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CRIME AND PUNISHMENTUNOFFICIAL NUMBERS: PAST AND PRESENT

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Public possession of alcohol tickets nar-rowly beats out minors in possession of

alcohol tickets around noon.

Tickets given out remain fairly constant starting around 10

a.m., with a significant dip around 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

149 tickets between 9 and 10 p.m. This hour has the greatest percent-

age of minor in possession of alcohol tickets given out, at 70 percent.

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Pedestrian safetyNot only will police be on the

look-out for students darting into traffic but cars or bicycles that fail to abide by traffic regulations will also be issued citations. Campus speed limits will drop to 25 mph Friday to slow traffic down.

Deputy Chief Skip Frost of the University Police Department said the departments will increase traffic enforcement patrols for the day.

“When I say it’s a zero tolerance day, that’s traffic as well,” he said.

Party hostsLt. Jim Clark of the Champaign

Police Department said police will aggressively enforce the social host law, an amendment to the liquor control act which went into effect Jan. 1. Under this law, if police are called to a party, the host could be charged with a Class A misdemeanor for serving alcohol to underage drinkers in their home and a Class 4 felony if serious injuries or death results.

Frost said the main goal of the law is just to keep parties under control and safe from overcrowding.

OvercrowdingDeputy Chief Skip Frost of the

University Police Department said both police and area fire departments will pay careful attention to overcrowding this year.

“If you’re going to have the party, keep it small,” said Lt. Jim Clark of the Champaign Police Department. “Only allow invited guests into your party.”

If people are participating responsibly, Frost said, they usually aren’t the ones talking to cops.

Corinne can be reached at [email protected].

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HIGH TICKETING AROUND THE

CLOCK FOR VISITORS

EARLY TO RISE: University stu-dents were those ticketed most

early in the mornings, and make up the majority of the tickets through.

DETHRONED: But after 1 p.m., alcohol-related crime is dominated by

non-University students.

AFTERNOON LULL: After 3 p.m., University

students cease mak-ing up more than 40

percent of the tickets given out, with the

numbers dwindling throughout the night.

BEDTIME FOR SOME: By the late evening hours,

tickets given out to University students has all but halted,

but tickets continue at a steady rate for non-students.

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University students ticketed

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ATHLETES AND UNOFFICIAL

Athletics is usually unaffected by Unofficial.

Find out why.

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SENDING THEM OUT IN STYLE

Men’s basketball says goodbye to five seniors

Saturday against Nebraska.

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THIS YEAR, POLICE SAY THEY WILL BE CRACKING DOWN ON:

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GRAPHICS BY BRYAN LORENZ, MICHAEL MIOUX, AND SHANNON LANCOR THE DAILY ILLINI

NATHANIEL LASHMANAGING EDITOR FOR REPORTING

In preparation for the first Friday of March, The Daily Illini delved into the past four years of data on the arrests and tickets given

out on Unofficial St. Patrick Days since 2009. Tracking where and when those tickets were issued, students (and visitors, who make

up nearly 65 percent of all tickets issued on Unofficial) should be better equipped to make responsible choices on Friday and

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55 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

110 NON-UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

39 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

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Champaign Criminal damage to prop-

erty was reported in the 200 block of East Armory Avenue around 3 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, tires were slashed twice with-in one week.

Theft was reported in the 2000 block of West Bradley Avenue around 1 p.m. Wednes-day.

According to the report, the victim’s laptop was stolen.

Residential burglary was reported in the 2000 block of West Bradley Avenue around 8:30 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, cur-rency and two computers were stolen from the victim’s resi-dence.

Urbana Sexual assault was report-

ed in the 1900 block of North Lincoln Avenue around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, the offender was having sexual in-tercourse with the victim, who made verbal requests to stop. The victim was inebriated to the point of having little mo-tor function. She only wanted to report the incident and was not interested in prosecution or a complete investigation.

University A 23-year-old male was ar-

rested on multiple charges at the Activities and Recreation Center, 201 E. Peabody Drive, around 7 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, the suspect was arrested on charges of theft of servic-es, resisting/obstructing a po-lice officer and trespassing on state-supported land. The sus-pect entered the center with-out paying and did not co-operate with police. He had previously been issued a no trespassing letter from police.

A 49-year-old male was ar-

rested on the charge of unlaw-ful use of registration near Neil and Green streets around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, a patrol officer found that the vehicle the suspect was driv-ing did not have matching plates and registration.

A 43-year-old female was arrested on charges related to a Feb. 13 traffic stop near First and Green streets at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, the suspect was arrested on the charges of driving with a suspended license, operating an uninsured vehicle and ob-structing identification. Dur-ing the Feb. 13 traffic stop, the suspect was initially pulled over for having one operat-ing headlight and gave po-lice a false name. Police later learned that she had provided a false name.

Compiled by Maggie Huynh

HOROSCOPES

POLICE

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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)Today is a 9 -- Let your partner do the talking. To avoid problems, play the game exactly by the book. Then watch the magic. Prayer and meditation are powerful tools. Get talked into an outing later.

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or purchase a ticket. Ask for more money. Conditions are changing in your favor. Don’t tell everyone everything.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)Today is an 8 -- You’re under a bit more pressure now. It’s not a good time to travel. Complete projects for a beneficial development. Friends think you’re brilliant. You’re the hero.

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AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is a 9 -- You’re entering a service phase. Consider career advancement today and tomorrow. Turn objections into agreement by using gentle persuasion and finesse. Provide leadership. Tell a story with a happy ending.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is an 8 -- Visualize immense success (no small stuff). Make lists of what you really want. Invest in your career with time and/or money. Do something nice for someone who’s confined. Pamper yourself.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

THE CENTER FORADVANCED STUDYUNIVERSIT Y OF ILLINOIS

The Annual Philosophy Lecture

Human Beings: What Sets Us Apart?Lynne Rudder BakerDepartment of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at AmherstPhilosophical investigations into the nature of persons have tended to focus on features of our mental lives that set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Yet the modern synthesis in biology has made it clear that we are biological beings, continuous with the rest of the animal kingdom. Lynne Rudder Baker defends a view that recognizes our uniqueness even as it tries to show how we are part of the world of organisms.

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BY JACQUI OGRODNIKSTAFF WRITER

Art made from recycled materi-als such as paper, bottle caps, old sponges and used twine, will be displayed and sold at the I.D.E.A. Store’s Hatch art festival Friday.

Hatch is the first creative-reuse art festival produced by the I.D.E.A. Store, a repurposing mar-ketplace located in Champaign. The festival is also a fundraiser for the store where there’s a $5 suggested donation for entering the festival.

“The money that we make all goes back to the Champaign-Urba-na Schools Foundation, and the money then gets distributed to the Champaign-Urbana public schools,” said Melissa Mitchell, an organiz-er on the Hatch committee and the I.D.E.A. Store’s communications coordinator.

The Hatch art festival was spon-sored by Indi Go Artist Co-op, News-Gazette, Knox-Array Event Production, Lite Rock 97.5 WHMS,

U-Rock 107.9 and NewsTalk 1400 WDWS-AM.

Mitchell said the main purpose of the festival is to encourage peo-ple to think creatively about what they can do with an object before they throw it away.

Each artist will use recycled mate-rials to create dif-ferent pieces of work ranging from murals to quilts to sculptures.

This exhibition features about 25 pieces of creative-reuse art, including Laura Wennstrom’s “Security Blanket,” a large quilt made completely out of used security enve-lopes, and Christina McClelland’s “Touchstone,” a ring made from recycled glass, craft paper, dry pasta and spray paint.

“I am attracted to recycled mate-rials,” said Michelle Stitzlein, the festival’s artist-in-residence. “They

have a history. They have a story all on their own before they even enter my studio.”

Other artists, such as Deborah Fell, enjoy the challenge of reusing

old materials to cre-ate something new.

“I use recycled materials because I find it a challenge to give something already used a sec-ond life,” she said in an email. “It allows me to repurpose something meant for something else.”

The festival begins Friday from 5-7 p.m. with an opening reception of the art exhibition at the Indi Go Artist Co-op, 9 E. Universi-

ty Ave. The exhibition will remain open from March 5-17.

Hatch will continue on into Sat-urday, where 24 artist-vendors will sell their artwork at an all-day art fair located in the McKinley Fit-ness Center gymnasium, 500 W.

Church St.During this time, Stitzlein will

teach her adult workshop for art teachers, art educators or any adult interested in working with recycled materials. Participants will make a mini bottle cap mural. These caps range from soda bottle caps to laun-dry detergent caps.

“They will take those projects home with them, and possibly they’ll do a school project based on that technique,” she said. “Hope-fully they will be able to pass it on to their students at their schools on a much larger project.”

The festival will end Sunday with a gallery talk moderated by Kel-ly White, executive director of 40 North. In the gallery talk, selected artists, including Stitzlein, will dis-cuss their work and inspirations.

Stitzlein said she will focus her talk on how her work has been inspired by nature and the work of other artists from various coun-tries who used materials that had humble origins.

Jacqui can be reached at [email protected].

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Student trustee candidates show what they knowBY TYLER DAVIS STAFF WRITER

The Daily Illini editorial board sat down with the six student trustee can-didates to further understand their views and goals for the campus.

Daily Illini: Why should we pick you as our student trustee?

Mike Cunningham: (I will be) 110 per-cent accessible, always open, available to students ... One of my main goals is talking to every single RSO. LaDarius DuPree: I am not afraid to get ... mucky with the politics. I’m not afraid to say, “No, this is not going to happen.”Ryan Gleason: I’m looking to repre-sent 100 percent of the students. That begins with financial stability... It’s nothing worse to see than a student get that acceptance letter ... and say, “I simply can’t afford it.”Brian Siegel: I toe the perfect middle ground between your average student and (a student senator)...This isn’t just a resume stuffer for me.Carey Ash: I’ve been both an under-graduate and a graduate. Now granted

I have not been an undergraduate here, but I’ve been here a lifetime ... From my time in the career center ... to my time in the student senate on academic policy, educational policy and budget, everything I have done has been to better the students of this campus.Shao Guo: I love every student who has been here at this University. I can see leadership potential in all of you ... I follow the same philosophy as our first president John Milton Gregory followed when he set the foundations for this first student government in the United States in 1870. He saw that students enter and leave as leaders.

DI: What initiatives, plans or projects do you have planned should you get this position?

