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Demand for student housing drives lease signing dates earlier
11:59 AM 9/17/2007 — Less than a month into the fall semester, some students are focusing on where they will be living next fall.
Lease-signing season officially begins Oct. 1, but there is no single time when all properties will be available, said Esther Patt, coordinator of the Tenant Union.
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C-U shops give i-card discount
11:52 AM 9/17/2007 — Aside from its new look, the i-card now gives discounts to students at certain locations through the i-card Perks Program. By showing a University i-card at one of nine stores, students can receive a variety of discounts, though some are limited to deals for only one semester.
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Roommate video gamers affect GPA
11:12 PM 9/16/2007 — A study released last week by the National Bureau of Education found that first-year students whose roommates bring video game consoles to school study less and, consequently, have lower GPAs than students without the distraction.
Tim Holmes, junior in LAS, does not play video games but had a roommate last year who would play up to 18 hours per day.
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Clinton announces plan to cover the uninsured and lower health care costs for others
11:52 AM 9/17/2007 — DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday offered a sweeping health care reform plan to ensure coverage for all Americans with federal assistance to help defray the cost. Thirteen years after her first effort was abandoned - but saying she still bore the scars from that failure, Clinton described her new plan as necessary to address the crisis of some 47 million uninsured.
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Bush will soon select new attorney general
11:04 PM 9/16/2007 — WASHINGTON - President Bush has settled on Michael B. Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general and will announce his selection Monday, a person familiar with the president's decision said Sunday evening.
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Shiite villages raided after new al-Qaida announcement
11:03 PM 9/16/2007 — BAGHDAD - The U.S. military on Sunday announced the arrest of a suspect in the killing of a sheik who spearheaded the U.S.-backed Sunni revolt against al-Qaida in Iraq, even as the terror network launched a campaign of violence during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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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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Serious crimes in Illinois drop overall, but murders, thefts climb
11:56 AM 9/17/2007 — SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Serious crime in Illinois fell again last year, but murders rose unexpectedly and violent crime was more of a problem in rural parts of the state, new state data shows.
Police throughout Illinois reported 467,372 violent and property crimes in 2006, a 1.
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Gene therapy may have killed woman
11:32 PM 9/16/2007 — TAYLORVILLE, Ill. - A few hours before she died this summer at the age of 36, Jolee Mohr lay in a Chicago hospital so swollen by internal bleeding and her failing kidneys that her husband decided against bringing their 5-year-old daughter to say goodbye. The girl wouldn't have recognized her mother.
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Conservative Greek prime minister wins re-election
9:46 PM 9/16/2007 — ATHENS, Greece - Greece's conservative prime minister won re-election Sunday with a diminished majority in parliament after a financial scandal and devastating forest fires that killed more than 65 people last month.
The slimmer majority could make it harder for the government to carry out crucial economic and educational reforms, including overhauling Greece's fractured and debt-ridden pension system.
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Police reports
7:13 PM 9/16/2007 — Champaign A 20-year-old Skokie, Ill., man was arrested for expired vehicle registration Sept. 8 at the intersection of Fourth Street and Springfield Avenue. According to a police report, the offender was stopped for expired licence plates and taken to the Champaign County Sheriff's Office.
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Odds and ends: TV teaches man how to rob, can't save him from prison
7:16 PM 9/16/2007 — RICHMOND, Ky. - A man who says he learned how to rob homes by watching a TV show was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a string of burglaries in central Kentucky. Michael W. Hobbs, 36, of Waco, Ky., pleaded guilty to five counts of burglary. He was sentenced Thursday.
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Career Center: Preparing now will pay off later in job search
4:09 PM 9/17/2007 — Reality is not far away for this year's seniors. Once they earn their degree, they may need to find a job.
According to the University Web site, 73 percent of seniors obtain a job within six months of graduating. Still, it is a concern for students looking to work within the parameters of their University major.
