Your report has it wrong. The campus has the same multiple polling place locations to vote on election day.

This new early voting location was an unfunded mandate demanded by the Illinois legislature this year.

NOWHERE else in the county is this extra ability to vote early given. (Early voting done at the county clerk's office for everyone)

Very unfair to the rest of the county voters and taxpayers!

I would like to invite and encourage all students, faculty, and members of the Champaign-Urbana community to attend the Student Senate Meeting next Wednesday September 15th from 7-9pm. The meeting will be in the Pine Lounge of the Illini Union. I am sure student senators will continue to debate whether or not racial profiling is a relevant issue to students on campus AND if the student senate should, as the official voice of the student body, do anything about it.

SIT IN at that meeting, and VOICE your opinions on the topic!

The ISS would do much better with its time by investigating Teresa Ramos and her attempt to use both her own position (indeed a questionable one. In one article in 2009 she describes herself as a masters student; two months later in another article, a PhD student.) and to pressure faculty members to engage in unethical capricious grading by offering special grade-based concessions to students with a specific opinion and viewpoint. Such actions would clearly violate the Handbooks of UI students, faculty, not to mention ethics laws of the state of ILL.

Posted by Hound No. 9 The Hounds of TASSers'ville

... but the lack of POLICE ACTION regarding the rampant crime on campus, that's what the real problem is.

The FACT of the matter is that 95% of the violent crimes on campus are perpetrated by young black, occasionally Latino males. No need to be beating around the bush about it. (And yeah, I think that the 5% of the violent offenders who are white are just as disgusting.)

Due to radical lefties such as the ones who try to abusively push this idiotic resolution down the throats of the U of I student community, the police is literally afraid to address the problems and to defend/protect law-abiding students of all races and background.

Don't expect the ilk of Rosa and Ramos to ever admit the extent of these problems, a lot more pressing to the REAL LIFE of the campus than condemning, out of typical ignorance, an excellent, human rights-respecting Arizona law.

And your sources for this "95%" number is....? Nonexistant, I'm sure. How about instead of just race baiting by making up statistics, you actually read any articles, or take ANY classes about constitutional law, criminology, or sociology. Or, at the very least, talk to someone that isn't an angry racist.

... your police alert emails going back the last few years.

One in twenty emails talks about Caucasian perpetrators.

Of course dealing with facts is a little harder than throwing around phony accusations of racism.

Angry? I bet that the people who are robbed blind or beaten up or put into the hospital, by delinquents of any skin color, are deeply angry. Police catching the perpetrators would be more efficient in dealing with this than taking any irrelevant class.

... but it is quite obvious that the local police is doing a TERRIBLE job at policing the campus (where most of the victims reside) and the ghetto (where most of the perpetrators come from).

Probably they are intimidated by the brazen race-peddlers who try to make the lives of the police officers who actually attempt to do their duty an inferno. (The Kiwane Whatever case is a good example - a typical hooligan, victim of his own violent/irresponsible acts, yet transformed in some kind of phony hero by the irresponsible "community" which wants at the same time to have law and order, while crying wolf whenever police involvement results in unexpected consequences.)

Real story:

A very good friend of mine, brilliant Chinese PhD student, was hit four years ago by two black guys who robbed his bag... full of notebooks and engineering books. (I don't think the prey of their violent looting helped them much.)

My friend fell down, broke his head and his jaw on the pavement, needed expensive and painful medical care, and physical therapy as well. He still isn't himself, and what he and his sweet wife had to go through I wouldn't wish on my enemies. And he's the nicest, most honest guy in the world.

What did the police do? NOTHING. They treated him with indifference, they made NO EFFORT to catch the criminals. NOTHING.

We hear all the time about this type of violent crimes on campus. (No, I don't care about their race, skin color and other c**p, the white/Latino/whatever perpetrators of similar acts are just as disgusting - we are discussing the facts of the matter here, not some academic proposition.)

Did the police catch any of these criminals? ANY? Not all, not a majority, but at least 25% of them? Nada. Nothing. Rien. Zilch.

It's time to quit political correctness and to simply recognize that, while a majority of the ghetto inhabitants may be and most probably are law-abiding citizens, a crushing majority of the violent crimes on campus are being perpetrated by young males from the northern "neighborhoods"... and THE POLICE SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Please. Hello. Is anybody listening?

PS Let's also spare a thought for the black victims of black hooligans...

PLEASE, give me a break about me being motivated by racism.

In 1955,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Emmett_Till

the murder of an innocent black teenager by horrible white racists was absolutely disgusting and unforgivable. Unfortunately, more than one such event happened, then, before and after.

Why should we pretend TODAY that the rampant phenomenon of black-on-white AND black-on-black crime TODAY doesn't exist, or excuse it through half-baked sociological mumbo-jumbo?

