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Editor’s Note: This story was reported from the point of view of Alma Mater on Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day.

Students at the University have excelled at most things in their lives prior to college, a great contributing factor to their acceptance. Because this is the case, then wouldn’t it make sense that they would also excel at having fun and, yes, drinking alcohol?

Our campus overall is award-winning across the board: Can we really expect a campus drinking holiday to be mediocre when the students are taught to be exceptional in all they choose to do?

“Her children arise up and call her blessed”

The morning of Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day arrives with mixed emotions. Judging by the number of people on the street at 8 a.m., it seems that all of my children have arisen early, preparing for the day. As students pass my pedestal, their motion is subtle and calm as they head to class.

Across the street, in stark con-trast, a rambunctious group of green waits to be let into an apart-ment complex.

In the residential area, some students pack their bags for a trip home to avoid the craziness, while others load bags of alcohol to be the craziness. As groups of people walk down the street with straight faces and duffle bags, it’s impossi-ble to tell which faces are sincere and what they’re actually carrying.

At 8:30 a.m., the first group of open beer carriers walk by — their arms and bags overloaded with the glorified substance. A few friends walk alongside them but don’t shoulder any of the cargo. Most of my underage children are trying to avoid a drinking ticket today.

The green garbage truck rum-bles down the street and collects the garbage — an ordinary task that seems very festive. The stum-blers ebb and flow, ever increasing as the sun rises in the sky.

I know the children miss me — throughout the day they climb upon my pedestal and pose like me. Three juniors in particular try to climb on my stand and two of them have a hard time. They keep slip-ping off but make it up eventually.

“We really want it (the Alma Mater) back,” they said as they rested after their effort to take a picture. “We just want it back by the time we graduate.”

BY JULIANNE MICOLETASTAFF WRITER

A popular Chinese restaurant on campus will have to close its doors if it fails another health inspection this year.

Cravings, located at 603 S. Wright St. in Champaign, is one of six local restaurants that failed its December health inspection con-ducted by the Champaign-Urba-na Public Health District. Crav-ings’ owner Yangxiang Tang said this is the seventh time that Crav-ings has failed its health inspec-tion, and if the restaurant fails to pass another inspection this year, it will be closed and lose its permit to operate.

The other five restaurants that failed inspections are: B Won Korean Restaurant, 2006 S. Neil St., Champaign; Ambar India Res-taurant, 605 S. Wright St., Cham-paign; Sakanaya Restaurant, 403 E. Green St., Champaign; Shang-hai 1938, 2504 Village Green Place, Champaign; and Sitara Indian Res-taurant and Lounge, 114 S. Race St, Urbana.

The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District inspected 766 facil-ities in Champaign and Urbana and 318 in the rest of Champaign Coun-ty, said Sarah Michaels, environ-mental health programs coordina-tor at the health district.

“Restaurants get inspected

several times a year depending on their food handling,” Michaels said. “The more complex their food preparation is, the more we come and visit them. So, for example, res-taurants that serve foods like sushi get three contacts a year, but other places like fast food restaurants get visited once per year.”

If a restaurant gets a score below 36 percent, it fails its health inspec-tion. If they get a score below zero, they’re immediately closed down, Michaels said. This happened to Cravings in December when they received a score of negative three with 10 critical violations.

Inspectors cited the restaurant for not cooking pork and storing chicken in proper temperatures, stacking food product beyond lim-its of capacity in its walk-in cooler, leaving produce on the same prepa-ration table used for raw meat, not sanitizing equipment properly, hav-ing an opening on their screen door and not having chemical spray bot-tles labeled, according to the offi-cial report by Champaign-Urbana Public Health District from Dec. 5, 2013.

“We just get a lot of customers, and it gets really busy especially during lunch and dinner hours,” Tang said. “We don’t have time to fix everything in the kitchen because we are all really busy focused on serving the customers instead.”

Ambar India also failed its health inspection when it received a score of 11 out of 100 with nine critical violations last December.

Some of the violations included not having food cooked and cooled the day before stored in proper temperatures, not setting the dish machine on appropriate settings, leaving unwashed dishes piled on a shelf, not labeling spray bottles and leaving personal medications near food preparation areas, according to the official report from Dec. 5, 2013.

“We’re glad that we got cited for a lot of minor things” said Dhar-

minder Singh, owner of Ambar India. “The violations that we got cited on are relatively easy to fix, so now we know not to make care-less mistakes next time.”

Sakanaya, a sushi and ramen restaurant that opened last Novem-ber, also failed its first health inspection with a score of 22 and 7 critical violations. Major viola-tions included not having a food handler in the facility during the course of the inspection and while food was being prepped, freezing fish improperly and not labeling

BY PHILIP HERSHCHICAGO TRIBUNE

The redoubtable Tatyana McFadden has done it again.

The young woman for whom nothing seems impossible joined the group of athletes who have won medals in winter and summer Pa ra lympic competition when she took silver in Wednesday’s sit ski sprint at the 2014 Winter Para-lympics in Sochi, Russia.

“I can’t even believe it. My main goal was just to come in and make it to the final,” McFadden said in a release from the U.S. Paralym-pic team. “I am just so happy and so proud.”

McFadden, 24, who was graduated in December from the University of Illinois, finished one-tenth of a sec-ond behind winner Mariann Marthinsen of Norway in the 1-kilometer (.62-mile) race.

A three-time track gold medalist at the 2012 summer Paralympics, she took up ski-ing barely one year ago.

“It’s pretty amazing for Tatyana to be able to finish

what she started ... taking someone from a summer sport and putting them in a sit ski and teaching them to ski effec-tively and try to have them win a medal for you is a tough task in just one winter of skiing,” said John Farra, the U.S. Para-

lympic Nor-dic program director.

W e d n e s -day’s race had three rounds on soft snow. M c F a d d e n was fourth in the quali-fying round and second to Marthin-sen in the semifinals.

Her final i n d i v i d u a l

Paralympic race is to be Sun-day’s 5-kilometers.

Three other U.S. athletes competing in Sochi have won medals in the summer and winter Paralympics: Alison Jones (cycling/alpine skiing); Alana Nichols (basketball/alpine skiing); and Oksana Masters (rowing/cross-coun-try skiing).

Last year, McFadden became the first wheelchair racer to sweep four of the world’s major marathons — Boston, London, New York and Chicago.

BY JULIANNE MICOLETA STAFF WRITER

The Student Sustainability Committee recently allocat-ed about $828,000 to fund 10 projects that will promote the growth of a sustainable campus. The $12.94 Sustainable Campus Environment Fee and $2 Cleaner Energy Technologies Fee were also recently reaffirmed on the spring student referendum.

Combined, the two fees allow for an approximately $1.1 mil-lion budget to be allocated to support student-driven sustain-ability projects and initiatives that represent more “business as usual changes” at the University, said Marika Nell, chair of Stu-dent Sustainability Committee.

“We are very excited to be funding these 10 projects,” Nell said. “They range from small projects to large ones, but they’re all committed to helping turn the University into a leader in campus sustainability.”

Some of the smaller initia-tives in the latest round of proj-ects include public use of elec-tric vehicle charging stations, a nitrile glove recycling pro-gram, a coffee ground-repur-posing program, energy shade curtains in Turner Hall Green-house and a zero waste event at the State Farm Center.

“One of the projects that we helped fund that did a good job of really engaging students was the Recyclemania event at the State Farm Center,” Nell said, referring to an event that took place on Feb. 26. “We were try-ing to promote a basketball game that produced as little waste as possible, and it turned out to be pretty successful overall.”

Some of the larger projects that are receiving funding are solar panels for the new net zero ECE building, community gar-dens, LED lamp retrofitting at Krannert Art Museum, a sus-

tainable agriculture food sys-tem for processing food from the Student Sustainable Farm and a solar array at Allerton Park.

“The solar array will be erect-ed near the visitor’s complex at Allerton sometime between mid-April to mid-June,” said Derek Peterson, associate director of park operations. “We’ve had a lot of successful projects done here at the park that were fund-ed by the SSC, so we’re very glad to be working with the commit-tee again.”

So far, the Student Sustain-ability Committee has allocat-ed more than 75 percent of its annual budget, and it is current-ly looking through more project proposals for the spring fund-ing cycle.

Typically, the committee receives somewhere around 15 proposals per year, and all eli-gible projects must fit within the committee’s funding guidelines and criteria.

“Our first step is we put a call out for ideas and that’s when we sort through some of the pro-posals and decide if it fits with our agenda,” said Amy Liu, land and water working group chair. “Step two is more comprehen-sive and it’s when we decide the level of funding, like whether or not we’re going to partially or fully fund a project and then step three is that by voting day, we basically consolidate the dis-cussion we had before.”

Nell said one of the guidelines for eligible projects is that they must be happening on Univer-sity property.

“We don’t fund things like research,” Nell said. “We like to fund things like newer technol-ogy and things that will impact students like services, outreach or education.”

Julianne can be reached at micolet2@dailyillini.com.

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Today’s BirthdayFocus on your joy this year. Play with partners, family and friends, as creativity abounds. Sort, organize and strengthen infrastructure at home and work. Schedule a vacation to take advantage of high romance this summer. After August, a career boost amps the activity level. Healthy exercise, diet and rest practices keep it balanced. Partnership remains key. Grow your heart.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)Today is an 8 — Now the fun really begins. Find alternative solutions to a problem, and hidden value appears as a side effect. Your holdings quietly grow. Invite guests to celebrate. Use what you’ve been saving, and get creative.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)Today is an 8 — An amazing development solves a problem at home. It involves teamwork and collaboration. Check out an interesting suggestion from a brilliant friend. Apply this inspiration to beautify and add elegance to your surroundings. Use quality ingredients.

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CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)Today is a 9 — A brilliant solution to a romantic dilemma appears. Ask deep questions. Improve your comfort level by getting your concerns addressed. Intuition inspires your creativity. Venture farther out. Dive into action and results get pro!table.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)Today is a 9 — You’re on a roll, personally and professionally. Take notes, to remember what worked best. Heed the intuition that arises in contemplative silence and meditation. Remain obsessed with a passion project. Let others bring food.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is an 8 — Friends offer good advice and apply their technical perfectionism to your project. Find a generous, thoughtful way to express thanks. Consider someone’s fantastic scheme. Share your talents, and research solutions. An institution may be involved.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)Today is a 7 — Accept a creative challenge. Collaboration adds fun and value to the project. Iron out disagreements by !nding the common vision. Love !nds a way. Allow change to occur naturally. Amuse yourself, and others want to play along.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)Today is an 8 — You’re especially attractive and charismatic. Ask for

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)Today is an 8 — Clean up and !x something at home that’s broken. Listen carefully to family, and discover a new resource. Nestle into the coziness and get lost in fascinating studies... or travel straight to the source.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)Today is a 7 — Look at a situation from another perspective. Make a fabulous discovery. Abrupt decisions may need revision. Learn from expert group members. Capture brilliant ideas and !nd ways to apply them to build shared resources.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is an 8 — Work in partnership and the pro!t increases all around. Follow intuition about which direction to take a project. Your heart knows the way. Passion and discipline grow your money tree. Tend it with enthusiasm.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is a 9 — Invent a brilliant solution to a persistent problem. You’re especially creative now. It’s a good time to launch or push forward. Balance work with play, and get plenty of exercise and rest. Serve yourself.

