will be altered to be a mix of tele-
health and face-to-face visits throughout the fall semester for students. For face-toface encounters, all students must be fully compliant with campus testing requirements, except when in situations requiring immediate attention. Everyone entering the building will be pre-screened with a temperature check. Visits associated with respiratory problems may require COVID-19 testing and negative results within 72 hours prior to the visit and the onset of symptoms, before being seen. Flu shots will be available beginning September 14. With the onset of COVID-19, McKinley emphasizes how important it is to get the flu shot this season. Flu shots will be available directly outside McKinley and various other locations on campus
Counseling Services
The Career Center serves students around campus by providing professional advising as well as consultations on resumes, cover letters and more. They typically operate on Wright Street, but they have become virtual for the semester. Students can access drop-in advising at their regular hours through phone or Zoom. If students need documents or applications reviewed, they can submit them on the Career Center website. One of the biggest events hosted by the Career Center is the Career & Internship Fair in the fall and spring. As these events cannot be hosted in person, they have decided to offer the Virtual Illini Career and Internship Recruiting Week in early September. For these virtual events, recruiters will have different “rooms” set up for students to enter and find out more information about the company. They will still have the chance to speak with these recruiters as they would normally do without the risk of violating social distancing rules. Even with all of the struggles associated with COVID-19, the Career Center will do its best to aid students in preparing for their professional future.
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Students waits in line to take COVID-19 tests at the Illini Union on Sunday. Columnist Noah argues many students want to return to campus.
A return to campus is preferable is a great decision. From speaking with so many of my close friends and SENIOR other students I know, all COLUMNIST of them want to return to campus to resume a someFive months ago, everywhat normal life. College one around the world, only lasts so long, and we especially students here all want to experience it at the University, had as we’re supposed to, not their whole lives changed crouched over a screen all with the snap of a finger. day. At the time, COVID-19 Students want to see began spreading like wild- their friends. Being away fire in the states. Before from their peers for so long anyone knew it, everyphysically and mentally thing was gone: the likes has been tough for them. of NCAA and NBA sports, Even in the social media sitting down in a restauage today, FaceTime and rant and just going to any text messaging only work public facility like a gym or to an extent. Students need library. to be with one another face On March 13, Universito face and returning to ty students left campus for campus will assist the issue spring break in what many in that regard. people thought was going Along with friends, stuto be a two-week quardents also need to return antine. But as everyone to regular activities. knows, those two weeks As it may be quite differturned into the rest of the ent, with many clubs and spring semester online organizations not hapand five months total of pening, there are severisolation. al options for students to Though some prefer to return to somewhat norstay home and take courses mal activities. online, and that’s comWhile attending live pletely understandable, sporting events is still up countless students are in the air, students can still ready for some normaltake part in physical activicy once again. Despite the ties like cornhole, frisbee current circumstances, it’s or running. time to return to school. They can also study with Though it’ll be vastgroups of people, socially different this fall, stuly distanced of course, or dents being able to return watch a movie together. to campus if they wish The opportunities may be NOAH NELSON
limited but why not make the most out of the ones available. Most of all, students need to return to campus for the main reason: school itself. While most students are taking classes online this fall, some will still have in-person class. Even if students don’t, being on campus again will provide them access with face-toface opportunities with TA’s, professors and advisers. It will act as another reminder of normal life once again. Students may have mixed feelings about online classes and whether or not they provide the same education value, but the fact that we are allowed to live on campus makes the situation worth it. In these last five months, everyone has lived a different life, socially distanced and, hopefully, wearing a mask in public. But students especially need to be around their friends, return to their activities and just be on campus again. It’s an unprecedented situation, but if everyone makes the most of it in the meantime, there will no doubt be a light at the end of the tunnel. Noah is a junior in the College of Media. noahen2@dailyillini.com
As Black Lives Matter protests rage on around the country, it is clear that the Chicago Police Department is responsible for much of the violence that has occurred this last Saturday, Aug. 15, having had quite a field day in demonizing and arresting protestors and enacting targeted arrests and heinous penalties. Jeremy Johnson — informally known as Mohawk — seems to be the next victim of the police force’s excessive power trip. Not only have they attempted to publicize a skewed image of Mohawk being an instigator and ‘agitator,’ but they have continuously made his life and the lives of those he loves incomprehensibly difficult. As I spoke with Mohawk’s roommate and friend, Jake Doan, he had expressed that “the entire process this week has been riddled with just about every single complication,” including CPD having “repeatedly denied or severely barracited his lawyer access to him at the jail ... and illegally removed his right to legal council.” The CPD had also posted Mohawk’s and Doan’s home address information on Facebook and Twitter for “over 12 hours, during which there were several
vile and racist comments and threads that forced (their) remaining roommates ... to evacuate for (their) own safety.” As Doan pointed out, for a police department to put individuals in this type of unsafety is “extremely illegal, incredibly dangerous and inhumane.” Ironically, “Mayor (Lori) Lightfoot is now using police as personal bodyguards at her house, claiming she deserves to feel safe in her own home,” and further publicized this statement “48 hours after (Mohawk, Doan, and their remaining roommates) had to flee their own home.” Furthermore, after Mohawk’s bond was paid fully, the CPD “detained him for an extra three days after the payment was made,” citing issues with electronic monitoring. However, while all these “issues” were being further complicated by the CPD themselves, “Mohawk also claims he was misled about his process.” Doan further explains the CPD’s clear violations, stating that himself and others were “unable to contact (Mohawk) for the entire time he was incarcerated, save for Mohawk making his one phone call to (Doan) the morning he was arrested.” The CPD also intentionally misled Doan and his roommates “when (they) were trying to locate him initially, and confessed they provided incorrect information after (they)
