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Wendy’s to return to campus by 2013 BY JESSICA AHNSTAFF WRITER

The slogan “Where’s the beef?” — a phrase made famous by Wen-dy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers — will soon fi nd an answer on campus.

Wendy’s Old Fashioned Ham-burgers will open a two-story restaurant on the corner of Sixth and Green streets, according to a news release . JSM Development said in the release that the beef will be available by the end of the year , when the restaurant opens for business.

Jill Guth , JSM director of development, said that when Mike Allegro , owner of 16 Wen-dy’s franchises, heard about the vacant space at 608 S. Sixth St., he contacted her saying he wanted to bring Wendy’s back to campus.

With Wendy’s Company’s approval, Allegro is on schedule to open his 17th Wendy’s fran-chise — his fi rst Wendy’s on a college campus.

“I’m very comfortable open-ing on campus in Champaign,”

Allegro said. “I think Wendy’s is a quality brand, and by bring-ing it to campus, it will add more value to students’, residents’, and faculty’s experience of campus town.”

As a new business on campus, Allegro said he hopes to be active in the community.

“We defi nitely want to be involved in the community and college activity,” he said. “We want to be part of the growth in Champaign.”

Owners of local restaurants, including Chipotle, Firehaus and Murphy’s Pub, declined to com-ment on the opening of Wendy’s. The general manager of Noodles & Company was not available for comment, and the request for comment from Mia Za’s was not returned.

Wendy’s was previously locat-ed at 528 E. Green St. but closed in the mid-1990s. The space is now occupied by Chipotle Mexican Grill and Noodles & Company.

Construction is scheduled to

start within two to three weeks, Allegro said.

Right now, Allegro said he is concentrating only on this loca-tion. He said he would like to take advantage of any future oppor-tunities to open more Wendy’s franchises in the Champaign community if the opportunity presents itself.

The new franchise will offer employment opportunities to res-idents in the area. According to the release, “the Campustown store will be employing up to 30 customer service positions and a full-time management team.”

Jessica can be reached at [email protected]

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YOUR VOICE

“It’s shaped it in that we have more precaution now. We have to have more security in airports especially. (At) school, if we fi nd a backpack, we can’t just go ahead and grab it and take it to security. It has to be done by security. Everyday life has been completely altered.”

ERIKA ESPARZA, senior in LAS

“I think personally it made me realize how delicate life is. In one instance, by one event, so many lives were destroyed and so many people were affected. In terms of the whole world, I think it made us realize how when things like this happen, people really come together.”

SAMEERA SARMA, graduate student

“On the domestic level it obviously changed the way people in North America view safety and security .... I think, unfortunately, it kind of increased the culture of fear a lot in North America. People worry about things that are very, very unlikely to happen. There’s a lot of paranoia about it — more than it probably deserves.”

NIR FRIEDMAN, graduate student

“I feel that more people are feeling more war-mongering, like you can only solve your problems with sending more troops, sending more machines of war and destruction and whatever, to ‘help’ these poor impoverished people. Whether they actually have weapons of mass destruction or whatever, it doesn’t change the fact that 9/11 totally shaped our foreign policy to focus even more on the Middle East than it was before.”

ROBERT KAMINSKI, junior in Engineering

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Changes may be made to academic integrity policy

BY CORINNE RUFFSTAFF WRITER

Sections of the student code dealing with professors’ response to cheating are being modifi ed, with the goal of sim-plifying some of the code’s ambiguities.

These changes could be in place as soon as Fall 2013 if the University’s Conference on Con-duct Governance signs off on a handful of proposals to simplify the academic integrity policies for students.

“We worked mainly with the procedures because the stu-dent code was diffi cult to read and fi gure out before,” said Charles Tucker , associate dean for undergraduate programs for Engineering.

“In light of experiences han-dling relevant issues, some aspects needed tuning up in order to make it easier to understand.”

One of the main adjustments, Tucker said, is the wording that determines when a student is violating the academic integrity policy. The current edition states that the professor “should feel certain” a student is in violation of the code before determining the penalty.

“This read very ambiguously, and no one really knew what it meant,” Tucker said.

The proposed line now reads that it must be “more probably true than not true” that a student has committed an infraction.

Another addition to the policy will be a selection of sanctions that professors may choose from to penalize a student, depend-ing on the degree of severity, Tucker said.

“The penalties are restricted to start with a warning letter and increase to a failing grade

Modi! cations aim to ! x loopholes, clarify process for students’ bene! t

Since 9/11, Sikhs dealwith misplaced racismBY TAYLOR GOLDENSTEINNEWS EDITOR

When Sikh student Irwinpreet Bagri was in grade school, prejudice to him meant coming home every day in tears. It meant being called a girl for wear-ing his traditional top-knot turban as he was pushed into the girls’ bathroom by other students. Now Bagri is 21, far removed from schoolyard bully-ing, but the prejudice has grown along with him.

“Since 9/11, Sikhs have been the main target of hate crimes, even though we have no link with al-Qai-da,” said Bagri, senior in Business.

Following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Bagri said much of the American pub-lic has mistakenly made the connec-tion between Sikhs and radical Muslim terrorists, mostly because of the tur-bans and unshorn hair that individu-als of both faiths may don.

Bagri added that it is ironic that people misidentify Sikhs as Muslims because of the persecution Sikhs have faced in the past when others, such as the Mughal emperors in the 1700s, wanted to convert the monotheistic Sikhs to Islam.

It didn’t take long after 9/11 for these

misconceptions to become rampant and grip the nation — only four days after Sept. 11, a Sikh man, Balbir Singh Sodhi, was murdered in Arizona. The event was marked by many as the fi rst hate crime to follow 9/11.

So while many were shocked by the shooting in Wisconsin this August at a Sikh temple, or gurdwara, Bagri said that because he closely follows news about the Sikh community, he knows these crimes are a societal reality. He said that as long as there is a lack of understanding of minority cultures, appearances will always set apart Sikhs and other groups and cause rifts.

“The reason (Aug. 5 shooter) Wade Michael Page went into that temple — it’s not because they were Sikh, and it’s probably not even because he thought they were Muslim — it was because they were different,” Bagri said. “At the end of the day, he would have attacked anyone that was differ-ent from him.”

Despite similarities in physical appearance, Sikhs and Muslims have different reasons for dressing the way they do.

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“The reason Wade Michael Page went into that temple — it’s not because they were Sikh, and it’s probably not even because he thought they were Muslim — it was because they were different. At the end of the day, he would have attacked anyone that was different from him.”IRWINPREET BAGRI,president of Sikh Student Association

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Memorializing September 11, 2001C-U, campus honor victims of Sept. 11DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT

Students and members of the Champaign-Urbana community can participate in several activities Tuesday to memorialize the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

! At 5:45 a.m., the annual 9-11 Memorial Run will be held in affi liation with the Tri-Service ROTC. The formation for the run begins on the west side of the Armory at 5:45 a.m., which is expected to include approximate-ly 250 students from the

Air Force, Army and Navy divisions of the ROTC.

! Starting at 7:45 a.m., stu-dents, faculty, staff and elected offi cials will place American fl ags with the name of a victim on the Quad. The Jupiter String Quartet will perform Tues-day at 7:46 a.m., the time the fi rst plane hit the World Trade Center, in Smith Hall.

The performance will

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Champaign! Disorderly conduct and

trespassing were reported in the 500 block of West Beard-sley Avenue around 7 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown male offender threatened the victim while trespassing.

! Two 20-year-old males were arrested on charges of trespassing and consumption of alcohol by a minor at the former White Horse Inn, 112 E. Green St., around 1 a.m. Sunday.

According to the report, the suspects were located in-side the vacant building. They were issued notices to appear for trespassing.

! Burglary was reported in the 1400 block of North Pros-pect Avenue around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, an offi cer responded to check the vacant building. The offi -cer noticed forced entry to the building and discovered one copper alloy was stolen.

! Theft was reported in the 2000 Block of North Neil Street around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, the victim reported that three un-known male suspects stole his cellular phone.

! Battery was reported in the 200 block of West Spring-fi eld Avenue around 11 a.m. Friday.

According to the report, the female suspect spat on the vic-tim.

! Theft was reported at Taco Bell, 1707 S. Neil St., just after 11 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole the victim’s purse. Six items were reported stolen.

! Theft was reported at Sul-livan-Parkhill Automotive, 440 W. Anthony Drive, around noon Thursday.

According to the report, an

unknown suspect stole rim caps from vehicles. Eight items were reported stolen.

! Theft was reported in the 3000 block of Apollo Drive around 1 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, an unknown suspect burglarized a Pepsi-Cola Bottling Compa-ny vending machine and stole 10 items.

! Residential burglary was reported in the 500 block of West Beardsley Avenue just before 6 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, an unknown suspect burglarized a vacant rental property. The offender damaged two items and stole two items.

! Robbery was reported on the 1700 Block of Gentry Square Lane around 9 p.m. Friday.

According to the report, an unknown offender robbed the victim of fi ve items.

! Discharge of a fi rearm was reported in the 200 block of Garwood Street around 7 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, po-lice responded to the report of shots fi red, but the fi rearm was not located.

! A 28-year-old male was ar-rested on charges of burglary at the Champaign Surplus Store, 303 S. Neil St., around 5:30 a.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the suspect was found in posses-sion of two stolen items, which were taken from the store Fri-day.

! A 22-year-old male was ar-rested on charges of posses-sion of cannabis and posses-sion of drug paraphernalia in the 100 block of South Sixth Street at 10 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, of-fi cers responded to a noise complaint and found cannabis and drug paraphernalia at the scene.

! A 21-year-old male was ar-rested on the charge of canna-bis possession in the 300 block of South Wright Street at 4

p.m. Saturday.According to the report, the

suspect was issued a notice to appear.

Urbana! A 20-year-old male was ar-

rested on charges of driving under the infl uence of alcohol, unsafe movement on roadway and an in-state warrant in the 200 block of West Pennsylva-nia Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Sunday.

According to the report, the suspect struck two parked ve-hicles while driving and ad-mitted to feeling the effects of alcohol that night.

! Armed robbery was re-ported in the 200 block of West Illinois Street around 5 a.m. Sunday.

According to the report, three unknown offenders tried to rob the victim and battered him during the incident.

University! Deceptive practices were

reported around 1 a.m. Satur-day.

According to the report, the two victims reported that they had been bilked of $1,900 af-ter unwittingly participat-ing in a fraudulent check-de-posit scam set up by someone posting help-wanted ads on the University’s Virtual Job Board. A third student who be-came suspicious did not depos-it a check.

! A 36-year-old male was ar-rested on the charges of pos-session of a controlled sub-stance, possession of drug paraphernalia, invalid license, operating an uninsured vehi-cle and an outstanding war-rant in Douglas County for failure to appear in court.

According to the report, the suspect was stopped on a mo-torcycle after a patrol offi cer saw him speeding.

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Champaign police are investi-gating the death of a man who fell from a building in the 300 block of East Green Street on Sunday night.

Police were called to the scene before 9 p.m., after a 29-year-old male was found on the ground on the west side of 309 E. Green St.

He was then taken to Carle Foundation Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m.

According to a press release from Champaign County Coro-ner Duane Northrup, the man died from blunt force injuries he received from the fall.

Man dies after falling from building Sunday

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U-C Senate discusses concerns over CourseraBY CARINA LEESTAFF WRITER

Urbana-Champaign Senate members discussed the outcome of Coursera at their fi rst meeting of this academic year.

Coursera is an online edu-cation platform that does not charge tuition for people to take University courses. This pro-gram was initiated by two com-puter science professors from Stanford University to provide free education to anyone who is willing to learn. Coursera was launched with a university part-nership among the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton Uni-versity, Stanford University and the University of Michigan. In July 2012, the University of Illi-nois, along with 11 other univer-sities, joined the partnership.

So far, 116,000 students are enrolled in the University’s online Coursera courses and the University has been receiving positive feedback. Nicholas Bur-bules, University Senates Con-ference vice chair, said UIC stu-

dents took a survey regarding their thoughts on Coursera.

“Students said on a broad scale that they wanted more access to courses on a porta-ble, handheld device,” Burbules said. “They were ready for a lot more than their instructors were giving them.”

The University started by offering “Introduction to Sus-tainability,” and 32,000 students enrolled in the course. Later, seven more courses were made available from LAS. The Uni-versity was the fi rst land-grant institute to have a partnership with Coursera.

