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BY MATT RICESTAFF WRITER

Poverty is on the rise in Champaign County, accord-ing to new U.S. Census Bureau data . The annual American Community Survey, released last week, estimated that 24.9 percent of Champaign County and 33 percent of the Cham-paign City township live under the federally designated pov-erty threshold per household .

These numbers are signifi -cantly higher than the 15 per-cent rate for Illinois and the 15.9 percent rate for the coun-try as a whole.

Including students in the census calculations partly accounts for the high rates, said Elizabeth Powers, profes-sor of economics.

“Since students are tempo-rarily low-income with good

reason, they don’t think of themselves as poor, but they show up in the offi cial statis-tics as poor households,” she said.

Cynthia Hulsizer, inter-im director of the Center for Women in Transition , sees the effect of higher poverty rates through her work with the poverty-stricken.

“One of the things we’ve seen is that the number of people staying on the waiting list is going down,” she said. “Rooms are always full. Peo-ple are dropping off because the wait is so long. People are really falling back on Plan C and fi nding alternate living situations.”

The CWT provides shelter to women and children who com-

BY STEVEN VAZQUEZSTAFF WRITER

A Nobel Peace Prize nominee visited campus Thursday to give a lecture on migration and human rights in Russia.

Lidia Grafova, journalist and chairwoman of the Forum of Migration Organizations, said these issues are main concerns for nongovernmenal organizations in her country.

On Thursday, leading NGOs in Russia defi ed a law by Russian Par-liament that requires NGOs to reg-ister as “spies” or “foreign agents” if they are receiving funding from abroad.

“I am shamed by the insane actions of our authorities,” Gra-fova said.

About 40 University students

and professionals attended the lecture, which she gave entirely in Russian and translated with the help of Richard Tempest, associate professor in Slavic languages and literature.

The lecture was presented by the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center as part of its Dis-tinguished Speaker Series.

“Human rights and migration are certainly prominent issues in Russia,” said Alisha Kirchoff, associate director of REEEC. “It’s something we should all be aware of and something we could all learn more about.”

Grafova, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2005 for her human rights work, spent most of

BY CORINNE RUFFSTAFF WRITER

After his father died of a rare form of can-cer a few years ago, Tom Peled said he was stuck in a rut.

“I felt I needed to take a personal chal-lenge, physical challenge, mental challenge in order to get out of where I was,” he said. “So for three months, I biked by myself across Europe on a 3,000-mile journey. Every day was a new adventure.”

After that journey, Peled was inspired to create Bike For the Fight, an organiza-tion that fundraises for the Israel Cancer Research Fund, a nonprofi t that gives grants to Israeli scientists to work on innovative can-cer-fi ghting technology . To further awareness for the New York-based fi rm , he decided to bike across America with his team.

Over the past three months, Peled has biked 2,300 miles from Los Angeles to Chi-cago, but before continuing to his fi nal desti-nation in New York, Peled visited Champaign to speak to students about his organization Thursday .

Peled’s team consists of four people: him-self; Roey Peleg , fellow biker; Luca Seres, videographer and social-media coordinator ; and Eran Rozen , manager. So far, the group has raised $70,000 for the fund. Seres said two of the scientists working for the fund are Nobel Prize winners and have already developed cancer-fi ghting drugs.

After riding in Chicago early Thursday morning, the group drove to Illini Hillel in Champaign to share its cause with students.

“This morning, we were riding in Chica-go on Lakeshore Drive by the huge wheel, and now we are riding with you,” Peleg said. “This is insane.”

The event was sponsored primarily by Israel Illini and Illini 4000 . The event began with a ride looping around the Quad sever-al times and was followed by the presenta-tion at the Illini Hillel about Peled’s journey.

BY DANNY WICENTOWSKIWEBSITE EDITOR

With the primary season and party conventions over, most of the country is fi xated on the upcoming presidential debates. But here in Illinois’ 13th District, the congressio-nal election is gaining recog-nition as one of the critical swing districts in the battle for Congress.

“This election touches every element of people’s lives,” said Democratic candidate David Gill , a Bloomington physi-cian who has run, and lost, for Congress twice. “People pay attention to the presiden-tial election, but we’ve real-ly seen, especially these last two years, that it doesn’t mat-ter who the president is if he doesn’t have a Congress that is going to work with him.”

The current 13th District has only existed since 2011 , when its borders were drawn by a Democratic-run Illinois General Assembly. However, while what was the old 15th District awarded a two-point victory to John McCain in 2008, Gill said the new 13th now has a 1- to 3-percent Dem-ocratic tilt.

“Twenty to 30 districts around the country are going to decide who’s going to be the majority in the House,” Gill said.

Adding to the competi-tive nature of the election is the fact that Gill barely won his own party’s nomination, defeating his primary oppo-nent Matt Goetten by a mere 163 votes out of about 31,000 .

The razor-thin margins of

this election have prompted both parties to pump funds into the campaigns. And in a district that contains tens of thousands of college students across four major state uni-versities, both Gill and Repub-lican candidate Rodney Davis have a vested interest in cap-turing the college vote.

The two, along with inde-pendent John Hartman , will debate at the WILL-TV Studio, 300 N. Goodwin, at 7 p.m. Nov. 1 , with live video streaming available on will.illinois.edu.

Recently endorsed by for-mer Gov. Jim Edgar , Davis said “there’s a lot at stake in this election for students in the 13th Dis-trict,” add-ing that many graduates over 25 are under-employed and working only part-time jobs.

“Uncertainty from Washing-ton is stifl ing job growth, so we must take action, such as extending the current tax rates, to enable our businesses to feel comfort-able to expand and hire once again, providing much-need-ed jobs to our college gradu-ates,” he said.

Gill, an alumnus of the Uni-versity’s medical school, con-tends that the most pressing issues for college students are rising tuition and debt. With a Democratic-led Congress, he said, Obama will fi nally be able to make good on all his prom-ises to help students.

“I look forward to going to Washington and working with (the president) to put legisla-tion through that makes higher

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Bikers cross US to raise money for cancer

Russian journalist holds lecture on human rights

High poverty levels in Champaign Co. tax local women’s shelter

Close outcome expected in race for crucial swing district

On cross-country journey, founder of Bike For the Fight stops to speak at Illini Hillel

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RODNEY DAVIS

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MICHAEL BOJDA THE DAILY ILLINI

Tom Peled, the founder of Bike For the Fight, rides around the Quad on Thursday afternoon. Peled has already logged 2,300 miles since starting his cross-country journey Aug. 1 in Los Angeles.


Tom Peled, the founder of Bike For the Fight, talks late Thursday afternoon at the Illini Hillel chapter about how the organization fi rst started. Above him is a picture of his father, who died of cancer in 2011. Peled had already logged 2,300 miles since Aug. 1, before entering Champaign, a brief stop on his cross-country bike journey.

ROCHELLE WILSON THE DAILY ILLINI

Russian journalist Lidia Grafova, left, speaks to students and faculty on migration and human rights in the Russian Federation with the help of translator Richard Tempest at Gregory Hall on Thursday.

“Since students are temporarily low-income with good reason, they don’t think of

themselves as poor, but they show up in the offi cial statistics as poor households.”

ELIZABETH POWERS,professor of economics

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Champaign! Theft was reported at Illi-

nois Terminal, 45 E. University Ave., just after midnight Thurs-day.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole the vic-tim’s gym bag and its contents. Seven items were reported sto-len.

! Residential burglary was re-ported in the 500 block of Jack-son Street around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender entered the residence without forced entry and stole two items.

! A 20-year-old male was ar-rested on the charge of disor-derly conduct at the intersection of Chester Street and Univer-sity Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, the suspect was observed walking in the area carrying a handgun. The suspect was located and the handgun turned out to be a toy gun.

! Residential burglary was re-ported in the 00 block of Mag-nolia Drive around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender entered a property under renovation and stole tools. 16 items were report-ed stolen.

! Burglary from motor ve-hicle was reported in the 2100 block of Ivy Court around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole one item from the victim’s vehicle.

! Residential burglary was re-ported in the 00 block of Spring-fi eld Avenue around 7:30 a.m. Thursday.

According to the report, an unknown offender entered the victim’s apartment without con-sent and stole a computer.

! Residential burglary was re-ported in the 100 block of South Wright Street around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole fi ve

items from the victim’s resi-dence.

! A 21-year-old male was ar-rested on the charge of retail theft at Wal-Mart Supercenter, 2610 N. Prosect Ave., around 2 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, the suspect removed a bike from the bike rack and walked out of the store without paying. When the suspect was stopped by se-curity, other stolen merchandise was found. Three items were re-ported stolen.

! Armed robbery was re-ported in the 300 block of West Green Street around 8 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown male offender pointed a handgun at the victim and de-manded money. The offender hit the victim in the forehead with the handgun and left. One item was reported stolen.

! Residential burglary was reported in the 1500 block of Kiler Drive around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender entered the victim’s apartment and stole several items. Four items were reported stolen.

! Theft was reported in the 2000 block of Moreland Boule-vard around 9 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole the gas cap from the victim’s vehicle and stole the gas from inside the car.

! A 38-year-old male was ar-rested at the 1100 block of Beardsley Avenune on the charge of obstructing an offi cer at around 6 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, the suspect was issued a notice to appear for obstructing an offi -cer.

Urbana! Theft was reported in the

500 block of West Green Street around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender cut the vic-tim’s bike lock and took the vic-

tim’s bike. The lock was left on the ground.

