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103rd District Election Preview
6:35 PM 3/7/2007 — With elections fast approaching, students on campus are wondering how candidates will increase funding for the University of Illinois.
Tom Abram is a Green Party candidate for the 103rd District and he says it's really important that this University be funded adequately, which it hasn't been in the past.
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Quad protest targets racial stereotyping
2:33 PM 11/1/2006 — With signs reading "The fight is far from over" and "My culture is not a costume," hundreds of students filled the Quad side of the Illini Union this afternoon for a rally entitled "Breaking the Silence."
The rally was organized by Students Transforming Oppression and Privilege (STOP).
Krannert gets prized artifact instruments
11:54 PM 10/31/2006 — They are almost 400 years old, but they still have personalities, many consider them to be beautiful, and they refuse to be kept silent.
The four ornamented Stradivari instruments that have come to the University - two violins, a viola, and a cello - are nothing short of extraordinary, said Robert La France, associate curator of pre-modern art at the Krannert Art Museum.
ON-AIR: Transportation Study seeks student, faculty input
6:30 PM 10/31/2006 — Pedestrian safety is a major issue facing the Univesity. The University Multi-Modal Transportation Study is searching for ideas from all faculty, staff and students through an open house being held Wednesday in the Union. Consultants running the study will be focusing on pedestrian safety issues and possible improvements around campus.
ON-AIR: Schedule generator assists campus students
6:37 PM 10/31/2006 — Monday marked the rush to the school's registration web site and the student created schedule generator, Scheedule should ease students in their schedule selection. Junior Suraj Samaranayake and six other computer science students created Scheedule, an automatic schedule generator open to all students.
Ameren IP denies earnings cover-up
12:35 AM 11/1/2006 — its customers have circulated. One recent report claims that Ameren IP is seeking to underhandedly cover up its earnings beginning Jan. 1, when the price hike will take effect for consumers. Leigh Morris, a spokesman for Ameren IP, said that while the company made a recent filing with the commission, the reason was not to cover up their earnings.
Foreign T.A.s must pass English exam
11:49 PM 10/31/2006 — The University requires all prospective teaching assistants who are not native speakers of English to take an oral English proficiency exam prior to entering the classroom. The policy is not new, but rather the result of legislation passed by the Illinois State Senate in 1986.
ON-AIR: Seeking out our haunted campus
6:39 PM 10/31/2006 — Chills crawl up your spine, the winds howl and footsteps echo from behind. In mode of Halloween, Christine Kim has the story on allegedly haunted locations on campus and its ghosts.
High caloric dining hall choices result in Freshman 15
11:48 PM 10/31/2006 — Fresh vegetables and whole grains were not part of Sneha Patel's diet during her freshman year at the University. Patel, junior in LAS, lived in baggy sweats to conceal her expanding waistline after gaining weight from an eating regimen consisting of pokey sticks and beer.
UI study links obesity, gas usage
11:47 PM 10/31/2006 — Americans are using nearly one billion more gallons of gasoline today than in 1960, and the reason is sitting right behind the steering wheel. According to a University study, this significant increase in annual fuel consumption is due to weight gain in both men and women over the last four decades.
SIU chancellor plagiarizes old school's growth plan
11:46 PM 10/31/2006 — Southern Illinois University's chancellor admitted "lifting" excerpts from a strategic plan for a Texas school where he worked and using them in the Carbondale school's long-range blueprint, a panel has found. The three-person panel comprised of members from various university departments and schools also is urging the Illinois school to review its anti-plagiarism policies.
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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