The students registered in Coursera represent many demographics, including people with disabilities, professionals working on a specifi c fi eld, high school students and teachers encouraging online teaching.

At the meeting, some sen-ate members were concerned with transparency in the deci-sion process when partnering with Coursera. Chancellor Phyl-

lis Wise stated that a commit-tee was formed to address and resolve all concerns involving Coursera.

“I would argue that it did go through (a) faculty governance process and we do have contin-ued questions and so another committee has been formed and Nick (Burbules) is one of the co-chairs of that committee,” Wise said. “It’s been formed by the provost and will continue to go through all the questions.”

Kevin Waspi, lecturer in fi nance, said the content of the meeting was overwhelming, but it all needed to be discussed for the new senate members.

“I think an observer would have to be mindful of the fact that it was the fi rst senate meet-ing of the academic year,” Waspi said. “It was also the fi rst senate meeting for many new senators, so there is a fl ow that hasn’t yet been established.”

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in the course,” he said. “They will also be able to choose from options such as writing an essay on ethics or visiting a conference on academic integrity so that stu-dents can view this as a learning opportunity.”

Ryan Young , vice president-external of the Illinois Student Senate, believes the proposed policy will be a great change for students.

“Before there were no stipula-tions that a professor had to talk with the student,” he said. “Now communication before proceeding is ensured, shortening a process that could drag on for months.”

These proposed changes have been written by the Academic Integrity Task Force, which was appointed by Renee Romano , vice

chancellor of student affairs. Ken-neth Ballom and Brian Farber , two of the selected committee members, said a group to review the process was formed in late 2008.

“Many academic programs had encountered problems and loop-holes in existing procedure and were seeking clarifi cation so that the process could be clearer and stronger,” Ballom said. “The goal of the task force was to seek clari-ty and to address the issues, which included timeliness, appeal pro-cesses and appropriate sanctions.”

Tucker, another committee member, said the policy changes have been set aside for discussion since last spring.

“Updates are done in the spring and summer, and if they are approved by the Conference on Conduct Governance, they will go into effect during the fall of 2013,” Tucker said.

He said he expects a period for discussion and comment by the Illinois Student Senate and oth-er campus committees regard-ing the changes to the Academic Integrity portion of the student code .

These policy changes will be discussed further by ISS in the weeks to come.

Young discussed the issue with the Academic Integrity Task Force on Sunday evening at a meeting of the Conference on Conduct Governance.

“Personally, the changes that have been made are 100 percent in students’ favor, and it’s clear why they were made,” he said. “The changes are fi xing loopholes, clarifying information and pro-viding a direct process that every student can follow.”

Corinne can be reached at [email protected].

Celebrating with new sistersWhereas wearing a turban

is more of a cultural and some-times religious decision for Mus-lims, the turban, or dastar in Punjabi, is mandatory for Sikhs as part of the Five Articles of Faith, their holy guidelines.

Included in that article is the requirement that Sikh followers never cut their hair.

Bagri said he has been the tar-get of racist remarks because of his turban; sometimes, he said, he will be walking on the street and hear people murmur rac-ist slurs under their breath or scream “Terrorist!” out their car window before driving past.

Bagri said traveling has also become troublesome for Sikh people because of the racial pro-fi ling that occurs during random searches.

Both Bagri and Amarjit Singh, vice president of the Wheaton, Ill.-based Illinois Sikh Commu-nity Center, said they have faced issues with airport security.

Singh said recently, the Trans-portation Security Administra-tion has become more under-standing about turbans and the privacy that Sikhs hope for when being told to remove their turban during a security check.

“It’s coming,” Singh said. “It’s a long way, but we have achieved quite a bit. Prejudice will remain no matter how hard it is, but it will become less and less hopefully.”

Bagri said he attributes these problems to a lack of awareness, citing the example of when Mitt Romney accidently mixed up the word “Sikh” with “sheikh” when offering his condolences during a fundraiser this August.

“I don’t think there’s educa-tion,” Bagri said. “People aren’t educated about us even though we’re the fi fth-largest religion in the world, and we’ve been in the United States of America since 1890.”

The source of the problem, he speculated, is the overly simplistic representations of Sikhs, Muslims and terrorists in the media.

“When someone sees a Sikh person, they just automatical-ly think Taliban because that’s what the media has been por-traying since 2001,” Bagri said.

Bagri said he understands that it is diffi cult to tell the differ-ence, just as it would be for him to tell apart someone who is Ser-bian versus Croatian.

“It’s really hard to know that,” Bagri said. “But just because you don’t know what they are shouldn’t mean that you can disrespect them or hate them because they are different from you. I don’t care if people don’t know I’m Sikh, but don’t attack me, don’t call me a terrorist, don’t accuse me of something I never did.”

At the University, David Price, head of the religion department, said no classes are currently offered on Sikhism, though oth-er courses touch on it.

“We do not have a specialist in Sikhism in the Department of Religion,” Price said in an email. “We are planning to increase our curriculum in South Asian stud-ies in the very near future. Sikh-ism is covered in our World Reli-gions course, but not extensively enough.”

Even though there is still room to grow, Bagri said he feels com-fortable on campus.

“I feel pretty safe because I think we have a really educated campus,” he said.

Bagri, now in his third year as president of the Sikh Student Association, said he is optimistic for the future of Sikhism — as it is a peaceful religion — and for his own family’s future.

“I hope my kids won’t have to go through the same experience I had in elementary school,” he said. “That’s it. I just want my kids to live normally.”

Taylor can be reached at [email protected].

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The new members of Alpha Phi pose with their bid cards on the Quad during Bid Day on Monday. Bid Day ended over a week of formal sorority recruitment.

Unsettled contracts lead to CPS strikeBY DON BABWIN AND SOPHIA TAREENTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — For the fi rst time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the class-room Monday, taking a bitter con-tract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation’s third-largest city — and to a national audience — less than a week after most schools opened for fall.

The walkout forced hundreds of thousands of parents to scramble for a place to send idle children and created an unwelcome politi-cal distraction for Mayor Rahm Emanuel. In a year when labor unions have been losing ground nationwide, the implications were sure to extend far beyond Chicago, particularly for districts engaged in similar debates.

The two sides resumed negotia-tions Monday but failed to reach a settlement, meaning the strike will extend into at least a second day. Chicago School Board President David Vitale told reporters that board and union negotiators did not even get around to bargaining on the two biggest issues.

The union had vowed to strike Monday if there was no agreement on a new contract, even though the

district had offered a 16 percent raise over four years and the two sides had essentially agreed on a longer school day. With an average annual salary of $76,000, Chicago teachers are among the highest-paid in the nation, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality.

Emanuel, who has sought major reforms , acknowledged his own fi ght with the union, even as he urged a quick resolution.

“Don’t take it out on the kids of Chicago if you have a problem with me,” he told reporters Monday.

The strike quickly became part of the presidential campaign. Republican candidate Mitt Rom-ney said teachers were turning their backs on students and Obama was siding with the striking teach-ers in his hometown.

Obama’s top spokesman said the president has not taken sides but is urging both the sides to settle quickly.

Emanuel, who just agreed to take a larger role in fundrais-ing for Obama’s re-election, dis-missed Romney’s comments as “lip service.”

The strike involving more than 25,000 teachers meant no school for 350,000 students .

Lawmakers talk price of memorial at ground zeroBY JENNIFER PELTZTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — A debate over balancing the need to honor the memory of Sept. 11 with the enor-mous costs of running a memo-rial and museum at ground zero has been reawakened on the eve of the attacks’ 11th anniversary, as offi cials faced questions Mon-day over the project’s expected $60 million-a-year operating budget.

The number comes on top of the $700 million construction cost of the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum. A report Sunday by The Associated Press noted that $12 million a year would be spent on security, more than the entire operating budgets of Get-tysburg National Military Park and the monument that includes the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg,

who leads the nonprofi t founda-tion’s board, on Monday called the Sept. 11 memorial’s operat-ing cost a necessity for security and other costs unique to hosting millions of visitors a year on the

reborn site of two terror attacks, in 1993 and 2001.

Some congressional Democrats underscored their efforts to help get federal money to cover some of the operating cost, while a Repub-

lican senator reiterated his oppo-sition. Even some victims’ family members are divided over whether the price tag represents the price of paying tribute to the lives lost or the cost of unnecessary grandeur.

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Thousands of public school teachers march on streets surrounding the Chicago Public Schools district headquarters on the fi rst day of strike action over teachers' contracts on Monday in Chicago.

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Arborist Jeremy DeSimone, left, sprays fertilizer on a swamp white oak at the Sept. 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site in New York on May 13, 2011. The foundation that runs the memorial estimates that once the roughly $700 million project is complete, it will cost $60 million a year to operate.

include two songs played by the quartet and is expected to last 20 min. Anyone is wel-come to attend the free per-formance. The audience is asked to enter and leave in silence, and there will be no speaking from the stage.

! The cities of Champaign and Urbana will host a Sept. 11 Memorial Service at West Side Park, 400 W. University Ave., Champaign.

The service, which begins at 8 a.m., will feature presenta-tions from the Champaign and Urbana police and fi re depart-ments, along with Champaign fi refi ghter Lt. Todd Hitt play-ing the bagpipes. The police and fi re departments will make tributes to those who lost their lives in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Flight 93.

The memorial will last approximately 20 minutes and is open to the public. The public is encouraged to arrive 10 minutes before the service begins and to congregate near the corner of Church and State streets in Champaign.

! Campus will also remember Sept. 11 by aiming to pack-age more than 10,000 meals to fi ght local hunger. The meals will be sent to the Eastern Illi-nois Foodbank.

At 6:30 p.m., students can gather at the Wesley Unit-ed Methodist Church and Wesley Foundation, 1203 W. Green St., Urbana, on cam-pus to package the meals. The meal packaging project will be through a partnership with the Illini Fighting Hunger and Offi ce of Volunteer Programs.

An interfaith dialogue will take place after the packag-ing to encourage religious tol-erance. This event is led by registered student organiza-tion Interfaith in Action. The event will be co-sponsored by the Muslim Students Associa-tion, Illini Hillel and the Sikh Student Association.

! All are invited to attend a vig-il on the Quad at 8:30 p.m. in remembrance of all lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. The vigil is sponsored by the College Republicans at UIUC and the Conservative Student Union, but the ceremony is nonpar-tisan and all individuals are encouraged to attend.

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The Daily Illini published a column Friday based on a reporter’s journey through several social fraternities and their

parties during the weekend, detailing the heavy drinking and party culture during the opening nights of Rush Week.

It is vital that all students rec-ognize that the problems of binge drinking and misogyny are in no way unique to the Greek sys-tem and, perhaps as important, that this characterization does not define, nor even necessar-ily match, the Greek system as a whole.

Indeed, the fraternities and sororities on campus support phi-lanthropy for the community and the educational and professional advancement of their members. The Office of the Dean of Stu-dents even sets benchmarks for chapter members’ average GPA, ensuring that Greeks are held to a high standard of academic excellence.

But for many freshmen, that weekend was their first impres-sion of upper-level education and possibly how their next four years in college will unfold.

On top of that, just before arriving at school, those same freshmen may have seen a cer-tain headline: The Princeton Review had just ranked the Uni-versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as No. 4 on its list of party schools.

This ranking, generated from student surveys rather than any sort of scientific assessment, is still a good measure of students’ attitudes about where and how they attend college. Alcohol is no stranger to this campus, and it does no good to ignore that.

The University is home to the country’s largest Greek system. But having a part in that distinc-tion comes with responsibility. Fraternities should have safe-guards in place to ensure that minors don’t drink during Rush Week or at parties.

Not only that, but the Univer-sity’s Interfraternity Council, the organization that presides over the more than 40 frater-nity chapters, states in its poli-cies for the recruitment process that “the only restriction placed on chapters is the restriction of not involving alcohol in ANY recruitment activities.”

But the IFC does not have any restrictions or regulations on placing bids, the invitations for membership to a fraternity, on potential new members.

This muddies the line between

simply throwing a party at the beginning of the semester — the time that most fraternities actively seek new members — and recruiting new members.

In some aspects, Greek life comes under attack because it sometimes glorifies underage drinking, breaking laws against it and celebrating the act.

As an institution with an inter-nal government to manage risk, such as those associated with alcohol, it is that much more important to ensure there are written records of what goes largely unreported in campus fraternities.