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cle was reported in the 800 block of West Springfield Avenue at around 5:30 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, an unknown offender burglarized the victim’s car and stole: cash, two credit/debit cards, one purse and an ID.

Trespassing was reported at Panera Bread, 616 E. Green St., at around 6 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, the suspect — who was banned from the building — entered the build-ing before leaving. He was not located.

A 23-year-old male was arrested on the charges of unlaw-ful possession/use of weapon by a felon, obstructing justice and resisting arrest in the 900 block

of South Fourth Street at around 6 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, the suspect had an outstand-ing warrant for his arrest and attempted to flee from officers.

University Theft was reported in the

2100 block of Hazelwood Drive at around 8 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, the victim’s bicycle was stolen. The bicycle’s worth was estimated at $400.

Urbana Aggravated battery was

reported near the intersection of Vine and Illinois streets at around 7 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, two subjects got into a physical fight on a MTD bus.

Criminal defacement of property was reported at Lin-coln Place Apartments, 305 N. Lincoln Ave., at around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender entered the unsecured building and dis-charged a fire extinguisher although there was no sign of a fire.

Domestic battery was report-ed in the 700 block of East Mich-igan Avenue at around 4 a.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, the victim and offender — who are dating — got into an altercation.

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BY BRITTNEY NADLERSTAFF WRITER

University students will have the opportunity to register for bone mar-row donation in support of a 2-year-old boy battling a rare genetic autoim-mune disorder.

Be the Match On Campus, an RSO at the University, is hosting the reg-istry event on March 14 from noon to 6 p.m. at four locations: the Union, Ikenberry Commons, Allen Hall and NIKA house.

Joseph Heath, the son of Urbana police sergeant Jennifer Difanis, has a disorder that can only be cured with a bone marrow transplant. The bone marrow registry on Friday may be the last hope for Joseph, said Amanda Howie, donor relations coordinator for Community Blood Services of Illinois.

Difanis and her husband, Jeremy Heath, a Rantoul police offi cer, are asking the community to join the bone marrow registry for their son’s second birthday, which was Feb. 28. To join the registry, participants fi ll out an application and receive a cheek swab. After registering, potential donors may be called to save a patient’s life if there is a match.

“Of course, when people join the registry, their fi rst question is always: Will it hurt?” said Howie.

There are two ways a potential donor can be asked to give. Howie said 75 percent of the time, donors will give plasma while the other 25 percent is a bone marrow draw.

“Don’t worry. It’s not like you’ve seen in a movie,” Howie said. “You are always under anesthesia, and most

donors wake up and say they feel like they fell on the ice. It’s not painless but defi nitely not as bad as most peo-ple think.”

Even though those that register on Friday may not be a match for Joseph, those donors may be the match for oth-er patients seeking transplants. There is about a one in 540 chance that a reg-istrant will match a patient, according to the Be the Match Website .

Howie encourages anyone with questions to go to bethematch.org or call Community Blood Services of Illi-nois at 217-367-2202.

“When you think about the patients who are receiving this gift of life, the sacrifi ce is actually very small.”

Brittney can be reached banadle2@dailyillini.com.

BY BRITTNEY NADLERSTAFF WRITER

Champaign County Jail inmates will now communicate with friends and family through a vid-eo screen as the county discon-tinues the practice of in-person visitations.

Following suit with jails in neighboring counties, the Cham-paign County Sheriff’s Offi ce began using a virtual visitation system in mid-February. Capt. Shane Cook, of the Sheriff’s Offi ce, said the new system has yet to receive negative feedback. It will also allow inmates to send and receive emails.

“They’ve never had that before,” Cook said.

Inmates have between 8:30

a.m. and 9 p.m. to conduct visits — excluding two personnel shift changes during the day — and most are allowed two 20-minute visits a week. Inmates were pre-viously allotted the same amount of time for in-person visitations, but the visits could only take place during designated hours through-out the week.

“What I fi nd a lot of times with visits in person is it limits the win-dow,” Cook said.

While offi cials are still fi guring out restrictions, personnel such as attorneys are still allowed to visit in person. Visits must be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance and no more than one adult and one child are allowed in the video visitation booths at the satellite jail at once,

according to the Champaign Coun-ty Jail website.

A visitor can initiate a virtual visitation from home, but there is a $10 fee, whereas a visit through the video booths at the satellite jail is free .

Kane County Jail implemented virtual visitation about a year ago, said Corey Hunger, Kane Coun-ty Sheriff’s Offi ce Commander of Corrections.

“It seems to be working fi ne,” Hunger said. “They’re actually looking to do some upgrades over the next few weeks to allow us to also have visitation with our pub-lic defender’s offi ce.”

The upgrade would allow pub-lic defenders to virtually visit inmates from their offi ces.

Kane County no longer allows in-person visitation, and Hunger also said there has been no nega-tive feedback. Exceptions to this rule include certain personnel, such as attorneys and religious leaders, Hunger said.

The only weakness Hunger can see in the new process is the arrangement of visitations, not the system itself.

“They have to basically take responsibility for arranging the visitation with their family where before it was primarily a func-tion of the personnel that we had here working at the jail,” he said. “We had to put all this on them and their family to get everything scheduled by communicating with each other.”

Macon County Jail has been using virtual visitation for more than a decade and is very pleased with the system, said Macon County Sheriff’s Offi ce Lt. Anto-nio Brown. He described feedback as “very, very positive.”

After providing a list of people who can visit, detainees in Macon County are allowed virtual visits from Sunday to Thursday between 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., with a break from 2 to 3 p.m. due to a shift change, Brown said.

“It’s a lot more cost-effective,” Brown said. “You don’t actually have to have offi cers to take the detainee to a certain area to con-duct a visit, and also it’s not a safe-ty issue because you don’t have as much movement.”

Brown said the subjects use a telephone and monitor in front of them where they are allowed to talk to friends and family for 15 minutes. In certain situations, inmates can record the visits and burn them to a DVD to be watched later.

Macon County Jail only allows in-person visits for authorized per-sonnel, including attorneys and social services, Brown said.

“(Champaign County) did their research, and I think they defi -nitely will enjoy it,” Brown said. “As far as cost effectiveness, offi -cers, safety issues, I think they’d be very pleased with it.”

Brittney can be reached at banadle2@dailyillini.com.

Champaign County Jail replaces in-person visitations with new video system

“Learning and Labor”Tradition is very important to

my campus, and Unoffi cial is no different. With 17 previous tries, the campus seems to have gotten the hang of it. Police know where to look for trouble, students know how to avoid the police and Girl Scouts know how to use the holi-day to their advantage.

Two of my students, Nora Mari-no, a freshman in LAS, and Vivian Robison, president of Campus Girl Scouts and a senior in LAS, set up a table on the quad in preparation for a good day of business. Their forward-thinking and ingenuity are the topics of many College of Business lectures. The fact that they have seized such an opportu-nity would likely make any busi-ness professor proud.

“People open their wallets wid-er when they are drunk,” Robison

said — knowledge she gained from past presidents.

She said two years ago they sold 576 boxes of cookies, making about $2,304 for the general Girl Scout fund.

I next focus my attention on stu-dents who decided to go to class and noticed that the University’s warnings did not entirely come to fruition — uniformed securi-ty guards leisurely stand at the entrance to the classroom but they do not check backpacks, ask for i-cards or demand that students throw away their liquids.

I realize why the security guards seemed unconcerned.

In the Food and Nutrition class of 750, only about 70 are pres-ent. It’s too bad the students can’t transfer their unused tuition mon-ey into their alcohol budgets.

Focusing back at my pedestal near Green and Wright streets, Saman Moniri, senior in LAS, passes by, very ready to talk about Unoffi cial.

“(Alma Mater) definitely wouldn’t approve,” he said.

Unoffi cial “brings down the rep-utation of the school” and is “not a good thing for the future of stu-dents,” he said. The poor deci-sions made on Unoffi cial can fol-low people for a long time, he said. He hopes to go to grad school and have a good future so he doesn’t want anything to get in the way.

I may or may not approve of the holiday, but as the nurturing mother of the University, I need to make sure my children were safe while having fun. I under-stand that my children must have some sort of release if they are expected to handle the stresses of academia paired with all oth-er activities demanded for a suc-cessful future, while keeping their sanity long enough to accept their diploma.

“To thy happy children of the future those of the past send greetings”

A lone violinist stands at the end

of the patch of grass at my pedes-tal. After a few hours of playing, a few dollars and some loose change rest in his open case.

One lady stops to listen to the vio-linist. She stands, then sits on the curb in front of him. She pulls out her laptop and seems content just chatting with the violinist while he takes a break, listening closely when he strikes the bow to the strings.

Soon, his new friend has to go. She chats once more with him, tell-ing him how much she likes the music. A new friendship made amidst the craziness, like so many other relationships across campus during the holiday. Many offi cials don’t approve of this fun, but my children are more friendly and welcoming toward each other this day than they had been in a long time. It seems one of the best ways to promote diversity is to place a glass in their hands.

Throughout the entire day peo-ple swarm across the Green and Wright intersection. They wait impatiently at the corners for

the light to turn before hurrying across the street. The faster they reach their destination, the more fun they think they’ll have.

The violinist plays, the bells chime, and the crowd once again swirls around me. In that moment, I feel drunk on the vivacity of the life swirling around me. The sen-sory overload of motion, sound and sunshine sweeps me up in the free-dom of it all.

Around 2 p.m., as the violinist packs up and disappears into the maze of bodies, a general funk seems to settle on the passing crowd. An unbelievable amount of girls in skinny jeans and tall boots walk by, all with their arms crossed. With the wind blow-ing, it seems at fi rst their arms are crossed against the cold, but one look at their faces told me otherwise.

They all look mad.They aren’t all together, a few

are in groups, a few by themselves. It’s been a long day for the girls who rose and chose to look good for

kegs and eggs. Even the click-click of their fashionable boots and their curled hair blowing in the wind — the wannabe model’s dream — did not seem to help the mood.

As the sun sinks in the sky, the stumbling children continue on their way. Green Street is packed with celebrators looking for the next good time, as it would be long into the night. I say good night, and I can’t help but feel that I have successfully experi-enced the day thousands swarm our campus for.

The entire day has been disjoint-ed like my body is as it rests and repairs for posterity’s enjoyment. As my little ones recover from their alcohol consumption, or the scarring scenes they’ve seen that day, I am recovering from years of watching over them and prepar-ing for many more years to come.

Happy Fake Patrick’s day to my drunk and happy children.

Claire can be reached hettngr2@dailyillini.com.

containers of frozen fi sh, according to the report from Dec. 4, 2013.