BS: I created a listserv of the lead-ers of almost every RSO to bring their voices to me so I could have all of that with one email.CA: I’d like to revive, I’d like to rethink and I’d like to renew the Uni-versity of Illinois. As to reviving ... it’s a little bit different than a listserv. I think we’ve actually got to go out and

meet the leaders of these RSOs ... so I’d like to create a round table of them and have them advise the student trustee because right now the student trustee is unbound ... As to rethinking the Twenty-first Century University, we need (to take) a stern look at gen-eral education requirements. Many of our colleagues are paying for classes that they will never use.SG: I want to finish the history of stu-dent government up to this point ... For the present, I want to survey every-body. I want to go out there and be directly visible; if I’m elected I’ll be out on the Quad most of my days serv-ing people ... As for the future, I want to recreate a freshmen council on this campus.MC: One of the things I want to do is (break down fees and) costs (line by line) ... and see where we can actually cut some unnecessary costs to give to other programs at our University that are suffering ... We can reach out to our legislators as a whole and really utilize our alumni network. If we can just get our alumni who ... love Illinois and credit Illinois for their successes, I think that we can make up for some

of the money that the state owes us. LD: Get more money to student affairs because I feel that student affairs the way it is on campus right now, it’s one of our biggest programs — all of our students are engaged in student affairs in one way or another, but there never seems to be enough mon-ey to make sure that all the programs (get done right).RG: I want to lead us to a stable cam-pus going into the future, start-ing with financial stability ... I’d like to cap in-state tuition, room, board and fees ... I’d like to lock the rate of tuition with inflation ... I’d like another 200 security cameras on campus to bring our total to over 1000.

DI: What is your plan to keep tuition increases down so that students can still have access to this University?

CA: We make sure that we create pro-grams or we defend the programs that are in existence (like) MAP grants. We should take a strong reassessment to look at fees to see which ones are there that are burdensome to students ... However, students should have the

right to petition the University to say, “I am not going to pay this fee. I can-not pay this fee.”SG: My plan would be to emulate the strategies from the early 2000s. Back then they did a massive tuition survey every year, sometimes surveying over 10,000 students regarding how much they wanted their tuition to increase, if at all.MC: I think one of the most important things is keeping line-by-line item cut-ting costs as necessary. That will cut a significant cost of expenses for every student.LD: (I want to) get students more engaged and let them know this is where your fees are going and you need to be more participative in this process to make sure administrators are not running for your money. RG: I want students to get in here because they can afford it, and I want students to leave here with the least debt as possible.BS: We need to reverse the process of (nonrefundable) student fees.

Tyler can be reached at tadavis2@ dailyillini.com.

UNOFFICIAL 2013

Building new art from old materials

Bars prepare for Unofficial, changes to city liquor lawsPolice teach bouncers to deal with unruly patrons, fake IDsBY MEGAN VASILIADISCONTRIBUTING WRITER

With the arrival of Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day, bar bouncers and doormen are taking extra precautions for the holiday weekend.

Firehaus doorman Brandon Babic, junior in AHS, said Firehaus management sent the staff an email Monday outlining changes to the bar’s policies for the holiday. The email stated that, along with the city-mandated rule of only permitting patrons 21 years or older to enter, no glassware, pitchers, straight shots or shark bowls will be served. And because the bar will only serve customers one drink at a time, Babic said doormen will have to be on especially high alert.

Babic said that despite all of the policy changes made for the weekend, he expects it to be just like any other busy weekend.

“It’s going to be just like Homecoming or Mom or Dads Day weekend — super packed all the time,” Babic said. “With holidays like this, we expect more of an older crowd.”

Babic said that although the responsibilities for doormen and bouncers are similar, they have differ-ent job descriptions. He said bouncers’ main focus is security, while doormen are responsible for both secu-rity and maintaining a clean bar, which may include mopping or picking up garbage.

Only doormen and bouncers who are 21 years or older and have gone through the BEST training pro-gram through Champaign Police Department are allowed to check IDs at the door. This training pro-gram is a one-night, four- to five-hour class that teach-es bar staff how to decipher fake IDs from real IDs, how to handle unruly patrons and how to establish a useful force policy.

Champaign Mayor and Liquor Commissioner Don Gerard said he encourages the BEST training pro-gram. Gerard said that if the bar staff has gone through the BEST training program, the bar and its owners will have the benefit of the doubt if charged with a violation, which is a possibility for weekends such as Unofficial.

“At the end of the day, what we want is for busi-nesses to do well and people to be safe and just to fol-low our ordinances,” Gerard said. “We try to use it to encourage best business practices.”

Babic said the class was both interesting and help-ful in preparation for weekends like Unofficial.

“It taught me not necessarily just how to deal with drunk people, but also how to get them to leave on their own without force,” Babic said.

He said there was one instance about a year ago where he caught an older woman urinating in the Beer Garden. He said he let the woman finish and escorted her out of the bar, skills he learned through the training.

Champaign police Sgt. Joe Ketchem of the alcohol unit said that by having the bars participate in this pro-gram, they will all have a universal standard on how to handle certain customers that cause a disturbance.

“You don’t want the general thing to be for one bar to grab one guy and just toss them out on the street, and you don’t want another bar to not have the abil-ity to respond,” he said.

Megan can be reached at [email protected].

PHOTO COURTESY OF JACQUELINE OGRODNIK

Pictured are Jacqueline Ogrodnik's "houses" made from a solid block of wood, left over from various construction sites. Ogrodnik hand-printed linoleum block images on each side of the pieces. Ogrodnik’s art will be sold at the I.D.E.A. Store’s art festival Friday.

Festival encourages creative thinking with recyclables

“I am attracted to recycled materials. They have a history. They have a story

on their own before they even enter my studio.”

MICHELLE STITZLEIN,artist

DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINI

The six student trustee candidates discuss various campus topics and concerns with Daily Illini editors on Thursday. Elections for the student trustee, along with other leadership positions, will be March 5 and 6. From left to right: LaDarius DuPree, Ryan Gleason, Brian Siegel, Carey Ash, Shao Guo and Mike Cunningham.

Q-AND-A WITH STUDENT TRUSTEES

Opinions4AFridayMarch 1, 2013The Daily Illiniwww.DailyIllini.com

Integrated diversity. Campus safety. Jobs. Tuition allocation.

These issues are the ones that your student trustee candidates think are the most important to you.

Do you agree? Disagree?But maybe more importantly, do

you know what the student trustee is? Or the Illinois Student Senate? Or the Student Organization Resource Fee Board?

If you answered no to at least one, I’m sure you’re in the majority of students on this campus, and even I didn’t know much until recently. But what you should know is that the elections for the student trustee, as well as leadership positions in ISS and the SORF Board, are Tuesday and Wednesday.

These elections will determine the students that will decide what matters most to you, and then those students will act on those issues.

But let’s take a few steps back to clear up the air, starting with ISS.

Essentially, ISS is your student council; it has over 100 members who represent the voice of the student body, and it makes issues known to campus administration, as well as local, state and federal governments. Students directly elect senators who represent each college, and then those senators select an executive staff (president, vice president, etc.). Senators can propose resolutions, which should there be enough support among ISS, could eventually be presented to the University administration.

SORF, part of a mandatory $6 fee paid by all University students, is used to fund registered student organizations. The SORF Board, comprised of

eight elected students and three appointed staff, decides how to divvy up those funds to the RSOs.

The last of the leadership positions is the student trustee, who represents the Urbana-Champaign campus in the University’s board of trustees. There are also student trustees at the Chicago and Springfield campuses. The trustee can propose resolutions the same way ISS can.

But honestly, this small amount of information took me entirely too long to find. And once I found it, it took too long to decipher and piece together. At first, I was under the impression that the March 5 and 6 elections were only for ISS. Then, I realized that there is a Student Election Commission that organizes the election, which also contains the SORF Board and the student trustee elections. Then I had to go to all different sorts of websites, some semi-official looking, others very amateur, to find out what these organizations are. And then I tried to find out who is running for each position, which I could never find for either ISS, the SORF Board or the student trustee, even after an hour of searching — 50 minutes too long.

This is a glaring problem.It appears there is no way for

the average student to easily stay informed about student government, and especially about the upcoming elections.

ISS’ website does not even list the election on its event calendar. How are we to know all who are running for student trustee, unless we went to the debate Tuesday night or read the Daily Illini story that followed it? ISS should not expect a debate

that attracted fewer than 100 audience members to inform the campus, and it should not rely on the media to relay information about the candidates. While it is the job of the media to inform readers, it is not the media’s job to serve as publicity for an organization. I doubt this is ISS’ intention, but its lack of internal information released to the public is disappointing.

The same goes for the SORF Board and ISS senators. The SORF Board has not posted updates on its Facebook page since Nov. 6. And unlike the 2012 elections, there are no personal statements online from

student senatorial candidates.

I’m not trying to attack what these bodies do. And yes, if a student goes out to the information nights and debates that have been held for these elections, they can figure out who is running. But why can’t this information be easily available online?

Perhaps ISS and the SORF Board simply have not put the candidate

lists up online yet. However, the elections are four short days away. We need more time than that.

Come March 5 and 6, log on to vote.illinois.edu to cast your bal-lot. Though you may not know whom you’re voting for, there will be other proposals on the ballot, including a bus fee increase and renovations to Assembly Hall.

My hope is that the new mem-bers voted in to these organiza-tions will work on keeping the campus as informed as possible.

Kirsten is a sophomore in Media. She can be reached at [email protected].

Social media’s next big thing: Top 40 artists featuring screaming goats

They called it the Harlem shake. If you’ve opened any of your

social media sites in the past two weeks you’ve seen a version of the dancing craze. Children did it. Swimmers did it. Grumpy Cat — my personal favorite — got into it. And even University students gath-ered outside Foellinger Auditori-um last week, clad in their craziest costumes, dancing their Illini spir-it right onto YouTube.

It was fun while it lasted, but the shake has lost its appeal — think: MickyD’s shamrock shake in July.

Never fear, the bored and cre-ative among us have graced You-Tube with yet another soon to fade fad hitting its hay day this past week.

Goats. It’s true: Goats have stolen the

limelight not only from Harlem shakers, but also from music’s big-gest celebrities.