Notably, underage drinking is not isolated to fraternities. Champaign-Urbana itself has the unusual practice of allowing 19- and 20-year-olds into bars, and it is foolish to assume that all underage bar attendees simply watch their of-age friends drink while they sip soda.

Whether an apartment, resi-dence hall or other residence on campus, you can be confi-dent that beer and liquor will be present.

Unlike the rest of campus, however, fraternities are held to a higher standard by the IFC, and chapters face consequenc-es if found to use improper Rush methods, including serving alco-hol to minors.

Fraternities on campus do great things — they fundraise for wor-thy causes, they provide friends or a home for freshmen trying to find their place at an enormous university, they allow members to assume leadership positions in their fraternity and in the com-munity, and they help alumni in securing jobs and promotions.

Providing alcohol when recruit-ing new members who are under-age serves only to mitigate these positives. That does not mean fra-ternities should stop having alco-hol at their parties — it is unfair to expect a complete ban, but it is expected that alcohol is used responsibly. This does mean, how-ever, that alcohol, should not be such a focus during rush.

The Office of the Dean of Stu-dents enumerates a list of values that are supposed to be “inher-ent” in the Greek system’s mis-sion, which is to facilitate friend-ship, leadership, scholarship, service and social advancement. Alcohol detracts from these val-ues because the first and, quite often, lasting impression for a non-Greek member or a student seeking entry into the system is not one that emphasizes the posi-tive benefits of a fraternity.

P residential hopeful Gov. Mitt Romney raised a lot of eyebrows Sunday because, though he’d be the first to slash Obam-

acare if elected president, he isn’t averse to parts of incum-bent Barack Obama’s health care reform — namely, cov-ering those with pre-existing conditions and extending cov-erage to children up to any age.

Romney made an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” discussing a whole slew of top-ics, when the conversation followed up on his stance on health care in America.

“Well, I’m not getting rid of all of health care reform,” Romney said. “Of course, there are a number of things that I like in health care reform that I’m going to put in place. One is to make sure that those with pre-existing conditions can get coverage. Two is to assure that the marketplace allows for individuals to have policies that cover their — their family up to whatever age they might like. I also want individuals to be able to buy insurance, health insurance, on their own as opposed to only being able to get it on a tax advantage basis through their company.”

Romney’s support for some form of health care reform is nothing new because he insti-tuted similar reforms in Mas-sachusetts as governor. His statements, however, make him appear bipartisan, willing to “walk across the aisle” and find a way to compromise on even the main tenets of the reform. But there are underlying dif-ferences between what both candidates promise in their health care plans, especially

when it comes to people with pre-existing conditions.

The Affordable Care Act, Obama’s health care reform, largely upheld by the Supreme Court in July, makes it so that health insurance companies are prohibited from denying a person coverage if he or she has a pre-existing condition.

Conversely, the Romney cam-paign followed up his inter-view Sunday with two clarifica-tions. First: “In a competitive environment, the marketplace will make available plans that include coverage for what there is demand for. He was not proposing a federal man-date to require insurance plans to offer those particular features.”

Second: “Gov. Romney will ensure that discrimination against individuals with pre-existing conditions who main-tain continuous coverage is prohibited.”

The differences seem slight, but these nuances are criti-cal for the groups of people who seek insurance but may be turned away because of their health. According to a Janu-ary 2011 report by Health and Human Services, 25 million of the 50 million to 129 mil-lion nonelderly Americans whom health insurance com-panies identify as having a pre-existing condition remain uninsured.

For Romney to put forward a more moderate, biparti-san comment in the throes of campaign season is a smart move to garner support from those of the other side, but by no means does this mean he’s going to lower the knife he has at Obamacare’s gut.

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Romney may keep parts of Obamacare, but those with pre-existing conditions should be wary

Two weeks ago, the resounding cry from the Republican National Con-vention was “We Built It!” a refer-

ence to a comment President Barack Obama made weeks ago in which he allegedly stated that individuals who built their own businesses had, in fact, not built it on their own. The GOP, with a staunch platform on wealth and own-ership, latched onto the statement, inflating it to a campaign slogan.

The issue, however, is that Obama said no such thing. Instead, he said, “Somebody helped to create this unbe-lievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

(He also destroyed the hopes of all English scholars everywhere when he used the singular demonstrative pronoun “that” instead of the plural “those,” when referring to the anteced-ent “roads and bridges.”)

Apart from this blatant manipulation of context by the Republican party, the RNC was filled with other factual inac-curacies, most notably in the speeches given by the candidates on the ticket. Of the major points discussed in Rep. Paul Ryan’s speech (of which there were few), half were false, while the other half were only “mostly true”. He lied when stating, “Household income in America has gone down for families an average of $4,000 in the last four years. When Mitt Romney was gover-nor of Massachusetts, unemployment went down and household incomes went up $5,000.” When taken separately, the statements are partially true; however, Obama’s figure is altered for inflation, while Romney’s is not. (If it had been, he too would have seen an income drop of almost $600.)

Romney remarked that Obama began his presidency “with an apology tour,” traveling the world apologizing for the United States. This earned Romney a “Pants on Fire” rating from Pulit-zer Prize-winning website PolitiFact, revealing that in reality it was “the tour that never was.” Romney didn’t stop there, with almost half of his state-ments being untrue, and another 28 per-cent being only “half true.”

At least the promise to not let the campaign be “dictated by fact-check-ers” is accurate.

Lying, of course, was not a problem contained to the Republican convention. However, in comparing major speak-ers from the RNC and the Democrat-ic National Convention, a clear divi-sion arises. Bill Clinton, who took the spot generally reserved for the vice president, kept his speech factual, with half truths being the least accurate. The worst FactCheck.org could fault him for was “a suggestion that Presi-dent Obama’s Affordable Care Act was responsible for bringing down the rate of increase in health care spending” as “the fact is that the law’s main provi-sions have yet to take effect.”

President Obama, who finished the convention on Thursday night, stated, “We reinvented a dying auto industry that’s back on top of the world.” Actu-ally, General Motors is No. 2 — behind Toyota — in world auto sales and expected to drop into third as a result of Volkswagen’s success. Despite those claims, Obama has kept 37 percent of the promises he’s made and remained honest 73 percent of his entire political career.

Which isn’t too bad, when reminded that he is a Chicago politician.

While the men of the conventions seemed to stick (sort of) to facts and figures, the women of the conventions played to something different entirely. The best examples come when compar-ing Michelle Obama’s and Ann Rom-ney’s speeches about their respective husbands. The First Lady appealed to viewers’ empathy, their pathos, their connection to family, to having some-thing to believe in and stand up for. She talked about her personal experience growing up with very little and about Barack’s similar experience. Mrs. Rom-ney looked to discuss the same things. She talked about her boys, about love, about her first dance with Mitt.

They talked about the exact same things: family, hard work, faith, trust, passion, compassion. These women did what the rest of their parties could not. They emphasized our similarities, our values, our vision for a better future for those around us.

If you go to the voting booths this November, and you should, make sure you are educated. That you know what is true, what is half-true and what is an outright lie. Because if the American people deserve anything, they deserve to be treated like adults, to be given the information needed to make their own decisions and trusted to make the right choice.

Sarah is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].

September is National Suicide Awareness Month. And yester-day, Sept. 10, was World Suicide

Prevention Day. Funny how the big-gest issues in life have “months” and “days” dedicated to them. For those affected by suicide, not a day or a month goes by without a sense of awareness.

This is not just going to be a light-and-fluffy column about how “it’s all going to be OK.” — even though it will be. Let’s have an hon-est conversation about how the act of killing oneself affects our cam-pus, as well as Western society.

I am not writing this from the platform of a doctor or even as a journalist. I write to you as a fellow student, citizen and human being who knows what it’s like to lose someone, as well as what it’s like to be a supporter of multiple people in recovery.

While depression is an illness, suicide is not a science — not really. It’s just a word to illustrate a simple act. I say it’s time we stopped fear-ing this word and started overcom-ing the illness that drives the act.

We don’t like to talk about death — we never have. We romanticize it through vampires, we glorify it through war, we rationalize it through faith and we even satirize it on SNL and YouTube. And I’m fine with all of that because every-one copes with death differently. What I’m not okay with is pretend-ing that depression “is just in your head,” or the phrase “suicide is not the answer.” To the person consid-ering suicide, it probably sounds like a good answer to a compli-cated question. Let’s take a step back from life’s proverbial multi-ple-choice test and look at the test taker.

The notion of being an “adult” is an interesting one in this coun-try. Legally, one reaches adulthood at the age of 18. By this standard, nearly all college students are, at least in a court of law, adults. So when is it appropriate to confront an adult about an issue like depres-sion or suicide? One does not need to be depressed to commit suicide, but the two often go hand-in-hand.

I remember vividly the phone call I made to my mother when I realized that more than half my social circle was on some form of anti-depressant, prescribed to deter any suicidal tendencies. “Every-one I know wants to die, Mom — everyone.”

It was a rough awakening for me, but one that I don’t regret or attempt to forget. I learned a great deal about the fragility of life dur-ing my first year at the University. I knew that where I found myself was serious, and I soon found out that I was not alone. Indeed, we are all surrounded by the issue of suicide.

According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention eleven hundred college students killed themselves last year and it has been reported that men are twice as likely to commit suicide than women. A study conducted at the University of Virginia found suicide, not alcoholic incidents, to be the number one cause of death for college students studying at four-year institutions. Why is this? No one really knows why so many college-age people have suicidal tendencies, just like no one knows exactly what drives human beings to take their own lives.

Yes, there is psychological coun-seling, and I believe that can be very valuable. There are prescrip-tions to medications that may just deter the dark cloud so many anti-depressant commercials use to personify human hurt. But there is also something else that may be just as powerful as a pill or a psychologist.

For this, I call upon The Bea-tles. To save someone’s life, maybe “Love is All You Need.” It’s corny to find a message in pop songs, I know. But I’ve watched what this illness can do to people. Feeling wanted, needed even, and uncon-ditionally appreciated is, in my experience, the best way to bring someone back or deter him or her completely. Too often in our cul-ture, we hesitate to give a hug or show intimate signs of affection. Too often do we realize that we should have.

If you know or think you know someone who is struggling, love them. And if you are that someone, know that you are loved.

Renée is a senior in Media. She can be reached at [email protected].

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Zipcar makes transportation easier for students, facultyBY JULIA MARBACHSTAFF WRITER

It’s time. The fridge is empty, the cabinets are bare and eating out just isn’t an option. Plus, your prescription at the pharmacy is ready for pickup, you need to stop at the mall for a new outfi t and you’re out of computer ink. The task of running all these errands is looming, but there remains one problem: no transportation.

For many college students, having a car on campus is a privi-lege reserved for their years as upperclassmen, or a privilege denied completely. Thanks to Zip-car, a car sharing network that came to the University in 2009, car accessibility is no longer an issue.

“I saw the cars around campus and was curious how I could start utilizing them,” said Emily Hartl , junior in LAS. “It’s so much more convenient than any other mode of transport on campus. I hate taking buses for long distances. It’s not convenient to ask people for rides all the time if I have to go somewhere that’s off campus, but the cars are a piece of cake.”

Zipcar was founded in 2000, and started its University pro-gram in 2002. It began at MIT and Harvard, and now is avail-able on more than 250 campuses, said CJ Himberg , communica-tions and social media coordina-tor for Zipcar.

Currently, there are 10 Zip-cars parked at seven locations throughout Champaign-Urbana as well as on campus, Himberg said.

Members can reserve a car online or over the phone. There is also a Zipcar mobile application which allows members to make reservations, lock and unlock the cars, and even honk the horn. There is also a “Reserve a Zip-car” app on Facebook for mak-ing reservations.

“It’s pretty simple to reserve a car. I use the app on my iTouch,” Hartl said.

When reserving a car, mem-bers sign into their account, which allows Zipcar to know their location. When they enter their desired time slot, Zipcar will tell the customers where the closest available car is and how many cars are available for that time slot. If none are open, it tells customers when they are next available.

Cars can be reserved as early as a year in advance and as late as minutes in advance. Because Zipcar is popular on campus, Hartl recommends reserving a car as far in advance as possible, but has also been able to reserve them last minute.

Champaign-Urbana has sever-al car models, including Honda Civics and Ford Focus’, which are both sedan and hatchback, as well

as Toyota Prius hybrid models, said Colleen McCormick , public relations manager for Zipcar.