“We’re a new restaurant so we got docked on a lot of points for not being prepared when they came in for our ini-tial inspection,” said Jin Park, owner of Sakanaya. “As we get going, I’m hopeful that we can fi x things along the way so that we can continue to pass our health inspections.”

Similar to Ambar India, which received a score of 58 on Dec. 16, 2013, and Sakana-ya which got a score of 87 on Dec. 18, 2013, after making improvements and correc-tions, Cravings got a score of 91 after re-inspection on Dec. 9, 2013.

Although re-inspection typically hap-pens 30 days after the initial inspection, recently, restaurant owners are pushing to be re-inspected immediately because of the placards.

“We recently passed an initiative where food vendors have to display the results of their recent health inspections on the facil-ity’s front door,” Michaels said. “Because of this, more restaurant owners want to get inspected right away, so we are work-ing on a way to be more effective on re-inspecting after we place the placards.”

Some changes that Cravings made to help them adhere to proper food handling in the future include ordering smaller quantities of food so that the staff is not overwhelmed. They also changed minor things like adding more shelves and stor-ing food in smaller containers to help keep it at safe temperatures, Tang said.

“We made all these changes, so hope-fully they’ll follow it and help follow the health codes,” Tang said. “I hope that we can stay opened to continue offering stu-dents good, healthy and affordable Chi-nese food.”

Julianne can be reached at micolet2@dailyillini.com.

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You can often see me around cam-pus rotating between contacts and glasses, depending on the time of

day and how I felt that morning. Short-ly after my vision problem was discov-ered, I resolved to one day fix it with laser eye surgery, if possible. Howev-er, severe financial obstacles block this from happening.

Despite correcting an ailment that affects 75 percent of Americans, laser eye surgery is generally not covered by most insurance plans. The University’s current student health insurance plan is one that does not cover this. It is deemed an “elective surgery” because, as the name suggests, it is elective. It is easier to wake up each morning and be able to see and to not worry about a contact lens falling out. But there are alternatives to treat the ailment: corrective lenses.

The University Board of Trustees approved the addition of gender con-firmation surgery (GCS) on March 6 to the student health insurance plan for next year. Coverage of GCS is forcing a majority of students to pay for the desires of a minority of students. This brings the University’s health insur-ance plan into the sphere of covering optional treatments, and doing so in a discriminatory fashion.

Two main comparisons to GCS — laser eye and plastic surgeries — are not similar to GCS in any way except that all three surgeries are considered “elective” by the current student health insurance plan, and many others. GCS is much more invasive and life-altering than either of these two surgeries, how-ever, all are optional.

Proponents of the proposal claim that the surgery is not optional, but “necessary.”

This is not so. The American Psychological Associ-

ation recognizes that individuals elect-ing for GCS do not necessarily have mental disorders but are clinically dis-tressed — they believe themselves to not truly be their natural gender. But the standard practice for most mental illnesses is not to change a body to con-form to what the mind believes it to be, but to change the mind.

Under the current health insurance plan, individuals with gender dyspho-ria are not covered for GCS. However, gender dysphoria can be treated under it because GCS is not the only treat-ment. Support and advising are recog-nized as alternatives to GCS, with GCS reserved for only the most extreme cases. GCS has been recognized as a solution to gender dysphoria, but it is far from necessary with the alterna-tives available.

The argument against keeping these alternatives as the only treatment is that they do not always work. GCS pro-ponents claimed that individuals suf-fering from gender dysphoria are more likely to commit suicide without GCS.

Those with gender dysphoria are about nine times more likely to attempt to commit suicide than the national average. However, there has not been a conclusive study on suicide rates before and after the surgery. Suicide rates are a problem to counter, but the current alternatives do try to address them.

Since GCS is not necessary, and thus optional, inclusion of GCS on the stu-dent health insurance plan effectively discriminates against the majority of individuals.

How does this amount to discrimina-tion? The plan will now cover this option-al surgery, but no plans were announced to cover all other optional surgeries, such as laser eye or plastic surgery.

It may be claimed that the offering of GCS is not discriminatory because it is available to everyone that can pass the requirements for it, which is a small portion of the insurance body. The pro-cedure must be the result of at least six months of psychological study by mul-tiple specialists.

However, insurance plans do not exist to cover everything that could be used — they cover everything that could be necessary. Passing the requirements is not proof of its necessity, but that the individual is a candidate.

I understand that it could be easier for transgender students to solve what-ever ills them with a surgical proce-dure, rather than fight the physical and mental battles required by medication. It would be easier for me to not use cor-rective lenses. Just because it is easier does not mean we should force others to pay for it.

I am not covered by the student health insurance plan, nor do I plan on ever being so. In light of this decision, I am glad for my circumstances, but sor-ry for every other dissenter now forced to appease a minority’s desires.

Brad is a graduate student in Law. He can be reached at bsbarbe2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @b_rad_barber.

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As March hums along, the Uni-versity now enters its sec-ond full month of the spring

semester. We are a few months into the new, campus-wide smoking ban that took effect on Jan. 1 of this year, in which the University seems to be confident in upholding its policy.

However, I have been keen to observe how relatively loose this non-smoking policy has been addressed recently, even though I am aware it is only in the begin-ning stages of implementation. Yet I, almost daily, witness smokers on campus-owned property, particular-ly around the Quad.

To be clear, although I am not per-sonally a smoker, I stand firm in my views that the University should not restrict the personal, legal choices of individuals — I say to each their own. But if the University wants to address this topic, there are better ways to do it.

And because I have seen people getting away with smoking on cam-pus with no immediate or overt out-cries by fellow pedestrians, then the policy seems illegitimate, especially because one of its main priorities is to limit secondhand smoke.

I acknowledge this policy is well in effect, but at this point it shows very little enforcement because all we have are signs and volunteer-based student ambassadors who are trained to impose the smoking ban.

The student ambassadors serve to approach smokers on campus prop-erty and make them aware of the policy, provide a smoke-free policy card and point them to a smoke-free campus map, which hardly seems productive at all. Simply inform-

ing people about a policy, which they may already be aware of, might not stop them from smoking in areas where they’re technically not allowed to.

This month, however, enforcement policies are supposed to be reevalu-ated and the effectiveness of the poli-cy will be determined thus far.

Because of this timing, I suggest that the University reconsiders the smoking ban altogether and take a different approach. The ban seems difficult to patrol in the first place, and as I said before, preventing where people smoke doesn’t prevent them from continuing their habit, hence why this is not the most practi-cal solution, especially if there is the overarching concern of secondhand smoke.

The ban is not solving a problem as much as it is moving it somewhere else.

In light of Unofficial, and basically any other night of the week on cam-pus, I would argue that smoking isn’t even a beneficial point of emphasis because drinking has just as many, if not more, harmful effects to cam-pus life and we approach this subject very differently.

Drinking is comparable to smok-ing in that it is something that is legal to citizens of a particular age and, like cigarettes, alcohol has harmful effects. However, alcohol comes with a slew of other legal and social issues that come with drink-ing underage, as well as potential injuries and public disturbances that occur far too often and negatively impact more than just the person who is consuming alcohol.

During Unofficial alone, 271 “Notices to Appear” were issued by police, PRO Ambulance had 40 calls for service with 27 transports, among a large number of other reports and arrests.

Although, yes, Unofficial is noto-riously a day of perpetual alcohol-

related reports at the University, I use it merely as a way to emphasize harmful alcohol-related issues that exist here — though not in as high of a frequency as this particular day.

Yet despite these numbers and examples, we don’t simply ban alco-hol from campus, nor do we take any drastic measures to stop people from drinking. Granted, I am not saying that we divert our attention away from banning smoking and over to campus alcohol prohibition, but am using it as a point of comparison.

Overconsumption of alcohol and underage drinking are issues that always seem to exist and there is really no way to eliminate them entirely, but rather methods to address them in more preventative ways, as we do through programs such as ACE IT.

The same can be said for smoking because there will always be people with the habit or who will smoke in places they are not supposed to.

While I understand the basis of this ban is because of concerns over secondhand smoke, the only way to correctly address this is by digging to the root of the problem and amplifying smoking cessa-tion resources on campus, not just displacing smokers to arbitrary off-campus areas. Providing and promoting these resources to curb smoking habits should ultimately be the extent of interference in pro-moting healthier personal choices.

What it comes down to is that, like drinking, smoking comes with its wide array of harmful effects, and, like drinking, if the issue cannot reasonably be eradicated from cam-pus, then having a policy entirely eliminating it may not be the best answer.

Nicki is a junior in Media. She can be reached at halenza2@dailyillini.com. Follow her on Twitter @NickiHalenza.

Despite the recently passed Con-cealed Carry Act by the Illi-nois state legislature allowing

state residents over the age of 21 to apply for permits to carry firearms, the concealed carry of weapons is still prohibited on school and college campuses in accordance with Sec-tion 65, Article 15. However, univer-sity students should be able to carry guns on campus as a resource for personal security.

The second amendment isn’t a vague statement up for different interpretations. The right to bear arms is clearly written in the consti-tution. Despite this, state legislatures still feel the need to add excessive conditions to the second amendment.

For example, Illinois prohibits the concealed carry of firearms on school properties, a provision meant to keep guns from falling into the hands of children. Where this would be practically applied at elementary schools and high schools, it is exces-sive to apply this law to college cam-puses where the vast majority of stu-dents are legal adults.

The unfortunate reality is that universities are common targets for mass shootings due to the high den-sity of what are referred to as “soft” or unarmed targets. Incidents at Vir-ginia Tech, the University of Texas and California State University are just some of a long list of school shootings that have etched a deep scar into this country’s history. Sim-ply posting a “no guns allowed” sign onto the entrance of school build-ings does not ensure that a similar occurrence is prevented at the Uni-

versity of Illinois. A study by econo-mists John Lott and William Lan-des showed that banning firearms is counterproductive in that it actually increases the University’s chances of being targeted for mass shootings. In fact, every single mass shoot-ing that resulted in more than three victims since 1950, with the excep-tion of the attack on congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, has taken place in a gun-free zone.

Yes, there are security personnel at this University that do a wonder-ful job — but they aren’t in every building at every minute of the day and night. There aren’t metal detec-tors at the entrances to the Quad to detect if someone is carrying fire-arms on campus. Thus, a gunman with malicious intentions is unlikely to be phased by a no-guns sticker at the entrance to Lincoln Hall and sud-denly decide to leave his firearms in his car. The only productive thing that prohibiting concealed carry on campus does is disarm the law abid-ing students that would use the gun they carry for personal safety, and turns them into “sitting ducks” for madmen looking for soft targets.

However, even on a scale small-er than the potential of mass mur-der happening on campus, guns are a source of security in cases of individual attacks. Robberies, even armed robberies, happen on cam-pus and in surrounding areas where students live. In 2012, on main cam-pus alone, there were over 35 cited cases of assault and theft. Students on campus should be given a better chance to defend themselves in cas-es of personal assaults. Where mar-tial arts training can help in certain instances, proficiency in hand-to-hand combat isn’t as effective when you are approached by an assailant much larger than you or threatening you with a weapon.

