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Partisan fund alarms UC Senate
11:28 PM 10/1/2007 — The Urbana-Champaign Senate discussed the effects of the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Fund, referred to as "the fund" throughout its meeting Monday afternoon. According to the Associated Press, the fund aims to encourage and finance conservative studies on campus.
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House votes to overturn bulk of Blagojevich's budget vetoes
5:26 PM 10/2/2007 — SPRINGFIELD- The Illinois House on Tuesday overturned most of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's more than $460 million in budget vetoes, continuing a yearlong battle between top Democrats over the state's spending priorities.
Lawmakers on the House floor turned public anger from weeks of statewide hearings into a lengthy lambasting of the cuts Blagojevich made to the budget in August.
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Bar Louie closes; employees let go by e-mail
4:58 PM 10/2/2007 — Bar Louie, 510 E. John St., closed Monday after two years in Champaign. The space the restaurant occupied is now for sale.
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Booze News faces potential ban at Missouri college
3:51 PM 10/2/2007 — COLUMBIA, Missouri- Ah, college life. All-night study sessions in the library. Professors challenging the conventional wisdom. Snowball battles on the quad.
Get real.
For students at the University of Missouri-Columbia, college is all about casual sex, meddling parents, foul-mouthed friendships and partying until you puke - that is, if you believe the portrayal in The Booze News, a new weekly newspaper that glorifies the wonders of heavy drinking.
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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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New UI policy uses software to delete sensitive information on staff computers
11:26 PM 10/1/2007 — It only takes one wrong click and the information of many can be in the hands of a few who can do damage.
While this is a worst-case scenario, in mid-October, Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES), is starting a program to eliminate sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, from the computers of faculty and staff members, said Mike Corn, director of security services and information privacy.
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School cancels classes after athlete killed
11:42 PM 10/1/2007 — MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A University of Memphis football player was fatally shot on campus in what police believe was a targeted attack, and classes were canceled Monday as a precaution.
Taylor Bradford, 21, apparently was shot near a university housing complex about 9:45 p.
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Renewal of relief bill would assist students called to active service
12:19 AM 10/2/2007 — The Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 expired Sunday, but measures to permanently renew the legislation have already begun.
If passed in both houses of the U.S. Congress, the bill would continue to give the Secretary of Education authority to waive rules or requirements of the student financial aid programs.
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Urbana council appoints new fire chief
12:20 AM 10/2/2007 — As Michael Dilley was announced as the newly appointed Urbana fire chief at Monday's Urbana City Council meeting, a group of firefighters lined the back wall of the council chambers applauding him. Dilley said he credited his wife and son as two of the most important people in his life.
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Aurora to allow Planned Parenthood clinic to open
12:35 AM 10/2/2007 — AURORA, Ill. - A new Planned Parenthood clinic that became a focus of the national abortion debate while local officials reviewed how building permits were obtained will open its doors Tuesday, two weeks later than originally planned.
But with one lawsuit already filed by anti-abortion activists and another one promised, the case is likely to stay active in the courts.
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Study: Rock stars more likely to die young
12:25 AM 10/2/2007 — Guitar hero wannabes, beware.
Rock stars are twice as likely as the regular population to die young, according to a study by John Moores University in Liverpool, England. Researchers sampled the "survival rates" of 1,000 rockers and found that almost 10 percent are playing the great gig in the sky.
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Sen. Obama collects $19 million in third quarter, topping Republicans
11:24 PM 10/1/2007 — WASHINGTON - Barack Obama raised more than $19 million this summer for the presidential primaries, holding his lead for now in the race for campaign cash though still trailing Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in national polls.
Fred Thompson, the GOP newcomer, has collected more than $11.
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Police reports
7:49 PM 10/1/2007 — Champaign A 51-year-old man reported residential burglary at the 1000 block of Eureka Street, Thursday morning. According to a police report, an unknown offender forced entry into his residence and took a skill saw. No arrests had been made at the time of the report.
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Surprised Wis. duck hunter shoots 25-pound alligator
9:16 PM 10/1/2007 — FARMINGTON, Wis. - Ed Long thought he was shooting at a snapping turtle, but got a surprise when he pulled his trophy from the Milwaukee River: a 4-foot-long alligator. Long had been in the river Saturday hunting for ducks. "At first, I thought it was a turtle tail," he said.
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Senate authorizes increase in Middle East war funding
12:23 AM 10/2/2007 — WASHINGTON - Thwarted in efforts to bring troops home from Iraq, Senate Democrats on Monday helped pass a defense policy bill authorizing another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 92-3 vote comes as the House planned to approve separate legislation Tuesday that requires President Bush to give Congress a plan for eventual troop withdrawals.
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Dow Jones achieves record high spurred by newfound optimism
11:01 PM 10/1/2007 — NEW YORK - Wall Street began the fourth quarter with a huge rally Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to a record close. Stocks were buoyed by a growing belief that the worst of the credit crisis has passed.
The Dow rose 191.92, or 1.38 percent, to 14,087.
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Community briefs
9:19 PM 10/1/2007 — National Alliance on Mental Illness to host awareness walk National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) will be hosting a walk to raise awareness about mental illness. The walk will be held on Saturday, Oct. 13 at West Side Park. For more information, contact Matt Strom at strom.
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