“They seat about fi ve people,” Hartl said. “They’re all nice cars. I was actually really impressed the fi rst time I used it. All the ones I’ve driven are hybrids. They’ve got good size trunks. I’ve actually used a Zipcar to move from a dorm to an apart-ment before.”

The cars also have features such as a CD player, various radio settings and an iPod jack, Hartl said. In addition to air and heat, some have controls to change the temperature on each side of the car, and the display behind the steering wheel tells information such as how many miles until empty.

Gas and insurance are includ-ed in the fees that members pay to rent a car. When gas falls below a fourth of a tank, mem-bers are asked to use the pro-vided gas card to fi ll it back up, Hartl said.

There are six rules members are asked to follow, Himberg said.

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we ask that you always return the car with at least one-fourth of gas for the next member.”

To register, students and fac-ulty can go online and fi ll out a form in which they provide driv-er’s license information as well as credit card information. Once signed up, members receive a Zipcard, which acts as the key to the car.

Members are charged an annu-al fee of $25. Then, when renting a car, there is an hourly fee of $7.50, or cars can be rented for $66 a day.

Cars can be rented for as little as an hour or up to four days at a time. One hundred and eighty miles a day are included in the reservation; however, mileage above this is charged at $0.45 per mile.

“Whether you use it every single week or you use it once a semester, I think it still comes out to be worth the money,” Hartl said.

Students and faculty interest-ed in learning more about Zipcar can visit www.zipcar.com.

“I highly recommend it,” Hartl said. “I think it’s really useful for college students, and we’re really lucky to have a handful of cars at U of I. Anyone who’s thinking of getting it, I would recommend it highly enough.”

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Rhee recently applied for a position at Provena Covenant Medical Center from the infor-mation that he obtained through the Facebook group.

One employer that often has its job openings posted in the “Jobs & Internships” group is the University of Illinois Foun-

dation, which raises money for the University by having stu-dents contact alumni.

“We have had an immense amount of applicants from post-ing on the Facebook group,” said Terrence Thompson, junior in Media and student supervisor at the foundation, as well as frequent poster on the “Jobs & Internships” group. “We have a lot of spots to fi ll, so we are constantly hiring students at the foundation.”

Thompson began working at

UIF the spring semester of his freshman year and was promot-ed at the end of his sophomore year.

Most of the posts on the “Jobs & Internships” Facebook group come from students who know of job openings on campus and in the Champaign-Urbana com-munity. Jobs range from paid and unpaid internships to one-time odd job offers.

Zefan can be reached at [email protected].

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New study fi nds positiveeffects from acupuncture

BY LINDSEY TANNERTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — Acupuncture gets a thumbs-up for helping relieve pain from chronic head-aches, backaches and arthritis in a review of more than two dozen studies — the latest analysis of an often-studied therapy that has as many fans as critics.

Some believe its only pow-ers are a psychological, placebo effect. But some doctors believe even if that’s the explanation for acupuncture’s effectiveness, there’s no reason not to offer it if it makes people feel better.

The new analysis examined 29 studies involving almost 18,000 adults. The researchers conclud-ed that the needle remedy worked better than usual pain treatment and slightly better than fake acu-puncture. However, that kind of analysis is not the strongest type of research.

The results “provide the most robust evidence to date that acu-puncture is a reasonable refer-ral option,” wrote the authors,

who include researchers with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Can-cer Center in New York and sev-eral universities in England and Germany.

Their study isn’t proof, but it adds to evidence that acupunc-ture may benefi t a range of conditions.

Scientists aren’t sure what bio-logical mechanism could explain how acupuncture might relieve pain, but the authors of the new study say the results suggest there’s more involved than just a placebo effect.

Acupuncture skeptic Dr. Ste-phen Barrett said the study results are dubious. The retired psychiatrist runs Quackwatch, a Web site on medical scams, and says studies of acupuncture often involve strict research conditions that don’t mirror how the proce-dure is used in the real world.

While the difference in results for real versus fake acupunc-ture was small, it suggests acu-puncture could have more than a psychological effect, said lead

author Andrew Vickers, a cancer researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. The center offers acu-puncture and other alternative therapies for cancer patients with hard-to-treat pain.

The analysis was more rigor-ous than most research based on pooling previous studies’ results because the authors obtained original data from each study. That makes the conclusion more robust, said Dr. Andrew Avins, author of an Archives com-mentary and a physician and researcher with the University of California at San Francisco and Kaiser-Permanente.

Acupuncture is relatively safe, and uncertainty over how it works shouldn’t stop doctors from offering it as an option for patients, Avins said.

“Perhaps a more productive strategy at this point would be to provide whatever benefi ts we can for our patients, while we continue to explore more care-fully all mechanisms of healing,” he wrote.

Results suggests there may be more than just psychological aspect

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Acupuncturist Anah McMahon adjusts 1-inch seirin acupuncture needles in the muscles around the spine of a patient to relieve lower back pain at the Pacifi c College of Oriental Medicine in Chicago on Sept. 24, 2007.

BY KELLY CHUIPEKSTAFF WRITER

Earlybird. Sutro. Toaster. Ink-well. Nashville. Kelvin. Not a ran-dom assortment of words, but a few of the many fi lters available on Instagram, the free photo-sharing social network that many students on campus now use. In addition to being a medium to connect with friends, Instagram is starting to be used as a marketing tool, not just as a method to make sunsets or happy-hour cocktails look “cooler.”

Ari Rozen, junior in AHS, uses the social media application for her own personal enjoyment, stem-ming from a lifelong interest in photography.

“My whole life I have been a photography fan — I don’t have any fancy cameras, but I just like taking pictures,” she said. “But

just taking pictures can be a little boring. Instagram is a great way to enhance the photos, make them look a little nicer and more artsy.”

Rozen has seen many types of Instagrammed pictures pop up on her feed, with her friends Instagramming everything from scenery to group shots to animals. Rozen’s top Instagram pic? Food.

“I like to take pictures of food, because food, I think it is defi nitely something that you can make look really nice,” she said. “The fi lters can make it any type of style that you want.”

While users are free to Insta-gram whatever they want, that doesn’t mean that they should, Rozen said.

“Sometimes people will Ins-tagram a magazine cover or a picture of the TV show they are

watching, and I don’t think that’s necessary,” she said. “Not every-thing that you are doing or think-ing of needs a picture.”

Alumna Emily Cleary uses Ins-tagram both recreationally and professionally.

“(My Instagram) tends to usu-ally be more fashion related, and I don’t have to do that, but it is just what my interest is,” she said. “Sometimes I will post pictures that relate back to my blog, and I work for a jewelry company, so I will post pictures of our items and how I choose to wear them.”

Now a year and a half after she fi rst joined this social network, Cleary has started using it as a networking tool.

“I follow people in the fashion world. Everyone from editors of magazines to bloggers to news

sources to celebrities,” she said. “Right now, New York Fashion Week is going on, so it’s a great tool to follow the shows. ... If you are following bloggers and editors who are there, they are constantly updating pictures of the shows, so it’s a really great way to get a live feed of what’s going on.”

Cleary has seen fi rsthand how useful Instagram can be to con-nect with consumers.

“I think it’s actually one of the strongest marketing tools,” she said. “I have had people see the jewelry that I sell on Instagram, and then they will go on and buy it. So it’s a really good way to build a customer base.”

As with other social media web-sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, brands are also starting to use Instagram.

“Every brand, if it’s up on tech-nology, it will have an Instagram now, because it is a really cool way for them to develop an even stronger sense of brand identity,” Cleary said. “It helps you feel more in touch with the brand. “

With just a few clicks, any pic-ture can be turned into a work of art. But is that taking away from real photography? Photograh-per Josh Kirshenbaum, junior in LAS, thinks Instagram takes away from the work that true art-ists go through to create the per-fect picture.

“I think it kind of takes away from the true art of photography,” he said. “It takes a lot of work to edit photos and to do certain types of things with pictures.”

After taking photography class-es and experiencing the process of

creating a beautiful picture, Kir-shenbaum said it shouldn’t be as easy as clicking a button. He sees Instagram as a quick fi x.

While the effects of Instagram on the world of photography can be debated, the fact is that the compa-ny itself has grown quickly since its launch in October of 2010. With a $1 billion dollar offer from Face-book recently made to the com-pany’s 13 employees, it is uncer-tain what changes will happen in the future.

“I hope they don’t start trying to make money off of it because I think that would kind of ruin it,” Cleary said.

“I hope they don’t put ads on it ever. I like it the way it is.”

Kelly can be reached at [email protected].

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U niversity alumnus Arman-do Sandoval recalls the comforting smell of hand-made tortillas from his

Chicago home. Eventually, Sando-val realized he missed traditional Mexican cuisine so much that in October of last year, he decided to bring it to the campus.

The same aromas he grew up with now fi ll his Mexican grill, Maize, located at 60 E. Green St. Ever since the restaurant’s debut, word has spread across campus, courtesy of enthusiastic customers, including professors and students.

Some customers and close friends to Sandoval’s suggested that Maize move or expand its location. Though he is consider-

ing a second location for the grill, Sandoval promised that Maize will stay the same.

“I don’t want to change (this place) because it reminds me of the taquerias in Mexico,” Sando-val said. “They are very small and there is only elbow room inside.”

According to Sandoval, perhaps one of the most authentic aspects of Maize is the kitchen atmosphere. At the grill, cooks — or taqueros, as they are called in Mexican taque-rias — stand in an assembly line, helping prepare everything from tacos to tortas.

“The guys that I have I cannot speak highly enough of — they are really fast,” Sandoval said of the taqueros. “The type of work that

they do in the kitchen is a special skill.”

The kitchen is also where the cre-ation of Maize’s most popular dish, Tlacoyo, takes place.

The entree consists of a freshly made tortilla stuffed with beans and garnished with cilantro, onion, sour cream, cheese and the customer’s choice of meat. Sandoval recom-mends the al pastor, a pork gener-ally marinated with chilies. Other options include carne asada — aka “grilled meat” — chicken, chorizo sausage and veggie. The tortilla can either be grilled or fried, depending on the diner’s preference.

Sandoval said he is impressed by the attention the dish has already received.

“I think a lot of people see the name and a description and they are intrigued when they want to try new things,” Sandoval said.

However, Tlacoyo is not sole-ly responsible for the increased volume of customers at Maize.

For customers, Sandoval said, Maize offers a sense of commu-nity that other Mexican eater-ies miss.

“You go to any other restaurant and everyone has their own table and conversation,” Sandoval said. “Here, it doesn’t work that way. You will eventually bump into someone and begin to talk.”

Lyanne can be reached at [email protected].

Need a job? No problem! Virtual job board offers thousands

BY ZEFAN ARAYA STAFF WRITER

Now that syllabus week fes-tivities have ended and text-books have been bought, stu-dents may not fi nd much more than $1.27 and a receipt from the Union Bookstore in their wallets.

These students may come to the same conclusion: It’s time to fi nd a job.

Campus and the surrounding Champaign-Urbana community offer thousands of jobs to stu-dents each year, from a cog-nitive neuroscience research assistant to math tutor for a high school student in Mahomet. Many of these jobs are posted on the virtual job board, a tool hosted by the Student Employ-ment division of the Offi ce of Student Financial Aid. The vir-tual job board includes jobs both on and off campus, and students can also narrow their search results by location, wage or employers accepting federal work-study. However, not all job openings in Champaign-Urbana, or even on campus, are posted on the virtual job board.

“We encourage departments to post on our job board, but they’re not at all required to,” said Clarice Taylor, assistant director at OSFA. “Like most jobs, it’s up to the student to search for these opportunities.”

Taylor mentioned a number of University departments that do not usually post their openings on the virtual job board, such as housing, campus recreation and the library system.

Blaire Sambdman, junior in AHS, has had four jobs since she started at the University. She found two of those on the virtual job board, but the oth-er two she found through word of mouth.

“(To students looking for a job), I would say to let people know that you’re looking, to tell your friends .... That’s how I found one of my jobs,” she said. “I was just talking to a friend about how I was looking for a job, and she recommended me.”

Sambdman discovered an opening as a personal assistant to a student with a disability while talking to a friend, and she found another position — a FYCARE facilitator — after talking to a professor.

Sambdman also recommend-ed that students look for jobs within a department that may apply to their area of study or future career goals.