Some may argue that guns have no place on a campus where irrespon-sibility and drinking are common. I can see how a gun in the arms of someone inebriated could end badly. At the same rate, though, a car in the hands of someone inebriated could also end badly, but vehicles aren’t banned on campus. Trying to argue that students might act irresponsibly with a firearm because of some of the behavior that is typical on a college campus is an emotional speculation refuted by data about concealed car-ry permit holders. According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, statistics from states that already allow concealed carry on college campuses show that there is no evi-dence to suggest that people with a concealed carry license behave any differently on school property.

In fact, according to the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, “the about 11.5 million cur-rent concealed handgun permit holders are extremely law-abiding.” This is accredited to the effective filtering process of applying for and obtaining a concealed carry license, which includes rigorous background checks, the submission and approv-al of lengthy applications, as well as the required completion of 16 hours of firearms training meant to keep guns from falling into careless hands. The system is so effective that people, according to Lott, “lose their permits for firearm violations at hundredths or thousandths of one percentage point.”

As was said by the National Rifle Association, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

Stephanie is a sophomore in LAS. She can be reached at syousse2@dailyillini.com. Follow her on Twitter @Syoussef22.

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University president should be transparent, open process

Students should have the right to bear arms on campus

B y early next year, the Board of Trustees is hoping to choose the next president of the University of Illinois,

replacing current president Rob-ert Easter who has helped steady the boat, which has been rocked by scandals within the last few years.

During their meeting last week, the trustees approved the forma-tion of a 19-member search com-mittee that will oversee the pres-idential search process, one that we hope will be open to allow for reasonable faculty, staff and stu-dent input.

Whether a presidential search is open varies among positions: The University-wide searches for for-mer President Michael Hogan and current Chancellor Phyllis Wise were closed. However, campus of-ficials disclosed the names of the three final candidates before Wise chose Provost Ilesanmi Adesida.

Candidates for the provost po-sition were not only publicly an-nounced, but members of the community were able to listen to his or her philosophies, as well as ask questions about the appli-cants’ accomplishments and lead-ership qualities.

At other institutions, these searches have been walled off. For example, at Ohio State Uni-versity, the presidential search committee to replace Gordon Gee didn’t intend to disclose the names of the applicants. A Uni-versity of Michigan committee conducted its search in a similar fashion.

But that doesn’t mean we should model their search processes, es-pecially considering the rough stretch University presidents have been through this past de-cade. B. Joseph White was ousted following the Category I admis-sions scandal, and Michael Ho-gan shared a similar fate as he resigned amid controversy over admissions changes.

Although an open search could potentially hurt the quality of the applicant pool (some might be hesitant to apply because of the prospects of not receiving an of-fer), an open search process is only responsible to the commu-nity who deserves to have a say in its next leader after not hav-ing a good track record over the last decade with the position, as incoming student trustee Lucas Frye pointed out in a Q-and-A ses-sion with The Daily Illini Editori-al Board.

The longevity of this position, mixed in with the cost of presi-dencies cut short, adds to the im-portance of how Easter’s succes-sor should be chosen.

The trustees took the first step: appointing a 19-member commit-tee from all corners of the three campuses, including eight faculty members and three students. In addition, board chairman Chris-topher Kennedy said this search will lean more heavily on input than the one that ultimately hired Hogan.

We hope that holds true, as we’d like to see the next president pos-sess qualities similar to Easter, including winning over support from the University community and working with state lawmak-ers in a critical time, but most im-portantly, understanding the Uni-versity’s mission.

Frye told us he’d like to see the University announce the top-three candidates, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. We agree, because we should be able to properly vet Easter’s succes-sor. That way, our next leader will have little difficulty meeting the high standards Easter has set in his tenure as president.

NICKI HALENZA

Assistant opinions editor

BRAD BARBER

Opinions columnist

STEPHANIE YOUSSEF

Opinions columnist

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Even after pi’s rich histo-ry, mathematicians are still researching it and learning more about it, he said.

Freshly Baked Pi Celebrations

March 14 is the ideal date to commemorate one of math’s old-est constants. Not only is the date set up perfectly as 3/14, but the holiday also involves celebrating with circular baked goods and questionable puns.

In and around campus, there is no shortage of pi enthusiasts like Villeta-Garcia. A student organi-zation called MATRIX, or Math-ematical Advancement Through Research and Idea eXchange, seeks to bring together math-loving students and faculty on campus.

Amanda Belisle, a junior in mathematics and comput-er science, is the president of MATRIX. She and the other group members are organizing a Pi Day event Friday from 5 to 6 p.m. in Altgeld Hall, Room 173. The hour will include pi-relat-ed snacks, challenges and con-versations, and it is open to any “math-minded people” on cam-pus, she said.

For even more pi, Research Park will also host its own Pi

Day-themed event Friday from noon to 1 p.m. in the Enterprise-Works Atrium.

“We do about 100 events here a year in the Research Park, and this is one ... that is really just for fun,” said Laura Bleill, assistant director for external relations at Research Park. “We just feel like this is a fun opportunity to cele-brate something that people use in everyday life, and something that’s really important to innovation and technology.”

This is the third year that Research Park has held a Pi Day event, which is open mainly to peo-ple affiliated with the park, but also welcomes anyone with an interest in the matter.

Pie will be served at the event, of course, and it will include var-ious networking and social activ-ities to get people in the mood for pi.

At on-campus Pi Day events in the past, there have been pie bake-offs, pie eating contests and even “pie walks” (instead of cake walks) around a trigonometric unit circle, Bleill said.

Incidentally, the holiday also

falls on the same date as Ein-stein’s birthday — which makes it even more relevant to mathe-matics and science.

Next year, Pi Day will be on 3/14/15, the ultimate alignment, which matches up with the fi rst four decimals in pi. This only happens once every century.

“I mean, everybody likes pie ... faculty like pie, students like pie, grad students like pie,” Reznick said. “I think students always like to have fun things that are associated with their studies, and that’s not so easy with math sometimes.”

With math-related activi-ties and tasty

pies, Pi Day certainly can make mathematics more lighthearted and approachable for those who are iffy about the subject.

“Nowadays, modern math gets so intricate and so advanced ... that it’s hard to sometimes even talk about math with other math-ematicians,” Villeta-Garcia said. “So Pi Day, in a way, brings it back down to earth.”

Reema can be reached at abiakar2@dailyillini.com.

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edy,” he said. “And the audience participation is really an enjoy-able experience that they’re going to get to be a part of.”

Cayari said that the live orchestra, or “pit band,” will also perform between the two performances.

“It should be a fun night,” Cayari said. “It’s not just the show. If you want, you can stay, you can dance to the band and that type of thing.”

Cayari said that the most rewarding part of the produc-tion came in two stages. The fi rst part was watching the staff come together to “develop the vision for the show,” and the sec-ond part was watching the cast become friends.

“It was really cool to watch the cast come together ... and create this piece of artwork known as live theater,” Cayari said,

More information can be found on the Illini Student Musi-cals’ website.

Taylor can be reached at tlucero2@dailyillini.com.

BY CARLY CHARLESCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Just before his performance at Chester Street Bar last Sunday, Dakota, who performs under the stage name “Bo Dashuss,” began preparing for his role in a drag show.

Looking into the mirror in one of C-Street’s upstairs dressing rooms, he described his methods of preparing for a show.

“Depending on the night, most of the time it’ll take me (about an hour) to completely get ready,” he said, as he attached small frag-ments cut from his own light brown hair to his jaw with adhe-sive glue in a practiced and pre-cise manner.

Bo Dashuss will be one of nine performers in “From Dudes to Divas,” a drag show sponsored by the Illini Union Board, which will take place Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Illini Union I-Rooms.

According to Aditi Warhekar, the IUB’s cultural programming director, Thursday’s perfor-mance is not so much a compe-tition between contestants but rather a means of showcasing the art of drag. This annual event features contracted performers who do not attend the University.

Drag shows consist of multi-ple acts performed in drag. Drag costuming and makeup can be as

simple or elaborate as the wear-er prefers, and the acts can span from singing and dancing to a monologue or skit. It is common for drag kings and queens to lip-synch or perform dances to songs of their choice.

Though in fi lm and pop culture drag shows are often associated with gay or transgender men, the concept of the drag show really bares none of these direct asso-ciations; that is, drag queens can be straight, gay, transgender or bisexual. Many different people, gay and straight alike, both watch and participate in drag shows for a variety of different reasons.

Last Sunday, Bo Dashuss per-formed to “Best Love Song” by Chris Brown, a male cover of Lorde’s song, “Royals,” and Tyler Farr’s “Redneck Crazy.”

He said his outfi t for the night is often inspired by the song he’s performing.

“It all kind of depends on what music I’m doing. ... If I’m doing a country number, obviously I’ll dress more country. If I’m doing newer stuff or anything like that, it’ll just depend on what I’m feeling.”

For Bo Dashuss, drag is an art form.

“There’s a lot to it,” Bo Dashuss said. He pointed to another per-former to his right: “If you

would’ve seen him before he started putting on all his make-up you’d have been like, ‘Woah, he’s a really attractive man!’ But then he puts on all his makeup and you’re like, ‘He’s a really attractive woman, too!’”

Warhekar explained that the IUB drag show has been met with abundant success in past years, which is why it returns to the Uni-versity year after year.

“The crowd has loved the event, so we keep bringing the show back,” Warheker wrote in an email.

The show was organized by the Cultural Programming depart-ment of IUB, an organization that “works to promote an appreci-ation for diversity on campus,” according to the group’s mission statement.

Bo Dashuss will perform as a drag king alongside a group of almost exclusively drag queens.

Ryan Kuramitsu, IUB’s direc-tor of enriching programs and junior in Social Work, said he is anticipating an audience of as many as 100 people. The doors for the show open at 7 p.m., and student tickets can be purchased for $5 at the Quad Shop or for $7 at the door.

Carly can be reached at features@dailyillini.com.

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SARI LESK THE DAILY ILLINITamara Johnson (right), mother of Kenneth Johnson (left), also known as Kelasia Karmichael, offers her son a tip during one of his previous performance in the Illini Union Board’s Drag Race at the Illini Union. Kenneth said he is grateful for the support his family offers him. Tamara said, “I just want to let him know I love him and keep on doing. And he’s my angel.” This year’s show will take place on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

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SAISHA SINGH THE DAILY ILLINIThe cast of Illini Student Musicals goes through a costume rehearsal of their latest production, The Rocky Horror Show. The group, which is entirely student run and funded, will be performing the cult classic this Friday, March 14th at the Canopy Club.

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and pie have a lot in common.One is packed with mathemati-

cal applications, while the other is packed with tasty fruits or meats. One is an internationally known

mathematical constant, while the other is a classic American culinary tradition. Both are centuries old, and both are celebrated nation-wide on March 14.

Pi Day is observed on the 14th day of the third month: hence, 3.14. While the idea of pi is not new, the holiday itself is only 26 years old, founded in 1988. It was created by Larry Shaw of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco.