University! A 23-year-old male was ar-

rested on the charge of posses-sion of marijuana and drug par-aphernalia at the intersection of Fourth Street and Gregory Drive around 1:30 a.m. Thurs-day.

According to the report, the suspect was initially pulled over for speeding before the marijua-na and drug paraphernalia were found.

! Criminal damage to prop-erty was reported at parking lot C-6, 400 E. Daniel St., around 1:30 a.m. Thursday.

According to the report, a University student reported that an unknown offender broke the side mirror of a parked car. The damages were valued at $200.

! Theft was reported at Ogles-by Hall, 1005 S. College Court, around 10 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, a University student reported that an unknown offender stole his wallet and its contents from his room. The student said he sus-pected the wallet was stolen when the offender stopped by his room to borrow a pencil and paper. The wallet and its con-tents are valued at $650.

! Theft was reported at park-ing lot E-23, 1509 S. Oak St., at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, a University employee reported that an unknown offender stole a toolbox from the parking lot. The employee had set the box down while directing parking during an event. The tools are valued at $200.

! Theft was reported at park-ing lot F-12, 1110 W. Peabody Dr., at around 12 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, a University student reported that an unknown offender stole a bike that had been locked to a rack near the parking lot. The bike is valued at $360.

Compiled by Klaudia Dukala

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BY JENNIFER PELTZTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — The Big Apple is getting another “biggest”: the world’s tall-est Ferris wheel, part of an ambitious plan to draw New Yorkers and tourists alike to the city’s so-called “forgot-ten borough.”

The 625-foot-tall, $230 million New York Wheel is to grace a spot in Staten Island overlooking the Stat-ue of Liberty and the down-town Manhattan skyline, offering a singular view as it sweeps higher than other big wheels like the Singa-pore Flyer, the London Eye and a “High Roller” planned for Las Vegas.

Designed to carry 1,440 passengers at a time, it’s expected to draw 4.5 mil-lion people a year to a set-ting that also would include a 100-shop outlet mall and a 200-room hotel.

It will be “an attraction unlike any other in New York City — in fact, it will be, we think, unlike any other on the planet,” May-or Michael Bloomberg said as he unveiled the plans against the backdrop of New York Harbor. While the pri-vately fi nanced project fac-

es various reviews, offi cials hope to have the wheel turn-ing by the end of 2015.

The wheel would put Staten Island on the map of superlatives in a place where “biggest” is almost an expectation — home to the nation’s biggest city pop-ulation, busiest mass-tran-sit system, even the biggest Applebee’s restaurant.

The attraction stands to change the profi le of the least populous and most remote of the city’s fi ve bor-oughs, a sometime munici-pal underdog that has tak-en insults from New Jersey and was once known for having the world’s largest ... landfi ll.

“It’s going to be a real icon. The Ferris wheel will be Staten Island’s Eiffel Tower,” Sen. Charles Schumer enthused.

As a visible addition to the skyline around the har-bor, the wheel “gives Staten Island an identity beyond its role as a suburban commu-nity,” while letting it tap into the stream of tourist mon-ey in a city that drew 50.9 million visitors last year, said Mitchell Moss, a New York University urban pol-icy professor.

The project is expected to bring $500 million in private investment and 1,100 per-manent jobs to the borough’s St. George waterfront, and the developers will pay the city $2.5 million a year in rent for the land.

Staten Island isn’t entirely off the tourist map. Its free ferry is the city’s third-larg-est tourist attraction, carry-ing an estimated 2 million visitors a year alongside millions of residents, offi -cials say.

But the city has long struggled to entice tourists off the boat and into Staten Island. Much-touted Staten Island sightseeing bus tours fi zzled within a year in 2009 for lack of ridership.

Australian tourists Leah Field and Adam Lica, for example, were riding the ferry Thursday for its views of the Statue of Liberty. They thought they might have lunch on the Staten Island side but weren’t plan-ning to explore further.

“We weren’t sure what there is to do there,” explained Lica, 32, of Mel-bourne. But were there a giant Ferris wheel, the cou-ple likely would go ride it, he said.

Lt. Gov. discusses program for Ill. student veterans

Evidence of streambed found on Mars

BY EMILY THORNTONAND LAURA SHAYDAYTIME ASSISTANT EDITORS

Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon has joined Illinois colleges in providing sup-port to student veterans.

According to a press release from the offi ce of the lieutenant governor, Illinois has approxi-mately 30,000 student veterans. Simon said only a small percent-age of student veterans enroll in school and complete their degrees.

Through the Valuing Veter-ans Pledge , schools would pro-vide more community support to student veterans to ensure they receive the benefi ts they are enti-tled to. The support is intended to enable veterans to fi nish school. Leaders from more than 20 Illinois colleges and universities, includ-ing the University of Illinois, have signed the pledge.

“Veterans look like everyone else, but really fi t in, in a differ-ent way,” Simon said. “They have come from an intense life expe-rience where they were ready to defend with their life for people

on their right and left side, and to change into an educational envi-ronment is a big transition.”

The University has just under 400 student veterans enrolled.

“Student veterans are a part of what makes our campus so diverse, which is really cool,” said Nick Osborne , assistant dean and coordinator for Veteran Student Support Services .

Though the University made a formal commitment to the pledge Thursday, it has already been working to assist student veter-ans who wish to receive higher education.

Osborne said that for the past two years, the University has been aggressively trying to meet vet-erans’ needs in order to make the transition to college smooth. He said the Veterans Student Support Services aims to help provide them with an advocate and support on campus.

Emily can be reached at [email protected]. Laura can be reached at [email protected].

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An artist’s rendering of a proposed 625-foot Ferris wheel, billed as the world’s largest, planned as part of a retail and hotel complex along the Staten Island waterfront in New York. The attraction, called the New York Wheel, will cost $230 million. Offi cials say the observation wheel will be higher than the Singapore Flyer, the London Eye, and a “High Roller” wheel planned in Las Vegas.

Staten Island proposes world’s largest Ferris wheel

BY ALICIA CHANGTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — The NASA rover Curi-osity has beamed back pictures of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream, possibly waist-deep, once fl owed on Mars — a fi nd that the mission’s chief scientist called exciting.

There have been previous signs that water existed on the red planet long ago, but the images released Thursday showing pebbles rounded off, likely by water, offered the most convincing evidence so far of an ancient streambed.

There was “a vigorous fl ow on the surface of Mars,” said chief scientist John Grotzing-er of the California Institute of Technology. “We’re really excited about this.”

The discovery did not come as a complete surprise. NASA decided to plunk Curiosity down inside Gale Crater near the Martian equator because photos from space hinted that the spot possessed a watery past. The six-wheeled rover safely landed Aug. 5 after a nail-biting plunge through the Martian atmo-

sphere. It’s on a two-year, $2.5 billion mission to study whether the Martian environment could have been favorable for microbial life.

Present-day Mars is a frozen desert with no hint of water on its radiation-scarred sur-face, but geological studies of rocks by previ-ous missions suggest the planet was warmer and wetter once upon a time.

The latest evidence came from photos that Curiosity took revealing rounded peb-bles and gravel — a sign that the rocks were transported long distances by water and smoothed out.

The size of the rocks — ranging from a sand grain to a golf ball — indicates that they could not have been carried by wind, said mission scientist Rebecca Williams of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz.

Though Curiosity did not use its high-tech instruments to drill into the rocks or analyze their chemical makeup, Grotzinger said sci-entists were sure that water played a role based on just studying the pictures.

It’s unclear how long the water persisted

on the surface, but it easily could have lasted “thousands to millions of years,” said mis-sion scientist Bill Dietrich of the University of California, Berkeley.

Curiosity chanced upon the dried-up streambed while driving to Glenelg, an intriguing spot where three types of ter-rain meet. Its ultimate destination is Mount Sharp, a mountain rising from the center of crater fl oor, but it was not expected to travel there until the end of the year.

Finding past water is a fi rst step toward learning whether the environment could have supported microbes. Scientists gener-ally agree that besides water and an energy source such as the sun, organic carbon is a necessary prerequisite for life.

While an ancient streambed holds promise as a potentially habitable environment, scien-tists don’t think it’s a good place to preserve the carbon building blocks of life. That’s why the rover will continue its trek to the foot-hills of Mount Sharp where there’s a better chance of fi nding organics.

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This image provided by NASA shows a Martian rock outcrop near the landing site of the rover Curiosity thought to be the site of an ancient streambed, next to similar rocks shown on Earth. Curiosity landed in a crater near Mars’ equator on Aug. 5 on a two-year mission to study whether the environment could have been favorable for microbial life.

education more affordable and accessible for kids,” Gill said, who is highly critical of Republi-can attempts to cut Pell Grants.

Alex Halaska , statewide pres-ident of College Democrats and junior in LAS, seconded the importance of low-interest loans for students.

“Interest rates are a big deal, and Obama was able to keep those rates low during the fi rst term, but he’s going to need majorities in both houses to make sure those rates stay that way,” Halaska said.

Like Davis, Despina Batson , president of the University chapter of College Republicans, said the most important issue for students is jobs. She said Davis’ economic plan will cre-ate jobs for students and keep them from having to live with their parents.

“These are our years to become successful and fi nd our paths, and because the economy is so poor, people are not hiring students out of college,” Batson said.

The absence of three-term Republican incumbent Tim Johnson could be the most important factor in the race. Johnson defeated Gill in ’06 and ’10 but announced after win-ning the latest primary that he would not run for personal rea-sons. The Illinois Republican

Party chose Davis, a Taylorville Republican, as a replacement.