searched multiple facilities across Chicago ... for over five hours.” When Mohawk was finally released, Mohawk’s supporters stressed he be escorted in a windowless van to his undisclosed safehouse, yet when the CPD caught light of a demonstration his supporters planned to have for his release, they “released him at 8 p.m., several hours before (anyone) was told.” As Doan expressed, “At best this is a willfully negligent and unacceptably inefficient system, and at worst, they have expressed truly cruel intentions for my best friend every step of the way, before he has seen a single day in trial.” As Mohawk’s trial is to be this Monday, many have pledged their support and furthermore exclaimed their distaste for the CPD’s unprofessional and destructive actions. Many Twitter threads have also been created for his sake in the hopes of a lawfully and respectable trial, although by the looks of it the CPD sees this support as a threat to their power. As Mohawk’s trial has been continuously published this week, both on major news outlets and on social media, it is clear by the CPD’s limited responses that they care very little for the individuals they were sworn in to protect. Maii is a sophomore in LAS. mrashe5@illinimedia.com
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Chicago police officers form a line in front of demonstrators during a protest on May 30. Columnist Maii argues the CPD is responsible for much of the violence occurring on Aug. 15.
President Trump irresponsibly accelerates social security bankruptcy for the annuities of the current generation of retirees. In 1950, the ratio of workOPINIONS EDITOR ers to retirees was 16 to one, but by 2015, that ratio had shrank to three to one. Of all the politically As the life expectancy disastrous policy decisions a increases, the birth rate statesman can make, there declines and people retire is perhaps no more unpopu- earlier, the burden to pay for lar choice than cutting enti- social security has worstlements, such as medicare ened. For decades, politior social security. cians have been clamoring Social security essenabout the inevitable: Social tially forces workers to security is on a road to save some of their income bankruptcy. in an account to be used Current projections indiin retirement in order to cate the program could be mitigate high levels of povinsolvent as soon as the erty among the old and 2030s, and so a number of incapable. potential course-correcAlthough the payroll tions have been suggested. tax pays for social secuLawmakers could raise the rity, workers expect that retirement age in the U.S., money to return to them which is already slighteventually. So when these ly higher than the averentitlements are cut, to age in the developed world, those harmed by the cuts, they could raise the payit feels like the government roll tax, increase the size is reneging on a long term of the workforce or reduce agreement that can strand benefits to higher earners, a retiree with no financial among other suggestions. safety. Although the White The government does not House claims to be protecthave a hidden vault filled ing your social security, with billions of dollars wait- their policy decisions have ing to be spent on social worked in the shadows to security annuities, it is a put the program in deeper “pay-as-you-go program.” peril. Rather than attempt The payroll tax collected to fix the program, which a from the current generaprincipled fiscally consertion of workers directly pays vative government might ANDREW PROZOROVSKY
Regarding increasing the size of the workforce, the government could offer tax incentives to those who have more children. In Sweden, it has been done with relative success, but Sweden is also a country that enjoys childcare subsidies and lengthy maternity and paternity leave, meaning PHOTO COURTESY OF TIA DUFOUR a tax credit may not be the President Donald J. Trump, joined by Advisor to the President only factor affecting a famIvanka Trump, members of his Cabinet and guests, addresses ily’s choice to grow. Addihis remarks at the siging of National Security Presidential tionally, these solutions Memorandum to launch the “Women’s Global Development would be costly. and Prosperity Initiative” Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, in the Oval Even with a tax credit, Office of the White House. it’s uncertain whether the U.S. birth rates would rise. do, the Trump administralions of currently unemDeveloped countries will tion has consistently under- ployed Americans, who will simply have less children mined it. Regarding the now be paying less payroll as more women enter the potential fixes to the protaxes on their nonexistent workforce and fewer chilgram, the Trump adminisincome. dren die in infancy. The tration has often done the The most expedient solu- only reliable way to increase opposite, only accelerating tion to social security lonthe size of the workforce is the program’s penury. gevity would be to increase to increase immigration. Rather than increase the size of the workforce. No The Trump administrathe payroll tax, the Trump one has to see their entitletion’s history with immiadministration, ever the ments cut, and no one has grants is contemptuous at populist salivating at the to delay retirement. Howbest. While the initial focus thought of tax cuts, made ever, in a developed country of the administration was cuts to the payroll tax. such as the U.S., birth rates to prohibit illegal immiAgainst the advice of Conhave inevitably declined to gration, officials have since gressional Democrats and a rate that is below replace- established considerable Republicans, an executive ment level. The only reaobstacles to those wishing order had to be signed to son the American populato immigrate legally, hinmake these cuts. It was said tion continues to increase dering legal immigration to have been cut to provide is due to immigration and (and perhaps incentivizing relief to Americans affected partially due to a phenomillegal immigration to those by the coronavirus, but such enon known as “population desperate enough). stimulus fails to aid the mil- momentum.” Slowing all immigration
and cutting the payroll tax make are a deadly duo of policy decisions which will only bankrupt social security sooner. There are other shots of morphine that may revive social security, like reducing benefits to higher earners. In an administration which implemented tax cuts disproportionately benefiting the wealthy and believes in supply-side economics (also known as “trickledown economics”), this is clearly not a likely path for the president to pursue. President Trump has claimed he alone will “save” social security, but actions speak louder than words. The administration’s actions reveal a calculated deconstruction of the program by slashing its primary life sources. It would not be the least bit surprising if the administration proposes “necessary cuts” to social security and blames the struggling program on its predecessors rather than itself. Come Nov. 3, remember that your social security really is on the line. Andrew is a junior in LAS and the Opinions desk editor at the Daily Illini. atp4@illinois.edu
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University sports remain postponed BY GABBY HAJDUK SPORTS EDITOR
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Sophomore guard Ayo Dosunmu and freshman center Kofi Cockburn walk out of a timeout against Michigan State during the first half at State Farm Center in Champaign, Illinois on Feb. 11. Dosunmu and Cockburn recently announced their return to Illinois for the 2020-2021 season.