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Column: Prior internships not a must in pursuing work at job fairs
4:10 PM 9/17/2007 — Greetings fellow University students. I don't have a job yet, and before I begin, let me just make this extremely clear: I'm okay with that. Time and time again we hear blather about fruitless summer internships, and I figure, why subject myself to any of it? I hold myself in a high regard and working absurdly early hours and mastering my caffeine addiction appear last on my "Things I'd love to do" list.
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Resource center aids UI students
4:12 PM 9/17/2007 — Butterflies filled the stomach of University alumnus Joshua George as he entered the Washington D.C. studio of ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption" for his summer internship. George had a number of responsibilities on the show, from doing voice-overs to throwing around ideas for the show.
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Statewide job loss should not hinder graduating students
4:54 PM 9/17/2007 — The state of Illinois posted its biggest job loss since 2005 this July, dropping 11,500 jobs since June, according to the August Illinois Monthly Economic Review.
The review is a compilation of state economic data put together by University economics professor Geoffrey Hewings, director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs.
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Externships another option to gain career experience
4:51 PM 9/17/2007 — University students looking for insight into potential career fields can receive hands-on experience through the Illini Externship Program. The program, which began in 1994 to bring University alumni and students together in a work setting, allows students to shadow an alumnus in a career field of interest during spring break.
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Column: Study abroad creates unique outlook to resume regardless of concentration
4:52 PM 9/17/2007 — It feels like I say this every year (and I know I'm not the only one), but it's hard to believe school is back in session again. It's even harder to believe that this is the fourth time I've seen Champaign in September. That's right folks, senior year has begun.
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Post-graduation plans greatly vary
5:04 PM 9/17/2007 — Eric Savage, like many soon-to-be graduates on campus, is feeling pressure to decide exactly what his next step will be after sweeping his tassels to the left this May.
"My adviser told me yesterday I can be anything I want when I grow up," said Eric Savage, senior in LAS, as he rolled his eyes and snickered.
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Career Center provides services to all students
5:01 PM 9/17/2007 — On a campus the size of the University, finding something thousands students have in common may come as a challenge.
However, more than 15,000 students participated in the 364 group events sponsored by the Career Center last school year, including workshops, career fairs and presentations.
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Options abundant for test preparation
5:02 PM 9/17/2007 — With the beginning of a new school year, many students are taking action in pursuit of their future plans. For some, this means taking the respective admissions exam for their post-undergraduate school applications.
The University Testing Center, 610 E. John St.
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Questions about precision of university rankings raised
5:05 PM 9/17/2007 — According to U.S. News and World Report's list of the Best Colleges of 2008, the University ranked 38th this year, which is an improvement from last years ranking of 41.
Questions have been raised in the past about the accuracy of the rankings and whether they help students to find jobs after they leave their university.
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Double majors attractive to prospective employers
4:54 PM 9/17/2007 — While grade point average, related campus involvement and volunteer work make obtaining a job competitive, a double major can distinguish one potential candidate from another.
In the college of LAS, students wanting to complete an additional major must earn at least 12 hours of 300- or 400-level coursework in the second discipline, according to the LAS Web site.
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Column: Be good (Or at least make your potential employers think you are)
4:56 PM 9/17/2007 — Don't worry, man... it's college!"
I've heard these words more times than I can stand. In the bar, on the Quad and even here, in the newsroom, people believe that the bad decisions we make while in college will somehow be washed away when we receive our degrees.
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Column: Considering law school? LSAT can be conquered
5:03 PM 9/17/2007 — If you happen to be taking the Law School Admission Test on Sept. 29, I'm about to provide you with a place to dry your tears. If you're planning on taking it eventually, but maybe not right now, I'll give you a shoulder to lean on.
If you're not planning on taking it at all because you don't believe the world should be populated with any more lawyers than it already has, maybe you would be better off finding yourself a more relevant - and possibly even better - column adjacent to this one.
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Column: Nonprofits offer opportunities, dental and a reason to go to work
5:00 PM 9/17/2007 — Did you know that the very paper you hold in your hands is the product of a nonprofit company?
Yeah, it's true. What's also true is that stepping up to work for something other than the bottom line is not going to doom you to a life of poverty and tree-hugging.
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