Both the Democratic Con-gressional Campaign Commit-tee and the National Republi-can Congressional Committee have committed hundreds of thousands of dollars to TV ads.

Negative advertising, howev-er, has had a consistent presence during the campaign, and each candidate has accused the oth-er of lying. Gill said the Davis campaign has misrepresented his views on Medicare and tax-es, while Davis has been the sub-ject of advertisements accus-ing him of benefi tting from his involvement with imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan.

Davis was employed by Ryan until 1997 , two years before Ryan became governor.

“So far, my campaign has been an issues-based campaign, and we are focusing on the vast differences between me and my opponent on issues such as taxes, health care and job cre-ation,” Davis said.

Gill, who also claims to run a positive campaign, pointed out that the negative advertise-ments directed at Davis come from the DCCC and not from his own campaign.

“I can’t control (the DCCC), but more importantly, they will be not be controlling me when I get to Washington,” he said.

Danny can be reached at [email protected].

“Besides having a fun ride, we want to spread awareness,” said Elaad Applebaum , vice president of Israel Illini and sopho-more in LAS. “We thought a bunch of peo-ple on bikes going through the middle of the Quad would be a good way to show that. Tom is a great guy, and it’s a great cause.”

Tali Segev , senior in LAS, said she thinks cycling is a unique way to fi ght cancer.

“Cancer is all about your body shutting down and not being able to trust your body,” she said. “(Biking) is all about push-ing your body to the limit.”

Gregory Colten , pres-ident of Illini 4000 and senior in Engineering, a biking registered student organization that trav-els from New York to San Francisco each summer to fundraise for cancer research , said Illini 4000 attended the event to show support for a similar organization.

“We are two groups who hate cancer, and we see a bike ride as a symbolic gesture to encourage people to fi ght cancer in a way they can,” he said. “We might not be able to do the research ourselves, but we can still fi nd a place to fi ght cancer.”

Peled said he connected to University stu-dents because he is also a college student studying political science at the Interdis-ciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel.

“The important thing is that we’re not all Jewish, and we’re not all Israeli, but we’re like you — we’re all college students,” he said.

Peleg said that in the future the organi-zation may put a focus on contacting col-lege students.

“We are not only fundraising, we are friend-raising,” Peleg said. “We really believe the young people are the future. It

doesn’t matter which coun-try you come from, young people communicate on the same level. We can see in each other’s eyes the fi re and motivation.”

Peled said in his presen-tation that following his father’s death, he never thought he would be biking across the country to fund-raise for cancer research.

“If you do have a dream, and I know you do, I can see it in your eyes that you have something you are really passionate about, you should go out and do it, go for it,” he said. “We have the drive to change, to devour and to make a difference.”

Corinne can be reached at [email protected].

the lecture explaining the realities of immigra-tion and migration laws in her country, which make it very diffi cult for people to move in and out of Russia.

She said the current laws make it hard to make a living if one does not have the proper registration. There is currently a seven-year waitlist for such registration.

Grafova said this is why she is a human-rights activist heavily involved with NGOs. She said they teach migrants and immigrants vital skills, such as communicating with authori-ties, which are necessary to survive. NGOs also provide psychological assistance “because it’s important to know that you’re not alone,” Grafova said.

The Russian Parliament also recently asked the United States Agency for Inter-national Development to leave their coun-try, rejecting the services that the agency offers. Grafova said these services included helping children with illnesses and assisting the disabled.

“Although the news I gave you is sad, I still love my country,” Grafova said.

Grafova said she hopes the Russian Feder-ation can learn from the U.S. and take some steps forward in human rights issues.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.Steven can be reached at [email protected].

plete an application process. In FY 2011, the CWT provided ser-vices to 512 people , but with an estimated 46,133 residents in the Champaign County living in poverty, many individuals were turned away.

Because of the magnitude of the situation, help is needed beyond just providing shelter to the homeless, Hulsizer said.

“The need for rental assis-tance is going up as well. A lot of people do have income, just not enough to survive,” she said. “Some people seem to be giving up because they feel there’s no help for them.”

Powers said the problem is that there are not enough jobs.

“Poverty is rising because we’ve been experiencing a ‘job-less recovery,’” she said. “While GDP has risen, offi cially bring-ing us out of the recession in June 2009 , very few jobs have been created, and the popula-tion keeps growing.”

Powers said that to address poverty in the long term, the U.S. must invest in human capital and an improved infrastructure.

“Then we’ll have the capital and skilled labor in place to sup-port growth when opportunities for innovation arise,” she said.

Matt can be reached at [email protected]

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GREGORY COLTON,president of Illini 4000

“All was well” ended one of the best-selling book series, which caused a generation to

drop a remote control and pick up a book.

But Harry Potter grew to be more than just a book, though — even before the websites, movies, mer-chandise or even the theme park born of this behemoth phenomenon — such that even a passing men-tion of the boy wizard rarely fails to make our hearts pound faster in qui-et excitement. An entire subculture jumped from the pages.

Then on the eve of the Thursday release of her newest book, “The Casual Vacancy,” J.K. Rowling sug-gested in an interview with BBC that she might revisit the idea of writing more about Potter. Read-ing that interview and the hundreds of subsequent newspaper stories regurgitating her words across the Internet sat uncomfortably in the chambers of my mind no matter how many times I thought of it.

For me, all was not well.To be clear, Rowling did preface

the suggestion, saying, “where Har-ry’s story is concerned, I’m done.” But, then just over 100 words later, she negates that statement, unable to put the series to rest.

While another Potter book may be only a negligible figment of an undeveloped idea, I can only hope that this brilliant magician of words recognizes that no matter the con-tent of another wizarding adventure she might pen, it would vandalize the very icon she dedicated over a decade to build.

No doubt, the overwhelming

majority of fans of “the boy who lived” will be quick to shout “Expel-liarmus” at the figurative pen I used to write this, but I can’t help but foresee the destruction of this spectacle.

In 2006, nearly six months after “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the penultimate book, was published, The Telegraph report-ed that Rowling’s greatest fear “is of someone she loves dying.” Seven years before she published the book that began it all, Rowling’s mother died from multiple sclerosis. Part-ly because of this, the series cen-tered on issues of mortality and its finality.

Throughout the seven install-ments, the memory, and sometimes ghostly shades, of Harry’s deceased parents, who died to give Harry his life, guide many of his actions. His enemy, Lord Voldemort, even seeks to conquer death using Hor-cruxes and the Deathly Hallows. Despite the Dark Lord’s attempts, the resulting lesson is that once something has been laid to rest, it is best to allow it to live on only in our memory.

Postmortem memories tend to leave us with positive thoughts of those lost. For example, while Michael Jackson was alive, jokes regarding him and inappropriate behavior with young children were shared among friends. But after the Grammy Award-winning super-star died in 2009, the jokes all but ceased as praise for the singer sup-planted any previous feelings of disdain.

We find, just as Harry does, that as we age, once we have laid some-thing to rest no amount of turning over the Resurrection Stone can ever fully restore someone — or in the case of these books — back to full life. Nor should we try to do so.

Now, Harry Potter has been

memorialized, leaving us with only the most idyllic conception of the franchise. Another installment would ruin this sentiment, espe-cially if it doesn’t live up to the high standard which now surrounds the books.

In a TED talk, author Chimiman-da Adichie tells “the danger of a single story” because with exposure to just one set of perceptions of the world, we generalize them to every-thing in spite of the existence of the contrary. For Rowling, however, leaving the series as a single story would be her saving grace. Her fans only have one conception of this wizarding world, and changing it at all with another book could erode what she wrote.

Rowling does understand that most prequels or sequels written for a series end up tearing down every-thing a work of art was — unlike the Hollywood filmmakers who insist on going too far (the fourth “Pirates of the Caribbean,” the fifth “Shrek” and many more). Still, she left the “door ajar.”

Rowling cannot use Harry as her crutch if her other writing pursuits fall short of the world’s high expec-tations for her. She admitted it her-self, that no matter what she writes, Harry will be lurking in its shad-ows, but that shouldn’t mean she can’t craft something as beautiful again, despite the negative criticism of her latest novel.

As much as I cherish these books, I have to admit the Harry Potter was by no means flawless: There are websites dedicated to expound-ing overlooked errors. But whatever Rowling decides to do in the years to come, I hope that I won’t have to add an eighth book to such a list of “Harry Potter” mistakes.

Ryan is a junior in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Rowling should close the book on PotterRYAN WEBEROpinions editor

Current students rarely con-cern themselves with the lat-est happenings in the Uni-

versity admissions office simply because we’ve already been accept-ed. As college students, we’ve gone through the grueling college appli-cation process and have reached the light at the end of the tunnel: attending this fine institution.

However, a change in admis-sions this year could dictate the relative worth of the education we gain from the University. For this academic year, the number of stu-dents who applied to the Univer-sity surged. One obvious result is that as the name of the Universi-ty becomes more prestigious, the value of our education increas-es among top-ranked schools nationwide.

The Chicago Tribune report-ed in August that the University had an increase in the number of applicants for the 2012-13 school year, where 31,454 prospective freshmen applied for only 6,900 spots. This is an increase of a cou-ple thousand students who applied from last year, for all Universi-ty of Illinois campuses, including the Springfield and Chicago cam-puses. The relatively small num-ber of open spots compared with the number of applicants makes the University more desirable to incoming freshman.