Murder is murder, violent attacks are violent attacks. White people bleed, black people bleed. We are all individual human beings, not representatives of a "race". Confront the real statistics, and try to improve them. The overwhelmingly law-abiding inhabitants of the afflicted neighborhoods, of all "races," will thank you!

Today, when the new victims are not as often Emmett Till's (killed by murderous, horrible white racists, may they rot in hell) as they are Derrion Albert's (the innocent Chicago black kid murdered by sadistic black hooligans), it IS time to deal with FACTS, not rhetorics, and to stop bringing ideology into play. No person having their skull broken in by a criminal will find solace in some pseudo-academic take on the "root causes" and the "socio-economic" conditions which "explain" the violent act they fell victim to.

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Derrion Albert compulsory reading:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/27/beating-death-of-derrien_n_301319.html

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_1_chicago-crime.html

... but it is quite obvious that the local police is doing a TERRIBLE job at policing the campus (where most of the victims reside) and the ghetto (where most of the perpetrators come from).

Probably they are intimidated by the brazen race-peddlers who try to make the lives of the police officers who actually attempt to do their duty an inferno. (The Kiwane Whatever case is a good example - a typical hooligan, victim of his own violent/irresponsible acts, yet transformed in some kind of phony hero by the irresponsible "community" which wants at the same time to have law and order, while crying wolf whenever police involvement results in unexpected consequences.)

Real story:

A very good friend of mine, brilliant Chinese PhD student, was hit four years ago by two black guys who robbed his bag... full of notebooks and engineering books. (I don't think the prey of their violent looting helped them much.)

My friend fell down, broke his head and his jaw on the pavement, needed expensive and painful medical care, and physical therapy as well. He still isn't himself, and what he and his sweet wife had to go through I wouldn't wish on my enemies. And he's the nicest, most honest guy in the world.

What did the police do? NOTHING. They treated him with indifference, they made NO EFFORT to catch the criminals. NOTHING.

We hear all the time about this type of violent crimes on campus. (No, I don't care about their race, skin color and other c**p, the white/Latino/whatever perpetrators of similar acts are just as disgusting - we are discussing the facts of the matter here, not some academic proposition.)

Did the police catch any of these criminals? ANY? Not all, not a majority, but at least 25% of them? Nada. Nothing. Rien. Zilch.

It's time to quit political correctness and to simply recognize that, while a majority of the ghetto inhabitants may be and most probably are law-abiding citizens, a crushing majority of the violent crimes on campus are being perpetrated by young males from the northern "neighborhoods"... and THE POLICE SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Please. Hello. Is anybody listening?

PS Let's also spare a thought for the black victims of black hooligans...

PLEASE, give me a break about me being motivated by racism.

In 1955,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Emmett_Till

the murder of an innocent black teenager by horrible white racists was absolutely disgusting and unforgivable. Unfortunately, more than one such event happened, then, before and after.

Why should we pretend TODAY that the rampant phenomenon of black-on-white AND black-on-black crime TODAY doesn't exist, or excuse it through half-baked sociological mumbo-jumbo?

Murder is murder, violent attacks are violent attacks. White people bleed, black people bleed. We are all individual human beings, not representatives of a "race". Confront the real statistics, and try to improve them. The overwhelmingly law-abiding inhabitants of the afflicted neighborhoods, of all "races," will thank you!

Today, when the new victims are not as often Emmett Till's (killed by murderous, horrible white racists, may they rot in hell) as they are Derrion Albert's (the innocent Chicago black kid murdered by sadistic black hooligans), it IS time to deal with FACTS, not rhetorics, and to stop bringing ideology into play. No person having their skull broken in by a criminal will find solace in some pseudo-academic take on the "root causes" and the "socio-economic" conditions which "explain" the violent act they fell victim to.

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Derrion Albert compulsory reading:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/27/beating-death-of-derrien_n_301319.html

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_1_chicago-crime.html

One in TWENTY-ONE emails, starting right now....

On 09-11-10 at approximately 1:30 am, the Champaign Police Department responded to the area of Third Street and Clark Street reference an armed robbery that had occurred at that location. The victim stated while he was walking near the intersection of Third Street and Clark Street, he was approached by a person who asked him a question that he could not hear. When the victim walked closer to the subject to understand the question, the subject punched him in the face. The victim fought with the offender who punched him in the face. Four other offenders who were apparently in the area also battered the victim. While fighting with the offenders, the victim advised that one of the offenders pulled a small black handgun from his pocket and ordered him to surrender his money. The offenders then made the victim get on the ground where they kicked and punched him several times. The offenders then fled the area and were not located. The victim was not injured in the incident.

OFFENDER DESCRIPTIONS:

The victim described all the offenders as black males, approximately 6 feet tall with average to skinny builds. The victim advised each offender was wearing a different colored hooded sweatshirt. The offender who displayed the handgun was described as wearing an orange hooded sweatshirt.