Dosunmu, Cockburn to return to Illini BY BRANDON SIMBERG STAFF WRITER
After a thrilling 78-76 win over Iowa on March 8, the Illinois men’s basketball team received a string of bad news. Shortly thereafter, the NCAA tournament was officially canceled. The Illini were slated to make their first appearance since 2013. Two weeks later, sophomore guard Alan Griffin announced he would transfer from the program. On April 7, freshman Kofi Cockburn announced he was declaring for the NBA Draft. Star guard Ayo Dosunmu would follow him 10 days later. But after months of speculation, head coach Brad Underwood finally received some positive news when Dosunmu announced his return to Illinois on July 31. Less than 24 hours later Cockburn would do the same, and the Illini suddenly were the talk of college basketball.
Dosunmu announced his return with a video on Twitter. The Chicago native made two versions of the video, one where he would announce he’s staying in the draft and one where he announced his return to school. “Since a kid, I’ve been working. My dream is to play in the NBA,” said Dosunmu in the video. “But first, I need that national championship. Year three.” Dosunmu and Cockburn return, along with starting guards Trent Frazier and Da’Monte Williams. Underwood also brings in a top 20 recruiting class nationally. In early preseason polls, Illinois has seen their stock soar. CBS Sports ranked Underwood’s squad at No. 6, while Jon Rothstein has the Illini at No. 7 and The Athletic has them at No. 9. Wherever they end up, expect Illinois to have its highest preseason ranking since 2004-2005 when they were ranked No. 5 to start
the season. This will also likely be the highest ranked team Brad Underwood has coached in his eight years as a head coach. He led Stephen F. Austin to the round of 32 twice but has never taken a team to the Sweet Sixteen. In his first season as coach of Illinois, the team finished 14-18. The following year they were 12-21. Nonetheless, Underwood is not surprised by the turnaround the program has made. “I expected us to be good. I came here with the mindset of winning Big Ten Championships,” Underwood said. “I can honestly say I’m probably a bit surprised that we were in the last week of the year last year, playing for the league championship. I think that’s an attribute to the culture.” Illinois will have to manage and live up to these high expectations, but it’s a much better position to be in than in previous years. Cockburn
On august 11, Illinois athletics received another dose of bad news in regards to fall sports. Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren and the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors decided to postpone the 2020 fall sports season and work towards playing in the spring. The decision means no Illini football, volleyball, soccer or cross country this semester. “Unfortunately, despite best efforts on our campus and across the conference, the remaining unknowns and uncertainties stemming from COVID-19 ultimately proved insurmountable,” athletic director Josh Whitman said in a press release Aug. 11. “The health and safety of our student-athletes, staff and our community must drive our decisions. We will support our studentathletes as they deal with the emotions stemming from today’s decision. We continue to work with the Big Ten on future plans as we move forward with returning our student-athletes to classes and training.” While the Pac-12 also announced the postponement of fall sports, the other Power Five conferences— SEC, ACC and Big 12—are all still on track to play this fall. Despite many rumors fly-
ing around on social media regarding a potential overturn of the original decision by Warren, the commissioner put out an open letter to the Big Ten community on Aug. 19 to explain his decision and clarify he would not be revisiting the situation. “We thoroughly understand and deeply value what sports mean to our studentathletes, their families, our coaches and our fans,” Warren said in the letter. “The vote by the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors (COP/C) was overwhelmingly in support of postponing fall sports and will not be revisited. The decision was thorough and deliberative, and based on sound feedback, guidance and advice from medical experts.” Warren cited rising transmission rates of COVID-19, unknown effects of the virus and concerns of contact tracing as the main factors that led to the postponement. The postponement has been disappointing for the entire athletic department, but Whitman’s goal now is to move forward and plan for the future. “(Tuesday) night as I was wrapping up a long, hard day I was filled with a lot of different emotions,” Whitman said in a Zoom conference Aug.