Several days ago a YouTuber posted a version of TSwift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” goat edi-tion. The video features Swift’s original music video for her latest hit cut with a screaming goat in all the right places. If you didn’t laugh when Swift first released this track — better known as her first attempt at country-turned-pop-turned-dub-step — you certainly will now. You-Tubers have proved that the only thing better than hearing TSwift’s

transition from country to dubstep is TSwift attempting dubstep with goats.

Swift isn’t alone. The video has exploded across social media in the past few days. Now everyone from Usher to Justin Bieber to Nicki Minaj and thousands of others are singing with the goats.

A search for “goat edition” on YouTube will present you with over 5,000 goat edition remixes — just what students gearing up for mid-terms and a certain officially unof-ficial party like to hear.

Aside from the questionable similarity of the goats’ screams to the glossed over lyrics of these stars, what makes these videos so popular?

Goats certainly don’t have the cute factor of a cuddly kitten. Or the wow-factor of a Korean pop star dancing to lyrics many Ameri-cans can’t understand but love any-way. No, these screaming goats have something far more attractive to the average YouTube viewer: unsuspecting humor.

These days you never know what Taylor Swift will come up with next (let’s all hope it’s not rap. I don’t care if you broke up with Harry Styles, and it moves you to rap out your feelings. Please do not cut a rap version). What these goat videos have is the element of shock.

For starters the goats’ screams are hilarious by themselves. Couple that funny clip with a mega-popular song and make the screams sound like lyrics and you

are golden. People watching these videos (just like those of us suck-ered into watching dozens of Har-lem Shakes) find themselves caught up in the surprise of a goat scream-ing “Ohhhh”’s from Swift, Bieber and countless others’ top hits.

They are simply entertaining. That’s what people look for nowa-

days online. They want to be more than informed and interconnect-ed; They want to be entertained. Countless websites have been erected in the hopes of making web surfers laugh (Pinterest humor cat-egory anyone?).

YouTube remains, however, king of the clowns. The accessibility and entertainment value of the site has accrued millions of loyal view-ers. It makes perfect sense. Soci-ety’s fast-track pace feeds off of snap entertainment — digital vid-eos, photos and the like made for instant entertainment value. You-Tube is the ultimate in snap enter-taining providing a plethora of vid-eos at your fingertips (after those blasted commercials) at any given moment.

Unfortunate for YouTubers, an instant entertainment-hungry soci-ety means videos have expanded to the “one hit wonder” category.

My advice: Enjoy the goat edi-tions while they last. Keep a weath-ered look on the horizon for social media’s next big thing — perhaps the Harlem Shake meets goat edi-tion in an epic mash-up? Just a thought.

SHALAYNE PULIA,freshman in Media

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JOHNIVAN DARBY THE DAILY ILLINI

Do you know whom you’re voting for?

A time to figure it out

A lthough the latest tuition increase was the smallest in years, the financial stabil-ity of this Universi-

ty is well-known. Undoubtedly, the foremost issue the Univer-sity faces is lack of funding from a state with widespread and alarming levels of debt. On a campus with such a large and diverse student body, the diffi-culty of representing the needs and wants of every student is enormous. Campus administra-tors consistently seek out new and better ways to ensure we are positioned for the future. These issues barely scratch the surface of what needs to be done here.

That is why the role of the stu-dent trustee is so vital to stu-dents on this campus. The trust-ee is the most direct connection that students have to the board of trustees, which sets major cam-pus policies for the entire Uni-versity of Illinois system.

Carey Ash, student senator and both a doctoral candidate for educational policy studies and a law student at the University, has demonstrated that he can gauge the pulse of students and can effectively communicate to the board what students want. Among the six candidates run-ning for the role, Ash has held his own — at the trustee debate Tuesday and with a roundtable discussion with all of the candi-dates with The Daily Illini Edito-rial Board on Thursday.

Because he was already an undergraduate student in Loui-siana and is a current graduate student here, Ash has the widest personal perspective of degree-seeking students. The Univer-sity continually faces less-than-perfect relationships with many unions that represent students and workers alike, including the Graduate Employees’ Organiza-tion and the Service Employees International Union.

We expect that the student trustee be open to ideas from student input, be able to effec-tively communicate those ideas to the board of trustees and have a wide understanding of the issues that concern students the most.

Many of the candidates expressed that they need to make the role of the student trustee more known. The shared concern was how to make the student trustee more accessible to help unite the campus more, but only Ash recognized the need to address the distinction between graduate and under-graduate students.

Ash understands that with the high tuition that this University faces, simply addressing student fees or just the state budget is not enough. He wants to contin-ue to promote MAP grants and other scholarships for students, continually giving access to the most needy of students. His sug-gestions for ensuring access to this University are reasonable and achievable.

When speaking about his dis-satisfaction with the general edu-cation requirements and when defending his stance on remedy-ing the University’s high tuition, Ash displayed a confidence and understanding of the Universi-ty’s culture and needs.

Although the other five candi-dates had some promising ideas, we believe that Ash’s continued commitment to the University in its present and in its future far exceeds that of the others.

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KIRSTEN KELLEROpinions columnist

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Abraham Lincoln was not only a president; he was a visionary. He understood that time-tested vir-tues would withstand innate doubt that could unhinge the human psyche. His powerful rhetoric is not just applicable to certain situations; its hidden truths apply to greater moral dilemmas all of mankind inherently faces.

College is a time to explore and dis-cover where exactly that right place exists.

Undeniably, it’s hard to stand firm when you do not know what is right and what is wrong. Be it we are given four years of nearly unlimited freedom to figure things out on our own, college is, as cliche as it sounds — what you make of it. And with that comes the opportu-nity to delve into the unknown.

What is the purpose of going to college?

A lingering curiosity consumed me. I went to a few friends of mine to get a feel for how exactly they thought.

Sam confidently responded, “To get a good first job and to meet people for networking purposes.”

Christian agreed, saying that “net-working and building up your resume” were important factors in the college experience.

Doug too noted, “to get a high pay-ing job” was the result of graduating college.

It all added up. There was a common belief held by these individuals, and many others, that college was a step-ping-stone into the real world of getting a job.

But, on a personal level I knew there was much more to these people. It couldn’t be that the diploma would define them — instead, it would be their passions.

Sam values sports. Christian cares for his friends. Doug loves his family.

It’s at that point I slightly began to see the bigger picture that elders in my life have told me about. With over 1,000 RSOs and 42,000 students on this cam-pus, it’s easy to forget how large our university is and how much this univer-sity truly offers. People might have a preconceived idea of what the purpose of college is, but it’s almost as if we are blindly thrown into this bubble we call “college.” We are told we must declare a major, select a profession and aggran-dize our resume to the best of our abili-ties to get a good job. Yet an incessant fascination with the unknown is hard to shake. It’s what causes us to ask our-selves, “What if?”

But not acting on stirring interests can also prompt the question, “What if?”

There must be fraudulent beliefs that rock our imagination, a pendulum of extremes if you will.

Is it fear? Maybe this feels like it’s an accept-

able rationale. Fear is a figment of the imagination, magnified by feelings of anxiousness and uncertainty.

Is it improbability?Maybe this seems to be a reasonable

justification. Not every thing you set out to achieve may happen.

Or is it easy?Maybe it is easier to fit in and go with

the crowd rather than carve your own path. After all, everyone needs a team to support them on their journey.

Certainly these reasons are not inex-cusable. Four years is a waning win-dow, filled with opportunity, clouded by only our dreamed deceit. Shouldn’t time in college drive us, propel us, rath-er than let us succumb to any shred of doubt?

I asked my friend George what he cared about, what his interests were. He told me he was passionate about serving others, a clear indication of his dream to help. And he can help if he simply goes for it.

Another group of friends recently created their own RSO, Chief Invest-ing Group, with the hopes of teach-ing students about the stock market and investing. Establishing this orga-nization did not show they wanted to accrue more credentials, it showed their heart was in teaching these busi-ness principles to others, sharing what they had come to enjoy.

Whether it’s rock climbing or paint-ing portraits, we as students have a prime opportunity to explore this unknown without the dire consequenc-es. Which must have led me to join-ing The Daily Illini. I knew I loved writing, so I had to seek an outlet that would let me do so. It’s been the best decision I’ve made thus far because it is only now I can truly see the bigger picture with clarity.

I haven’t quite found my right place. But every day I choose to defeat fear, realize what’s possible and dedi-cate myself to hard work, my stance emerges stronger, firmer. I welcome the prospect of change over the next few years because time is fleeting. It is now I will have to make the most of my time. It is now you should make the most of your time — you’ll never get it back again.

Imran is a sophomore in DGS. He can be reached at [email protected].

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WASHINGTON — In a histor-ic argument for gay rights, Presi-dent Barack Obama on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to over-turn California’s same-sex mar-riage ban and turn a skeptical eye on similar prohibitions across the country.

The Obama administration’s friend-of-the-court brief marked the first time a U.S. president has urged the high court to expand the right of gays and lesbians to wed. California is one of eight states that give gay couples all the ben-efits of marriage through civil unions or domestic partnership, but don’t allow them to wed. The brief argues that in granting same-sex couples those rights, Califor-nia has already acknowledged that gay relationships bear the same hallmarks as straight ones.

“They establish homes and lives together, support each other finan-cially, share the joys and burdens

of raising children, and provide care through illness and com-fort at the moment of death,” the administration wrote.

The brief marks the president’s most expansive view of gay mar-riage and signals that he is moving away from his previous assertion that states should determine their own marriage laws.

In the longer term, the admin-istration urges the justices to sub-ject laws that discriminate on sex-ual orientation to more rigorous review than usual, as is the case for claims that laws discriminate on the basis of race, sex and other factors. The Supreme Court has never given gay Americans the special protection it has afford-ed women and minorities. If it endorses such an approach in the gay marriage cases, same-sex marriage bans around the coun-try could be imperiled.

Despite the potentially wide-ranging implications of the admin-istration’s brief, it still falls short of

what gay rights advocates and the attorneys who will argue against Proposition 8 had hoped for. Those parties had pressed the president to urge the Supreme Court to not only overturn California’s ban, but also declare all gay marriage bans unconstitutional.

The president raised expecta-tions that he would back a broad brief during his inauguration address on Jan. 21. He said the nation’s journey “is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.”