As more high school students, not only from across the country but from around the world, apply to the University, the competi-tion for admission increases. Con-sequently, the University will be more selective in admitting only the top students from the appli-cant pool.

Though these statistics may seem obscure and irrelevant to current students, the impact dem-onstrates that the education being provided by the University is becoming increasingly notewor-thy. After we graduate, the name of the University will carry more influence.

As the number of applicants continues to increase, it will cre-ate a more competitive academic environment for students.

It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact reason why there has been such an increase in admissions, but perhaps it could be contrib-uted to the perfect balance the University has between a colorful social life and extensive academic opportunities.

That being said, students who are granted the privilege of matriculating at this Universi-ty should continue to take full advantage of all the academic and extracurricular opportunities the school has to offer.

To be frank, as the country per-ceives this school as a bigger deal every year, we need to be sure to keep up as students. Many grad-uating high school seniors never get the opportunity to attend their first-choice school. They must instead settle for their second- or even third-choice school because the competition between appli-cants was simply too tough.

You were picked for a reason. You have the rare opportunity to make a name for yourself at this school.

Oftentimes, I have to remind myself that this opportuni-ty should be embraced and not squandered away ditching class-es to indulge in endless hours of watching Netflix.

Of course, we can’t be produc-tive all the time, but we cannot look back on our college years and remember only the times we wast-ed away on the couch.

We have to look back and be able to say we made the most of every opportunity and accepted every challenge this University had to offer us.

Remember that the increasingly prestigious name of the Universi-ty will only get you so far; putting the effort in to get involved on campus and join activities that are relevant to your major and career goals will set you apart from other graduates.

We are here for only four short years. We must take responsibility for making the most of our college experience, to make it worth the time and money because there are 2,000 other people waiting for us to fail to take our place.

Kate is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].

Politics is an ever-changing game, but the political world only seems to go into frenzy every

four years. For this reason, people often get caught up in the hysteria of the presidential election, and emo-tions begin to run haywire. Much of this hysteria is due to the media’s portrayal of the horse race between the two candidates, which often leads to the cynical attitudes about voting.

With presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama battling it out on center stage, many Americans tend to underestimate the importance and value of the elections closer to home. With so much emphasis put on the major players, people often feel as if they are just watching the show and that their vote won’t count.

But this couldn’t be further from the truth.

Although the Electoral College decides the winner of the presiden-tial election, it is the votes of the people who decide the winner of the local and state government positions. They are the ones that make local policy such as state and city tax-es, referendums and other bills that directly affect you and your commu-nity. Local politicians elected direct-ly manage city budgets, make deci-sions regarding local schools and serve as liaisons between the federal government and their community.

They are essentially the voice and

watchdogs of your city and the peo-ple have a more direct say so over whom they want these guardians to be, which is why it is important to focus on local candidates as well.

It is still important to be informed about the national platforms of the federal candidates running for office, but the jobs of city officials go beyond the scope of creating policy. One of their priorities is to cater to the specific cities and towns they represent. This includes focusing on projects such as building renovation, repairing sidewalks and improv-ing road conditions. For example, the Champaign City Council recent-ly voted unanimously to approve an agreement with a civil engineering consulting firm. In turn, the firm will help “design the approaches to the structure carrying Windsor Road over I-57.”

City officials also have the ability to enact necessary laws immediate-ly compared to that of their coun-terparts in Washington who must go through a long and thorough pro-cess. For example, during Unofficial, Mayor Don Gerard — who is also the Liquor Commissioner — issued an emergency order to help keep Cam-pustown and the rest of the commu-nity safe. Bars and liquor stores in the campus area weren’t allowed to sell alcohol before 10 a.m.; patrons entering bars had to be 21 years old; and his office suspended issuance of keg permits, effectively setting a limit of one keg per residence during this event.

These specific needs of residents are left to the local government.

While local government is critical to our everyday life, people seemed

to be less concerned with local elec-tions than they are with federal ones. This has been seen in Champaign County over the last four years.

In the 2008 presidential elec-tion, more than 123,150 Champaign County residents were registered to vote. Nearly 85,000 ballots were cast, bringing the voter turnout to 68.6 percent. The 2008 voter turnout percentage for Champaign Coun-ty was higher than the national rate which was 61.6 percent. However, voter turnout decreased significant-ly in the following years. In 2010, a general election year, in which citi-zens had the opportunity to vote for governor, state senators and repre-sentatives, voter turnout decreased significantly to 44.8 percent. In the consolidated elections of 2009 and 2011, which focused on the cam-paigns of council members, city clerks and village trustees, voter turnout was 22.1 percent and 17 per-cent, respectively.

Lower voter turnouts for elec-tions in which local and city races are the only ones on the ballot seem to indicate residents’ lack of inter-est in their community politicians. It seems completely backwards, considering that local officials are the ones making the differ-ence in your community. Therefore not only does your vote count, but you as a citizen have the power to affect the policies and projects tak-ing place in your community. Peo-ple think their votes don’t count, but when everyone thinks that, no one votes.

Ta’les is a junior in Media. She can be reached at [email protected].

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A t this month’s board of trustees meeting, Christophe Pierre, the University’s chief academic officer,

raised a frequently rehashed issue: Faculty are leaving faster than the University can replace them.

But at the same time, student enrollment and tuition are high-er than ever, and state contri-butions continue to fall. At that same meeting, the University hailed the fact that it has more research money flowing in than ever before despite the cuts in federal research spending other universities are facing.

So the question stands: Is the University getting smarter with our money, or is it neglecting students?

The case is both, but it’s not even across the board.

The University has a respon-sibility to maximize its pro-ductivity at the lowest possible cost.

So declining tenured facul-ty isn’t all bad: Their replace-ments — nontenured adjuncts and underpaid graduate stu-dents — make for a more easily maintained staff.

Then there are the ever-frus-trating forces of the market. As graduate employees become more organized, they become increasingly aware that they’re the ones picking up the slack. The persistent issues of poor benefits and job security are suddenly relevant as the Uni-versity requires these students’ help. And it would be foolish not to seize such an opportunity.

So the market is already solv-ing that inequality, it would seem. Where, then, is the Uni-versity to turn to make ends meet?

Are undergraduate students grabbing the shortest end of the stick, then? Well, for the top stu-dents researching with presti-gious professors, this is hardly the case.

An impressive resume and valuable experience research-ing at the hands of top-level pro-fessors is one of the greatest resources the University offers. But even as more money means more of the top students can work in those labs, they can’t offer it to everyone.

So it’s the rest, the students outside of the STEM and other disciplines for which this Uni-versity is world-renowned, who are left with slowly dwindling resources.

Consider this: The units taught by faculty — rather than gradu-ate assistants and other instruc-tors — in the Engineering department was still over 65 per-cent last year. Seventy-two per-cent of the instructional units taught in ACES are held by facul-ty. Business holds at 62 percent.

Meanwhile, LAS has long since fallen below half of their classes being taught by actual faculty. And Media, the home of many Daily Illini editorial board members, was down to a dismal 37 percent in 2010-11. So yes, there is a disparity.

Faculty are leaving faster than they can be replaced while students are still coming in. It’s worse for some students. In the words of Pierre, “This combination of trends is not sustainable.”

We agree wholeheartedly.

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Spain, Greece announce latest round of cuts, taxesBY CIARAN GILESTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MADRID — Spain and Greece outlined plans Thursday to reduce government spending and raise taxes to convince international lenders and financial markets they are on track to cut their deficits.

The latest round of belt-tight-ening comes as economies across Europe get weaker and pub-lic resentment toward austerity grows stronger.

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Financial markets cheered the budget-cutting. In Europe, stocks rose in anticipation of the Spanish measures. France’s benchmark stock index finished 0.7 percent higher and Germany’s main index rose 0.2 percent. Borrowing costs for Spain and Italy fell, and the Dow Jones industrial average rose 72 points.

But the region remains in trou-ble. Economic confidence in the 17 countries that use the euro fell

to its lowest level in over three years, according to a survey by the European Union’s Commis-sion. Meanwhile, unemployment figures in Germany continued to drift higher, in spite of a small seasonal boost in jobs, underlin-ing concerns that Europe’s biggest economy is slowing down.

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Throughout the three-year financial crisis, eurozone govern-ments have had to impose harsh cuts and reforms to get control of their debts and — in the case of Greece, Portugal and Ireland — qualify for vital aid. The austerity measures have hit citizens with wage cuts and fewer services, and reduced government spending has undermined growth.

Second Mona Lisa painting found; status as da Vinci original questionedBY JAMEY KEATENTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GENEVA — The mystery behind the most enigmatic smile in art — Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” — just got a little more complicated.

In a coming-out party of sorts in Geneva, rounds of flashbulbs popped Thursday as the nonprof-it Mona Lisa Foundation pulled back the curtain to present what it claims is a predecessor of the world’s most famous portrait.

But even the experts brought in by the foundation weren’t sure about that claim just yet.

The “Isleworth Mona Lisa” features a dark-haired young woman with her arms crossed

against a distant backdrop. The foundation insists it’s no copy but an earlier version of the Louvre masterpiece.

At the presentation, Alessan-dro Vezzosi, director of the Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci, said the painting was intriguing but needs further study. He declined to line up behind the foundation’s claims that it was truly a “Mona Lisa” predecessor painted by da Vinci.

“The Isleworth Mona Lisa is an important work of art deserving respect and strong consideration — as well as a scientific, historic and artistic debate among special-ists rather than a purely media interest,” he said.