John Rhee, sophomore in Engineering, is also currently searching for a job by network-ing, but in a slightly different way. Rhee has been search-ing for an internship or volun-teer position by posting on the Facebook group “Jobs & Intern-ships,” a subgroup within the UIUC Facebook community.

“A lot of people were able to help me,” Rhee said. “They’d been here longer than me, knew

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LEFT: The inside of Maize Mexican Grill on the corner of First and Green streets in Champaign. RIGHT: Domingo Alonzo works in the kitchen.

Maize’s most popular creation: Tlacoyo

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Mexican dish, atmosphere make restaurant authentic

Plenty of jobs to be found via job board and word of mouth

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It was a Saturday morning at the end of July and I had mud in the most unnatural

areas of my body.My shoes weighed 4 pounds

and I had just expertly charged over a giant bundle of hay only to trip over my own two feet and face plant in front of all my friends.

I was a participant in Mud Wars, a 5K obstacle race in Chi-cago in which I was challenged physically and mentally in a journey through mud, hurdles, hay, monkey bars and various other obstacles.

I first heard of obstacle races in 2009 when my older brothers participated in the first Warrior Dash in Joliet, Ill., (shoutout to my hometown). Since then, the mud race phenomenon has exploded with obstacle races taking place all over the world. Now the Warrior Dash hosts over 30 races a year in the U.S., Canada and Australia.

These races challenge people physically because they need to be fit enough to make it through various obstacles and mental-ly because they need the push to keep going. They are better than marathons because they are fun and exciting, can be a team competition and challenge different parts of your body.

I took to Google and found a site called Mudrun411.com, which tells you everything you need to know and features a calendar with mud runs across the nation. There are approxi-mately 10 different races across the U.S. during weekends in September. Each race adver-tises itself as more intense than others with lots of capitals and exclamation points, which clearly makes something way more intimidating.

“It’s guaranteed that you will be a filthy, MUDDY mess by the time you reach the finish line.” — Kalamazoo Mud Run.

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Volleyball falls to No. 23 in rankingsBY ELIOT SILLSTAFF WRITER

A sprained ankle is a fairly common occurrence in volley-ball. It often happens when a player goes up to block or spike a ball and comes down on some-one else’s foot and lands awk-wardly. Illinois redshirt fresh-man Ali Stark did just that in the third set against Dayton — her first collegiate game — landing on teammate Erin Johnson’s foot and spraining her right ankle.

The ubiquity has not made the healing process any easier, though she’s played in Illinois’ last two tournaments. While the ankle is definitely improving, she has been forced to play at less than full speed.

“I’ve been doing a lot of treat-ment and rehab on it, so it’s fine,” Stark said. “It didn’t hurt too bad. It was a lot better than it was last weekend, so things are looking better for it.”

Head coach Kevin Hambly noted that injuries like this tend to linger. The gap between 50 and 90 percent — where Ali not-ed herself to be at after Sat-urday’s match — is sometimes crossed quicker than the final 10 percent to full strength. When asked when she would be back playing in her full capacity, Hambly said he did not know.

“It just depends on how fast she heals,” he said. “It’s her first time with this kind of inju-ry, so we’re not really sure how fast she’ll heal.”

BY CHARLIE MANIATESSTAFF WRITER

A week with no matches could be just what the doctor ordered for the Illinois soccer team.

After an unfavorable trip to Win-ston-Salem, N.C., over the weekend that resulted in two losses, the Illini are looking forward to moving on with the start of conference play Sunday against Iowa.

The Illini lost to No. 11 Virginia Tech on Friday and No. 17 Wake Forest on Sunday, changing their record to 3-3-1 on the season. Both were 1-0 losses that left a bad taste in the mouths of the Illini.

“The results don’t really paint the whole picture with this past weekend, I think we really got bet-ter as a team,” interim head coach Jeff Freeman said. “It was a chal-lenging weekend for us, we’re cer-tainly going to get back to things and start to prepare for the Big Ten and a very good Iowa team.”

Rayfield returnsFreeman, normally an assistant,

has been acting as head coach for the Illini while head coach Janet Rayfield spent time in Japan coach-ing the U.S. in the under-20 Wom-en’s World Cup.

Going into his last weekend as interim head coach, Freeman was pleased with the results to that point but left a little upset after the two tough matchups.

“It was an honor in terms of Janet being comfortable with step-ping away and leave myself and the rest of our staff in charge to hold down the fort,” Freeman said. “It was a fantastic experience, one that I’m definitely better for and one that I think our team is bet-ter for, too.”

Rayfield felt her experience in

Japan was special as well.“To be an assistant on our U-20

national team at a world event and to coach one of your athletes with you in that experience, and then to top it off by winning a world cham-pionship (is) certainly a tremen-dous experience,” Rayfield said at Illinois’ football press conference Monday.

Illini players feltwith Rayfield gone things were not that different. Senior goalkeeper Steph Panozzo said Freeman and Rayfield have similar philosophies, and practic-es and game plans never changed.

DiBernardo gives team an added boost

Junior Vanessa DiBernardo is also coming back for the Illini after winning the under-20 Women’s World Cup title against Germany on Saturday with Rayfield. The team is excited for her return and feels that being at full strength will allow them to achieve better results.

“I think our program could be top five with what we have now, but obviously when Vanessa comes back it’s going to be really awe-some,” senior forward Niki Read said. “Obviously she’s going to put points up, she’s going to drag defenders around, so hopeful-ly when she comes back, she can bring that positive energy that she has in Japan over here.”

DiBernardo started in all six matches in the tournament and was one of five members of the team to record a goal. Rayfield praised her performance, saying the midfield play was one of the things that was best on the team and calling DiBer-nardo an integral part of that.

Charlie can be reached at [email protected].

Mud races present multiple challenges

BY JAMAL COLLIERSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois football team arrived back in Champaign around 6 a.m. Sun-day morning with the 45-14 shellacking provided by Arizona State still fresh on its mind and the bad taste still fresh in its mouth.

The Illini didn’t want to take any breaks, especially an Illinois defense which prided itself on being one of the best in the country last season and sti-fling a Western Michigan offense in Week One that went on to score 52 points this past Saturday.

The Illinois defense was the first in the film room later that same Sunday morning, ignoring any effects from jet lag, watching film and nursing bruised egos after the game before it watched it again later in the day with the coaches.

“We’ve some great leadership and, yes, (the players) were hurting as well as the staff,” Illinois head coach Tim Beckman said. “So I’m sure that they were very willing to make a change.”

Arizona State’s up-tempo offense kept Illinois off-balanced and left Sun Devils’ receivers wide open for most of the game. Arizona State quarterbacks completed their first 14 pass attempts. Defensive back Justin Green said the tempo was faster than offenses in the Big Ten and something the Illini weren’t comfortable with. Beckman said the players committed eye violations — not staying with their man when Arizona State ran two or three players through the zones.

Miscommunication on defense also left receivers roaming by themselves, all unusual for the Illinois defense that

has been the Illini’s biggest strength during the past 12 months.

“Even though that was a bad loss for us, we wanted to be together and talk about what went wrong and what we could’ve done to prevent those things from happening,” Green said. “We kind of wanted to just meet, get it over with and put it behind us so we could get ready for Charleston Southern.”

Injury update: If Scheelhaase can play, he’ll play

Beckman completely dismissed any notion that injured quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase would be held out of Sat-urday’s game against a weaker FCS (formerly Division-1AA) opponent like Charleston Southern.

“Why would you do that?” Beckman

asked. “You have to get your team bet-ter. Our team needs to get better. So we’re going to do what we need to do to be successful and help ourselves achieve those things. We’re not to that level yet.”

Scheelhaase practiced Sunday night with the team and Beckman added that he could have even been an emergency quarterback on Saturday had he been forced to play due to injury. Before the game, Beckman said Scheelhaase was about 80 percent and that the decision to sit him out was “necessary for our football team and for Nathan.”

Beckman reiterated that the status for a starting quarterback on Saturday is wide open.

Defensive back Steve Hull reinjured

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Arizona State wide receiver Rashad Ross (15) can’t pull in a pass as Illinois defensive back Justin Green (26) defends during the first half Saturday in Tempe, Ariz. The Illini defense was unable to stop the Sun Devils offense on the day, allowing the offense 45 points.

Illini defense goes from airport to film room following 45-14 loss

Soccer looking forward to return of coach, midfielder

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Illinois’ Ali Stark (13) serves against Iowa State at Huff Hall on Aug. 31. Stark injured her ankle in her Illini debut.

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London celebrates end of ‘fantastic’ OlympicsBY ROB HARRISTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Royal Air Force jets streaked through the sky above Buck-ingham Palace, leaving a red, white and blue trail of smoke as gold, silver and bronze medals gleamed below.

For the final extravaganza in an extraordinary summer in London, an estimated 1 million flag-waving Britons toasted the sporting heroes who have reawakened a recession-hit nation.

A party a decade in the making was coming to an end.

The athletes could hardly believe it as the parade of floats that had weaved through the cheering streets pulled up in front of Queen Elizabeth II’s residence.

“Every street you passed, you could see the masses disappearing into the horizon — phenomenal,” said six-time Olympic champion cyclist Chris Hoy. “Eventually it has to come to an end, and that’s the hard part. There is a tinge of sadness ... I will never be able to top this.”

Hoy’s two London golds vaulted Brit-ain to third in the Olympics standings with its biggest haul in 104 years: 29 golds, 17 silvers and 19 bronzes.

“You did rack up more medals than France, didn’t you?” roared London’s maverick Mayor Boris Johnson from the stage in front of Buckingham Palace.

“Yeah!” responded the flag-waving crowd on The Mall.

“And more medals than Germany and more medals than Australia,” Johnson added to cheers. “More med-

als, my friends per head than virtually any country on earth.”

In a typically eccentric speech, Johnson said the parade that started near St. Paul’s Cathedral had brought the summer’s celebrations to a “final tear-sodden juddering climax.”

The poster girl of the home team, heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis, was at the front of the parade of 21 floats.

“Sports lovers were excited by the Olympics, but I think there are a few people that weren’t sure as to how it would pan out,” Ennis said. “But it’s just brought everyone together, and it’s been a whole buzz throughout the country.”

Britain’s summer in the interna-tional spotlight began in June with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and her granddaughter, Zara Phillips, won a silver medal in equestrian at the Olympics.

“Unbelievable, to think that every-one’s come out for all of us,” Phillips said on board a float weaving its way through the streets. “This is like the whole games though ... the crowd were unbelievable and we are so grateful to them.”

The two trouble-free games defied initial anxiety about security and inclement weather, projecting a new image of the country to the world

“You showed us all that we can be — all welcoming, tolerant, vibrant, with a future every bit as exciting and thrill-ing as our past,” Prime Minister David Cameron said on the stage with the British athletes.

“We are a country that may be small geographically, but we can do great things.

“You showed that we can take on the world and, yes, we can win. So let the spirit that delivered these games, that celebrated Britain’s success, that brought this country together, let that spirit live on for generations to come.”

There was little talk Monday as Britain grappled with the post-games comedown about the future use of the venues or the bill of more than $15 bil-lion to stage the festival of sport.

Everyone was savoring one final chance to revel in a summer of good news away from the gloom instilled by the sharp austerity measures being implemented.

“It wasn’t the finest summer of sport we have ever known: it was much bet-ter than that,” journalist Simon Barnes wrote on the front page of The Times of London on Monday. “It was the finest celebration of humanity in a quarter-of-a-million years of our existence. It was the best party in the history of the human race.”

A rousing concert featuring Cold-play, Rihanna and Jay-Z signaled the end of the Paralympics on Sunday night. It took place in the Olympic Sta-dium at the heart of the former east London industrial wasteland that was turned into a 560-acre urban park.

“The Olympics have been so fantas-tic, so we’re really sad it’s all over,” Lucy Alderman, who danced at the Olympics opening ceremony, said out-side St. Paul’s Cathedral. “This feels like the end now.”

Fabbrini makes head coaching debut, hockey splits exhibition games with decisive endingsBY BLAKE PONSTAFF WRITER

New head coach Nick Fabbrini got the start he was looking for from the Illinois hockey team this weekend.

The Illini traveled to Springfield, Ill., to play a series of exhibition games against the North American Hockey League’s Springfield Jr. Blues. The two competitive teams split over the past weekend.

The series also marked the debut for Fabbrini as legendary head coach Chad Cassel’s successor.

“I felt great out there, obviously,” he said. “It was really exciting, and I think that the weekend told me a lot about the team that I needed to find out, and I’m really happy with the results.