The Supreme Court has sever-al options to decide the case that would be narrower than what the administration is asking. One day after the Supreme Court hears the California case, the justices will hear arguments on provisions of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman for the purpose of deciding who can receive a range of benefits.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SPRINGFIELD — A disease that decimated bat populations in the eastern United States has been detected in Illinois, raising concerns for the environment and the agricultural industry.

Two laboratories confirmed the presence of the fungal dis-ease known as white-nose syn-drome, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday. The disease, fatal to several bat species, was found in bats from four counties: LaSalle in north-central Illinois, Monroe in southwestern Illinois and Har-

din and Pope in the far southern part of the state.

Researchers are especially concerned about the disease because bats play a crucial role in the environment, devouring huge quantities of agricultural pests, which likely saves that industry billions of dollars a year in the U.S., said Joe Kath, endangered species manager for the department.

“Although its arrival was anticipated, the document-ed spread of WNS into Illinois is discouraging news, mainly because there is no known way

to prevent or stop this disease in its tracks,” Kath said.

White-nose syndrome is not known to affect people, pets or livestock. The name of the dis-ease refers to the white fungal growth found on the noses of infected bats.

The disease has now been detected in 20 states, most of them in the eastern U.S., as well as five Canadian provinces. White-nose syndrome spreads rapidly and has the potential to infect half of the bat species in North America, the department said.

BY FRANCES D’EMILIO AND NICOLE WINFIELDTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Ita-ly — As bells tolled and the clock struck 8, the brass-stud-ded wooden doors swung shut Thursday at this palace in the Italian hills, marking an end to Benedict XVI’s papacy and the start of his final journey as a “simple pilgrim.”

Capping a day of tearful farewells that included an extraordinary pledge of obe-dience to his successor, Bene-dict entered history as the first pope in 600 years to resign — leaving the Catholic Church in unprecedented limbo and ending a pontificate shaped by struggles to move beyond clerical sex abuse scandals and reawaken Christianity in an indifferent world.

On Benedict’s last day, the mood was vastly different inside the Vatican than at Cas-tel Gandolfo, the 17th-century papal retreat set in the hills south of Rome, where he will spend the first two months of his retirement.

At the seat of the popes, Bene-dict’s staff bade the pontiff goodbye in scenes of dignified solemnity, with Swiss Guards in full regalia and prelates kneel-ing to kiss his papal ring one last time.

A livelier atmosphere reigned in the countryside, with well-wishers jamming the hilltop town’s main square, shouting “Viva il Papa!” and waving the yellow and white flags of the Holy See.

Cheers went up as the 85-year-old Benedict stepped out onto the palace balcony and,

arms outstretched, declared his papacy was nearing the end.

“I am simply a pilgrim begin-ning the last leg of his pilgrim-age on this Earth,” he said. Then giving a final blessing, he declared: “Grazie e buona notte” — “Thank you and good night” in Italian.

It was a remarkable book-end to a papacy that began on April 19, 2005, with a similarly meek speech delivered from the loggia overlooking St. Peter’s Square, where the newly elect-ed Benedict said he was but a “simple humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.”

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This photo provided by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation shows a bat suffering from white-nose syndrome. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources said Thursday that the disease that has decimated bat populations in the eastern United States has been detected in four counties in southern Illinois.

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Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd Thursday from the window of the pope’s summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, the scenic town where he will spend his first post-Vatican days and make his last public blessing as pope. Benedict is the first pope to resign in 600 years.

BY BEN NUCKOLSTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FORT MEADE, Md. — Brad-ley Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. his-tory, offered to plead guilty Thursday to charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he spilled the secrets to expose the American mili-tary’s “bloodlust” in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It was the first time Manning directly admitted leaking the material to the anti-secrecy web-site WikiLeaks and detailed the frustrations that led him to do it.

Sitting before a military judge, the slightly built 25-year-old sol-dier from Oklahoma read from a 35-page statement through his wire-rimmed glasses for more than an hour.

“I believed that if the gener-al public, especially the Amer-ican public, had access to the information ... this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign pol-icy in general,” Manning said.

A military judge, Col. Denise Lind, is weighing whether to accept Manning’s guilty plea to reduced charges on 10 counts.

Even then, military prosecu-tors can still pursue a court-mar-tial on the remaining 12 charges. One of those is aiding the enemy, which carries a possible life sen-tence. Prosecutors haven’t dis-closed their plans.

Manning said he didn’t think the information would harm the U.S. and he decided to release it because he was disturbed by the

conduct of the wars in Afghani-stan and Iraq and the seeming disregard by American troops for the lives of ordinary people.

Manning admitted sending hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports, State Department dip-lomatic cables, other classified records and two battlefield video clips to WikiLeaks in 2009 and 2010 while working as an intelli-gence analyst in Baghdad.

The battlefield reports were the first documents Manning decided to leak. He said he sent them to WikiLeaks after contact-ing The Washington Post and The New York Times. He said he felt a reporter at the Post didn’t take him seriously, and a mes-sage he left for news tips at the Times was not returned.

The Obama administration has said releasing the information threatened valuable military and diplomatic sources and strained America’s relations with other governments. The administra-tion has aggressively pursued individuals accused of leaking classified material, and Man-ning’s is the highest-profile case.

Manning has been embraced by some left-leaning activists as a whistle-blowing hero whose actions exposed war crimes and helped trigger the Middle Eastern pro-democracy upris-ings known as the Arab Spring in 2010.

WikiLeaks did not immediate-ly return a text message for com-ment on Manning’s statement. The group has been careful nev-er to confirm or deny whether he was the source of the documents it has posted online.

Associated Press Writer Raphael Sat-ter in London contributed to this report.

BY REEMA ABI-AKARSTAFF WRITER

The Armory Free Theatre will host the play “Ride” at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday in room 160 at the Armory. Sally Hamer, soph-omore in FAA, is the play’s resi-dent artist, and she is portraying one of its three characters. Joining her on stage are Margaret Kellas, sophomore in FAA, and Michelle Grube, senior in FAA.

“I first read the play in my act-ing class first semester, and we were just doing scene work, and my scene was from this play,” Hamer said. “I mostly picked it because I really liked the play, and it’s a play that a lot of people our age can relate to.”

Written by Eric Lane, “Ride” surrounds a story of three girls, Molly and Carrie, who are about 17 and 18, and Sam, who is 11. They decide to take a sponta-neous road trip, which turns into more than just a typical car ride.

“There’s a lot about family and growing up, and I think it’s just a really good show for peo-ple our age at this time in our lives,” Hamer said. “And it’s a dark comedy — the subject material can get kind of heavy at times, but it’s still a funny show.”

Kellas plays Sam, who is Car-rie’s younger sister.

“It’s been kind of challeng-

ing, because I don’t want to play it like the stereotypical 11-year-old,” she said. “I’m try-ing to incorporate how I would approach a situation that she’s in, and so that’s really my responsibility in the show.”

This production has three total actors in its entirety. This is one aspect that drew Hamer, Kella and Grube into the story. They plan to use this component to their advantage.

“It seemed like an interest-ing project for me at this point in my school career because this is my last semester here,” Grube said. “And I’m intrigued by (the play) because it’s just three people on stage the whole

time, and there’s a lot of poten-tial for them for a really great relationship to develop.”

There are usually about five or six shows each semester that run in the Armory Free The-atre. Each show is student-led; each interested student must propose a play, find actors and crew, and set up practices and rehearsals on their own time. After the show, they must strike down their set and remove their materials in a timely manner to leave a clean slate for the next show.

“We are given (Armory The-atre proposal sheets) last semes-ter, and they ask questions like how are you going to fund this, who’s going to be in it, who’s going to direct it,” Kellas said. “Going into it, you have to have a good idea of what you’re going

to do; they won’t just give you the space for fun.”

Since this is one of the first productions this semester at the Armory, the students had a little over a month to prepare.

The Armory Free Theatre is led by the University’s the-ater department, so each show receives a set amount of funding, depending on the cost of props, costumes and copyright fees for any copyrighted material.

Each production varies. For example, “Ride” is a copyright-ed play, so paying for rights is compulsory, but student-written productions do not have copy-right fees. Both plays and musi-cals are put on at the Armory Free Theatre, and each brings its own expenses and time commitments.

There is no official director

of “Ride,” although Gina Dunn, senior in FAA, has been an over-seeing contributor. In general, the three girls are in charge of heading the play and putting it together themselves.

“(The) three of us who are in it have been pretty much col-laborating on almost all of the aspects of the show, so that’s been a great learning experience,” Hamer said. “We have a couple of girls helping us with sound and lighting, but for the most part, the three of us have been ... col-laborating and deciding what we think would best propel the story forward in each scene.”

Saturday’s performance of “Ride” is free and open to the public.

Reema can be reached at [email protected].

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In middle school, Bran-don Paul dreamed of

the tunnel.

The thumping of the drums. The orange and blue blur of the crowd. The change from the dark Assembly Hall corri-dor to the light hovering over the court, signaling the start the show.

It’s where he sinks into his focus and channels his rage.

Fellow senior Tyler Griffey understands Paul’s game. He’s seen him slip into the tunnel on more than a few occasions.

“When someone pisses him off or gets him angry, it’s over,” Griffey said. “He really locks in, and then anything’s possible.”

When Paul slips into his tun-nel, it’s almost like he can’t miss.

Saturday’s senior day match-up against Nebraska is vital to the Illini’s postseason hopes. If Illinois wins, giving it eight in Big Ten play, it will likely have its ticket punched to the NCAA tournament after missing the postseason entirely in 2011-12.

But for Paul, Saturday will be the last time he passes through the tunnel at Assembly Hall as a player. That’s what he’ll miss

most about his time at Illinois. It’s when he gets to be the star of the show, the night’s headlin-ing entertainer.

“I’m thinking about what I’m going to do, obviously, when I get done with my basketball career. I know that I’m still going to be a pretty young guy,” Paul said. “I don’t think I want to go into coaching. I don’t think I have the patience for that. I think I want to do something with entertainment, whether it’s ESPN or transition into act-ing. I know I want to entertain people.”

There’s no question he has the capacity to do so.

Griffey said he could definite-ly see Paul entering the enter-tainment industry. He’s tried to act around the team since he arrived on campus, reciting goofy movie lines to lighten up the mood when things have turned grim.

While Paul has frustrated at times — he leads Illinois with 83 turnovers this season and is fourth-worst on the team with a 40 percent field goal percent-age — he’s also proved that he can dazzle.