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acknowledged that the “Isleworth Mona Lisa” remains unfinished, and that da Vinci didn’t paint all parts of the work. Still, the group pointed to newly discovered evi-dence in 2005 from Heidelberg, Germany, that suggested da Vinci was working on at least the head of such a painting in 1503.

The painting has been in head-lines before, starting in the ear-ly 20th century. It was shown in Japan last year before the founda-tion’s research was finished.

Experts say Thursday’s unveil-ing was designed to draw more attention and scrutiny from world-wide art experts about whether it’s authentic: A start more than a finish.

Israeli prime minister says Iran’s nuclear bomb to be completed by next summerBY ARON HELLERTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

UNITED NATIONS — In his most detailed plea to date for glob-al action against Iran’s nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thurs-day the world has until next sum-mer at the latest to stop Iran before it can build a nuclear bomb.

Netanyahu flashed a diagram of a cartoon-like bomb before the U.N. General Assembly showing the progress Iran has made, say-ing it has already completed the first stage of uranium enrichment.

Then he drew a line across what he said was a threshold Iran was approaching and which Israel could not tolerate.

“By next spring, at most by next summer at current enrichment

rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final stage,” he said. “From there, it’s only a few months, pos-sibly a few weeks before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb.”

Israel considers a nuclear-armed Iran to be an existential threat, citing Iranian denials of the Holocaust and its calls for Isra-el’s destruction.

On Thursday he presented his case to the world just why a nucle-ar armed Iran would be a danger to many other countries as well. Casting the battle as one between modernity and the “medieval forc-es of radical Islam,” Netanyahu said deterrence would not work against Iran.

“Deterrence worked with the

Soviets because every time the Soviets faced a choice between their ideology and their survival, they chose survival,” he said. But “militant jihadists behave very differently from secular Marx-ists. There were no Soviet sui-cide bombers. Yet Iran produces hordes of them.”

Netanyahu has repeatedly argued that time is running out to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Israeli leaders have issued a series of warnings in recent weeks suggesting that if Iran’s uranium enrichment program continues it may soon stage a uni-lateral military strike. This week Iranian leaders suggested they may strike Israeli preemptively if they felt threatened, stoking fears of a regional war.

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A painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci representing Mona Lisa is seen during a preview presentation in Onex near Geneva on Wednesday. The Mona Lisa Foundation will present comparative and scientific evidence.

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Mumford & Sons’ 2nd album, ‘Babel,’ exceeds expectations

Imagine Christmas, 21st birth-day, free Jimmy Johns on the Quad, Monday classes can-

celed and Hanukkah all rolled into one (and I’m not even Jew-ish), and that is how I felt at 8 a.m. when I drove to Target in the pouring rain and picked up Mumford & Sons’ second album, “Babel.”

I’ve been waiting for this day for years — three to be exact. Since the release of their first album, “Sigh No More,” in 2009, M & S have been meticulously crafting their second, with such attention to detail that it has bordered on the excruciating for us fans.

But man was it worth the wait.

Let me be clear: “Babel” does not disappoint. Rath-er, it succeeds on a scale that has yet to be matched by any other band this year. (Yeah, it’s that good.)

Though M & S released many

of the songs on the album ear-lier (“I Will Wait,” “Lover of the Light,” “Lov-ers’ Eyes,” plus a few more), they all have been altered or enhanced in a way that still makes them sound new to our ears. And the completely new stuff? It’s still so fresh to pro-cess, and as the Brits would say, they’re bloody brilliant.

Every song feels so complete on its own. It’s all in the buildup. M & S have a knack for starting soft and then

slowly bringing up the tempo and the banjo until it rises to this incredible level that completely sinks you in the song and arrests your mind — your head’s nodding like crazy

and your feet can’t quit tapping. It’s the best feeling, and “Below My Feet,” “Whispers in the Dark,” “Hopeless Wanderer”

and “Holland Road” capture it perfectly.

Yet I love that “Babel” doesn’t forget about balance. With each song that sweeps you up, another hits you with its quiet beauty. Sometimes the

strongest songs are the ones stripped down. “Not With Haste,” “Reminder” and “Ghosts That We Knew” all achieve this.

When I saw the band this summer at their Gentle-man of the Road Stopover show in Dixon, Ill., I knew I was witness-ing something special — some-thing I’d hold onto for a long time. My friends and

I waited out in the sun all day, but once the night hung over us and Marcus, Ted, Ben and Winston stepped on stage, my legs forgot about being tired. I was completely transfixed. This album only mirrors that feeling.

Typically, the more you hype something up in your mind, the harder it is for your expectations to be met, much less exceeded. In that regard, “Babel” is the most atypical album I’ve heard yet this year.

Normally, I’d say something about checking out specific

tracks — the ones you have to listen to right this second — but every song deserves that kind of promotion (and I’ve already nearly listed all of them), so my advice: Listen to all of them right this second.

Whether you pick up the CD in stores or go on iTunes, be sure to spend the extra few bucks for the Deluxe version. Three bonus songs — “For Those Below,” “The Boxer” and “Where Are You Now” —

are the scoop of vanilla cus-tard on the greatest slice of your grandma’s award-winning apple pie.

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

EMILY HARNDENFeatures columnist

Discography contains balance between up-tempo, soft songs

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This CD cover image released by Glassnote Records shows the latest release by Mumford & Sons, “Babel.”

Typically, the more you hype

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your expectations to be met, much less exceeded.

Every song feels so complete on its own. It’s all in the buildup.

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BY ETHAN ASOFSKYSTAFF WRITER

Brandon Paul’s summer diet came straight from Magic Bul-let hell.

Place a Chip otle burrito in a blender. Add hot sauce. Add water. Hold on tight and fl ip the switch. But don’t forget the utensil — a straw to suck down the concoction.

“It wasn’t that bad,” Paul said.On other days, he’d replace the

burrito with steak and the hot sauce with A1 sauce.

“OK, it’s nothing I’m going to

try now that my mouth is fi ne,” he rebutted.

This was the routine the Illini basketball sen ior gu ard was forced to adopt after a collision with redshirt freshman Dev in Langford broke Paul’s jaw in two places on June 21.

Paul is now working out three times a week and is preparing for the start of the season on Nov. 9. Now that he’s healthy, his new mis-sion is to beef back up — in solid form.

A new NCAA regulation allowed

for teams to conduct eight one-hour workouts while school was out of session this past summer. For new Illinois head coach Joh n Groce, the workouts were fi nally a chance to see his team in action.

But after just one practice, Groce lost the Illini’s top sc orer from the 2011 season — the same player who was the architect behind one of the most masterful scoring perfor mances in school history last season against Ohio State — for the rest of the sum-mer’s activities.

Paul was chasing a loose ball off a rebound when he saw one of his teammates gain control of the errant shot. He turned to run up the court for a fast break before — smack! — Paul’s jaw met Lang-ford’s shoulder. Right away, he knew he’d broken something.

His fi rst thought — ouch. His second thought — “How long am I going to be out?” He remembered when former Illini standout Der on Williams suffered a broken jaw in 2 003 but otherwise hadn’t met any-one in a similar situation.

Paul was taken to Ca rle Foun-dation Hospital, where he sat with Groce for hours waiting for his X-rays. It was one of the fi rst few occasions Paul had spent one-on-one time with his new coach, and it was certainly the longest stretch of quality time in their young relationship. There was just one problem — conversation was dif-fi cult, as Paul could hardly open his mouth in the hours after the incident.

BRANDON PAUL’S SUMMER OF SLURP

Illini hockey to play John Carroll University

BY STEPHEN BOURBONSTAFF WRITER

History will be made this weekend when John Carroll University comes to the Big Pond to take on Illinois for the two teams’ fi rst-ever meeting.

“I don’t really know (what to expect),” head coach Nick Fab-brini said. “I know they played Ohio pretty tough last week-end, who’s the third-ranked team (in the American Col-legiate Hockey Association). I expect them to be a pretty good team, better than Mich-igan State, so we have to be ready to play.”

To say that the Blue Streaks (0-2-0) played Ohio “pretty tough” may be a little gener-ous; the Bobcats swept the weekend games 9-1 and 5-3. In the fi rst game of the series, Ohio had eight different play-ers net goals, and in the fi nal two periods, it accrued more goals (eight) than the Blue Streaks recorded shots (seven).

The Illini (1-0-1) roll into the contest feeling pretty neutral about their play during open-ing weekend.

They lost 5-4 in a shootout to Michigan State on Friday despite scoring two goals in the fi nal 3:38 of regulation to extend the game. In Saturday’s match, Illinois was able to take care of business and get the fi rst win for fi rst-year head coach Nick Fabbrini.

The stars for Illinois on offense were junior forward Eddie Quagliata and fresh-man John Olen . Quagliata had three points on the weekend, two goals with an assist, while Olen notched the fi rst two goals of his Illinois career Friday night. Olen also was able to

score in the shootout period in the same game.

One aspect that Fabbri-ni said caused struggles last weekend was a lack of disci-pline. Illinois committed a combined 15 penalties in the two games, allowing fi ve goals on the ensuing power plays.

“We have to stay disciplined and keep our composure,” Fabbrini said. “Discipline as in staying out of the box and doing things we know we’re supposed to be doing out there. Staying in the confi nes of the system and trying to play will make us successful.”

Fabbrini said last week-end that the penalty kill was something that the Illini had not really practiced; however, it has been an emphasis this week.

