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University to receive $33.5 million as part of Brilliant Futures Campaign
2:11 PM 9/28/2007 — The University is now more than half way to its $2.25 billion goal for the Brilliant Futures Campaign with today's announcement of 17 gifts totaling $33.5 million, according to a press release. Over $1.165 billion dollars has been raised for the University's largest fundraiser ever - one of the largest ever attempted by a public university.
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Urbana looks to nurture landmarks
11:51 PM 9/27/2007 — Taking a walk through downtown Urbana and the city's historic east neighborhood reveals beautiful old buildings and homes that are potential historic landmarks. Urbana's city council has discussed and showed a continuous effort in offering historic preservation incentive programs to encourage more property owners to apply for historic landmark status.
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More women go to college
12:09 PM 9/28/2007 — A report released by the National Center for Education Statistics has found that there is a growing gender gap in undergraduate college students. Female undergraduates now outnumber male undergraduates nationwide, but the University's enrollment doesn't reflect the report's results.
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Madigan to hear citizens' takes on casino additions
12:09 PM 9/28/2007 — When the Illinois House of Representatives reconvenes for its fall session next week, it will be faced with a capital budget bill, the likes of which has not been passed for eight years.
The bill passed through the Senate after much compromise between both parties, said state Sen.
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Minority-owned banking company continues 'booming'
10:52 PM 9/27/2007 — September marks the 10-year anniversary of Loop Capital Markets, an investment banking firm founded by James Reynolds, Jr. and Albert Grace, Jr. Because both co-founders are minorities, the firm is considered to be "minority-owned," said TeMeka Williams, assistant vice president and internship coordinator at the Chicago-based firm.
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CORE group aims to improve Champaign recycling system
11:31 PM 9/27/2007 — The student organization Community Organized Recycling Efforts, or CORE, believes recycling takes conscious effort, though it does not have to be difficult.
The group has taken on the challenge of improving recycling in the city of Champaign, which is more privatized than Urbana.
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6 die from brain-eating amoeba in warm lake waters
3:02 PM 9/28/2007 — PHOENIX - It sounds like science fiction but it's true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.
Even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, it's killed six boys and young men this year.
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Flu-preventing exercises generate mixed results
12:01 AM 9/28/2007 — Senior citizens may now have another way to stay healthy during flu season.
Research from the University shows traditional Chinese exercises may help prevent influenza in senior citizens.
These exercises include taiji, a form of martial arts based on ancient Eastern medicine, and qigong, a series of breathing techniques.
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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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Myanmar troops shoot at protesters critical of military rule, killing 9
11:49 PM 9/27/2007 — YANGON, Myanmar - Soldiers with automatic rifles fired into crowds of anti-government demonstrators Thursday, killing at least nine people in the bloodiest day in more than a month of protests demanding an end to military rule.
Bloody sandals lay scattered on some streets as protesters fled shouting "Give us freedom, give us freedom!"
On the second day of a brutal crackdown, truckloads of troops in riot gear also raided Buddhist monasteries on the outskirts of Yangon, beating and arresting dozens of monks, witnesses and Western diplomats said.
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Kiefer Sutherland is charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence
11:32 AM 9/29/2007 — LOS ANGELES - Kiefer Sutherland, already on probation for a 2004 drunken driving arrest, was charged Friday with misdemeanor driving under the influence in a case the city attorney's office said could put him in jail for more than a year.
The star of the Fox TV drama "24" was charged with single counts of driving under the influence and driving with a blood-alcohol level of .
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Army wants to spend $3 billion to speed up relief expansion
11:59 PM 9/27/2007 — WASHINGTON - The Army, stretched thin by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, wants to spend nearly $3 billion extra to accelerate its expansion of the active-duty force, Army Secretary Pete Geren said Thursday.
Geren said he has discussed the proposal with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and expects a decision soon.
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Schools develop text alert systems
11:46 PM 9/27/2007 — NEW YORK - When a masked freshman came to campus at St. John's University with what police said was a loaded rifle sticking out of a bag, the school alerted students via cell-phone text messages within 18 minutes.
And when a suicidal gunman was reported to be on the loose at the University of Wisconsin, the school sent out mass e-mails and took out an ad on Facebook to warn students.
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Austrian court nixes appeal to get chimpanzee declared a person
11:58 PM 9/27/2007 — VIENNA, Austria - He's now got a human name - Matthew Hiasl Pan - but he's having trouble getting his day in court.
Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria's Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.
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Odds and ends: Lab technician dismissed for biting 3-year-old boy
9:19 PM 9/27/2007 — INDIANAPOLIS - A laboratory technician was fired after the parents of a 3-year-old boy claimed she bit his shoulder during a blood test, a hospital spokesman said. Faith Buntin took her son Victor to St. Vincent Hospital on Friday to have blood drawn because of recent recalls of toys involving lead.
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Police reports
9:24 PM 9/27/2007 — Champaign An 18-year-old man was issued a notice to appear in court for a minor in possession of alcohol at the 900 block of Wright Street early Wednesday morning. According to a police report, an officer observed the offender with an alcoholic beverage in public.
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