In his first game at Illinois, Paul’s 22-point performance against SIU-Edwardsville broke Illini all-time leading

scorer Deon Thomas’ fresh-man scoring record. That set the bar high.

He surpassed it with last sea-son’s historic 43-point perfor-mance against then-No.5 Buck-eyes on Jan. 10, 2011, cementing his name in Illinois’ record books and flashing the poten-tial that one day he might have the chance to play basketball professionally.

His 35-point nationally tele-vised performance at Gonzaga in the Illini’s Dec. 8 win over No. 10 Gonzaga affirmed Illi-nois’ Maui Tournament Cham-pionship was no fluke and added credibility to his team’s red-hot start under first-year coach John Groce.

The difference, in the early going of this season, was Paul’s consistency scoring the ball. Experts placed him squarely in the NBA draft picture, some even ranking him a lottery pick.

But as of late, Paul’s become accustomed to practicing his long-term career goals on the court, flailing his body to tempt refs into awarding him a whis-tle. The points have stopped flowing in bunches. Since his 21-point performance in Illi-nois’ Feb. 7 win against No. 1

The cavernous Assembly Hall was filled sparsely

as a high school basketball game unfolded on its court in December 2009. Sitting by himself was Dietrich James Richardson, taking in the game from a remote A-level seat.

This was in Richardson’s freshman year at Illinois, but before he was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Before he started the most games ever as a freshman in Illini history. Before he punctuated an upset victory over No. 5 Michigan State with a thunderous dunk when ESPN’s College Game-Day was on hand.

Richardson had finally played on the Assembly Hall court with an Illinois jersey on nearly two years after commit-ting to the program, and Bruce Weber named him a starter immediately.

On this day, however, he was merely observing. As he watched, Richardson was undisturbed by the other spec-tators until an old lady in Illini attire approached.

“I bet... ,” the old lady start-

ed as she sized up the 6-foot-3 Richardson, “... this is the last time you’re going to go any-where without people taking pictures and wanting your autograph.”

D.J. Richardson laughed at the old lady’s notion. Why would anyone take a picture with him? He was a stranger who played basketball to most people.

Three years later, Richard-son is a senior staring down his final game ever in Assem-bly Hall. While recalling that moment his freshman year, Richardson chuckles and con-templates his career.

The old lady was right. He can’t do anything without being approached by a fan. He goes to the mall and signs an autograph. He goes to Wal-Mart for groceries and takes a picture in the aisles. Then he goes home and checks his Twitter where people have tweeted at him exclaiming that they saw him at the mall and at Wal-Mart.

“It’s weird going somewhere and seeing people sneak pic-tures of you when you’re eat-ing,” Richardson said without a hint of disdain for the process. “It’s interesting. It’s fun.”

But he learned from that

interaction with the old lady, too. Richardson knows that he represents one of the most prominent features of his state school, and he fully engages in any meeting with older fans of the team that stop him to wish him well, to congratulate or to talk.

“They take their time with their families to come watch the games, and I really respect that,” Richardson said. “So I’ll take the time out of my day to give them autographs or take a picture with them and also hold a conversation with them.”

*** After time expired on a

defensive drill in a recent prac-tice, Richardson was the first person to speak. He didn’t even let the coaches get a word in edgewise first.

“Put more time on the clock,” Richardson commanded to the team’s managers. “We’re doing it again until we get it right.”

No one argued. If his Illi-ni aren’t doing a drill at 100 percent effort, they’re going to repeat it. Richardson wants to get something out of every drill, every exercise, to become better. It makes no sense to him to do something at 50 percent.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINI

Brandon Paul signals down-court during Illinois’ win over Indiana at Assembly Hall on Feb. 21.MICHAEL BOJDA THE DAILY ILLINI

D.J. Richardson goes up for a lay-up during the game against Norfolk State at Assembly Hall, Dec. 11.

D.J.RICHARDSON

senior guard

BRANDONPAUL

senior guard

Saturday is special for a number of reasons. It’ll be exactly 50 years since Assembly Hall first opened its doors on March 2, 1963. Experts have also pegged Illinois as a near lock for the tournament if it can win eight Big Ten games.

Illinois currently has seven, and Saturday’s matchup against Nebraska (13-15, 4-11 Big Ten) is Illinois’ final home game of the season. If Wednesday’s Penn State upset over Michigan teaches us anything, it’s that road games are difficult in the Big Ten, no matter how good the team. Saturday is Illinois’ best shot. Seven of Illinois’ eight Big Ten losses have come on the road. Also noteworthy is that Saturday is senior day, marking Brandon Paul, D.J. Richardson, Tyler Griffey, Sam McLaurin and Kevin Berardini’s final game at Assembly Hall. All week, The Daily Illini has been celebrating “Senior Saturday” by releasing profiles on each senior. Today, we bring you Brandon Paul and D.J. Richardson, the two leaders

from the Class of 2009.

Brandon Paul could be Ben Affleck.

It isn’t simply Paul’s rep-utation as an excellent actor on the court to draw fouls and earn trips to the free-throw line. No, Paul and his fellow Illini seniors share more than just Hollywood-caliber acting skills. They share paths.

When Affleck gave his acceptance speech Sunday night after “Argo” won the Oscar for Best Picture, it marked the full rejuvenation of Affleck’s career.

Affleck broke onto the scene in the 1990s as a promis-ing young talent, culminat-ing in winning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for “Good Will Hunting,” which

he co-wrote with his bro Matt Damon when Affleck was just 25. It appeared the movie star was on the cusp of a wonderful career.

Then the 2000s happened. Affleck capitalized on his newfound fame by starring in box-office hits like “Pearl Harbor” and “Daredevil,” sub-par movies that paid well but didn’t deliver on the promise. (It feels wrong to call them box-office hits. I’ve never met anyone who liked “Daredev-il.”) But hey, nobody’s perfect, right?

Right. Then again, not everybody makes awful films like “Gigli” (I’m not going to lie, I didn’t see this. But I’ve read the plot summary, and it made me gag) or “Surviv-ing Christmas” (this actually happened). There’s falling off a cliff, and then there’s star-ring in “Gigli” and “Surviving Christmas.” By the mid-2000s, most of us had written Affleck

off as another young prodigy that flamed out in Hollywood. He hit rock bottom, seeming-ly destined to make mil-lions of dollars off terrible romantic com-edies and stale action flicks (but actually, if rock bot-tom means half-assing it at work, still making mil-lions of dollars and coming home to Jenni-fer Lopez, sign me up).

It was impos-sible to picture Affleck back up onstage at the Oscars. But slowly, he made his comeback, first directing the underrat-ed “Gone Baby Gone” before exploding back into the main-stream with “The Town” in

2010. When “Argo” hit the-aters last year, it was the Ben Affleck show, produced, direct-

ed and starred in by the once-maligned star.

During Affleck’s emo-tional, mile-a-minute accep-tance speech at the Oscars, it was clear what the award meant to him. He had rewritten his legacy from a flash in the pan to a genuine star, someone who tru-ly mattered.

Illinois’ senior class has that same opportu-nity. Like Affleck, Paul, D.J. Richardson and Tyler Griffey (we’re just including the three four-year seniors, so no Sam McLaurin) began their careers with promise. They

showed flashes early. Paul dis-played heaps of potential with 22 points in his college debut and a signature performance on national television in a 23-point comeback win at No. 18 Clemson. Richardson was the solid and steady one, from the beginning staking a role as an elite perimeter defender and outside shooter.

The Illini failed to make the NCAA tournament that year, but the performances of Paul and Richardson, the latter of whom took home the Big Ten Freshman of the Year award, signified a bright future. Paul was Will Hunting, brilliant-ly ephemeral. Richardson, his steady sidekick Chuckie Sulli-van. (Tyler Griffey must have been Minnie Driver’s charac-ter, Skylar. I guarantee you didn’t know her name until I told you.)

Illinois appeared poised to make a deep postseason run the following season with a

handful of seniors (Demetri McCamey, Mike Tisdale, Mike Davis and Bill Cole) return-ing and the continued develop-ment of Paul, Richardson and Griffey. The Illini climbed as high as No. 12 in the rankings but lost 10 out of 16 down the stretch and barely snuck into the NCAA tournament, fall-ing to Kansas in the Round of 32. This is the “Pearl Harbor”-and-“Daredevil” moment. They should have been great but turned out to be mediocre.

With the seniors gone, the reins were handed to Paul and Richardson, who were to lead another crop of talented fresh-men with promise. The ensu-ing debacle is well-chronicled. Another fast start, a top-25 ranking, then a precipitous fall that culminated in Bruce Weber’s firing (a 23-point loss to Nebraska is probably the “Gigli” moment).

Illini seniors rise and fall like Affleck; let’s see if they win the Oscar tooDANIEL MILLER-MCLEMORESports columnist

See PAUL, Page 3B See RICHARDSON, Page 3B

See MCLEMORE, Page 3B

Heading into senior night and with three

games left in the regular season, the

trio of four-year seniors has a chance to rewrite the ending

to their legacy.

BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s gymnas-tics team wasn’t at practice on Monday.

Instead of immediately getting back in the gym like they normal-ly do, head coach Kim Landrus switched the No. 19 Illini’s off day from Wednesday to Monday in order to give them an extra day to build confidence before Satur-day’s meet against Penn State at Huff Hall.

“I gave the team an extra day off this week hopefully to just mental-ly, emotionally and physically get them a little bit more refreshed, and I think that throughout the course of the week it will help them respond,” Landrus said.

Landrus said Illinois had two strong events, and two events that weren’t as strong as they needed to be last week, which led to the 196.300-195.450 loss against the Buckeyes.

The Illini started and end-ed the meet well, with season-high team scores on bars and beam, but stumbled in the middle on vault without junior Amber See, who wasn’t in action due to injury.

This weekend, Illinois will host the Nittany Lions, a team that has have been up and down this season and lost two of their last three meets despite scor-ing a season high last weekend. But as sophomore Sunny Kato said, they can still win.

“Penn State is another school that has the ability to beat us,” Kato said.

Senior Alina Weinstein agreed with Kato on what Penn State is capable of.

“They’re a great team, any team in the Big Ten is great competi-tion for us,” Weinstein said. “They

just came off of one of their sea-son highs, so it really could be any-body’s meet, it depends on who shows up.”