“We’re going to work on the penalty kill all year,” Fabbri-ni said. “But there’s also a lot of other stuff we need to work on right now. The penalty kill will get better. We just need to make sure we’re doing the other things.”

At the offensive end of the ice, Fabbrini chided his play-ers at times last week for not using speed to their advantage. With the likes of Quagliata, Austin Bostock and Scott Bar-rera providing depth and expe-rience at the forward position, the Illini are able to create a lot of chances with each of their four lines.

Seeing as John Carroll gave up 14 goals in just two games last weekend, Illinois should be able to do just that.

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

EYE ON THE ENEMY:Penn State head coachBill O’Brien

BY ZACH GROTHSTAFF WRITER

Illinois head coach Tim Beckman actually has more coaching experience than Bill O’Brien, but the first-year Penn State head coach brings an impressive NFL track record to the Big Ten. He spent five years coaching Tom Brady and the New England Patriots’ offense, working under Bill Belichick. Now in his first conference game, he brings a strong passing attack to the table, which will test Illinois’ secondary Saturday.

ControlO’Brien avoided a completely embarrassing start for Penn State with back-to-back home wins against weaker opponents in Navy and Temple.

Pass HappyThis coach has faith in his quarterback, Matt McGloin. While three Illini quarterbacks have combined for 119 passing attempts, O’Brien has let McGloin toss the rock 140 times.

Offensive SwaggerO’Brien’s squad has outscored its opponents a combined 55-9 in the first half this season, even though the team sits at 2-2 on the season.

Depleted RosterIllinois has dealt with injuries this season, but O’Brien has dealt with players leaving his program. NCAA’s sanctions on the Penn State left the football program without key components, including star running back Silas Redd, who has scored four touchdowns at Southern Cal in as many games.

Blanton to face tough choice: Wrestling or UFC?BY MICHAEL WONSOVERSTAFF WRITER

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series following the wresting career of senior Jordan Blanton, who will soon have to make a critical deci-sion regarding his future.

Illini wrestler Jordan Blanton’s fascination with mixed martial arts began when he built a rela-tionship with UFC lightweight Clay Guida during high school. Blanton, a Richmond, Ill.-native, lives in a nearby town to Guida, who is from Johnsburg. Guida’s mother was Blanton’s pediatric nurse throughout high school and during some of middle school as well. The two wrestled at Rich-mond’s wrestling club as children, though at different times, since Guida is about eight years older than Blanton.

Blanton got to know Guida bet-ter through workouts together at Richmond-Burton High School. Guida also knew Blanton’s high school wrestling coach, so he would jump in at wrestling prac-tices on occasion to help instruct some of the students. Guida, 30, has been one of the most suc-cessful wrestlers in MMA his-tory. While wrestling at Harp-er College, Guida never thought he’d become a fi ghter. Guida earned his nickname “The Car-penter” because of one of his past professions.

“Absolutely not,” Guida said of thinking he’d be fi ghting for a liv-ing. “I was building houses, and I was a union carpenter. I’ve been fi ghting full-time for the past sev-en years, but I still pay my dues. I was also working on a fi shing boat in Alaska before I started fi ghting, so who knows. I like trying new things and picking up new skills, so who knows what I would’ve

been doing still. I would imagine some sort of hard labor.”

Guida, who has a 9-7 career record inside the octagon, has the sixth-most takedowns in UFC history according to fi ght-metric.com with a whopping 48 takedowns landed in his career. Guida is known for his uncanny pace, constantly moving and push-ing the tempo. He averages 3.85 takedowns landed per 15 min-utes while successfully defend-ing 71 percent of his opponent’s takedown attempts. In compari-son, UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson averages only 2.96 takedowns landed per 15 min-utes and defends 62 percent of his opponent’s takedown attempts. Guida’s wrestling background has been vital in his career thus far, which has seen him become the fi rst Strikeforce Lightweight Champion and earn the ranking as the No. 7 lightweight in the world by Sherdog.com.

“Wrestling, I believe, is the best crossover,” Guida said. “It’s the catalyst; it’s the foundation of mixed martial arts. The hard work that we’re brought up on, we’ve been through the fi re hun-dreds of times. Some of these wrestlers have wrestled thou-sands of wrestling matches. Noth-ing’s ever come easy to us in wres-tling. We’re used to working for success and working extra hard and having that never-say-die attitude. I believe that wrestling crosses over to MMA because you can dictate where the fi ght is gonna go and if you have a hard time on your feet with a stand-up fi ghter, you can take the fi ght to the ground.”

Although wrestling has been a large contributor to his success, Guida realizes some wrestlers can struggle early on in MMA.

“A lot of wrestlers have a hard time transitioning,” Guida said. “Sometimes they get submitted very easily because they haven’t learned the proper technique or it takes a while to adapt. Also, a lot of wrestlers have a hard time getting a takedown because they think they could just run in there and tackle a skilled striker with some decent takedown defense. That’s when you see a lot of wres-tlers get banged up on the feet and get knocked out. There’s defi nite-ly a learning curve. But I still do believe wrestlers have the best pedigree and the best chance at becoming successful mixed mar-tial artists.”

UFC fighters with similar accomplishments to Blanton in wrestling have had outstanding fi ghting careers. Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez fi nished fourth at the 2006 NCAA Championships while wrestling for Arizona State. Blan-ton fi nished fourth at least sea-son’s NCAA tournament at the 174-pound weight class. Despite being a wrestler, Velasquez has the highest strikes landed per minute in UFC history with 7.47, according to fi ghtmetric.com.

UFC welterweight Josh Kos-check was a four-time All-Amer-

Through the wire:

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Penn State head coach Bill O'Brien sends in a play from the sidelines against Temple in State College, Pa., on Saturday. Penn State won 24-13 and will face Illinois this weekend.

DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTO

Illinois' Jordan Blanton during the meet against Wisconsin at Huff Hall on Feb. 3. Blanton is currently considering a career as a UFC fi ghter.

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Fabbrini not sure what to expect in 2 teams 1st-ever meeting on ice

Illini lose out on JacksonBY THOMAS BRUCHSTAFF WRITER

Demetrius Jackson will not be coming to Illinois.

The No. 19 overall prospect in the Class of 2013 narrowed his college choices to Notre Dame and Illinois earlier this week. Thursday afternoon, Jackson, who lives 20 minutes outside of South Bend, Ind., chose his hometown school and committed to the Irish.

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Women runners aim to use this weekend as step forwardBY NICHOLAS FORTINCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Illinois’ women’s cross-coun-try team will be dealing with a road less traveled as it competes at the Notre Dame Invitational this weekend.

The Illini will compete in South Bend, Ind. on Friday for the first time since 2008, when they finished ninth overall. Illi-nois will run in an 18-team field that includes five of the top 30 nationally ranked cross-country teams.

Women’s cross-country coach Jeremy Rasmussen said achiev-ing the team’s goal for the meet would be a step forward from last season’s last-place finish in the conference.

“Our goal is to be in the top 10 as a team,” Rasmussen said in

reference to Friday’s meet. “If we do that, we will definitely be moving in the right direction. That will allow us to continue to have success and be where we want to be by the end of the year.”

Rasmussen added this meet is critical if the Illini want to suc-ceed this season.

“We’re there to beat teams from other regionals to score points in order to go to the nation-al meet,” he said.

The team will be racing against two Big Ten opponents — North-western and Ohio State — as well as No. 2-ranked Florida State this weekend.

The Illini will have 12 run-ners competing this weekend, including senior Courtney Yae-ger, junior Stephanie Morgan and freshman Amanda Fox, who is

coming off a second-place fin-ish in her debut at the Illini Challenge.

Most of the squad will compete in the women’s 5K, but Meagan Hynes, Rachel Irion and Saman-tha Murphy will be competing in the open meet.

Yaeger, who was named the Big Ten women’s cross-country Co-athlete of the Week for her performance in last week’s Illi-nois Intercollegiate Champion-ships, said Notre Dame’s course is known to be a fast venue where the Illini usually run well.

“I’ve heard it’s fast, and actu-ally a lot of our all-time perform-ers, like the people who have been fastest at this school, ran their fastest time at this meet, so I’m imagining it’s pretty quick,” Yaeger said.

She added this week will be critical to the team’s future success.

“We achieved our goal of win-ning (last week), but then this week is gonna be really telling on where we really are compared against Big Ten teams,” Yaeger said. “But as a whole, just cultur-ally, we’ve been doing so much better than we have in the past, so everyone is pretty excited to get out there.”

Junior Stephanie Morgan, who led the Illini to regionals in 2010 and redshirted last year, said as long as the team keeps doing what it’s doing, uncertainty over the course and competition won’t affect team morale.

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

Soccer heads east for Big Ten road openerBY CHARLIE MANIATESSTAFF WRITER

After splitting a pair of home games last weekend, the Illinois soccer team hits the road for the first time in its Big Ten schedule.

The Illini will be visiting Indi-ana on Friday, followed by Pur-due on Sunday. The team looks to find a better rhythm at the start of the games and maintain that throughout the game, something it was able to do against Ohio State but could not quite against No. 8 Penn State last Sunday in a 4-0 loss.

The downside for the Illini is that the Big Ten slate does not allow much time for practice in between matches, especial-ly when it involves going on the road. In the short time they have had, head coach Janet Rayfield has stressed that the Illini need to be more dangerous.