Since then, both math lovers and pastry lovers alike have been celebrating 3.14159 (etc.) with delicious baked desserts and end-less puns.

Pi: A Slice of History

“Pi goes back 4,000 years,” said Bruce Reznick, professor of mathematics. “Even before people wrote down the name of pi, they noticed that there was a proportion between the circumference of a circle and its radius and its diameter.”

According to a TechHive.com article called “A Brief History of Pi,” it is believed that pi could easily have been around since Ancient Egyptian times: “The Great Pyramid at Giza, which was built between 2550 and 2500 BC, has a ... ratio of 1760/280, or approximately 2 times pi.”

Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syr-acuse is believed to be the fi rst to compute a more exact estimation of pi between 287 and 212 B.C. by using a 96-sided polygon, accord-ing to the article.

However, it wasn’t until 1707 that the sym-bol of pi was actually attributed to the math-ematical constant. Welsh mathematician Wil-

liam Jones was considered the fi rst to call it pi, which is based off the Greek word mean-ing “perimeter.”

Humble Pi: Small Symbol, Big Potential

Being an irrational number, pi has an end-less number of decimal places. Some people, like Isaac Newton, don’t believe these are worth knowing. After calcu-lating pi to 15 decimal places, he was quoted as saying, “I am ashamed to tell you to how many fi gures I carried these calculations, having no other business at the time.”

In contrast, several oth-er individuals jump at the opportunity to stretch their computational limits involv-ing pi. In 1873, according to PiAcrossAmerica.org, Brit-ish math amateur William Shanks arduously calculated 707 digits of pi before the age of computers or modern cal-culators. Unfortunately, 72 years later, it was discovered that he had made an error after the 527th decimal place — but Shanks had since died and never learned this fact.

As of Dec. 28, 2013, Alexander J. Yee and Shigeru Kondo, two math enthusiasts from Japan and the U.S., respectively, have man-aged to set a record for fi nding 12.1 trillion dig-its of pi. They needed more than 70 terabytes of data to compute and store all the numbers.

Thanks to Yee and Kondo, it is now known that the 12,100,000,000,050th digit of pi is 5.

While a supercomputer is capable of stor-ing this data, humans’ mental capacities are a different matter altogether. According to Pi-World-Ranking-List.com, Chinese pi afi cionado Lu Chao currently holds the world record of memorizing nearly 68,000 digits of pi off the top of his head.

A Piece of a Larger Pi

While he can’t recite thou-sands of digits of pi, Juan Vil-leta-Garcia, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the Uni-versity, has always had an interest in pi and all things math-related. He is part of a registered student organiza-tion called the Graduate Stu-dent Algebraic Geometry Seminar, whose members discuss different concepts in the two fi elds during weekly

meetings.“There is a very famous formula in math

called Euler’s formula, and it ... relates a lot of the main constants in math,” Villeta-Gar-cia said. “One of them is ‘e,’ Euler’s number, the exponential which governs exponential growth. And the others are ‘i,’ the imaginary numbers; zero; ... one; and lastly, pi.”

Although pi may be the only constant with its own holiday (and the one most related to baked goods), “these fi ve constants to me defi ne a lot about what math is,” he continued.

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BY TAYLOR LUCEROCONTRIBUTING WRITER

After Friday at the Canopy Club, the remains of toilet paper squares, confetti pieces and playing cards may litter the ground. This will not be the doing of sloppy patrons, but of audi-ence members participating in “The Rocky Horror Show.”

“The Rocky Horror Show,” present-ed by Illini Student Musicals, will be performed at the Canopy Club on Fri-day at 7:30 p.m. and midnight. Tick-ets are available in advance online for $11, and information to purchase them can be found on the Canopy Club’s website.

Christopher Cayari, director of the show and graduate student in music education, said that while there are two adaptations of “The Rocky Hor-ror Show,” this cast, which is com-prised of 23 people, will not perform a “shadow show” (in which the movie version of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” plays in the background while the actors act out the same scene on the stage). Instead, the Illini Stu-dent Musicals’ production will be a live show without the movie playing behind the actors.

Cayari said because the cast will not be performing a shadow show, they do not have to do the exact actions that the actors perform in the 1975 fi lm.

“Our actors are given a little more freedom to develop their own version of the characters,” Cayari said.

During many showings of “The Rocky Horror Show,” audiences are encouraged to participate dur-ing the performance. For example, when some characters’ names are said during the show, the audience may respond by yelling another word. Audience members are also tradition-ally asked to bring certain props, including rice and newspapers, to use at the direction of the cast dur-ing certain scenes.

However, outside props will not be allowed during Friday’s perfor-mance, said Matt Bleck, co-produc-er of the show and junior in Engi-neering. Instead, a prop bag will be available for purchase at the show for $6. The bag will include gloves, play-ing cards, confetti and toilet paper, among other things. However, he does not think classic props like rice and squirt guns will be included.

“If they don’t follow the house rules then they can be removed from the venue,” Bleck said. “It’s just kind of a safety and security thing. We don’t want anyone getting hurt, and we also don’t want to ruin the facility.”

Bleck said pamphlets explaining how audience members can partici-pate will be included and the informa-tion will also be projected on screens during the shows.

Jon Faw, freshman in LAS, will be playing a phantom on Friday. Faw said he fell in love with the movie version of “Rocky Horror” as a fresh-man in high school and that those who attend can expect to feel “shock and awe.”

“(If) they haven’t seen the show, they’re in for a big surprise in terms of sexual explicit nature (and) com-

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Math and pie lovers unite to honor Pi Day on Friday, March 14 for a variety of pi(e)-related festivities

“Faculty like pie, students like pie,

grad students like pie.”

BRUCE REZNICKPROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS

BY STEPHEN BOURBONSTAFF WRITER

During this offseason, the Illi-nois football team has been updat-ing fans on its YouTube page with highlight videos of winter workouts and spring practices. There are also videos of the team bowling and play-ing dodgeball.

For head coach Tim Beckman , all those activities are part of promot-ing a competitive culture to get wins in the fall.

Yes, even dodgeball.Beckman said the team tries to

have three competitions in the spring semester. The team already went bowling and played dodgeball, and Beckman said the fi nale would either be a 3-point shooting contest with pads on or a home-run hitting contest.

“It’s year number six for us to do this, I did it three times at Toledo and now three times here,” Beckman

said. “I think it’s fun, the kids have a blast with it.”

While seemingly fun events, Beck-man believes there is a true correla-tion between these events and success on the football fi eld. At the beginning of winter workouts, Illini players held a draft to break up into small “teams” that they would stick with for the duration of the offseason. There are specifi cations to who can be on teams, forcing players from different posi-tion groups to join together.

“You could have a DB working with an offensive lineman or a running back with a defensive lineman,” Beck-man said. “They might not get to see a lot of each other in practice because we’re split off offense and defense, but these competitions enable the team to be a team and be family. It’s about building the whole team.”

SPORTS1BTHURSDAY

The Illinois men’s basket-ball team’s fi rst matchup with Indiana on New Year’s

Eve was essentially a battle between two players. Rayvonte Rice of Illinois and Yogi Ferrell of Indiana combined to score 59 points in an 83-80 overtime vic-tory for the Illini. Although Fer-rell is still the engine that runs Indiana, Rice has since become Illinois’ third-most important player.

I’m not trying to diss Rice or ignore his value to this team, but when Illinois faces Indiana on Thursday in the fi rst round of the Big Ten Tournament, Ken-drick Nunn and Nnanna Egwu — not Rice — will be the most important players for the Illini.

Numbers never lie. Nothing strengthens an argument more than the unbiased, unadulter-ated, Player A vs. Player B com-parison. Here’s a look at two Illi-nois players’ statistics since the Feb. 9 win over Penn State:

Player A: 12.1 points per game, 53.7 fi eld goal percent-age, 19 3-pointers, 52.7 3-point percentage

Player B: 12.5 points per game, 36.8 FG percentage, eight 3-pointers, 30.7 3-point percentage

Player A has clearly been the better player over Illinois’ last eight games. Player B has the edge in points per game, but with a much worse fi eld-goal percentage. The 3-pointers might’ve been a dead giveaway, Nunn is A while Rice is B. The signifi cance of the Penn State game is that Nunn was inserted into the starting lineup for the fi rst time on that day. He scored a career-high 19 points in the game and has outplayed Rice ever since.

Rice, who was a consensus Big Ten honorable mention selec-tion, is averaging 15.7 points per game on the season compared with Nunn’s 6.2, but Nunn has heated up as of late. The Big Ten

All-Freshman selection plays well beyond his years, showing an effi ciency that is remarkable for anyone. Nunn is shooting a ridiculous 54.1 percent from the fi eld in his last 10 games thanks to his uncanny shot selection.

Nunn shot 4-for-4 from the fi eld last time out against Iowa, proving how selective the lefty can be at times. He will need to be more prolifi c against Indiana. There’s no guarantee three other Illini will score in double fi gures like they did in Nunn’s support against Iowa on Saturday. Nunn needs to take over and embrace the big stage.

Nunn can also learn a thing or two from the way Ferrell leads the Hoosiers. The pint-sized guard can fi ll it up. The consensus second-team All-Big Ten selection is averag-ing 17.4 points and 2.8 3-point-ers per game this season after averaging just 7.6 points and 0.6 3-pointers per game during his freshman campaign. Ferrell, who has scored 47 points against Illinois this season, hasn’t seen much of Nunn. That will change Thursday.

Groce has praised Nunn’s developments defensively throughout the season, so expect him to crack at Ferrell defen-sively. Nunn’s quick feet and improved fundamentals bode well in a matchup with Ferrell. And if he struggles to stay in front of Ferrell, Egwu will be there, waiting to disturb any shot in his vicinity.

Egwu is the defensive anchor of Illinois’ 16th ranked defense, according to defensive effi -ciency. For a player who has struggled to stay on the fl oor due to foul trouble, Egwu has made serious strides in becom-ing a game-changing defender. Egwu’s 2.1 blocks per game are a testament to his rim-protect-ing abilities, but many of the junior’s defensive contributions don’t show up in the box score. His ability to alter shots at the rim, disrupt pick-and-rolls and clear out the paint has made Egwu invaluable to Illinois.

Groce was “shocked” at

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' Kendrick Nunn (25) falls to ground after making a three point shot as his teammates celebrate behind him, during the game against Chicago State at State Farm Center on Nov. 23. The Illini won 77-53.

THURSDAY

8. INDIANA (17-14, 7-11)

1. MICHIGAN (23-7, 15-3 Big Ten)

4. NEBRASKA (19-11, 11-7)

2. WISCONSIN (25-6, 12-6)

3. MICHIGAN STATE (23-8, 12-6)

5. OHIO STATE (23-8, 10-8)

7. MINNESOTA (19-12, 8-10)

6. IOWA (20-11, 9-9)

9. IILINOIS (18-13, 7-11)

12. PURDUE (15-16, 5-13)

10. PENN STATE (15-16, 6-12)

11. NORTHWESTERN (13-18, 6-12)

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X FACTOR: Strong offense. Nebraska is the darling of the Big Ten this year, but the Huskers need to play their best if they want to avoid a quick exit. The offense must run through Terran Petteway and Shavon Shields like it has all season. POSTSEASON OUTLOOK: It appears the Huskers are on the inside, But a quick exit could allow another team to slip in above the Huskers.