The Illini will compete at home for the third time this season and try to continue the streak of home wins.

“We have been very comfort-able and confident at home so that’s definitely an advantage, but everyone we’ve faced has had great meets, so I think that it will be a really great showing,” Wein-stein said. “We really need to be as prepared as possible and that will be determined in practice.”

Illinois will once again be com-peting alongside the men’s team, which will also face Penn State.

“Honestly, we still compete the same routines,” Landrus said. “We still have 24 routines, so to me I look at it exactly the same. We have one job to get done and

it doesn’t matter if there’s a guys team in there or not.”

The team has been practicing all four events equally despite excelling on two last week and hopes to carry over its practice performances to the competition.

“All of the events are

equally impor-tant,” Weinstein said. “We have to be on our game, and we have to put together all four events the way we know we can in practice.”

Illinois has also been trying to simulate competition in practice to better prepare for the meet.

“Every turn in practice has been like a competition for me. I’ve been picturing myself in the arena and putting that pressure on me so when the time comes I’ll know how to react.”

Nicholas can be reached at [email protected] and @IlliniSportsGuy.

BY GINA MUELLERSTAFF WRITER

Illinois head coach Justin Spring is giving ultimatums.

The new five-up, five-count for-mat adopted on March 1 through-out NCAA men’s gymnastics will require one member of each line-up to be cut. The six-up, five-count will no longer be used, allowing mistakes to cause drastic chang-es in the results of a meet. The competitive nature during prac-tice has rose as the men fight for, what is now, one of the five spots in lineups.

“Because the five-up, five-count has taken some people out of line-up, we’ve given them direct chal-lenges,” Spring said. “We’ve told them, ‘You are going against, him, him and him today on pommel horse in a team routine set, and whoever scores the highest is in lineup.’”

Illinois clinched its first con-ference win this past weekend against Ohio State in a nail-biting finish. The Illini sealed a victory by less than one point with their 438.6-438.0 win. The confidence from the win has created high energy in practice this week lead-ing up to this weekend’s competi-tion, No. 1 Penn State.

“We hadn’t won a competition at all this season, coming off of a basically undefeated season last year,” sophomore C.J. Maestas said. “It’s now a whole new team, a whole new perspective. We are ready for the competition. We aren’t scared, you can’t be scared in this format.”

The new format is designed in part to help the audience under-stand the competition. In previ-ous formats — such as the six-up, four-count or the six-up, five-count — falls didn’t always affect a team as greatly as they will now. Gymnasts also want the fans to understand the format better.

“I think it’ll be better for the public,” freshman Joey Peters said. “They will watch people go and they’ll think, ‘How did this team hit all of their events, and this team hit every event but one, and the team that missed still won.’ The audience doesn’t understand that. I think now it’s a little more clear cut. If you fall,

the audience will be able to think, ‘That team isn’t going to win.’”

Illinois will be competing alongside the women for the sec-ond time at Huff Hall this season. Though a home basketball game will be going on at the same time, Spring hopes the loyal gymnas-tics fans will still come and show their support.

“I think 4 o’clock is a great meet time,” he said. “A lot of fami-lies come at that time. I think we appeal to a little bit of a differ-ent audience than a basketball game. I think we are more of a family oriented event, not that basketball isn’t. ... I think there

are some crossover fans, but we should still have a great crowd.”

There has been a huge shift in momentum since Illinois’ shocking loss to Iowa two week-ends ago. The Illini have started doing more team routine simula-tions and showing more support for each other during practice. Spring hopes the momentum will carry into this weekend’s competition.

“We are going to put on a bet-ter show this weekend,” he said. “Will it be enough to beat Penn State? I don’t know. Anything can happen in this format, and Penn State is ranked No. 1 for a reason.

They’ve been consistent, they’ve got great starts and they are doing them very well and that’s a recipe for success and they’ve had it early this year. I hope these guys step up to the challenge and at least make it a close battle for Penn State, and we could pull out a win in the end.

“Are we going to find more peo-ple who thrive under pressure on Saturday or more of the ones that collapse on themselves? In our sport, it can go one way or the other.”

Gina can be reached at [email protected] and @muelle30.

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Illini athletics remain unaffected by UnofficialBY JOHNATHAN HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER

Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day disrupts the regular function-ing of the University, as well as Champaign-Urbana.

Drunken students clad in green roam campus. Profes-sors employ bouncers to check both the conditions and pos-sessions of students in their classes. Police departments call in extra officers to patrol the streets. University Housing and private-certified housing prohibit or limit guests. Even Champaign Mayor Don Gerard imposed an emergency order restricting the business prac-tices of bars and other liquor-licensed establishments.

But for Illinois’ head coaches, the first Friday in March is just another day.

Practices are scheduled as usual. Meets are held. Student-athletes are treated just like any other day. Although coaches insist they don’t consider Unof-ficial, some are still affected by it.

For example, the men’s and women’s gymnastics teams scheduled Gym Jam, the annu-al showcase of both gymnastics squads featuring free food, on Unofficial last season. Many inebriated students made their way to Huff Hall to cheer on the Illini, creating a rowdy atmosphere.

Illinois men’s gymnastics

coach Justin Spring said he did not realize it was Unofficial when he scheduled the meet, but he noticed fans felt more “at ease” creating a lively atmosphere.

“Let’s be real, football has a culture set up to go and tailgate and get wasted before every game, and are we overly wor-ried and cautious about that event?” Spring said. “If you’re going to have someone go crazy, they’re going to go crazy. But for the most part, our fans are pret-ty good and respect our home events, and if they’re going to watch our home meets, it’s going to be to support Illini athletics.”

Spring said he would be open to having another meet on Unofficial.

“I’ve never once checked to see when Unofficial is,” he said. “I wouldn’t be against it, but I certainly wouldn’t try to make it happen.”

This year, the men’s tennis team is the only Illinois squad compet-ing on campus Friday. Head coach Brad Dancer said the team and the University will treat the meet as any other, and there are no plans for extra security for the event. He insisted the team has enough loyal fans to make a great atmosphere without any liquid support.

Five of Illinois’ currently competing teams will be out of town Friday. The baseball, soft-ball, women’s track and field and women’s tennis compete over the weekend outside of Champaign,

as is usual on a spring weekend. Men’s golf competes in Louisiana on Monday.

The men’s golf team has not been on campus during the first weekend of March since 2006, but head coach Mike Small says it is purely a coincidence.

“Unofficial is of no thought to any of us (affiliated with the men’s golf team),” Small said.

The men’s gymnastics team does not compete Friday; it hosts No. 1 Penn State on Saturday. But Spring, like all Illinois coaches, must decide how to treat his stu-dent-athletes on a campus with a reputation as a party school on the biggest drinking holiday of the local calendar year. He decid-ed to not impose any restrictions

other than the team’s regular rule: no drinking 48 hours before competition.

“Guys know that is a team-driv-en policy before a meet you don’t go out, you don’t drink, you stay focused,” Spring said. “It’s No. 1 Penn State. It’s been a rough year, and I think they realize they can’t afford to take any more chances this year, so I’m not worried about it.”

And if last year is any indica-tion, Spring and other coaches are right to feel this way. On Unofficial last year, 289 tickets were given out to students, not one of which were given to student-athletes.

Johnathan can be reached at [email protected] and @jhett93.

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Seniors take 38 of 53 shots, but Buckeyes still defeat Illini 64-53

KENDALL MCCAUGHERTY THE DAILY ILLINI

Illinois’ Karisma Penn drives to the net Thursday night. The Illini lost their last home game of the season 64-53.

Illini to play Boilermaker’s on Sunday, win may secure NCAA tournamnet first-round byeThe Illinois women’s basketball team (16-11, 9-6 Big Ten) will head to West Lafayette, Ind., to play Purdue

(20-8, 9-6) on Sunday.Purdue won 67-66 in the first meeting between the two teams on Jan. 2 after Kersten Magrum’s buzzer-

beater attempt rimmed out in overtime.The Boilermakers have been on a slide lately, going 2-5 in their last seven games, including a 68-61 loss

to Michigan State on Thursday. They are tied with the Illini for third in the conference, and Illinois could potentially guarantee a first-round bye in the Big Ten Tournament with a win and Michigan or Michigan State loss.

BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER

Illinois’ seniors did all they could in their final game at Assem-bly Hall, but it wasn’t enough.

Karisma Penn and Adrienne GodBold scored 24 and 14 points, respectively, but the Illinois wom-en’s basketball team fell to Ohio State 64-53.

Penn and GodBold weren’t able to get much help from their team-mates, as they accounted for 38 of Illinois’ 53 points, with only three other teammates scoring. Sopho-more Ivory Crawford and junior Amber Moore were two main non-contributors; Crawford commit-ted four turnovers and fouled out with just six points, while Moore recorded four fouls and five turn-overs, adding just three points.

“We need someone else to step up,” Illinois head coach Matt Bol-lant said. “Some other people need to take some shots besides these two.”

Mental mistakes plagued the Illini all night, as Illinois finished with 21 turnovers and 23 fouls.

“Those aren’t very good num-bers,” Bollant said. “The first half we had 13 turnovers. We’ve been pretty good in the first half tak-ing care of the ball. With the foul count, we just weren’t very smart. We put their best foul shooter on the line too many times.”

The player Bollant spoke of was Tayler Hill, who went 12-for-

14 on free throws, finishing with 21 points after scoring just three in the first half. Hill averages 21 points per game and has played especially well against the Illini, scoring 30 points in Illinois’ 79-73 victory Jan. 6.

Illinois struggled to make shots, converting on 29.5 percent (18-for-61) from the field and just 13.3 per-cent from 3.

“It wasn’t our night tonight,” Bollant said. “We shoot the ball best when we’re aggressive and when we have great energy, and we didn’t do that in the first half and that carried over.”

Illinois’ defense struggled as well, allowing the Buckeyes to shoot 47.8 percent.

The Illini also struggled to con-tain Ohio State forward, Ashley Adams, in its full-court defense. She found herself wide open under the basket on numerous occa-sions, finishing with 17 points and anchoring the post with 10 rebounds.

Illinois trailed 31-26 at the half, largely due to mental mistakes that led to 13 turnovers and 11 fouls.

Ohio State started the second half on a 5-0 run, extending its lead to 10 points. The Buckeyes kept adding to its advantage, extending it to as much as 16 points, 55-39, with 7:35 remaining.