“I felt there were a lot of nerves and a lot of guys were a little too amped up before the game on Fri-day,” Fabbrini said. “We didn’t really play the way we wanted to. I’d say we played only 20 to 25 minutes well.”

The Illini took a 3-1 lead deep into the third period behind goals from junior forwards John Scully and Aus-tin Bostock and freshman forward John Olen, who is a former NAHL player. With 10 minutes remaining in the game, however, the Illini suf-fered a collapse in which Springfield scored four straight goals, including one empty-net goal.

“Giving up four goals in the final 10 minutes of a game is unaccept-able, obviously,” Fabbrini said. “However, I think we made up for

it by showing a lot of heart and char-acter on Saturday.”

The finale had the Illini on the ropes, trailing 2-0 quickly. The Blues got a taste of their own medicine, as the Illini answered back with three unanswered goals to take the game.

Fabbrini praised his depth at the forward position for keeping games from getting out of hand.

“I thought that our third and fourth lines really stepped up and emerged as our best lines this week-end,” Fabbrini said. “I think that if we can keep that up throughout the season, we’ll be in really good shape once our top guys get going.”

Defense remains a concern for this young Illini team. But junior forward Jacob Matysiak remains

confident in the team’s blue liners despite inexperience at the college level.

“We have a couple returning defensemen that played big minutes for us last year in (Mike) Evans and (J.T.) Turner, and the new players coming in have lots of potential,” he said. “Out of the six goals against us this weekend, two of them were even strength. We will have to continue working on our play in the defensive zone in order for us to be success-ful this year.”

The Illini’s first regular-season game takes place Sept. 21 at home against Michigan State.

Blake can be reached at [email protected] and @BlakeP.

I’m pretty sure that applies to all races because if you’re not brown from head to toe, you’re obviously not macho enough.

“For anyone that is brave enough to challenge The Goliath.” — Goliath Chal-lenge. OK, what type of Goliath are we talking about here? That would affect how worried I should be.

“Hell Run is a mud crawling, obstacle conquering, beer drinking run to hell and back.” — Hell Run. You get to say you’ve made it to hell and back in this one, so I’m sold.

“The Raging Bull course is a down-and-dirty, thrill-packed, mind-blowing, muscle-bulging, heart-pumping adven-ture course.” — Toro Loco Challenge. I’m equally scared of the race and the amount of adjectives that fit into the description.

“Please only consider this adventure style race if you have lived a full life to date.” — Spartan Death Race. That’s not morbid- or nightmare-producing or anything.

Most of the races help fund some differ-ent charity and beer is typically served at the finish line. Because anyone who just got electrocuted needs a beer, badly. These races are varying distances, start-ing at the 5K mark, with the Death Race taking two days. They all provide a vari-ety of different obstacles with mud being the most consistent. Some offer easier versions based on an individual’s diffi-culty level. And you can always skip an obstacle, but that just makes you a wimp.

The Tough Mudder is what I call the Ironman of mud races. It seems to be one of the most universally known and well-respected races out there.

It’s a 10-12 mile course with obstacles like sprinting up a quarter pipe — coat-ed with mud and grease called Everest — sliding on frigid ice with live wires above you and hauling a log half a mile. I’ve heard that if you complete the Tough Mudder, you are capable of any chal-lenge the world has to offer, physically or mentally.

My brother did one recently, and he said he felt accomplished, but it was going to take some time to recover. He said maybe it would be a once a year type of thing. Then there’s my friend Danny, who did his Tough Mudder and will never do it again.

The Tough Mudder pledge sums up mud races: “I understand that a Tough Mudder is not a race but a challenge. I put team-work and camaraderie before my course time. I do not whine — kids whine. I help my fellow runners complete the course. I overcome all fears.”

It’s as if once you complete a mud race you join some sort of secret society. You are among the few survivors who made it through these obstacles. If someone asks you what a Tough Mudder is, you can respond, “Oh I did that, no big deal, brah,” when everybody knows it’s a big deal.

It’s better than completing an intense physical race like a marathon, Ironman or climbing a mountain. You are tested in physical strength, power of survival and teamwork skills.

The race I competed in was a disorga-nized mess — it was advertised as a 5K, but we don’t even think it was a mile long; the obstacles broke mid-challenge; the line was almost two hours long. You didn’t even have to wait in it and the charities it was supporting didn’t even know what this event was — but that didn’t matter.

What mattered to us was the fact that we survived, that we were physically and capable and that we did it together.

We ultimately received all of our money back because it was such a disaster.

My favorite moment of my experi-ence was at the end when all of the par-ticipants washed themselves off in Lake Michigan and the water turned complete-ly brown. Legitimate swimmers looked on with a mixture of confusion and distaste.

Obviously, they were not survivors.

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

‘Dead’ gym saps energy from Illinois teamAfter playing in front of a raucous Day-

ton crowd in their opening game and coming home to thousands of fans to open the home season with Stuff Huff, the Illini experi-enced a much different crowd dynamic over the weekend in Cincinnati. Illinois played the hosting Bearcats and then-No. 24 Lou-isville in front of paltry crowds of 411 and 223, respectively.

“Because it was such a big gym and so empty, it was very dead in there,” sophomore Liz McMahon said. “So we did have trouble creating our own energy and excitement and arousal level at points, but it wasn’t that big of a factor.”

For McMahon, the game was a homecom-ing, as she hails from Liberty Township, Ohio, about half an hour away from Cincin-nati. However, the crowd was too small to offer an effective amount of jeering, such as that which was thrown at Decatur, Ill., native Rachel Hockaday from Iowa State last weekend.

Though Illinois’ Spike Squad prides itself on having a negative impact on the opposing team, middle blocker Anna Dorn said an emp-ty gym can be worse to play in than a gym in which fans are fanatically against you.

“Sometimes, I know personally that I feed off of the energy, even if it’s not our fans,” Dorn said. “And just having kind of a rowdy gym is a lot easier to get up and ready for the match than a gym where you have to rely on your teammates to bring all the energy.”

Illinois drops in rankings for third consecutive week

You wouldn’t call it a free fall, but Illinois has been dropping incrementally through the rankings, and that trend continued this week. The Illini received the 23rd spot, bare-ly managing to stay in the top 25.

Louisville, which swept Purdue on Fri-day before taking out Illinois in five sets Saturday, jumped in the rankings from No. 24 to No. 12.

Around the Big Ten, Ohio State went from being unranked to surpassing both Illinois and No. 22 Michigan to claim the No. 21 spot. Ohio State won the WKU Tournament with victories over then-No. 20 Dayton, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the hosting Hilltoppers. Pur-due, which saved face with a victory against Cincinnati on Saturday, fell from No. 11 to No. 14. Minnesota rose from the No. 14 spot to No. 10, and Penn State dropped from No. 2 to No. 4 after suffering its first loss to an unranked Oregon State team. Nebraska maintained its spot as the No. 1 team in the country.

Eliot can be reached at [email protected] and @EliotTweet.

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his shoulder during the third quar-ter on Saturday and underwent MRIs on Monday to diagnose the severity. Beckman wouldn’t go into details, but said it was a different injury to the same shoulder that he injured initially on Nov. 26 against Minnesota. Beckman also added that defensive back Supo Sanni was doubtful for Saturday’s game.

Helmet stickersFans should also keep an eye out

for which Illini have special helmet stickers on their helmets this Sat-urday. It’s another concept Beck-

man used at Toledo and Ohio State to keep in the practice of reward-ing players. Sports Information Director Kent Brown said it’s the first time he can remember hel-met stickers being used at Illinois since Mike White was head coach in the 1980s.

On the back of their helmets, each Illini has a sticker in the shape of the state of Illinois .The blue stickers are for production accomplishments on the field dur-ing games and the white stickers are given out each week for players who have done the things off the field as Beckman pleased. Players who abide by Illini time and are on time to class and the training room as Beckman said are rewarded for “not being on a list.”

B1G struggles against Pac-12Illinois wasn’t alone in losing on

the road to a Pac-12 opponent. The Illini were joined by Nebraska and Wisconsin as the Big Ten went 0-3 against Pac-12 teams during the weekend. The Cornhuskers were upset by UCLA, 36-30, and Wis-consin suffered a shocking 10-7 loss to Oregon State. Both Wiscon-sin and Nebraska dropped from the AP Top 25 after their losses. Beckman called the Big Ten’s per-formance disappointing, but added that he wasn’t really paying atten-tion to other games and remained focused on Illinois.

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Illinois’ Nathan Scheelhaase (2) runs the ball against Western Michigan at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 1. Scheelhaase injured his ankle in the game, but practiced las week and could have been the emergency quarterback in the game against Arizona State University. Head coach Tim Beckman said if Scheelhaase is able to play against Charleston Southern, he will.

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Reunited duo sparks Bears offense in 20-point winBY ANDREW SELIGMANTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Brandon Marshall insist-ed it’s a new day. The way he connected with Jay Cutler, it sure seemed like old times.

The Pro Bowl receiver got off to a good start with his new team and his old quarterback, com-ing through with an explosive performance for the Chicago Bears in their 41-21 season-opening victory over the Indianapolis Colts.

Marshall caught nine passes for 119 yards with a touchdown. Cutler threw for 333 yards with two TDs, and the Bears spoiled No. 1 draft pick Andrew Luck’s debut with the Colts.

“We’re trying to build a new thing here in Chi-cago,” Marshall said. “It’s going to take a lot of hard work. It was a great start.”

To many, it seemed like the duo picked up where they left off. They put up huge numbers during their three seasons together in Denver, and with Marshall now in the mix after that blockbuster trade with Miami, Cutler fi nally has a true No. 1 target with the Bears.

The early results? Well, they were as advertised.“It was fun to watch,” defensive end Julius Pep-

pers said. “Hopefully, that’s a sign of things that are going to happen all year.”

Cutler shook off a slow start, and the Bears racked up 428 yards on the way to their high-est point total since they scored 48 in a win over Detroit in 2009. A big reason — Marshall.

Maybe the Packers will have better luck when the Bears visit Green Bay on Thursday night. Then again, their revamped defense got a harsh reality check in a 30-22 loss to San Francisco, and there are some questions in the secondary even with Tramon Williams at cornerback, so they might have trouble fi nding some answers.

The Colts certainly did.Whether he was double-teamed or in single

coverage, the 6-foot-4, 230-pound Marshall made plays. And even the touchdown, a simple 3-yarder to give Chicago a 14-7 lead early in the second quarter, was impressive.

He drove Vontae Davis, his teammate in Miami last season, off the ball with a quick spin and caught a bullet from Cutler.

“Went in, turned around,” Marshall said. “Jay threw it, caught it, touchdown.”

There. Simple.The offense made it look that way once it got

going, and the Bears believe there’s more to come. They believe the system is better tailored to the personnel now that Mike Tice is the coordinator, and they believe they have the pieces to make it work.

And it’s not just about Matt Forte carrying the ball or Cutler fi ring to Marshall. It just starts there.

“I know Jay spreads it out, but he defi nitely takes advantage of the matchups,” Marshall said. “This league is all about matchups. Today, it just happened to be a wheelbarrow for me. But next

week, it might be a shot glass.”Cutler used his arm strength to zip passes

between two defenders or throw the ball up high in a crowd because Marshall would fi nd a way to get it. It’s a weapon he hasn’t had since Denver traded him to Chicago.

It’s no surprise that 15 of the 35 passes Cutler threw were to Marshall, but the other receivers had chances, too.

There was rookie Alshon Jeffery hauling in a 42-yard touchdown in the back of the end zone on a perfect high arching pass that sailed about 60 yards late in the game.

Devin Hester had a 29-yard catch. Earl Ben-nett had a 25-yarder. But it was Marshall steal-ing the show.

Cutler said the Colts “weren’t really scared of him,” that they were “going to let him make plays”

and try to stop the run. Would he be surprised if teams are scared of Marshall after this?

“You have Alshon (Jeffrey) catching touchdowns, Earl (Bennett) catching 60-70 yards,” Cutler said. “Matt Forte. Devin Hester so we have a lot of weap-ons. You kind of have to pick what you’re going to do. Going forward, mixing it up on defense and giv-ing us a lot of coverages, different fronts, blitzing us is probably what we’re going to see.”