X-FACTOR: Lenzelle Smith, Jr. It’s important for Smith, Jr. to produce on offense, so Ohio State is able to get some points behind leading scorer LaQuinton Ross. So far, Smith has been No. 2, and if he can keep up the scoring, the Buckeyes could go far.POSTSEASON OUTLOOK: The Buckeyes are in the NCAA tournament, but this will help determine their seed. They have showed they can defend. The only question is whether they can score at a consistent level to win games.

X-FACTOR: Play of seniors. John Groce benched seniors Jon Ekey and Joseph Bertrand prior to breaking the Illini’s eight-game losing streak, but Ekey and Bertrand have showed they can produce at a high level. If they do, Illinois could go far.POSTSEASON OUTLOOK: Win two and they’re on the bubble. Win three and they’re probably in. Win four and it’s a lock. If not, it looks like the Illini could be headed to the NIT.

X-FACTOR: Defense. The Hawkeyes are near the top of the Big Ten in almost every statistical category, but they need to shore up their defense, which has surrendered 70 points in six of the last seven games.POSTSEASON OUTLOOK: At 20-11 and 9-9 in Big Ten play in 2012-13, Iowa missed out on the NCAA tournament. The Hawkeyes don’t fi gure to be on the bubble this year, but a win or two could make a big difference in where they are seeded.

X-FACTOR: Defense. Penn State hasn’t had enough offensive help, but the problem has been defense for the team. They will need to show up to stand a chance against Minnesota.POSTSEASON OUTLOOK: No team with a losing record has made the NIT since it was revamped in 2006. Penn State would need at least two wins for any consideration.

X-FACTOR: The bubble factor. Will the Golden Gophers come out ready to play because of their place on the bubble? Or will they be nervous about losing their spot in the NCAA tournament? The way they play decides their chances.POSTSEASON OUTLOOK: The Golden Gophers are a bubble team but could guarantee themselves a tourney spot with two wins in the Big Ten Tournament. Any less, and they’re sweating it out on Sunday.

X-FACTOR: Finishing 11th or 12th ensured that Purdue would get a tough draw in the opening round. Ohio State will be a challenge. If the Boilermakers get to Friday, it will be a successful trip to Indianapolis.POSTSEASON OUTLOOK: Purdue would need to win a few games to be considered for the NIT. The CBI — which Purdue participated in last year — is a more likely destination.

X-FACTOR: Yogi Ferrell. Tom Crean’s squad is young, and its played like it’s young. The Hoosiers play best when the offense is run through Yogi Ferrell but not necessarily when he’s taking every shot.POSTSEASON OUTLOOK: With 14 losses, the Hoosiers are in a hole. Getting to the Big Ten championship game would put them on the bubble, but winning it is the only way Indiana can ensure a bid. The NIT is a more probable destination.

X-FACTOR: Basketball gods. Do the basketball gods fi nally want Northwestern in the NCAA tournament? If so, they must have everything go their way and help the Wildcats win the tournament.POSTSEASON OUTLOOK: Win the tournament or bust. Likely no postseason for the Wildcats.

X-FACTOR: Ball movement. The difference for the Badgers will be if they can move the ball like they did in early season and in recent weeks. They can’t let Sunday’s loss to Nebraska throw them off their game.POSTSEASON OUTLOOK: The Badgers are a lock for the tournament at this point, but winning the Big Ten Tournament would put Wisconsin in the discussion for a No. 1 seed.

X-FACTOR: Adreian Payne. Payne has been hot in the last two games but was basically nonexistent in the loss to Illinois. If he doesn’t show up, Michigan State can easily be slain.POSTSEASON OUTLOOK: The Spartans have done a little bit of damage to themselves in recent weeks, and their seed may suffer for it. It’s unlikely that Tom Izzo’s streak of getting all four-year players to a Final Four will continue.

BIG TEN TOURNAMENT PREVIEW

Nunn, Egwu vital for men’s basketball team in upcoming Indiana game

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WEAKNESSES: Rebounding, forcing turnover

WEAKNESSES: offense, momentum (lost two of last three to Indiana, Penn State)

WEAKNESSES: questionable offense, shallow bench, Egwu’s foul trouble

WEAKNESSES: Two-man offense (D.J. Newbill and Tim Frazier), defense (11th in Big Ten), matchup (lost to Minnesota by 18 last Sunday)

WEAKNESSES: Low-scoring offense, momentum (lost seven of last eight), history (never won a Big Ten Tournament)

WEAKNESSES: Worst defense in the Big Ten, turnovers, poor outside shooting

WEAKNESSES: Downward spiral (lost fi ve of its last six), pressure from fan base

WEAKNESSES: not particularly good at anything, something to lose

WEAKNESSES: Inexperience, turnover (last in Big Ten in turnover margin)

STRENGTHS: Nik Stauskas, experience (Final Four last year), don’t fall

STRENGTHS: Thad Matta, Aaron Craft, history (won three of last four)

STRENGTHS: defense, John Groce, momentum (won three of last four)

STRENGTHS: consistently pesky, good free throw shooters

STRENGTHS: Chris Collins, Drew Crawford

STRENGTHS: shot blocking presence in Hammons, nothing to lose

STRENGTHS: Roy Devyn Marble, rebounding effi ciency, scoring (leads Big Ten)

STRENGTHS: guard play, something to play for

STRENGTHS: Yogi Ferrell, emergence of freshmen Noah Vonleh and Troy Williams

NO.1 MICHIGAN

X-FACTOR: Whether the shots fall. If Michigan shoots like it did against Illinois on March 4, it can beat anyone in the country by double digits. If they slump like they did WHENEVER , the Wolverines look much more beatable.POSTSEASON OUTLOOK: The Wolverines are currently a two-seed in the NCAA tournament, and after winning the Big Ten by three games, they could be in contention for a No. 1 seed if they win the Big Ten Tournament.

NO 2. WISCONSINSTRENGTHS: depth, momentum (won eight of last nine), experience

WEAKNESSES: rebounding, possible matchups with Minnesota, Michigan State or Iowa

NO 3. MICHIGAN STATESTRENGTHS: Finally healthy, Tom Izzo, experienced team

WEAKNESSES: Full team hasn’t played together, history of injury

NO.4 NEBRASKASTRENGTHS: reenergized program, Terran Petteway, momentum (won 10 of its last 12)

WEAKNESSES: little postseason experience, matchups (Could draw Ohio State), Huskers offense

NO.5 OHIO STATE

NO.9 ILLINOIS

NO. 6 IOWA NO. 7 MINNESOTA NO. 8 INDIANA

NO. 10 PENN STATE NO. 11 NORTHWESTERN NO. 12 PURDUE

Ralph Cooper’s spring football log: Moving forwardUI football competitions extend off of the fi eld

The end of a season — and the begin-ning of a new one — is always bit-tersweet. This is the time when

familiar faces leave and new faces emerge. It’s always tough to have key seniors leave and makes it that much more important for someone to step up and fi ll the gap.

For Illinois football, our defense lost some key players who were big play-makers and leaders for us on the fi eld. Houston Bates made a huge impact for us at the LEO position, but this year he won’t be with us. His playmaking was second nature, and he was always a guy you could count on.

In his absence, DeJazz Woods and Dawuane Smoot have stepped up and are looking to continue to make the LEO position one of the most explosive on our defense. Bates set a good tone for

these two guys, who both have the ath-leticism and playmaking ability to con-tinue the trend Houston set.

I’ve had the opportunity to play behind one of the best linebackers Illi-nois has seen in a few years; Jona-than “JB” Brown has been the face of our defense. As linebackers, we have learned a lot about the game of football from watching him, and we know that now is our time to continue the tradition.

It’s always weird not seeing the guys that you have been playing with for the past two or three years out there with you, but we always keep in touch. A lot of the guys such as Miles Osei, Ryan Lankford, Evan Wilson, Spencer Harris and Steve Hull will be on the sideline in practice, coaching some of the younger guys at their former positions. Whether they’re eligible doesn’t matter. We are still family, and family takes care of one another.

So far we’ve had fi ve practices, and they are getting more heated as we swiftly approach the spring game. For the defense, a good practice is when we get three or more turnovers and have no

loafs. A loaf is when someone isn’t hus-tling to do their job. For the team as a whole, an overall good practice consists of competing as hard as you can while making each other better in the process.

While it’s ideal to always have a great practice, there are days where it seems like nothing can go right. Those are the days where we do the opposite of what we want to do, and you can see the steam coming out of coaches’ ears. Luckily for us, we haven’t had any of that this spring thus far, and I don’t think anyone plans on it .

This week, my main focus has been to try to make as many positive plays as possible and take as much coaching as I can. As a team, we are nowhere near where we want to be, but we are a lot closer than we were at the end of last season.

Follow us on our journey to the top, and you won’t be disappointed.

Ralph is a senior in Media. He can be reached at rgcoope2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @RalphCooper42.

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BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER

Illinois softball hopes its bats will heat up when it concludes nonconference play at the Fight-ing Illini Classic this weekend.

“This weekend is a final tune-up,” head coach Terri Sullivan said. “We want to put all the piec-es together consistently heading into this weekend.”

Although the Illini faced strong pitching in last weekend’s tournament, they are not using that as an excuse for the lack of hitting. The team struggled to

get runners on base and bring them home once they got there. The Illini also struggled to get the hits needed to put the team on top during a close game.

For this reason, this week’s practices had heavy emphasis on hitting. Batters have concentrat-ed on going after the first-pitch fastballs, using the two-strike approach and hitting the ball no matter where it is pitched. Coach-es have also yelled out different scenarios during batting prac-tice so that each batter can think about what the approach will be

heading into at-bat.Every player also wore green

shirts during practice to repre-sent their “green and growing” mentality, which means growing in all three phases of the game as the season progresses.

The Illini were able to make improvements on the offensive side when they practiced out-doors at Eichelberger Field on Tuesday for the first time this season. The team has practiced at the Irwin Indoor Facility this season due to the cold weather.

“It was like we were caged

animals and we were trapped,” sophomore Allie Bauch said. “The moment we got outside, we exploded with our hitting and hit the balls out of the park.”

Practicing outdoors is much different than indoors. Batters see where the ball goes when it is hit and how far it goes, which they can’t do indoors. There is also a difference on grounders for hitting and fielding on the dirt versus on the turf of Irwin. Most importantly, outdoors is the clos-est thing the team has to replicat-ing a game-type situation, which

helps players get a feel for the field.

Eichelberger Field will host its first weekend of competition when it hosts the Fighting Illi-ni Classic. North Dakota State, Saint Louis, Omaha and Western Michigan will all compete in the tournament against the Illini.