SEE FALL SPORTS | 3B will look to build on his Big Ten Freshman of the Year campaign. Dosunmu has a legitimate chance to be Illinois’ first All-American since Dee Brown in 2006. Together, they will look to bring Illinois back to the Final Four. “I want to win … I want to put Illinois in a position where to win a national championship and contend for a national championship,” Dosunmu said. “When I committed here I said I wanted to turn the program around, and I think we’re definitely right there. Now it’s just time to execute.” Dosunmu will look to bring Illinois fans more joy and victories this season, like the one against Iowa last season. His decision to return along with Cockburn was a start and was the best THE DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTO news Illinois fans heard all Illinois wide receiver Josh Imatorbhebhe and teammates summer. celebrate a touchdown during the game against Wisconsin @brandonsimberg simberg2@dailyillini.com
on Oct. 19. Big Ten commissioner and the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors made the decision to postpone the 2020 fall sports season on August 11.
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Illini remember greatness of late Lou Henson BY GABBY HAJDUK SPORTS EDITOR
On July 29, the college basketball world and the Illini community received the news they had lost a legend and friend. Lou Henson, the most winningest coach in Illinois men’s basketball history, passed away just days earlier. “Our Orange and Blue hearts are heavy,” said Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman in a press release July 29. “We have lost an Illini icon. We have lost a role model, a friend, and a leader. We have lost our coach. Coach Henson may be gone, but the memories he provided us, and the legacy he created, will last forever. He was responsible for almost 800 wins in the record book and countless Fighting Illini moments frozen in time, but Coach Henson’s true measure will be felt in the lives he touched — the lives of his former players, people on this campus, and friends in our broader community.” We are all better for whatever time we were privileged to spend with Coach Lou, whether it was five minutes or 50 years. He made everyone feel like a friend. I so enjoyed my time with Coach these last five years, and I will miss him.
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The 1989 Flyin’ Illini and Lou Henson pose on the court on Feb. 23, 2019. The Illini community was informed of Lou Henson’s passing on July 29.
Our thoughts and prayers are with Mary, Lisa, Lori, Leigh-Anne and the entire Henson family. Their family will always be part of ours.” Before accepting the Illinois coaching position, Henson integrated the Hardin-Simmons basketball program, posting a 67-36 record over four sea-
sons. Henson then spent nine years at New Mexico State, leading the Aggies to the 1970 Final Four while totaling 173 wins. Henson’s legacy at Illinois may never be topped. The Hall of Famer coached the Illini from 19751996, garnering a 423224 record, 15 postseason bids, 12 NCAA tournament
appearances and 11 20-win seasons. Henson’s reputation at the highest level of college basketball was unmatched. His Illini earned a top-5 seed in the NCAA tournament seven straight years from 1984 through 1990. His most notable team was the 1988-1989 Flyin’ Illini. The Flyin’ Illini, com-
prised of Kenny Battle, Kendall Gill, Stephen Bardo, Marcus Liberty, Nick Anderson and Lowell Hamilton, posted a 31-5 record and placed second in the Big Ten. Henson led the legendary squad to the Final Four where Illinois fell to eventual-champion Michigan in a two-point decision. Many Flyin’ Illini mem-
bers took to social media within the early days of Henson’s passing to show appreciation for their former coach and lifelong friend. “Too many words to fit into this tweet,” Gill said on Twitter. “But he’s the Greatest Coach that I’ve ever played for! What a Man! Thank you, Lou Henson!” “Hearing the news of my college coach Lou Henson passed away over the weekend! Lou taught us a ton of lessons that really kicked in as adults,” Bardo said on Twitter. “Truly underrated coach and a great man. Rest easy Coach!” Deon Thomas, the alltime leading Illini scorer, talked with Bardo on Bardo’s Breakdown Facebook Live about how Henson changed the trajectory of his life. “He changed my life,” said Thomas on the Facebook Live. “And not only my life but he changed the trajectory of so many in my family. ... I grew up on west side of Chicago in a (bad) situation. Really (bad) situation. My mom was a crackhead. I was already into some stuff I shouldn’t have been doing. After all that, I SEE HENSON | 3B
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Block I changes fall plans BY JACKSON JANES ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
On Aug. 11, the Big Ten announced all fall sports would be canceled. Hundreds of Illinois student-athletes were affected by this decision, with football, volleyball, soccer and cross country all left uncertain about their seasons this school year. One off-the-field group was also handed a big challenge without sports this fall: Block I, the official name of the student group seen at every home game in the north stands of Memorial Stadium. Block I is a branch of Illini Pride, a student organization that supports all of the University’s varsity sports teams. Founded in 1977, Illini Pride consists of three main sections: Block I, Orange Krush, which attends men’s basketball home games at State Farm Center, and their Olympic sections, who go to volleyball games at Huff Hall and soccer at Demirjian Park. Though none of these teams will play in the fall, Block I and Illini Pride have found ways to bring the “gameday” experience to members, even if there aren’t any games to attend. John Sullivan, junior in AHS who is in charge of coordinating Block I affairs, says the revamped Illini Pride membership will allow students to experience games if they happen in the winter and spring, while also giving members opportunities to stay active in the fall. “Since games can’t be played with a full capacity, we are offering an Illini Pride membership this year which will be $50; with this membership you will be able to attend all events,” Sullivan said. “If sports are available