Penn led the Illini with 11 points and six rebounds at the half, while GodBold had eight points. None of

the underclassmen had more than one basket.

Ohio State’s Amber Stokes was injured during the first game against the Illini and missed five games.

The Buckeyes went 1-4 while Stokes was out, but have been hot recently, going 5-2 in its last sev-en games.

Many of the 2,537 fans stuck around for Illinois’ postgame cere-mony honoring Penn, GodBold and Kersten Magrum. The trio was hon-ored on the court with their parents and were given framed jerseys.

Magrum, a redshirt junior, was medically disqualified from play-ing after suffering her fourth con-cussion this year. Her last game was Jan. 6 against Ohio State, and she will graduate in May.

Illinois (16-11 overall, 9-6 Big Ten) is now in a four-way tie for third. The Illini still have a chance to earn a first-round bye but no lon-ger control their own destiny. They can earn a bye with a win at Pur-due on Sunday and a Michigan or Michigan State loss.

Bollant still feels confident about his team’s NCAA tourna-ment chances.

“We’re deserving already to be in,” Bollant said. “We’re tied for third in the second-best confer-ence in the country.”

Johnathan can be reached at [email protected] and @jhett93.

Saturday, 4 p.m.Huff Hall

The Illini men and women will compete at the same time at home

for the second time this year.

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Penn State Illinois

Men’s gymnastics prepared for new rules, another victory Illinois seeks momentum for Penn St. match

Women’s gymnastics rests up for meet against the Nittany Lions

DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINI

Illinois’ Joey Peters competes his high bar routine during the Gym Jam against Iowa at Huff Hall on Saturday.

“We have one job to get done and it doesn’t matter if there’s a guys team in there or not.”

KIM LANDRUS,women’s gymnastics head coach

BY STEPHEN BOURBONSTAFF WRITER

March Madness is here.Despite the insanely popular NCAA men’s

basketball tournament not being for a few more weeks, the ACHA National Tournament kicks off this weekend with Bensenville, Ill. hosting the 20 best club hockey teams in the country. No. 7 Illinois drew defending national champion Delaware in the first round, which starts Saturday. The Blue Hens won their first ACHA national title in 2012, defeating Oak-land in the championship game.

Although Delaware had extreme success in last year’s tournament, 2013 has been a bit rougher, particularly without star goaltender, SJ Broadt, who was the 2012 ACHA Tourna-ment MVP. He is dealing with foot injuries that he sustained during the Blue Hens’ magi-cal run to the title last season.

Broadt played just three games during first semester and played in back-to-back contests only once this year to stretch the goalten-der’s durability. The netminder played in 14 games total this season but has been impres-sive when healthy.

Broadt is 13-1 this season when starting and boasts a stingy 1.36 goals against average and a .952 save percentage, highest among ACHA goalies who have played at least 14 games. The lone blemish on his record was Feb. 17 against Stony Brook, a 3-2 loss in the ESCHL Tournament championship game.

“The main reason they won nationals last year is going to be playing in net against us,” head coach Nick Fabbrini said. “We need to get as many pucks and bodies to the net as possible.”

Having the defending champions in the first round might actually be an advantage for the Illini, defenseman JT Turner said.

“I think the fact they won last year gave them a bit of a higher ranking than they deserved,” he said. “Everyone ranks the defending national champions a little higher.”

One concrete advantage for Illinois will be the location of the tournament. Only a short

drive from O’Hare International Airport, Bensenville lies right in the heart of Chica-goland. With 23 of 28 players on the Illinois roster hailing from the Chicago area, the tournament has the feeling of a home game not to mention the Edge Ice Arena should be filled with a large con-tingent of orange and blue.

“I personally hate sleep-ing in hotels,” Fabbrini said. “I absolutely think it’s an advantage.”

The team will sleep at their own houses, with out-of-state players bunk-ing with teammates in the area. The last time the tournament was hosted by Robert Morris was in 2005, a year that saw the Illini hoist the champion-ship trophy. Unlike Dela-ware, last year’s tournament was a disaster for Illinois; a first-round exit against con-ference rival Ohio ended the season. After winning the CSCHL regular season cham-pionship this year, expectations are at an

all-time high.“Since the beginning of the season, that’s

been one of our goals,” Fabbrini said. “With the season we’ve had this year, with some of the teams we’ve beaten and how we’ve beaten them. Yeah, I’d think it would abso-

lutely be a disappointment if we weren’t there at the end of the tournament.”

It won’t be an easy road, however. The Illini must get past Delaware and then presumably No. 2 Arizona State, a team that Fabbrini said many think is the best in the nation, in the second round to make the Final Four.

“This is what we’ve worked for all year,” Turner said. “It was a disappoint-ment to lose to Iowa State in

the league tournament, but everyone still knows we can beat anyone in the country.”

Stephen can be reached at [email protected] and @steve_bourbon.

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Indiana,Paul is averaging 9.4 points per game over the five-game stretch. He scored three points Feb. 13 against Purdue.

Say what you want about Paul’s game. Guess what? He doesn’t care. Actually, he’s shut you off. Initially, Paul invited fans to text him (he responded to over 1,000 questions), watch him prank his teammates on his YouTube chan-nel and Snapchat him funny pic-tures. Then his followers turned on him, criticizing him both pub-licly and personally via social media for shooting too much.

During a stretch when the Illini lost six of seven, Groce banned his players’ Twitter accounts to avoid negativity.

“The games we were losing, we got better through those stretch-es,” Paul said. “People didn’t start believing in us again until we started winning. I think at the end of the day all we got to do is worry about what we feel as a team.”

He’s built this way. He’s a shoot-er. He can be a dynamic scorer and light a team up for 43 points in a game or shoot 1-for-11, as he did in the Illini’s Jan. 12 embar-rassment in Madison, where they lost 74-51 to Wisconsin.

Whether you like how he goes about it, there’s no doubt Paul ranks among the most talented Illinois scorers of the last decade. During Illinois’ Feb. 21 win over Penn State, Paul became just the 10th player in school history to score 1,500 points.

And as of late, during a stretch where he hasn’t reached the tun-nel in a while, he’s drastically improved his defense. Groce com-

plimented Paul after the Illini’s Feb. 17 game against Northwest-ern for playing one of the best games he’s had all season. Paul played stellar defense, dished out five assists and grabbed six boards. He scored just eight points in the Illini’s blowout win.

It’s never been about Paul’s personal numbers. Despite four years and all the access fans could possibly want into his life, Paul is still misunderstood.

He’s been quite possibly the most studious athlete on the bas-ketball team for a while, finish-ing his classes last semester so he could focus on the basketball season and his internship at the I Hotel as the season dragged on into it’s most important stretch. The recreation, sports and tour-ism major is so studious, in fact, Paul said he will likely talk to for-mer Flying Illini player and cur-rent ESPN announcer Stephen Bardo about transitioning from athletics to broadcasting later in his career.

“I took advantage of the free education, working with the pro-fessors that I’ve had and the extra school work that I took the time to do,” Paul said. “A lot of people come here and they don’t think about their education as much as their athletic ability. I think the one thing about that, coming to a great university like this, I can get two things out of the deal. I can get a great athletic career and a great education.”

He also never gave up on former Illinois head coach Bruce Weber, who Paul respected from the moment he walked on campus. In his freshman year, he once quieted a crowded room because he saw pretaped footage of Weber speak-ing after practice on a local eve-ning news program. When Weber

was fired, Paul was broken up that his recruiting class, prematurely carrying last year’s team, couldn’t save his coach’s job.

Yet when Groce and his staff arrived in Champaign, Paul embraced the new system, watch-ing hours of tape when he couldn’t practice over the summer due to a broken jaw.

“The best thing about Brandon Paul is he’s allowed us to coach him at a high level,” Groce said after the Maui Tournament. “I’m very thankful for that with Bran-don. You could say that’s what he should do, and you’re right that’s what good players do, but he han-dles coaching really well.”

Paul will be honored at mid-court before Saturday’s game, along with the four other gradu-ating seniors. He’ll receive his framed No. 3 jersey and will prob-ably cry, just as he did when the seniors were honored his sopho-more year. He always cries when his mom sheds a tear, and he’s near certain she won’t keep it together.

“That’s like pretty much my weakness,” he said.

It’ll also likely happen because Paul loves this place. He’s always wanted to be here.

When Paul first stepped foot in Assembly Hall, he initially envisioned coming through that tunnel before a game. He was in eighth grade attending Weber’s team basketball camp. He was trying to prove himself in front of the coaches, showing Weber and his staff that he belonged on their recruiting map.

An older player in the camp, and a friend of Paul’s, prank called him that night, pretend-ing to be one of the coaches.

“They were like: ‘Yeah, we saw you play. We want to invite you to

a elite camp,’” Paul said. “They got me going then, so me and my buddies were all amped up about that.”

Paul tasted what it’d feel like to be accepted at Illinois, and he became determined to make it back to Champaign with a schol-arship offer. Two years later, as a sophomore, Paul commit-ted and never wavered as he gained more notoriety, finish-ing his senior year as Illinois’ Mr. Basketball.

He’s always wanted to be suc-cessful at Illinois.

Despite public claims from Bardo that Paul and his recruit-ing class have lacked toughness, they’ve never quit. Paul and fel-low senior D.J. Richardson were merely learning how to cope with assuming leadership roles and losing players who left the program early.

After Kansas’ Elijah Johnson dropped 39 points against Iowa State on Monday, Basketball Pro-spectus writer John Gasaway called the performance John-son’s “Brandon Paul moment.” The kid couldn’t miss from any-where on the court.

Maybe he too felt what it was like to enter the tunnel and car-ry his team.

But of all the games Paul has finished as the leading scorer or finished with a record-breaking performance, his favorite mem-ory is winning the Maui Tourna-ment, when his entire team was clicking on all cylinders and nev-er trailed over all three games.

That’s because his entire team walked through the tun-nel alongside him. They all had their Brandon Paul moment.

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That’s why they’re practicing.“I don’t really care if (my

teammates) like it or not,” Rich-ardson said. “They’re gonna to have to like it. We’re going to do it again until we get better at it. And if we don’t do it right that time, we’ll do it again.”

Richardson has scored 1,407 career points, made 263 career 3-pointers and leads his team in scoring this year during Big Ten play — all numbers that come with the territory of playing that many games over a four-year career.