“We didn’t punish them for their mistakes, and we weren’t

as dangerous with our passing as we needed to be,” Rayfield said. “I think we’ve done more with some video in terms of trying to solve some of those problems.”

Rayfield added that Illinois has been working on decision-mak-ing in the games to make more of its chances, something she feels is most important if it wants to be more dangerous offensively. Ray-field said her team has struggled making the transition from turn-ing good possessions into quality offensive chances that can lead to goals.

“We have to take all of those times that we’re penetrating into the attacking third and just get more quality chances out of it,” she said. “It’s sort of like a foot-ball team who gets into the red zone and can’t get the ball in the end zone.”

Senior forward Nicole Denen-berg called it having a “goal scor-er’s mentality.” She said the Illini

worked on putting more shots on frame and finishing their chanc-es, stressing which part of the foot to use and where to place the ball, which they had trouble with Sunday.

The Illini will not be at full strength this weekend as fresh-man midfielder Taylore Peterson, who has started in nine of the Illini’s 10 games this season and is tied for the team lead in goals, went down with an ankle sprain Sunday and is doubtful to play this weekend. Peterson scored the only goal for the Illini last weekend in the 1-0 victory over Ohio State.

“I think we definitely have peo-ple that can play in that position (who) are looking forward to step-ping up,” senior defender Kristen Gierman said. “Being impactful in that position, it’s obviously a loss, but I think we have people who are confident in filling those roles.”

If Illinois hopes to bring home two victories this weekend, the team said the final thing it need-ed to do was having good move-ment off the ball. Denenberg stressed that the players need to be moving so that they can get behind the defensive lines.

Another aspect that will be important this weekend is phys-icality. It was very prevalent against Penn State, and Illinois knows that it will not be get-ting any easier as the season progresses.

“The Big Ten is a physical conference, it’s been its reputa-tion and probably rightfully so,” Rayfield said. “I think it only gets more physical on the road (because) teams fight to battle for their home turf and certainly something that we’ll have to deal with this weekend.”

Charlie can be reached at [email protected].

BY DAN ESCALONACONTRIBUTING WRITER

For head coach Jake Stewart, the biggest obstacle to the Illi-nois men’s cross-country team is its inexperience. The Illini boast just four seniors on the team, while the other 12 mem-bers on are either true or red-shirt freshmen. The level of inexperience is precisely why Coach Stewart hopes Friday’s Notre Dame Invitational in South Bend, Ind., is a stepping stone for the team as the season progresses.

“Our biggest challenge com-ing into the season was a c q u i r i n g e x p e r i e n c e for our inex-perienced run-ners,” Stewart said. “We have a lot of guys who are capa-ble of running for us and suc-ceeding. It is just a matter of them get-ting the expe-rience they need through the course of the season. This is our first big test of the year and I just want to see where everyone is at and how we respond.”

F r i d a y ’ s meet will fea-ture 21 teams, including top-ranked programs such as No. 10 Florida State and No. 11 North Carolina State.

The meet will be the Illini’s first true away meet outside the state. In Illinois’ first two meets of the season, it finished first in the Illini Challenge on Aug. 31 in Urbana and second in the Illinois Intercollegiate on Sept. 14 in Normal. In the 6K race at the Illini Challenge, the team was led by redshirt freshmen Tommy King and Ian Barnett. King finished second with a time 18 minutes, 41 seconds, while Barnett finished fourth with a time of 18:46.

In the 8K race at the Illinois Intercollegiate, the Illini were led by Barnett, as he finished ahead of his teammates with a fifth-place finish and a time of 24:45, smashing his personal

record by 90 seconds. Barnett, who will again run on Friday, said: “Breaking my personal record was huge for me. As for this week, I expect to run really well. I’m in really great shape, I feel great, and I hope to get a personal record again.”

Along with Barnett, the Illi-ni will trot out fellow redshirt freshmen Paul Zeman, Tommy King, Sam Telfer and Anthony Manfrin in the lineup for the 8K run in South Bend. The final two runners the team will bring are seniors Jordan Hebert, who qualified for the NCAA Cham-

p i o n s h i p s in 2011, and Hunter Mick-ow. Rounding out the Illini lineup will be graduate stu-dent Jannis Topfer.

On a team filled over-w h e l m i n g l y by freshmen, Stewart sees Hebert, the teams’s top and most decorated runner, as the ex per ienced senior filled with insights for the team’s young, inexpe-rienced core.

“You can look at Jordan from an athlet-ic standpoint and say he has had great suc-

cess for us,” Stewart said. “A lot of the things he helps the team with are beyond just athletic stuff. He is a great leader and a voice of maturity for many of our younger guys.” Hebert will make his season debut at Fri-day’s meet, along with Mickow.

All Jake Stewart wants is for his team to bring its best and all its fight to Friday’s meet against some very elite competition. Stewart hopes the Notre Dame Invitational is an opportunity for the team to gain experience going into key meets at the end of October.

“I expect us to run the way we are capable of running and if we do that we are going to have the outcome we want to have,” Stewart said.

Dan can be reached at sports@ dailyillini.com.

Men’s cross-country to gain experience Friday

Bears’ offense not meeting expectations

Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler said he felt like a kid on Christmas this

summer when he found wide receivers Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery, in addition to running back Michael Bush, nes-tled under the tree.

All offseason, we heard about a changed team thanks to Cut-ler’s new weapons, as the Bears finally had a Super Bowl-cali-ber offense. The mad scientist, Mike Martz, was gone for good, and Cutler was poised to shine with his buddy Marshall just like they did in Denver. The hopes and dreams of Bears fans were mile-high.

Yet it has been a snap back to reality through the first three weeks, as the Bears offense, much like it has for years now, continues to bring a knife to a gun fight. The offensive line has been a turnstile for pass-rushers, receivers haven’t gotten open, and Cutler continues to make ill-advised throws that lead to turnovers.

Just how bad has the Bears offense been? Through the first three games, they rank 28th in

the league in passing offense and 27th in total offense with 290 yards per game. Even last year, when Devin Hester was still the No. 1 wide receiver and the combo of Caleb Hanie and Josh McCown was under center for the last six contests, the Bears averaged 314 yards per game.

It is not hard to figure out who deserves the blame for the unit’s puzzling performance because, frankly, everyone is at fault. Cut-ler’s play has been anemic at best, throwing only three touch-downs along with six intercep-tions, which is tied for most in the league.

Despite having one of the big-gest arms in football and new weapons to utilize, Cutler’s 58.6 quarterback rating ranks 31st in the NFL; only rookie quarter-back Ryan Tannehill has been worse. Making fun of Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb became everyone’s favor-ite pastime in August, but Kolb’s 108.6 rating is more than double the mark of Chicago’s franchise quarterback.

Cutler has not been alone in his struggles, however, as his protection by the offensive line has been nonexistent. The gun-slinger has been sacked 11 times this season, which is tied for the fourth most in the league. His wide receivers have not done him any favors either, as Mar-

shall and his teammates have been unable to gain separation from defenders. As a result, the Bears’ highly touted target has caught merely 16 balls for 214 yards — 23rd in the league — with only one touchdown.

Nevertheless, the Bears are still 2-1, tied with the Vikings atop the NFC North. This was supposed to be the year when the offense would outshine the defensive unit, but luckily for Bears fans, that has not been the case. Chicago has been blessed with many great defenses, and this year is no different. Led by Julius Peppers, Lance Briggs and a semi-healthy Brian Urlach-er, the “Monsters of the Midway” rank fifth in the league in points allowed at 16.7 per game.

Head coach Lovie Smith con-tinues to rely on his defense for turnovers, and the unit has not disappointed, coming up with nine takeaways so far (second in the NFL). Cornerback Tim Jennings’ play has been a pleas-ant surprise, as he has caught a league-high four interceptions.

The team’s pass rush may deserve the most credit, howev-er, as its 14 sacks are the most in the NFL. Chicago has never been a team to bring extravagant blitz packages, relying on the front four for pressure. This unit has been potent this season, as four Bears have totaled at least two

sacks: Shea McClellin (two), Isra-el Idonije (2.5), Peppers (2.5) and Henry Melton (three).

Now, it is time for the offense to live up to its side of the bar-gain. As bad as Cutler has been this season, he has still won sev-en of his last eight starts. The Bears need to see last year’s ver-sion of their quarterback, who threw for seven touchdowns and three interceptions during the team’s five-game winning streak.

While it is the players’ job to perform on Sundays, offensive coordinator Mike Tice needs to do a much better job of putting his players in position to suc-ceed. Even with workhorse Matt Forte sidelined with an ankle injury, there is too much talent for the Bears offense to continue to sputter.

The struggling unit needs to shape up fast, however, as a matchup with the Dallas Cow-boys on ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” will be an extremely tough task. The Cowboys have given up a league-low 250 yards per game this season while show-casing one of the game’s premier pass-rushers in DeMarcus Ware.

It no longer matters what the Bears look like on paper this sea-son. It’s time to put up or shut up.

Derek is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Fol-low him on Twitter @feeldapaign.

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Jordan Hebert runs during the Big Ten Championship at the Arboretum on Oct. 30. Hebert finished 22nd with a time of 24:26.

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Chicago Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall makes a catch against St. Louis Rams cornerback Cortland Finnegan in the second half in Chicago on Sunday. The Bears won 23-6. Chicago’s offense has not lived up to preseason expectations so far this season.

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Illinois’ Taylore Peterson defends a Penn State player on Sunday at Illini Field.