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The first couple of months this summer were hard for sports fans who missed what would have been the traditional mid-season baseball and NBA finals at the same time. As many sports were using the summer to figure out how to play amid a pandemic, one league had a successful summer season despite COVID-19. The Basketball Tournament, or TBT, was able to host a single-elimination style tournament. House of ‘Paign, which was the team made up of many Illinois alumni, was one of the 24 teams invited to Columbus, Ohio, to compete in the tournament. The House of ‘Paign team was made up of nine players, including six Illinois alumni and three from other schools. The Illinois alumni included Cameron Liss, Leron Black, Nnanna Egwu, Michael Finke, Malcolm Hill and, the most recent Illinois player, Andrés Feliz. The team was coached by Illini alum Mike LaTulip. House of ‘Paign came into the tournament ranked No. 16, which drew them the No. 17 seeded team, War Tampa, for their first match of the tournament. In that first game, Mike Daum, who would become an Illini fan favorite on Twitter, dropped 21 points and 13 rebounds, leading the team
to a 76-53 win. Feliz continued his scrappy and energetic play that made him so popular in Champaign, scoring 20 and grabbing seven boards. House of ‘Paign’s defense was the key to the first game as War Tampa was held to 30% shooting from the field and an even lower 13% from three. “We knew coming in that we have enough offensive firepower. We knew that to start the game and get us going we needed defense and toughness,” Hill said. “The staff did a great job preaching to start on the defensive end, play hard and be physical.” The odds were stacked high in the second game, as House of ‘Paign ran into the No. 1 seeded Carmen’s Crew, who took home the championship the year prior. House of ‘Paign relied on its two top scorers again, Daum and Feliz, to pull off the upset of the tournament, winning the game 76-68. Daum poured in an efficient 23 points, going 8-10 on the field and a perfect 3-3 from three. Feliz added a nice stat line, putting up 15 points, eight rebounds and five assists. House of ‘Paign entered the quarter-finals against the University of Dayton’s alumni team, No. 8 Red Scare. For the first time in the tournament, Daum
didn’t lead the team in scoring after struggling with his shot, as red scare sent House of ‘Paign home in the third round of the tournament 83-76. Feliz led the team in scoring, rebounds and steals, going 17, 14 and four, respectively. Chicago native and DePaul alumni Billy Garrett Jr. added 16 points but even those two stat lines were not enough for the House of ‘Paign. “That’s a good team. They’re smart guys and they won,” LaTulip said. “Some of those guys played on an Elite 8 team and others were probably favorites in some odds to win a national championship.” House of ‘Paign’s effort was rewarded with multiple post-tournament accolades. They received the fifth spot in the final 2020 TBT power rankings, and the team’s two best players, Daum and Feliz, were both on the tournament’s All-Defensive team. With the loss, House of ‘Paign ended a very productive run in their first year of the tournament. Although they fell short of their ultimate goal, they gave Illini fans something to root for after a promising Illini team’s March hopes were taken from them. @brendyn_jones brendyn2@dailyillini.com
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Fans in the Block I student section jangle their keys in the air during a kickoff in the game against Michigan State at Memorial Stadium on Nov. 5, 2016.
in the spring, then we would implement a lottery system. If sports don’t happen or are played off-campus, we would host watch parties.” If the rules and regulations announced Aug. 6 remain in place in the spring, this lottery system would be the only way for students to obtain tickets for basketball or football tickets if limited capacity is used for sporting events this year. In the fall, Block I plans on having a few philanthropy events, with funds going toward COVID-19 relief or other charitable causes, along with two or three outdoor, inperson events if city guidelines permit larger gatherings during the fall semester. Virtual events, including a trivia night, are also in the works, though nothing is official yet, Sullivan says. Students interested in
becoming an Illini Pride member can ask questions during virtual Quad Days, though an informational session may be offered in the coming weeks. Though nothing is set in stone for any in-person attendance at sporting events this year, Sullivan wants to ensure students still get to cheer on their team, even though it may be from a distance. “We want to be able to give die-hard Illini fans the opportunity to watch games even if we can’t actually be at the event itself,” Sullivan said. For the most up-to-date information on Illini Pride’s fall plans, visit www.illinipride.com or follow them on Twitter @IlliniPride. @JacksonJanes3 janes6@dailyillini.com
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House of Paign player Billy Garrett goes for a layup during the match against Red Scare on July 10. House of ‘Paign was one of the 24 teams invited to Columbus, Ohio. to compete in The Basketball Tournament, a single-elimination style tournament.