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Chicago Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall (15) runs after a catch as Indianapolis Colts defensive end Fili Moala (95) pursues him during Sunday’s 41-21 Bears victory in Chicago. The Bears front offi ce reunited Marshall and quarterback Jay Cutler after the duo spent three years playing together in Denver.

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Illini not happy with recent losses or 20-0 start in 2011Editor’s note: The following is a par-tial transcript from an Illini Drive in-terview with Illinois volleyball as-sistant coach Jen Oldenburg and redshirt freshman outside hitter Joc-elynn Birks .

Illini Drive: What did you take-away from the (1-1) weekend ?

Jen Oldenburg: Well, I think beating Cincinnati was a good

step for us. Maybe, not passed as well as we liked to but we take care of them of-fensively, which is al-

ways nice to see. Next night, Louisville, they’re a hot team. They swept Purdue the night before in three. They’re fi red up for that win. And on the weekend, they’re going to come out and try to beat both Big Ten teams. ... Unfortunately, we had a slow start in a lot of the sets and couldn’t pull it out.

ID: At this point, is the (nonconfer-ence) schedule being overwhelm-ing, or would you not have this any other way?

JO: We wouldn’t have it any other way. Last year, we were 20-0 in the preconference (schedule), we weren’t hap-py about any of those wins. If you ask anyone of us, coaching staff or players, looking back

we weren’t happy. Not that we were happy with losses this year, but I think scheduling tough is just going to help us in the long run.

ID: Jocelynn, you had the redshirt (last year), so you were watch-ing everything from the sidelines and watching the seniors. What did you take when you were able to play this year?

Jocelynn Birks: I learned a lot just from watching the game, and I talked to a lot of people, like (Michelle) Bartsch and (Colleen) Ward. Learned a lot from them, and they helped. Just watching was a big deal being able to see everything before I actually had to be involved in it.

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Iowa State secondary working to stand out against pass-happy Big 12THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

AMES, Iowa — With two new starters playing in a pass-hap-py league, there were legitimate questions about Iowa State’s sec-ondary as the season began.

First-year starters Jansen Wat-son at cornerback and Durrell Giv-ens at strong safety have joined returning regulars Jeremy Reeves (cornerback) and Jacques Wash-ington (free safety) to form an aggressive unit with a nose-for-the-ball mentality.

Neither of the fi rst two oppo-nents, Tulsa and Iowa, completed 50 percent of its passes against the Cyclones. Iowa State’s defend-ers have intercepted four passes, including game-clinching picks

each Saturday, and they’re break-ing up passes at a far greater rate than in past seasons.

Coach Paul Rhoads credits fi rst-year secondary coach Troy Doug-las for bringing a more aggressive philosophy to pass coverage. Doug-las came to Iowa State from North Carolina and is in his 23rd season coaching defensive backs, seven of whom are now in the NFL.

The secondary has been critical for a defense that surrendered 16 points in the fi rst quarter of the season opener against Tulsa but only 13 in the following seven quarters.

The Cyclones don’t start Big 12 play for another two weeks, so they’ll still have to face a succes-

sion of good quarterbacks down the road, such as Seth Doege of Texas Tech, Landry Jones of Okla-homa, Geno Smith of West Virgin-ia and Kansas State’s Collin Klein, who has sharpened his passing.

But Iowa State is at least start-ing to look like a team that can stand up against those kinds of offenses.

“It’s just a lot of guys in years past bringing other guys along with them,” Knott said. Jeremiah George is a great example. He’s a guy who couldn’t go right or left if you told him to last year. Now he’s fi gured everything out. That’s the kind of stuff that’s happened. That’s why we’re able to play a lit-tle bit better.”

Shin wins tournament in 9-hole LPGA playoff


Illinois' Jocelynn Birks bumps the ball during the match against Iowa State at Huff Hall on Aug. 31. The Illini won 3-0.

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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Jiyai Shin needed only 20 minutes Monday to do what she couldn’t in eight hours a day earlier.

The South Korean made a two-putt par on the ninth playoff hole, beating Paula Creamer to win the Kingsmill Championship and end the longest playoff between two players in LPGA Tour history.

Shin and Creamer played the 18th hole eight times Sunday in an attempt to break the tie before darkness forced a suspension. About 1,000 fans turned out in the next morning to see them go at it again.

But after just one more hole, the par-4 6th, the matter was settled.

“We were so hungry for the win,” said Shin, who, like Cream-

er, was seeking her fi rst LPGA Tour victory since 2010.

“I can’t believe because I did a hand operation in June and then after that two months I didn’t play,” Shin said. “So I feel like I take a little bit long time for the win, but I’m really happy it’s coming quick.”

Creamer hit her 30-foot, dou-ble-break, downhill fi rst putt about 5 feet past the hole. She then missed the left-to-right bending comebacker, the ball hitting the right edge and spin-ning out.

Shin’s fi rst putt, also breaking left to right, stopped 3 feet from the cup.

Seeing Creamer miss made her short putt all the more intimidating.

“I was really nervous with it.

But after, when I make that, I was really happy,” Shin said.

The 24-year-old South Kore-an, who was ranked No. 1 for 16 weeks in 2010, earned $195,000 for the victory.

Creamer, who hasn’t won since the 2010 U.S. Women’s Open, sus-pected a second hole was going to be necessary.

“I thought I hit a great putt, the fi rst one,” she said. “It’s so much faster than the putting green. ... I felt good over the next one. It was tough because it was one of those dying ones.”

Shin said Creamer is a “great putter” and she was thinking about how she was going to play the par-3 17th.

“I just waiting for ... the next hole, too. But when she missed it ... oh, wow!” Shin said.

Tulane player recovering from spinal surgery after colliding with his teammateBY JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUSTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TULSA, Okla. — It’s still too early to know the long-term effects of the Tulane safety’s spinal inju-ry, the school’s athletic director said Monday.

Devon Walker was in stable condition Monday, recovering in an intensive-care unit after Sun-day’s three-hour surgery to stabi-lize his spine at St. Francis Hospi-tal in south Tulsa. He was injured in a head-to-head collision with a teammate during Saturday’s game at Tulsa.

“It is too early in Devon’s recov-ery process to draw any conclu-sions about his progress,” said Tulane Athletic Director Rick Dickson. “When the neurosur-geons here at Saint Francis have more defi nitive information, they will co-consult” with the team’s doctor. Until then, Dickson said, there will be “constant monitor-ing, care and attention” for Walker.

Dickson, speaking at a Mon-day news conference at the hos-pital, described Walker as “alert and responsive” following his sur-gery but said he did not know when Walker could be released.

Dickson also read a message from Walker’s parents, Inez and Booker Walker, who have request-ed privacy while their son is treated.

“We have been overwhelmed by the amount of concerned well wishes we have received from all over the world,” the statement

read. “Although we cannot respond individually to all, we thank every-one for the love and support shown to Devon and our family.”

Dickson described Walker, a senior majoring in cell and molec-ular biology, as a leader on and off the fi eld.

“Devon’s a very, very well-known, popular, well-respected man on our campus,” he said. “He real-ly represents the best of what we are. He’s a true Tulane student athlete.”

Dr. Greg S t e w a r t , Tulane’s direc-tor of sports medicine, said doctors don’t yet know what the long-term impli-cations and outcomes are going to be for Walker.

Stewart said Walker was put into a cervical collar and couldn’t see much of what was happening, so Stewart explained what was going on. Walker was talking with doctors as he was being treated, Stewart said.

Walker’s injury occurred on the

fi nal play of the fi rst half Satur-day during Tulane’s Conference USA opener.

Tulsa was leading 35-3 and fac-ing a fourth-and-2 with the ball at the 33-yard line when the Golden Hurricane called timeout. Tulane then called timeout.

When play resumed, Tulsa quar-terback Cody Green tossed a short

pass to Willie Carter, who caught it at about the 28, and turned upfield. He was tackled around the 17-yard line, with defen-sive tack-le Julius Wa r m s l e y and Walker sandwiching

him and smashing their helmets together.

FOX Sports reported that a hush went over the crowd at H.A. Chapman Stadium as Walk-er was attended to, and that sev-eral coaches were in tears as he was taken away in an ambulance. Spectators bowed their heads as someone on the fi eld led the sta-dium in prayer.

STEVE HEBLER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jiyai Shin, of South Korea, celebrates winning the Kingsmill Championship LPGA Tour golf tournament on the 16th green in Williamsburg, Va., on Monday. Shin won the tournament in a nine-hole playoff with Paula Creamer.

JOHN LEW THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tulane's Devon Walker, bottom right, and Julius Warmsley (92) tackle Tulsa's Kenny Welcome, bottom left, in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday . Walker was seriously hurt on this play and is recovering from spinal sugery.

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The terrors of business casual: Confi dence key to workplace attire

Y ou nailed the job interview and have fi nally landed the job you could only ever dream about. You are so excited

about your fi rst day and as your eyes skim the welcome email your heart stops at the words: business casual. It is quite the oxy-moron, just like jumbo shrimp. What do they really mean when they say it?

The problem is business casual is such a relative term. For different work places it could mean a completely different thing. Some might mean you can unbutton the fi rst and second button on your shirt while others allow for jeans. That ambiguous dress code just puts that extra amount of stress on you during an already unknown and anxiety fi lled day. It is really up to you to feel the place out in terms of apparel.

If it is an offi ce setting, I would suggest going with something along the lines of what you would wear to church, such as a nice dress shirt with a pair of slacks, or for women, a nice blouse with a pencil skirt. This is much

more relaxed than a suit and tie.If the work setting were more laid back

and free-spirited, a pair of jeans and a nice dress shirt or blouse would be just fi ne. Steve Jobs was known to wear jeans to work on business casual days. My advice is, even if this is the dress code for business casual, I wouldn’t wear jeans on your fi rst week at a new job. Jeans have such a bad connotation in the workplace, it is not the message you want to send for your fi rst week, unless you are the CEO like Steve Jobs.

It never hurts to ask a co-worker what they would usually wear for business casual, or even ask your boss what he or she means by the statement. Then if you are still really wor-ried about it, you should just be a bit more

formally dressed than what they said. You should follow that dress code until you feel comfortable enough to dress to the offi ce’s level of business casual.

As a general rule, some have suggested that the formality of your offi ce appar-el should match the position you want to have in fi ve years.

The absolute best advice I can give to a new employ-ee is whatever you do choose to wear, wear it with the utmost confi dence. Wear it like it is what everyone else should be wear-ing. Confi dence is the most important item to wear dur-ing your fi rst days

at a new place of work.

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

The do’s and don’ts of cover lettersBY MORGAN QUILICISTAFF WRITER

It is often the most agonized part of the application process, yet arguably the most important — the cover letter.

“The cover letter allows job candidates to really sell them-selves for a specifi c position, to tell their story in more detail and explain how they’re unique-ly qualifi ed for the specifi c posi-tion in more detail than what (they) can put on a resume,” said Jennifer Neef, associate direc-tor of the Career Center.

Because the cover letter is such an important part of the application process, there is often confusion on what to do and what not to do.

To help you fi gure this out, we complied below a list of the do’s and don’ts of a successful cover letter.

Do get it reviewed In the case of cover let-

ters, the more people you have review it, the better it will be. The Career Center is a great resource for students who feel they need to get their cover let-ters looked at by experts.

“We do resume and cover let-ter reviews every day here on a drop-in basis,” Neef said. “We can help students think through how all (the) experiences on (their) resume relates to the job, and how (they can) articulate that in a cover letter.”

Students should have their cover letter reviewed at least twice, once by a Career Servic-es employee and once by some-body else, Neef said.

Reviewers should have a copy of the job description at hand, so that they can make sure the cover letter complies with the description.

“Certainly we have expertise and trained people specifi cally to cover letters, but there are lots of other people — friends, peers — that can look at cover

letters for grammar (and) spell-ing (mistakes),” Neef said.

Do get the grammar rightNot only does a cover let-

ter have to be concise, include strong language and have no spelling errors, it also has to have perfect grammar.

Neef explained that students often get confused with what verb tense to use in their cov-er letter.

“We see a lot of cover letters that include language like ‘I would be’ or, ‘I have had expe-rience’ rather than saying ‘I am experienced in,’” Neef said. “As it relates to writing style and grammar, (cover letters) should be written in the active verb tense, instead of passive.”

The active verb tense will make one’s writing much stron-ger and claims more confi dent.

“(This) can be uncomfort-able for students because (they want to) be humble, but you real-

ly have to go out an sell your-self,” Neef said.