The Illini will then begin Big Ten play next weekend against Iowa. The team is using this weekend as one final chance to make the proper adjustments needed before it starts facing Big Ten teams. It is also an opportu-

nity to add on more wins to the team’s 12-6 record.

Sullivan hopes these adjust-ments are made this weekend because when Big Ten play begins, the competitiveness will be on a higher level.

“We need to get better at the things we’ve been struggling with this weekend,” Sullivan said. “Everybody should be at their best at this point of the season.”

Michal can be reached at dwojak2@dailyillini.com and @bennythebull94.

BY J.J. WILSONASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

At the plate, sophomore Ryan Nagle is patient. His hands are loose and close to his chest, his swing is short and swift. When he hits the ball, the bat doesn’t clank like it does for other play-ers in batting practice — it cracks and sends the ball on a line drive before taking a hop at the edge of the infield.

N a g l e ’ s patience has yielded 21 hits in 13 games this season, mak-ing him Illinois baseball’s lead-ing hitter. His hit count also currently ranks fourth in the Big Ten, while his .412 batting average ranks second.

But his swing hasn’t always been as effective as it is now.

“I think the big thing with Ryan is he knows his strike zone,” asso-ciate head coach Eric Snider said. “He had to make an adjustment, and I think Ryan’s done a real good job of making that adjustment of letting the ball come to him and trusting his swing.”

Leftover confidence from his first-team All-Conference days at Streator High School followed Nagle into college. He was one of the top two left-handed batters in the 2012 Illinois recruiting class and one of the top five overall.

The speed of college pitches quickly forced him to adapt his

approach, though. His aggressive, go-for-it mentality wasn’t going to cut it against Division I pitchers.

“Last year, I was longer,” Nagle said. “Now my swing is just short-er, making contact and trying to hit the ball hard.”

Nagle still managed six hits in 36 at-bats last season, including two pinch-hit RBIs, which scored winning runs for Illinois against Baylor and Southern Illinois. The

adjustment to his swing, how-ever, has already tripled last year last year’s out-put in both hits and runs in 15 fewer appear-ances at the plate. And he has showed no signs of slowing down,

either. Part of his success also comes

from his in-game preparation. His typical spot in middle of the bat-ting order gives him time to learn about the opposing pitcher. He flips through depth charts in the dug-out, reading up on the pitcher’s velocities, types of pitches and typical strike counts.

When he gets on deck, his pro-cess goes beyond the numbers. He doesn’t stack weights on his bat or swing at will. Each time he leaves the dugout, his eyes are glued to the pitcher, timing the pitches and swinging as if each one is com-ing at him.

“I love his setup in the box and his hands,” Snider said. “Last year,

he didn’t always put himself in a position to hit, and that’s why he struggled a little bit.

“Now he has his hands in a real-ly nice, quiet position, and he’s ready to go.”

Head coach Dan Hartleb has returned from road trips wanting the Illini batters to lower their number of strikeouts several times this season, but he wor-ries about that less with Nagle.

“He’s very selective at the plate, doesn’t chase a lot of bad pitches,” Hartleb said. “And when you don’t chase bad pitches, even-tually the pitcher makes a mis-take, and he’s made them pay for that.”

Making pitchers pay has earned Nagle places on several of the Big Ten individual charts. In addition to his hits and batting average, he also ranks seventh for slugging percentage (.510), sixth in on-base percentage (.455), tied for 10th in RBIs (11), sixth in total bases (26) and tied for third in doubles (5) with teammate David Kerian.

These numbers are nothing more than background noise to him when so much of the season is yet to be played. From time to time, he said he might glance at them, but never enough to take disrupt him when he reaches the plate.

“I’m just waiting for a fast-ball,” Nagle said. “I just want something to hit.”

J.J. can be reached at jjwilso2@dailyillini.com and @Wilsonable07.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllini baseball player Ryan Nagle warms up on the tee during practice.

Nagle’s strong bat pays for baseball

Bats need to heat up in Illini softball’s first weekend at home

“He’s very selective at the plate doesn’t chase a lot of bad pitches.”

DAN HARTLEBHEAD COACH

It’s tournament time.March embodies

everything brackets, from the little mid-major losers who steal NCAA spots from hard working teams at schools with decent sports teams, to the one week where we’re actually thank-ful Joe Lunardi has a job.

Oh, and he didn’t qualify for The Daily Illini’s tournament extravaganza this year. Last year, The Daily Illini had March Movie Madness, where it was firmly and forever established that “Remember the Titans” is

the best sports movie of all time. This year, we’re unveiling the Twittournament.

Journalists, athletes, websites, talking heads and fans all crowd the Twitterverse and spew story after statistic after witty quip after Instagram photo after sto-ry onto our timelines in 140 char-acters or less (which should be “or fewer,” for the record). Yet none of them ever have to face the music — that their accounts, while followable, are weak.

Athletes? Terrible at Twitter, by and large.

Journalists? Informative and boring, mostly.

Websites? Thanks for your propaganda.

Skip Bayless? I’d rather master self-immolation.

So yeah, we’ve constructed a

bracket to determine the king of Twitter in the sports world, at Illinois and outside — all Twit-ters considered.

The Daily Illini sports staff then voted for a winner. But, that vote was garbage, so we’re get-ting your opinion on things.

At 64 entrants, this year’s tour-nament is double the size of last year’s effort, but in the time it takes you to scroll through an hour’s worth of a UNLV game, you can fill out a bracket. Give us your feedback. We’ll get through the first two rounds over the weekend, then break it down by each round from there out.

Unfortunately, this can’t be a comprehensive list of top Twit-ter accounts. I follow 727 people. Some of whom are very funny but utterly inappropriate (@robdel-

aney, @JennyJohnsonHi5), some are supposedly necessary follows that don’t really give me a whole lot (@ESPN, any professional football player), and I don’t have it in me to go through and unfol-low the boring accounts, much less to determine via a tourna-ment of more than 700 entrants which one I like best.

In comparison, 64 is pretty manageable.

We decided the field by compil-ing a reasonable list of accounts from journalists we like, or that have a popular Twitter follow-ing, and athletes that have a large presence on Twitter, and I guess Daryl Morey, Houston Rockets general manager. We also includ-ed a contingent of accounts that deal solely with Illinois sports.

We included Brandon Paul,

whose Twitter hashtag #Joe-Tales is the most we’ve seen of Joseph Bertrand in the last cou-ple months, and Sam McLaurin, whose infamous commitment to Illinois via Twitter still reins as the best commitment ever. Unless you count Cliff Alexan-der, who is also entered in the bracket.

We seeded them, more or less, by the number of Twitter follow-ers they have. Accordingly, all the Illinois-centric accounts are seeded low (I myself, am the second lowest 16 seed, ahead of only Sean Hammond, our senior writer).

So please, do involve yourself. You more than likely follow a good portion of these accounts on Twitter. You definitely should be following most of them. Tweet at

us, or comment on our Facebook page who you want to advance.

Twitter is a wonderful place, where anyone can freely express their more personal side. You can be quirky in an off-the-clock sort of way. I often am. You should be.

But let’s be real, in the world of tweeting about sports, we’ve gone too long without declaring a winner. The point of sports is to win, as anyone who has ever watched a sport could tell you.

So let’s choose. Who’s the king (or queen!) of Twitter?

Only time, and the wayward havoc of the Twittournament, will tell.

Eliot is a senior in Media. He can be reached at sill2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @EliotTweet.

You may not know that the Illinois men’s golf and women’s gymnastics

teams are currently ranked No. 6 and No. 14 in the coun-try, respectively.

The average Illini fan fol-lows basketball, football and more basketball, in that order. The top-25 rankings for golf and gymnastics don’t scroll along the bottom line of ESPN. The only thing these sports can do to achieve consistent publicity is to grab fans’ atten-tion with eye-popping feats.

The ultimate measuring stick for sports lies within its record books. Fans and the media judge athletes and teams by their achieve-ments and by the numbers and records that stand out. Whether it’s Peyton Manning’s touchdown record or Michael Jordan’s scoring, we judge the greatest by their stats.

In the past week, the Illini men’s golf and women’s gym-nastics teams put up some impressive numbers and saw team records of their own fall in competition.

Last Saturday, the wom-en’s gymnasts set a school record for the all-time total team score. The Illini scored a 197.100 as they swept Linden-wood in every event at senior night at Huff Hall.

Not to be outdone, the men’s golf team broke the school record for team score Monday with an 18-under-par perfor-mance at the Louisiana Clas-sics tournament. The Illini beat out the 12-team field to finish first in the tournament.

While these teams are in no way defined by the records they’ve set, they have defi-nitely turned some heads with these performances. Now that these record-breaking squads have your attention, you can

see why Mike Small and Kim Landrus’ teams are nationally ranked. Both teams are look-ing to build off strong 2013 seasons, and both are also loaded with Big Ten honorees.

Sunny Kato, Amber See and Giana O’Connor were each named to the all-Big Ten second team following last season, and all three have returned to the lineup this year. See scored the third per-fect 10 in Illini history in Feb-ruary, and Erin Buchanan has collected three Big Ten Fresh-man of the Week awards.

The women’s gymnastics season is winding down, with only the Big Ten Quad Meet and championships left before NCAA regionals. Last sea-son the Illini qualified for the NCAA championships for the third time in school his-tory. They’ll look to make it two years in a row when they compete at regionals in early April.

Every member of the men’s golf team was on last season’s national runner-up squad. Bri-an Campbell, Charlie Daniel-son and Thomas Detry have each been named Big Ten Co-Golfer of the Week this spring season.

The end-of-the-season tour-naments don’t come around until May for the men’s golf team, which still hasn’t been able to practice outdoors near-ly midway through the season due to winter weather. But that hasn’t stopped the Illini from being the only Big Ten team to hold a top-25 ranking.

It’s not fair that sometimes records have to be broken for fans to take notice of athletic achievement. That’s just the way it is for most nonrevenue-generating sports teams. But whether it’s in football or bas-ketball, gymnastics or golf, these record performances should be applauded.

Alex is a sophomore in AHS. He can be reached at roux2@dailyillini.com and @aroux94.

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Women’s gymnastics season nears end BY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER

The regular season is nearing its end for the No. 14 Illinois wom-en’s gymnastics team, and cham-pionship season is just around the corner. First, the Illini will have to get through Saturday’s Big Ten Quad Meet — where they will face Michigan State, Nebraska and Ohio State in East Lansing, Mich.

Both head coach Kim Landrus and senior Amber See said the meet will serve as good prepa-ration for the Big Ten champion-ships, which will take place next weekend. It will also determine where the Illini end up for the championships.

With a top-two finish this week-end, Illinois will move on to the night session of Big Ten champi-onships. The night session con-sists of the best teams in the con-

ference, which is where the Illini want to end up. See added that the team has a good chance to make it there, as they’re the second-best team, ranking-wise, in the Quad Meet, but the gymnasts know they have to rely on the details of their performances.