DEREK PIPERSports columnist

“We have a lot of guys who are capable of running for us and

succeeding. It is just a matter of them getting

the experience they need through the course of the season. This is our first big test of the year and I just want to see where everyone is at

and how we respond.” JAKE STEWART,

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Once the doctor was ready to see him, Paul learned that his wis-dom teeth had caused the injury to become more severe, and they would have to come out as a part of the surgery that took place the following day.

With his mouth wired and pain-killers galore, Paul headed home and rested under the watchful eye of his parents, catching up on his online classes and experimenting with foods that wouldn’t put his mouth under duress.

Paul was a spectator when he returned to campus. His jaw was still in a fragile state for his fi rst few practices after the injury; any activity risked requiring another reconstructive surgery. Paul was limited to the sidelines, where he studied the new system. When he wasn’t watching practice in per-son, he took fi lm home and watched clips alongside protein shakes.

“It gave me a chance to just kind of sit back and see things from an outside source. I gave feedback to people whenever I saw that they needed it,” Paul said. “Everything is about pace. ... We’re going a lot faster. We’re putting a lot more shots up.”

Midway through the offsea-son, Paul was gradually cleared to resume lifting, cardio and sta-tionary shooting, but the major-ity of his fi rst summer under the new NCAA rules was essential-ly lost. Speaking was still tough, although he managed to develop skills he compared to a “profes-sional ventriloquist,” communicat-ing while keeping his mouth most-ly closed. Paul lost 15 pounds by the time he’d started eating solid food again.

For Paul’s fi rst strawless meal, Groce took his new pupil to lunch at Longhorn Steakhouse. Paul won’t blink if you ask him what he ate that day.

“I had a nice big salmon,” he said. “That was really good. Salm-on, mashed potatoes and some vanilla bean cheesecake.”

RIP, beef milkshake.

Ethan can be reached at asofsky1@ dai-lyillini.com and @asofthesky.

ican at Edinboro University, win-ning a national championship at Blanton’s weight class of 174 in 2001.

Since Koscheck began com-peting in the UFC in 2005, he has more fi ghts than anyone else in the company at 21 contests.

Arguably the most similar fi ght-er to Blanton is Bellator welter-weight champion Ben Askren, a two-time 174-pound national champion while at Missouri who took the Olympic path before competing in MMA. Blanton, like Askren, is working toward becom-ing an Olympian before he even considers MMA. Askren quali-fi ed for the 2008 Olympics at 74 kg in freestyle wrestling, but did not place. Askren started training MMA following the Olympics with little fi ghting background other than wrestling.

Despite his inexperience, Askren has won his fi rst 10 fi ghts.

Although Blanton’s wrestling accolades point toward an MMA career, Blanton and his girlfriend of fi ve years, Caitlin Richert, will ultimately have to make a deci-sion together.

“I have a pretty serious girl-friend,” Blanton said. “I’m gonna have to think about that, our future together. She’s real supportive, she’s the best. Going forward, it’s really gonna matter what situation suits us best. We just gotta see how that goes. There’s a chance I might be called to be an assistant coach at Cal Poly or Hofstra Universi-ty on the East Coast or the West Coast, that’s other stuff that we’re gonna have to talk about too.”

Although the idea of fi ghting worries Richert at times, in the end, she would support Blanton in whatever path he chooses.

“I’ve been with him throughout the whole wrestling journey, and if he does want to pursue (MMA), I would support him 100 percent,” Richert said. “The fi ghting aspect, I’m not scared for him. He’s a tough person, he’ll be OK through it. One of our gym teachers in high school did mixed martial arts and would come with bruises every-where, black eyes. That aspect is kind of nerve-wracking and scary, but that’s the only part that would make me nervous. I would support him, whatever choice.”

Even though Guida has achieved so much in his MMA career thus far, he still advises Blanton and other prospective fi ghters to focus on school and wrestling before fi ghting.

“Go get your degree fi rst,” Gui-da said. “Go get a few medals, do

your best and try to become an All-American or a national champ and go on and try out for the Olympics.

Stick with international and collegiate wrestling as long as you can because it’s a short win-dow. Fighting’s gonna be here for a long time. Your college career, your education, is getting short-er as the days go on. Jordan got a little taste of it cause he got to go out and train with the best camp in the world at Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohns’ MMA, He got to train with one of the best fi ght-ers in the world in Jon Jones. He got to see all these great fi ghters. But a lot of these other guys that are uneducated about (fi ghting); they see the success on TV. It doesn’t happen over night. There’s a lot of hard work that goes into it. I like to see them be success-ful in their college career. That way there’s always an education, there’s a degree. It doesn’t hurt to work for a great company fi rst and then try out mixed martial arts. Jordan is very fortunate in that he has great supporters around him in athletics through his whole life. I encourage these guys to get it done in the classroom fi rst and then on the wrestling mat and then in the cage possibly.”

Israel Martinez, a current MMA wrestling instructor and former wrestling coach of Blanton, hopes his long-time student weighs the pros and cons before choosing to be a wrestler or fi ghter in the future.

“My advice to Jordan Blanton is just fi gure out what he wants to do,” Martinez said. “Write some goals down and see what he wants to do. If his goals are to make a lot of money, then he probably shouldn’t be a wrestler. If his goals are to make a lot of money and put your brain at risk, the fi ght game’s not easy. Either way, he’s got a tough choice ahead of him, but my advice is to evaluate your goals and head in the direction that best suits those.”

In the meantime, Blanton is pre-paring for his national champion-ship run.

“Nov. 3, I got invited to wres-tle in the NWCA All-Star Classic for the third time in my career,” Blanton said.

“Coming into the season, I’m ranked second, I’m gonna be wres-tling the No. 1 kid,” he said in antic-ipation of wrestling Oklahoma State’s Chris Perry. “Really I look at it, I plan on earning the No. 1 rank in the fi rst day. I plan on going out and starting to dominate on day one all the way through the end of March.”

Michael can be reached at [email protected] and @The_MDubb.

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WRESTLING Illini take aggressive attitude on the road

BY ELIOT SILLSTAFF WRITER

Excuses have been abundant for the Illinois volleyball team this year. Between its daunt-ing nonconference schedule, an injury to a key player and the inexperience of youth, it’s been hard to fault Illinois for its fi ve losses to fi ve ranked teams. With each loss comes more learning experiences.

The Illini have been through a lot — Big Ten home games, packed opposing gyms, emp-ty neutral-site arenas, fi ve-set matches, three-set sweeps, big victories, crushing defeats and injuries.

More than a third of the way through the season, the Illini are running out of lessons to learn.

This weekend will be the Illi-ni’s fi rst experience playing a Big Ten game on the road this season and perhaps the team’s last “fi rst” of the season alto-gether. Illinois will spend a weekend in Indiana, traveling to Bloomington, Ind., on Fri-day to play the Hoosiers and to West Lafayette, Ind., on Satur-day to face the No. 13 Boiler-makers. Having such a marquee match on Saturday might make it hard for the Illini to focus on the game in front of them.

“I think it is nice to know we’re playing a top-ranked team, especially on Saturday,” sophomore Anna Dorn said. “But right now, our heads are on Purdue.”

Dorn misspoke — she meant to say “Indiana” instead of “Pur-due” — whether the slip-up is a subconscious indicator or noth-ing more than a talking error

remains to be seen. The Illini are certainly intending to zone in on the Hoosiers, as setter Annie Luhrsen said the coaches have done a good job of concen-trating on the immediate oppo-nent, but the team mostly focus-es on itself in practice.

Redshirt freshman Ali Stark mirrored those sentiments.

“I know it’s gonna be a tough one, especially Purdue at Pur-due ... as well as Indiana,” Stark said. “But we’re just gonna focus on us. We have our game plan against them, but we’re focusing on us and working on things that we can build upon.”

The Illini understand that any Big Ten opponent is going to present a challenge, and play-ing fi ve sets against unranked Wisconsin helped illustrate that point. Last season, Illinois lost a set to Indiana, despite the Hoosiers carrying an 0-13 con-ference record into that game. Indiana lost its fi rst two con-ference matches against Mich-igan and Michigan State last weekend.

Illinois has used practice this week to foster an aggressive attitude that it felt was lack-ing in the conference opener against Minnesota.

“We’re gonna need to be men-tally tough, we’re gonna need to come out attacking the oth-er team, not playing passively,”

Dorn said. “Attack them with our block, attack them with our hitting every single time.”

Hambly feels the week of practice has benefited the team’s aggressiveness.

“We’ve seen some improve-ments in that this week for sure,” he said.

If Illinois wants to top No. 13 Purdue, it will have to slow down senior Ariel Turner, a pre-season all-conference outside hitter who currently ranks fi fth in the Big Ten in kills per set (one spot behind Illinois red-shirt freshman Jocelynn Birks). To aid that process, Hambly said another element he was looking to improve during the week was the team’s understanding of the defensive system.

“(We’ve worked on) making sure that we understand how we wanna play our defensive system, kinda dialing stuff in, doing better at seeing, negating the offense that’s in front of us and adjusting to that,” he said.

For a team that has more loss-es than any other ranked team, Illinois must make the most of its last fi rst of the season if it wants to avoid being knocked out of the top 25 for the fi rst time in Hambly’s head coach-ing career.

Eliot can be reached at sill2@ dailyillini.com and @EliotTweet.


Setter Annie Luhrsen jump sets the ball during Sunday afternoon’s fi ve-set victory over Wisconsin at Huff Hall.

Volleyball travels to Indiana, Purdue for Big Ten play

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