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Champaign hosts evacuee center
1:01 AM 9/13/2005 — Around 100 families, evacuated from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, have passed through the Katrina Evacuee Center located on the top floor of Illinois Terminal in Champaign. Volunteers, American Red Cross employees and other local volunteers are offering their services to help run the center, which will be open until Friday.
Students bake for Katrina aid
1:02 AM 9/13/2005 — Some University students stayed up until 4 a.m. Monday morning to bake desserts. They were sold later in the afternoon on the Quad for the Hurricane Katrina relief fund. The bake sale began Monday and will continue until Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
Book chronicles outcomes of Clinton's welfare reform
1:03 AM 9/13/2005 — When Jason DeParle described Angie Jobe's life as a single parent on welfare, his friend who told him the story "got his inner Archie Bunker going." While living with Jobe and her cousins in Milwaukee for seven years, DeParle said he learned she did feel a sense of responsibility.
Students in hotels after apartment fails to open
1:06 AM 9/13/2005 — Delayed construction of the new Campus Property Management building has forced students to find housing elsewhere.
Students, who signed a lease with the company for an apartment at the building located at 512 S. Third St., arrived on campus to find their apartments unfinished.
SORF funds more RSOs with increased fee
1:07 AM 9/13/2005 — Last year, the Student Organization Resource Fund ran short on money and the board was forced to cut funding to any registered student organizations that requested money for off-campus activities. With the new school year, the University introduced the largest freshman class in school history as well as a hike in the student SORF fee from $10 to $14.
Rate of younger college students increasing
1:07 AM 5/6/2008 — A new trend has begun to emerge with high school students: going to college early. Click on the icon to hear The Daily Illini's Sydney Langford bring you more on the story.
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Computing competition winners expand technology at University's Siebel Center
1:13 AM 9/13/2005 — Imagine arriving to a building just in time for a meeting and forgetting the number of the room in which it's taking place. If that building were the University's Siebel Center for Computer Science, what could have been a problem has a simple solution, thanks to innovative, home-brewed software running on information panels throughout the building.
Column: A Whole New Race
1:13 AM 9/13/2005 — Racing games have never been my favorite genre. Usually the artificial intelligence is like a communist rubber band that will never let you get too far away from the lead pack, or there are countless hidden items and boring tasks to unlock new racetracks. Fortunately, the gaming industry has started to develop new games that find creative ways of sidestepping these problems.
Police Blotter
1:05 AM 9/13/2005 — Police Blotter for September 13, 2005
For the record
1:05 AM 9/13/2005 — In the Aug. 31 article "Bus hits student cyclist," the article transposed the driver of the bicycle with the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District bus driver due to misreading the police report, causing the story to be factually incorrect. And instead of stating correctly that the bike made contact with the bus, according to the police report, the article and the headline stated that the bus hit the bicyclist.