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generations. They saved my life. If it wasn’t for Coach Henson, I don’t know if I was the first person in my would be here today. That’s family to go to college, let just truth.” alone graduate. There’s three people who changed More of Henson’s career the trajectory of my life highlights can be found and my family’s future for at www.dailyillini.com/
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12. “As I closed my eyes to go to sleep I thought, ‘OK, when we wake up tomorrow we’ve got to be ready to get back to work.’ I think there are people who spend a lot of time complaining about where we are. There are a lot of other people who get busy trying to develop solutions. We have to be in that latter group.” Head football coach Lovie Smith has adopted the same mentality, spreading the message, ‘control what we can control’ to his team. The 2020 Illinois football team was expected to be the best of Smith’s tenure and while those expectations might be put on hold until the spring or next fall, they will remain true until the next opportunity to play comes. “I’m just holding true to keeping this football team together,” Smith said in a Zoom conference Aug. 12. “And eventually we’re going to be stronger, when we get a chance to win, we get a chance to play. And that’s the thing, we are going to play.” The football team was given a couple of weeks off with the option to return home before resuming workouts on Aug. 24. @gabby_h11 ghajduk2@dailyillini.com
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Professional sports return efficiently, safely NHL, NBA and MLB enact safety measures to continue their seasons BY CARSON GOURDIE ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
W hen sports across the board got canceled in March, fans went through something unimaginable: no games to watch for three months. With March Madness canceled, the major professional sports postponed and Big Ten football canceled this fall, fans have received a gut punch from the coronavirus. However, after months of only having Netf lix or NBA dunk highlights, three out of the four major professional sports are back, appearing they will be able to finish their season. Thankfully, due to some creative measures by league commissioners, we have the NHL, NBA and MLB to catch you up on.  In March, the NHL appeared to have a wideopen race for the Stanley Cup. That has since only gotten bigger. The NHL made a change to the playoffs, allowing 24 teams to make the postseason, instead of the usual 16. Teams like the Chicago Blackhawks, who finished dead last in their division, were given new life, and they took advantage. Playing 5-seed Edmonton Oilers on their home ice, the Chicago Blackhawks stunned Wayne Gretzky’s former team in
four games to reach the next round. Although the Hawks lost their next series against the Vegas Golden Knights, the bubble gave them the chance to prove they can play with anybody. Right now, the NHL is nearing the quarterfinals. With teams like Boston and St. Louis still alive, it’s truly anyone’s guess on who will hoist the cup this season. LeBron Ja mes a nd Giannis Antetokounmpo appeared to be on a mission in March. But COVID-19 restrictions halted their momentum and now they’re trying to regain their forms. The NBA, the first league to cancel sports, came up with the idea to have a bubble in Orlando, Florida, and so far it has been incredibly efficient. With frequent testing and a bubble, the NBA received no positive tests, which allows players to relax and continue to play some entertaining ball. The NBA so far has been crazy with underdog teams showing their skills. The Phoenix Suns, who were horrible in the regular season, went 8-0 during the seeding round but still missed out on the postseason due to Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers. Lillard, who won the seeding round MVP, has been ridiculous, as he’s regularly scoring in the 40s each game. But while Lillard and his team have garnered a lot of attention, the title still runs through Los Angeles with both teams — Clippers and Lakers — looking like the favorites to win the Western Confer-
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The Chicago Blackhawks celebrate a 3-2 victory against the Edmonton Oilers to win Game 4 and clinch the Western Conference Qualification Round series at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, on Aug. 7. After the cancellation of sports in March, the NHL season restarted and is now nearing the quarterfinals.
ence while Toronto, Milwaukee and Boston look good in the East. Finally, the MLB is back, although it appeared unlikely. Unable to come to an agreement, players and owners were taking a chance on just canceling the season and losing fans. However, with a 60-game season and expanded playoffs, a season was made.
But even that has been shaky. Being the only league without a bubble for its teams, players were getting positive tests for coronavirus, which sometimes affected whole teams. The Miami Marlins had to take almost a week off because too many players got the virus. The same goes for the St. Louis Cardinals.
With numerous cancellations, the MLB has 33 games to make up in a shortened season, which means seven-inning doubleheaders will have to be heavily implemented. However, it’s not all bad news. Most teams have stayed safe and been playing regularly. The Chicago Cubs started off on fire, going 12-3 despite horrible
relief pitching. The Chicago White Sox, who haven’t had a winning season since 2012, have been out-hitting teams in their 15-11 start. With an expanded playoff, it’s very possible Chicago has both of their teams in the playoffs for only the third time in 114 years. @gourdiereport gourdie2@dailyillini.com
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Illini baseball reaches new heights over summer BY RICH EBERWEIN STAFF WRITER
With the Big Ten postponing all fall sports due to COVID-19, the Illinois baseball team won’t be able to participate in their fall exhibition games and will instead look to the spring and hope their regular season is still on track for a February debut. Until then, we can look back on some highlights the baseball team had over the summer.