Do it if it’s required, don’t if it’s not

This may seem like a no-brainer, but applicants who are very passionate about a job may feel obligated to include a cover letter even if it isn’t required. However, Neef stressed the importance of fol-lowing directions.

“If the ‘how to apply’ instruc-tions don’t include, ‘You must submit a cover letter,’ some-times it’s best not to include the cover letter,” Neef said. “Do exactly what the job announce-ment is telling you.”

Don’t reuse cover lettersThe resume is a document

that is easy to have ready-to-go, whereas a cover letter is some-thing that needs to be written specifi c for each and every job.

“One thing job applicants should always do is make sure that they have a new cover let-ter for every job that they are applying for,” Neef said. “The cover letter should be unique and customized for each job description.”

Neef said that one way to make a cover letter specifi c to a job is to include key words used in the job description that relate to the roles and responsibilities of the job.

“Students (should) be able to focus in on what the employ-er really wants, and be able to talk about how their experienc-es have made them a uniquely qualifi ed candidate,” Neef said.

Taylor Conway, junior in Busi-ness and Career Services Para-professional, said another tip for personalizing your cover letter is to add the job recruit-er’s name, instead of including something like “to whom is may concern.”

“On your cover letter, you

should go out of your way to try to fi nd out who is hiring that position,” Conway said. “By tak-ing that extra step it shows that you are invested in the compa-ny, you want to work there, and you’re not just sending the same cover letter to every company.”

Don’t wait until the last minute

The fact of the matter is, the cover letter is hard work, so throwing it together last min-ute may result in an ineffective cover letter.

“Don’t expect that the cov-er letter is easy to write,” Reef said. “They can be very chal-lenging. It doesn’t matter how much experience a professional or student has — a well-written cover letter takes some time and refl ection.”

Morgan can be reached at [email protected].

HALEY JONESStaff writer

It never hurts to ask a co-worker what they would usually wear for business casual, or even ask your

boss what he or she means by the statement. Then if you are still really worried

about it, you should just be a bit more formally dressed

than what they said.

BY REEMA ABI-AKARSTAFF WRITER

An article published in the Wall Street Journal argues that an MBA may not be necessary for someone striving to enter a higher-up position in business — specifically, a CEO.

The article explains that only 40 percent of the CEOs of the nation’s most prominent com-panies hold MBA degrees. Fur-ther, 51.1 percent of CFOs hold an MBA, according to the Wall Street Journal. It begs the question: If so many high-up businesspeople can be so successful with a bach-elor’s degree or lower, is an MBA essential? What is the value of a master’s degree in business and administration?

Dilip Chhajed, professor of business administration, weighed in:

“I think an MBA has great value,” he said. “MBA education develops (students’) thought pro-cess for better decision-making; it develops their critical think-ing ability.”

He argues that while a bach-elor’s degree has many benefits, an MBA has a different kind of significance, only furthering the student’s route to professionalism.

“A more formal education helps accelerate the path to success or increases the probability of suc-cess,” he added. “Not everyone becomes a CEO and not everyone needs an MBA, or even an under-graduate degree, to be success-ful. But that doesn’t mean every-one without an MBA has an equal chance to become a CEO.”

Raj Echambadi, also a pro-fessor of business administra-tion, agrees that while a bache-lor’s degree can be sufficient for many, an MBA brings distinct advantages and benefits that an undergraduate degree may not provide.

“In the Exec-utive MBA Pro-gram offered by the Univer-sity of Illinois, a top-ranked program,” he said, “our sur-veys show that both job responsibilities and compensa-tion increase once the stu-dent completes his or her MBA, which is testament to the power of an MBA degree.”

A n o t h e r point Echam-badi brought up is that the article only mentions the statistics for CEOs and CFOs; it does not talk about presidents, vice presidents, managers and other major leadership positions. For some of these jobs, an MBA is, in fact, required — especially for finance and consulting positions.

So while it’s true that a percent-age of CEOs only hold undergrad-uate degrees, we would have to

find more statistics for other top positions to make a greater generalization.

Harout Sahakian, an MBA student at the University, has his own reasons for furthering his business education.

“For me personally, I want to go into investment management, so I felt the MBA would help me prepare for a position in that field,” he said.

Sahakian also believes that wh i le a n undergradu-ate degree will get a stu-dent far, an M BA wi l l help the stu-dent be better prepared for a position in management.

On the oth-er hand, an MBA may be the right fit for some students and not others. For those who want shorter master’s pro-grams in the subject, the U n i v e r s i t y offers a one-year MS in Te ch nolog y Management program as well.

“But the bottom line is that an MBA is worth what a student makes of it,” Echambadi said. “Becoming a CEO has a lot do with individual-specific skills and capabilities, and an MBA degree can help.”

Reema can be reached at [email protected].

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Study early, study often to succeed on GRE

I ’ve dreaded this semester for four long years. From the minute my SAT proctor called “Time” to sig-

nal the end of my three months of tor-ture, I knew that it was only a matter of time before I would be forced to endure more cryptic reading compre-hension passages and relive the night-mares of 9th grade algebra.

The GRE or the Graduate Record Examination is a steroid version of the SAT that, for a lucky few of us, is the next path on the road to reaching our career goals.

Though sometimes it feels as if the GRE is my punishment for deciding to attend graduate school, I’ve made it my mission to make this test-taking process smoother than the last.

Below are a few tips I’ve acquired over the last four months that anyone considering the GRE should keep in mind.

Start earlyIf you’re someone like myself who

has not seen an algebra or geometry problem since high school, then con-cepts like the Pythagorean Theorem and quadratic functions mean abso-lutely nothing to you.

Those left-brained students with majors that allow them to practice mathematical skills every day don’t need to stress out over relearning complicated laws and formulas. The rest of us, however, are forced to skim through our 10th grade text-books hoping to trigger any memo-ries we suppressed of math-related activities.

I would say between four and 12 weeks of preparation not only lets you brush up on the high school basics,

but also enables you to incorporate and perfect those rules with GRE questions.

Make a scheduleOne of the hardest aspects of study-

ing for the GRE is balancing the rest of your life with it. Between work, tests and RSOs, it can seem almost impossible to fit in eight to 10 more hours of studying each week.

The key is to make a realistic schedule that fits in with your day-to-day routine. You may have to repri-oritize your life for a while, but it’s important to make sure you don’t change things so dramatically that everything fun is completely sucked out. This will only burn you out men-tally and decrease the likelihood that you will stick with the plan over a three-month period.

Even if you can only make time to study 30 minutes to an hour a day, any time makes a difference.

Practice whenever (and wherever) you can

“Practice makes perfect” may be a corny cliché, but it’s one that proves to be true time after time. Especially with a test like the GRE that requires students to gradually build up their skills, practice is definitely a necessi-ty to improve your score.

When reality hits and life gets in the way, it may help to find creative ways to incorporate studying into your schedule. I must say the most welcome part of E.L James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey” (besides the ending) was getting the opportunity to look up each of the sophisticated, GRE-caliber words scattered throughout the novel.

Try to find opportunities for prac-tice with everything you do whether it’s reading a newspaper, talking with friends or helping a younger sibling with math homework.

Don’t freak outI know firsthand how tedious it

can be to spend hours studying for a three-hour test that may not be the best indicator of your success in graduate school. It’s especially difficult when irrational but potent thoughts continuously pop into your

head.“If I don’t score in the 95th per-

centile, then I won’t get into NYU.” “If I don’t get into NYU, then I might as well decorate myself a nice card-board sign that reads ‘will write for food.’”

Trust me, I’ve been there. This is

the time to tell that annoying voice in your head to shut the hell up. Breathe and take the study process one day at a time. Just make sure to do your best with the free time you do have.

Candice is a senior in Media and can be reached at [email protected]

CANDICE NORWOODAssistant features editor

Although most CEOs don’t hold MBAs, program still has valueBusiness graduate degree increases pay, responsibilities

“In the Executive MBA Program offered by the University of Illinois, a top-ranked program,

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How to avoid an interview catastropheBY ALISON MARCOTTEASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR

The seasoned interviewer stares expectantly at the prospective employ-ee, waiting for her to give a prompt yet satisfying response to her last question.

Instead, the sweaty-palmed prospec-tive employee sits motionless and wide-eyed, paralyzed by an unreasonable amount of fear. When she attempts giving an intelligent answer, she finds that her vocabulary now only consists of “ums” and “likes.” Once the pains-takingly awkward interview ends, the interviewee feels any possibility of get-ting the job slip out her hands.

Participating in a mock interview, before the real one, can prevent worst-case scenarios like this from hap-pening. The Career Center provides a Mock Interview Program, which kicked off Sept. 5 for the school year.

“The best way to better your inter-viewing skills is to practice. From freshman to graduates, anyone can take advantage of the program,” said Katie Flint, assistant director at the Career Center.

The way the Mock Interview Pro-gram works is students first fill out a mock interview request online, in which they indicate their desired type of interview — job, health, profession-al or graduate school — and interview format — general, phone or Skype. Stu-dents also upload their resume and answer four general questions.

After filling out the request, students need to call the Career Center to sched-ule an appointment at least 48 hours in advance.

The mock interviewer then pre-pares for the interview by reviewing the request and tailoring their ques-tions for the interviewee’s type of interview. If there’s a company that the student will be interviewing for, the mock interviewer will research the company and industry to find specific questions that are relevant to the field.

“The mock interviewers are grad-uates from the School of Labor and Employment Relations, so they’re actu-ally HR professionals,” Flint said. “This is their job, this is what they’re

getting trained in, so they know how to craft these questions.”

Students should treat the mock inter-views like a real interview. They’re encouraged to dress business-pro-fessional and to come prepared with questions to ask the interviewer them-selves. The mock interviewer acts like it is a real interview as well – they dress in professional clothing, greet the interviewee, and shake the inter-viewee’s hand, Flint said.

The mock interview appointment lasts one hour. The first half hour is the interview, which is video-record-ed. Students are encouraged to bring a flash drive so they can save their video-recorded interview and take it with them for their own personal use.

The second half hour is the feedback portion of the interview. They’ll look at parts of the video together to help the student become aware of body lan-guage or other aspects the interview-er noticed.

The Career Center’s feedback is based on the STAR method, which stands for situation, task, action and result.

“Interviewers are really looking for these pieces,” Flint said. “So the mock interviewer really coaches them on those areas.”

Stephanie Biernat, mock interview coordinator at the Career Center, said that while the situation, task and action are key components of respons-es to behavioral interview questions, explaining the results of the situation is essential.

“When students explain their answers, they should focus on the results and what came of it,” Biernat said. “If it was a group project for a class, did you get an A? Did you fail the class? What happened? That’s impor-tant for the interviewer to understand, that not only can you complete the proj-ect, you can achieve results as well.”

For mock interviews done via Skype or phone, the feedback differs in some ways from in-person interviews. Since mock interviewers can’t see the interview-ee’s body language, they give feedback on interviewee’s voice inflection, noting if he or she sounds enthusiastic or distracted, Flint said.

Skype feedback includes advice about body language and the envi-ronment the student chooses for the interview.

Having a clear phone or Internet connection is also vital for phone and Skype interviews.

At the end of all mock interviews, students are given an interview feed-back sheet, which rates how the student did under the categories of profession-alism, body language, attitude, content, skills and overall interviewing ability. There’s also a section for recommen-dations and next steps for the student to follow to improve.

Biernat has heard of numerous suc-cess stories from students who par-

ticipated in the Mock Interview Pro-gram. Her favorite success story was a mock interview that deviated from what normally happens — a beauty pageant interview.

“It ended up being a panel interview. The three of us (mock interviewers) were able to sit there and fire off ques-tions to her to help her out, to ask the absurd questions — you know, ‘Do you wash your feet in the shower?’ — very, very off-the-wall questions,” Bier-nat said. “I kept in contact with her after the mock interview to see if that worked for her. She ended up winning the pageant, and she’s going to be com-peting for Miss Illinois.”

The biggest achievement of the

Mock Interview Program has been the diverse set of students they’ve been able to reach, Biernat said.

“We see a number of business stu-dents come in, engineering students ... we had a bunch of veterinary school applicants come in last spring,” she said. “The interviewers have received countless emails back, saying, ‘Thank you, I’m starting vet school in the fall.’ It’s been a dream of theirs. The mock interviewers are able to learn that material very quickly, and then help the interviewee’s achieve what they want to do.”

Alison can be reached at [email protected].

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