“We just have to continue to work on what we’ve been work-ing on and making sure that we’re consistent with all the lit-tle things, ‘cause it’s going to be the details down the road that will get us where we need to be,” Landrus said.

Two specific details Illinois has emphasized are handstands and stuck landings. The time the Illini have spent on those skills paid off last weekend when they broke the school record by scoring an all-time high team total of 197.100.

“It was just finally putting

everything together,” See said. “We didn’t really do anything special. That’s the thing. We lit-erally just did the same thing that we’ve been doing all year, and we had a few more sticks and just little tenths here and there. So it just shows that the little tenths add up and that if we can do that same job again, then we are capable of getting a 197 and being competitive with the top 15 teams in the nation.”

Sophomore Giana O’Connor said finally reaching that score has boosted the team’s confi-dence in knowing the gymnasts are capable of it. In fact, Illinois is the only other team in the Quad Meet besides Nebraska that has scored a 197 this season. Ohio State’s highest score this season is a 196.600, and Michigan State has yet to score above a 195.550.

Illinois has also faced Michi-gan State and Ohio State earlier this season. The Illini defeated the Buckeyes in a tri-meet on Feb. 23, and the team opened their season against the Spartans in a 195.325-194.150 win.

Not only is Nebraska the only team Illinois has yet to face, but the No. 9 Huskers are also the only team who is ranked above the Illini; however, the Illini know they have what it takes to put up a fight.

“We just have to do our job, and then the rest is kind of not really up to us,” See said. “So I think that if we go in, do our job and hit, that we’ll be competitive with them.”

Ashley can be reached at wijangc2@dailyillini.com and @wijangco12.

ALEX ROUX

sports columnist

ELIOT SILL

Sports editor

Men’s golf, women’s gymnastics breaking records, turning heads

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Amber See preforms on the balance beam during the meet against Michigan, at Huff Hall, on Friday, Feb.7, 2014 The Illini lost 195.800-195.575

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The No. 6 Illini men’s gymnastics team will look to account for the crowd, the other teams and the nerves of this weekend’s meet.

This weekend, the team will travel to Lincoln, Neb., to compete against No. 5 Minnesota, No. 7 Iowa, No. 10 Air Force and No. 12 Nebraska.

To prepare for the fi nal meet of the regular season as well as the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments, which begin in a matter of weeks, the Illini held a simulation Big Ten Championship dur-ing Tuesday’s practice.

“It’s another opportunity for the guys to really prove to themselves, that they can put it together on the same day and put all the gymnastics on the line and get the score that we feel that it is going to take to be a championship team,” head coach Justin Spring said.

Using simulated scores for the oth-er Big Ten teams based on coaches’ expectations, the Illini competed in all six events exact-ly as they would in a meet, taking close to four hours.

Practice is usually a time to work hard on refining tech-niques and adding new moves to rou-tines, but that was not the case Tuesday.

The coaches emphasized the importance of the mock meet for deter-mining the fi nal line-ups for the Nebraska meet, which will most likely be very similar to those used in the Big Ten Championship. This meant that gymnasts could poten-

tially lose their spot because of their performances in practice.

The coaches also did this to add pressure and see who would be able to step up compared with those may not be ready to handle the nerves.

“Everyone could do routines when they’re comfort-able, but when you get into a competi-tion setting you get nervous, it’s a little different crowd, different equip-ment,” senior gym-

nast Jordan Valdez said. “This week and next week, we are really focus-ing on getting ourselves uncomfort-able so we are getting ourselves ready

for basically any situation.” Freshman Chandler Eggleston, who

has been one of the Illini’s best per-formers all season, said depending on how his parallel bar routine went Tues-day would determine if he would com-pete in that event at Nebraska.

Despite each gymnast compet-ing for a spot on the roster, the team cheered each other on instead of root-ing against them. Individuals are still looking to win their individual events, but they all know the team comes fi rst.

Despite the coaches trying to pre-pare the Illini for the tantalizing con-ditions at the Big Ten and NCAA tour-naments, it will be a matter of whether the team can overcome the nerves.

“You have to be mentally strong and keep fi ghting always,” Spring said.

Kieran can be reached at hampl2@dailyillini.com.

BY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s golf team is set to compete at the Insperity Lady Jaguar Intercollegiate tour-nament from March 14-16 in Augusta, Ga., after nearly three weeks off.

The break has given the Illini plenty of time to improve since they last competed on Feb. 24, and they have taken advantage of that.

Last weekend, the team traveled to Nashville, Tenn., to practice at the Gaylord Springs Golf Course in preparation for this weekend. Head coach Renee Slone said the trip allowed the golf-ers to get extra practice, work on various types of short-game shots they usually don’t see and play on a course similar to the one they’ll see this weekend, the Forest Hills Golf Course.

“It is a Donald Ross-designed course, and the green complexes are challenging,” Slone said of Forest Hills. “We don’t see too many golf courses typically throughout the season that have such severe slopes on the greens or the number of run-off areas around the green.”

Despite the challenge, the Illini competed at the course last year, and some of the golfers have been able to share tips. Freshman Emily Joers said her teammates have told her to practice higher chip shots because of the quick, undulated greens the team will face.

Not only has Illinois been able to take advan-tage of familiarity, but it also made good use of the recent spring-like weather. Aside from the practice at Gaylord Springs, the Illini practiced at the Orange and Blue Golf Course in Savoy on Monday and Tuesday.

“It’s been really nice being able to hit off grass because, obviously hitting in Demirjian (Illinois’ indoor golf facility), we’re hitting off turf, and it’s a lot different feel than hitting off grass,” Joers said.

After being confi ned to indoor practices, the outdoor practices have really given the Illini con-fi dence and allowed them to become reacclimated with the feel of grass. They’ve also become more confi dent in their skills, as each golfer has been able to really hone in on what she needs to.

Joers has emphasized her ball striking, which was one of the areas that needed work after the Westbrook Spring Invitational. The biggest prob-lem for Illinois, though, was a lack of aggression.

“We have discussed that and talked about impor-tance of when a golf course presents opportu-nities, we have to be ready for that and be pre-pared to take advantage of those opportunities and go in with that mindset that, ‘Yes, I’m going to be aggressive,’” Slone said. “And then also, understanding that there’s a time and a place to be aggressive, and then there are other times where you may need to take a more conserva-tive approach and just realizing the differences in those situations and being able to assess those situations.”

Ashley can be reached at wijangc2@dailyillini.com and @wijangco12.

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIJordan Valdez performs a high bar routine against Ohio State at Huff Hall on Jan. 26.

Men’s gymnastics practices in mock meet to prepare for end of season

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The competitions extend into every aspect of the player’s life either on the fi eld at practice, in the training room or the classroom.

“I think it helps us translate it to the rest of our lives, to be competitive,” defensive tackle Austin Teitsma said. “We have to stay competitive in every-thing we do and it’ll translate onto the football fi eld.”

Points are given or taken away based on conduct, and there is always a weekly reward for the winners and a penalty for the bottom team. The coach-es have been keeping track of one-on-one drills in practice, and even tallies for showing up to class and training session are accounted for.

With the team having prac-tice at Gately Stadium in Chi-cago on Friday, the team lead-ing in points for this week — a

group of running backs Dono-vonn Young, Josh Ferguson and Matt LaCosse — gets deep-dish pizza while the team at the bot-tom has to clean out the locker room.

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The team’s fi rst winter event, bowling, was a little more low-key, but breaking out the dodge balls on the practice fi eld made for a nice break from workouts for the players.

“It was a blast, coming out here after our winter condi-tioning,” Teitsma said. “It was a little crazy because some of us aren’t the best throwers, but we had a blast with it.”

Teitsma said his team earned second place in the dodgeball competition, leaving him “a lit-tle bitter” about the fi nal result.

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Egwu’s absence from the Big Ten’s All-Defensive Team, and I can’t blame him. Illinois’ defense wouldn’t be one of the best in the country without the presence of Egwu down low, but his value will be on full display when he is challenged with stopping Big Ten Fresh-man of the Year Noah Vonleh.

Vonleh is averaging 11.4 points and 9.1 rebounds per game, but his most impressive statistic is 51.6 percent shoot-ing from downtown. He has made just 16 3-pointers on the season, but even the threat of a jump shot makes defending his drive that much harder. Vonleh loves creating contact and playing physical in the paint in addition to his shoot-ing prowess. Egwu shut down Vonleh on Jan. 26, holding him to just four points on 2-for-6

shooting from the fi eld. Illinois will need Egwu to replicate that performance once again.

Illinois is a different team than it was when it last met Indiana in January. As Groce said, “We’re playing the best that we’ve played all year.” And with Nunn and Egwu at the forefront of their attack, I like Illinois’ chances.

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Diving looks to peak at zone diving championships BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER

An inexperienced Illinois div-ing team looks to peak at the right time, as it ends the regular sea-son at the NCAA Zone Diving Championships.

“It’s just a matter of how they deal with the pressure of a meet as big as this,” diving coach Chris Waters said. “If they treat it like they do at practice, they should be fi ne.”

The Illini have struggled all sea-son after the departures of Keri Eberhardt and Darragh McDer-mott last year. The young team has failed to win a single event this season, and the competition won’t get much easier when the NCAA Zone C Championships begin. Only nine divers are selected to com-pete in the championships from a fi eld of 46 in all three events.

The struggle of this past season

and the challenge heading into this weekend does not deter the team, though, as it looks forward to the hype of competition.

“I get excited for big meets, and I love the atmosphere and compet-ing,” junior Emily Fung said. “It’s just a matter of getting up there, zoning in on that exact dive and not think about the context of it.”

It will be three weeks since the Illini last competed when they jump back into the pool on Thurs-day in Columbus, Ohio, and try to defeat the albatross of this past season.

The preparation for the cham-pionship meet began a week after Big Tens. A week of recovery, one necessary for divers who have practiced since September, was well received by the divers. After the break, the team reconvened to put fi nal preparations to its lists.

The main goal heading into to this weekend is to be consistent. To achieve this, the Illini have practiced entire performances rather than worked on specifi c details. Waters believes the teams spent the entire season focusing on details and looking deep into each turn. At this point in the sea-son, the divers have to be ready for heavy judgment. This is why each dive is judged by coaches and giv-en scores to prepare the divers for the competition.

This critical judgment will be new to most of the team. Junior Erika Murphy is the only Illini who has competed at the diving championships in the past, but she has told her teammates about her experience and what to expect when competing.

“I know how the meet is run,” Murphy said. “Last year, I got the experience of a big meet like that.

I will know what’s coming up.”One of the things she has relat-

ed to her teammates is its differ-ence compared to Big Tens. The atmosphere is much louder during dives, and there is much more time in between dives, which is why it is important to stay loose.

Murphy’s experience is also the reason she has a different approach heading into this meet. She has focused on spots of her routine and has also run her rou-tine outside of the pool, which she hopes will prepare her to dive a personal best and fi nish in the top 30.

“I want to walk out of here knowing that I dived my best meet, knowing that I did my best,” Mur-phy said.

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