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Each senior that took the field for the Illini baseball team at the beginning of 2020 will not be returning to the team next season, despite the NCAA granting spring sport athletes an extra year of eligibility. Closer Garrett Acton, fresh off setting the all-time saves record for Illinois, signed a free-agent contract with the Oakland Athletics following the 2020 first-year player draft. Similarly, rotation ace Ty Weber won’t be taking his extra year of eligibility and instead opt to take a contract with the San Francisco Giants. Setup man Ryan Schmitt will be moving on from baseball and pursuing other endeavors. Outfielder Nick Menken and left-handed pitcher Josh Harris will also be stepping away from baseball and saying their goodbyes to Illinois Field. These departures will leave considerable shoes to fill, not only in the pitching staff but also in the clubhouse, as these seniors were veteran leaders on the staff.
After splitting the 2019 season between Cincinnati and Oakland, Roark remained the only Illini in the MLB until Aug. 4, when former Illini closer Joey Gerber made his debut for the Mariners in a game against the Los Angeles Angels. Gerber was taken in the eighth round of the 2018 draft and quickly made his way through the Mariners’ minor league system before setting down the first three men he faced in the show. As of Aug. 20, Gerber has pitched a total of 5.1 innings for the Mariners, appearing in five games.
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The next time Illinois Field sees action, it will have an artificial turf field as opposed to grass field. This comes shortly after the latest rendering of the new baseball training facility currently being built adjacent to the aforementioned Illinois Field. A leading gift of $3 million by Susie Atkins helped kick off the project, which is slated for completion in January 2022. “We are committed to making Illinois Field a first-class facility for player development,” said head coach Dan Hartleb via FightingIllini. com. “Installing the new turf continues our commitment, along with the addition of the Susan and Clint Atkins Baseball Training Center. These projects will allow our student-athletes to excel as we push forward with our goal of competing at the national level every year and to win a national championship.” A full indoor field, team lounge, locker rooms and Two pitchers represent Illinois state-of-the-art analysis in the majors equipment are just some of During the long baseball off- the features that will aid an season, former Illini starting already successful baseball pitcher Tanner Roark signed a program. THE DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTO two-year, $24 million contract Illinois pitcher Garrett Acton delivers the pitch during the game against Michigan in the Big Ten Tournament at TD Ameritrade with the Toronto Blue Jays. rse3@dailyillini.com Park on May 23, 2019. Due to COVID-19, the Illini baseball team will not participate in fall exhibition games.
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buzz factor: Glass Animals seem to have resplendent aspirations for their latest 2020 release. Compared to previous works by the indie-pop outfit, “Dreamland” revels in harder hitting and more illustrious melodies. Despite all this, it is still unclear if Glass Animals is trying too hard or not hard at all on every track. Each song sounds as if someone had just looked up a generic synthpop beat and heavily masked it with layers upon layers of extraneous production. One of the more egregious examples of this comes from the title track, “Dreamland,” which devolves into an utter cacophony of repetitive sounds throughout the song. Presumably, the first track’s overly maximalist effort is setting the tone for the rest of the record. And at first, it seems as though Glass Animals will present a concept album centered around reminiscence, which is also hinted at by the recordings of home movies from singer Dave Bayley’s childhood,
interspersed throughout the album. However, the only songs that seem to be concerned with nostalgia are “Dreamland” and “Space Ghost Coast to Coast,” the rest being the usual fare of relationship songs. “Domestic Bliss” does stick out as the song deals with the conscious topic of domestic abuse, but Bayley only stays around the surface level with this subject matter. The chorus “Fight for me / We can leave, I’m beggin’, please / On my-on my knees, go to Hawaii” is so painfully plain and only worsened by the arbitrary mention of Hawaii, as if Bayley was so stressed to come up with a decent rhyme. Curiously, this is the high point of lyricism on the album with the low end being the song “Melon and the Coconut.” Don’t think it’s an apt metaphor for anything. Ostensibly, the melon and the coconut are supposed to be stand-ins for lovers who are breaking up with each other, but at no point in the song does it become apparent that these two needed to be fruit. In an interview with FLOOD Magazine, Bayley admitted that he wrote this
song an hour after a nap. The decision to keep the song as is was to preserve the rawness, although that choice is arguable. There are a couple of shining beacons of light in “Dreamland,” those being the songs “Tokyo Drifting” and “Heat Waves.” Although the lyrics are expectedly homespun as can be, these songs at least offer catchy beats. “Tokyo Drifting” has a trap drum line complemented nicely with Denzel Curry’s rapping on the track, who certainly steals the show when he appears. “Heat Waves” has an energetic low bass rhythm that is only serviceable if listened to on a good speaker. Glass Animals may be too over their heads with “Dreamland.” Their pseudoartiness by preserving “raw” sounds and a grating hodgepodge of sounds has let the band step forward and two steps back with their music. From such a high-profile group, it’s disappointing to see that their first output of the decade is generic at best, but at least not every song on “Dreamland” is unsavory.
10-11 p.m. WEFT Sessions Free WEFT Community Radio brings you WEFT Sessions: Live, local music from the studio. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we are doing solo/duo acts only. This week’s featured artist is The Dawn Patrol. The Dawn Patrol graced WEFT with her presence once before, under the moniker ‘Clockwork Owl.’ This will be the first appearance for the new project name, which has ported over the impeccable songwriting and lo-fi goodness.
Virtual Open Mic Night via Zoom!