If Richardson is to be defined as a basketball player, it’s going to be on the end where he assumes his defensive stance and checks up the top guard on the opposing team.

That’s where he learned tough-ness and heart when he was growing up in Peoria, Ill. Playing at George Washington Carver Community Center — referred to as simply “Carver” by most Peorians — was the center of his basketball world as a youth. It’s where Illini greats like Frank Williams, Jerrance Howard and Sergio McClain hooped in the summers and where future NBA players Shaun Livingston and A.J. Guyton discovered the skills that would lead them to basketball’s highest echelon.

“Just playing at Carver, that’s where I learned to play defense,”

Richardson said. “It’s all about the heart. It’s all about pride in doing it. That’s what I learned there.”

He can rattle off his most for-midable defensive assignments, and the list he’s accumulated sags under the weight of such elite names:

John Wall in the AAU years. “He was pretty fast in transition. He was hard to guard.”

Michigan State’s Kalin Lucas in Richardson’s sophomore year. “If someone is hard to guard for me, I’m like, ‘Man, he killed me tonight.’ Kalin Lucas was really in a mode that game.”

Ohio State’s Player of the Year, Evan Turner. “Evan is a strong guard. They set a lot of ball screens, and he’s a big body.”

Penn State’s lights-out shooter Talor Battle: “I never guarded a player that had speed like him. They say players have one or two gears. He had a third gear. He’d come off screens and he could shoot from dang-near halfcourt.”

Richardson’s a vindictive defender. His demeanor rare-ly changes on the court, but the poker face hides a fury when his name scores on him.

“A lot of good offensive play-ers, if they see someone get frus-trated, it makes them want to go after you even more,” Richard-son said. “I hate getting scored on, but I know how to handle it.”

He handles it on the next pos-session by forcing his player to take a tough shot, and he’s unrelenting. If D.J. leaves an

imprint anywhere, it’ll be with his defense. Just ask his first-year head coach. John Groce has known him for 11 months and can only marvel in awe at Rich-ardson’s contribution on defense. According to Groce, it’s at a lev-el where the untrained eye will never appreciate it for its full value.

“People don’t understand how good he is on defense,” Groce said. “I mean, he’s unbelievable. He’s in the right position a lot. He knows when to help, when not to help. He knows how to guard just about everything you throw at him.”

It’s not hard to imagine Rich-ardson being an ambassador for the program after he gradu-ates and departs. He practically assumes that role right now.

Not only does he interact with the multitudes of fan support, he acts as a liaison to incoming recruits. Ask the recruits that have signed on to play ball at Illi-nois recently, and they all say the same thing. They love Illi-nois, and they love Richardson. They have Richardson’s phone number and can text or call him whenever they please. Richard-son will text them occasionally, too, just to keep tabs on them. He knows the ropes and wants to be a big brother. He’s seen so much, and those recruits know so little. Like the kid talking to the old lady freshman year.

“When recruits come here, I know how to take care of them, talk to them and make them feel

comfortable,” Richardson said. “Make them feel like part of the family.”

That’s the familiar D.J. Rich-ardson that Illinois has come to know. His determination on the court and warm personality off it are invaluable assets. Because he has everyone’s backs, every-one else has his, including his coach, who went to great lengths to defend his senior during a shooting slump in January.

“I’m tired of people making a big deal about his (slump),” Groce said in a tour-de-force press conference. “He’s going to keep shooting because I’m going to tell him to keep shoot-ing. He defends. He plays the oth-er team’s best guy almost every night. Hardly anyone ever talks about that. He rebounds. He screens. He dives on loose balls, and he plays to win, and I’m not trading him. I love that kid.”

Most of Illini nation would never think to trade Richard-son, but his time with them is passing. When his name is called Saturday at his last home game and the sold-out Assembly Hall elicits a deafening roar, he wants them to remember him. That he loved to win. That he was a defensive nightmare to offensive opponents.

And that he’ll always take a moment for a photograph with a fan, and a conversation with an old lady.

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Illinois entered this sea-son with little expectations. The coach was different, but the roster was essentially the same, minus first-round draft pick Meyers Leonard. A sur-prising 12-0 start gave hope that the Illini had turned it around, the ensuing 3-8 slide felt like a sick nightmare, that these players, and more specif-ically, these seniors just didn’t have the right mentality to weather tough times.

But against all odds, and the No. 1 team in the country, the Illini halted the train wreck, led by stellar performances from Paul, Richardson and Griffey. They reeled off five straight wins and surged back into the tournament conversa-tion. They are now primed to make a postseason run, and these three seniors will dictate how they perform.

Paul is one of the more frus-trating players I can remem-ber watching. He occasion-ally puts it all together (Ohio State last year, at Gonzaga) in remarkable performances that leave us shaking our head, which only makes it more per-plexing when he makes numer-ous head-scratching plays or disappears down the stretch of big games.

After winning Big Ten Freshman of the Year, Rich-ardson hit a plateau. His

game stopped growing, and he turned into simply a jump shooter. He has broken out of that mold in the last month, at times carrying the Illini offen-sively during their winning streak. After three years of taking a back seat, his asser-tiveness is refreshing.

Griffey is having his best season but has turned into an inconsistent contributor in conference play. Still, he’s always good for a few jokes.

Much of how these three Illini are remembered will be based on how they finish this season. I don’t think any-one expects them to have an Oscar moment like Affleck, but a .500 record in the Big Ten and a run to the Sweet 16 will do wonders for both their legacies and to jump-start the John Groce era. Another lackluster finish and a first- or second-round tournament exit, meanwhile, will mean we’ll remember Paul, Richard-son and Griffey how we have the past four years: full of potential but failing to deliv-er. Heading into senior night and with three games left in the regular season, the trio of four-year seniors has a chance to rewrite the ending to their legacy. They halted the free fall, but there is still much left unwritten.

Daniel is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @danielmillermc.

MARCH MOVIE MADNESS

Let the sports movie madness begin: May the best movie win

It started as an idea, during one of those conversations where a million thoughts

are thrown out there with the hopes of one being a keeper. Sports movies came up as an easy go-to topic.

It could be list of the top-10 sports movies of all time. Or maybe the 10 worst. Or an analysis of what makes a good sports movie. Or a look at how the industry has evolved throughout the years. The ideas kept rolling, the excite-ment grew and there was one thing to do: watch movies.

Thanks to my chronic prob-lem of falling asleep when-ever sitting still, I’ve barely watched any sports movies in the past. So I compiled a list of every movie to watch — good, bad and ugly. And with that, the adventure began.

The plan was to watch them over Thanksgiving break, three to four movies a day (#Sportsgivingmovieathon on Twitter). I had to hack into my friend’s Netflix account, pay off obnoxious amounts of overdo movie rental fees and figure out how to work my DVD player. Then I got death-ly sick, and nobody wants to listen to Herb Brooks yelling about great moments being born from great opportunity when you can barely even see straight.

The idea got pushed back, the hashtag changed, and I continued to watch movie after movie after movie from after Thanksgiving break until now. I laughed uncontrol-lably at every cheesy line in “The Longest Yard” remake — my favorite is “It ain’t easy being cheesy.” Then I watched the original version of “The Longest Yard” to make my dad happy. Sorry, Dad, it wasn’t that good, yo. I fist pumped at least 37 times during the “Rocky” movies, finally under-stood the “there’s no crying in baseball” reference and actu-ally felt smart because, unlike Smalls, I knew who The Great Bambino was. And, of course, I got over my embarrass-ment of never seeing “Bull Durham.”

I didn’t fall asleep during any of these movies, and I couldn’t help but wonder why. I even watched some of them more than once — “Space Jam,” “Field of Dreams” and “Finding Forrester.” There’s something about sports mov-ies you see, even with their predictability and question-able acting and cheesy one-liners that draws us in time after time.

They fall into a basic for-mula. Pick any sport, take a time period and base the plot around a true story. Make a team or individual out to be the underdog. Throw in some-one with a tragic backstory. Add in resistance, unthinkable struggles, haters, a few prac-tice montages, motivational music, a motivational speech, the big game and a lesson learned in the end. There you have it. We always manage

to get fired up after watching these, even if it’s for the 40th time.

There’s just a motivation-al factor to it. Yes, I listened to the “Rocky” theme song on repeat while writing this col-umn. Not sorry I’m not sorry. I just couldn’t help it.

There’s nothing earth-shat-tering about another athlete defying the odds. Yes, there are plenty of sports movies where the protagonist loses. SPOILER ALERT: “Bad News Bears,” the first “Rocky,” “Cool Runnings” and a hand-ful of others. There’s some-thing seductive about watch-ing someone else struggle. It gets me every time in “Mira-cle” when they do five hours of suicides on ice. It’s good to be on the other side for once and to know it’s going to be alright in the end.

We connect to these strug-gles and relate them to the hardships from our own lives where we all feel like the underdogs. These mov-ies give us belief that good can triumph over evil in the end. Yes, we can get that from fairy tales or romantic com-edies or even action movies. But sports, they’re realis-tic — for the most part — and something we’ve all played or watched or experienced in some way, shape or form. It’s more of a universal love.

You can put it a million ways, but there’s no denying the facts. These movies bring people together in count-less ways. There’s the natu-ral inclination of rooting for the underdog, the desire to see how sporting events are re-enacted, witnessing how ath-letic superstars can handle big screen action and laughing at big-screen stars performing athletic feats.

This March, The Daily Illini sports staff is going to take you on a journey with sports movies as we look at all the different aspects of a genre we have grown to love so much. Other columnists and I will be writing about why we like sports movies, how they have changed throughout the years and whatever else we can think of. The feature production will be a March Madness-style bracket, for-mally known as March Movie Madness.

The sports staff will decide on 32 teams worthy of mak-ing the Big Dance, and we will vote on the advancements, eventually declaring the best sports movie of all time, which will be unveiled March 15. We will also announce Oscar-style awards for catego-ries, including Best Documen-tary Film, Best Motivational Speech, Worst Sports Movie, etc.

Feel free to join the con-versation this month, and let us know your input about the best movies, moments and characters of all time.

And with that, let the mad-ness begin.

Writer’s note: In the interest of full disclosure, this column was written while drinking Michael’s Secret Stuff.

Emily is a graduate student. She can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @EmilyBayci.

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