7:30 - 11:30 p.m. An online event hosted by The Canopy Club Free Join the Champaign-Urbana Open Mic Nights crew, including Mike Ingram for Champaign County, Anika Emily, Moe Pesci da Goodfella, Jake Fava Music, Lola Honey and more for weekly COVID-19 induced Zoom open mics. Until we can all be back at The Canopy Club, this is the best we’ve got.
Start + Grow Your Side Hustle
Noon - 1 p.m. An online event hosted by the Champaign Public Library Free with reservation Join us for this virtual workshop, where we’ll talk about strategies for turning your skills and abilities into money-making enterprises. In this workshop, we’ll cover what a “side hustle” is, how it works and some of the opportunities made possible by the gig economy. We’ll give you some tips and tricks for making the most of your side gig and share some of the pitfalls to look out for.
Online Mindful Meditation with Mary Wolters
12:30 - 1 p.m. An online event hosted by the Spurlock Museum Free During each 30–minute session, Mary will help participants bring a focus to their breathing and share tips for how to engage mindfully. Present moment awareness can be elusive, and we often find ourselves distracted or lost in thought. Through mindful meditation training, we can discover a calm amidst our to-do lists and appreciate each day’s gift. No registration or special equipment is necessary, and participants may attend as many or few sessions as they like.
Native versus Nativars
7 - 9 p.m. An online event hosted by the University of Illinois Extension Free Join Champaign County Master Gardeners for Natives versus Nativars with Extension Horticulture Educator Ryan Pankau. Native plants are essential to maintaining the biodiversity of both plant and animal species in Illinois. Many plant native species are known for their beautiful blooms or attractive foliage. However, they also support native insect populations that are vital to everything from plant pollination to supporting the lower rungs of our diverse and interconnected food web.
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Attendees dance during the last day of the 2019 Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago. COVID-19 canceled most mass gatherings leaving an uncertain future for on-campus festivals.
Summer festival cancellations potentially dictate CU festivals’ fate BY JILLIAN LITTLE BUZZ EDITOR
Summer music festivals often serve as the year’s highlight for many people. It’s always a treat seeing artists from a plethora of music genres, participating in festival fashion and sharing meaningful experiences with friends and loved ones. But with the rise of COVID-19, most of these mass gatherings couldn’t occur. The cancellation or rescheduling of some of these festivals happened relatively quickly compared to others. First, Coachella announced its postponement to the fall months in mid-March. In May, festivals like Pitchfork, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza canceled after realizing the chance of COVID-19 cases decreasing by the summer’s end was grim. The scatteredness of these cancellations shows that there was no protocol when dealing with a global epidemic. All aspects of entertainment took a massive hit during COVID-19, especially the live music industry. Scheduling a music festival takes time, effort and money. Organizers need to think about an enormous scope of things, from booking a lineup to finding funds through grants. Once the only option was to can-
cel, festivals and their hosting cities lost money. On top of that, artists either canceled their upcoming tours or found themselves in creative blocks, according to the Los Angeles Times. By the end of 2020, the live music industry could suffer a loss of $9 billion. These disparities haven’t stopped some artists from performing on online platforms, and some music festivals have done the same. On June 9, Perry Farell, one of Lollapalooza’s creators, announced that the music festival would stream artist interviews and performances, past and present, on Youtube for free. Though this virtual substitute didn’t give off the same energy as going to the in-person festival, it gave those who couldn’t afford tickets in the previous years the experience of seeing performances by their favorite artists. The interviews also shed light on rising stars whose performances often get overlooked during the in-person festival. Other festivals have tried to keep a communal aspect of listening to music while maintaining social distancing. Drive-in concerts have sprung up across the country. Though the photos of these gatherings might seem apocalyptic, they offer a solution to stand-
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Rapper Pusha T performs live at the Pitchfork Music Festival on July 19, 2019.
ing in massive crowds for extended periods of time. People can also socially distance at restaurants and bars to watch livestreamed music. NOLA’s Rock Bar, located on Main St. in Urbana, streams past and present performances from the Summer Camp Music Festival’s history on Thursday nights. What the future has in store for festivals on cam-
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pus is uncertain. The Urbana Sweetcorn Festival and C-U Black and African Arts Festival, which both would’ve had live music, have already been canceled and moved online. Pygmalion Music Festival brings in a hefty audience each year. With its date coming up in September and no information on the festival’s website regarding whether it’s still on, it could
be stressful for organizers to find musicians willing to play. Though the cancellation of music festivals might persist in the future, there are still opportunities for music lovers to experience the C-U music scene. Stay up to date with the schedules of local music venues and bars. Chances are some musicians can perform in front of small gatherings
with proper social distancing measures. Local musicians also stream live music sessions, which people can access at home through Facebook and Instagram. As long as the C-U community does its part in following COVID-19 guidelines, we’ll most likely see a return of in-person festival culture, better than before. jel3@readbuzz.com
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Taken Single
Cuffed
Self-Partnered
On a Break FWB
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Where Fun and Fantasy Meet PATRICIA'S HAS WHAT YOU NEED 2208 S. Neil St., Champaign Mon - Thur: 9 AM - 10 PM | Fri - Sat: 9 AM - Midnight | Sunday: 1 PM - 10 PM