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Runners finish the first lap of the 5K race that was the kickoff for Women's Wellness Week on Sunday morning at the Arboretum.

Wellness Week educates, unites women

11:26 PM 11/22/2007 — As the wind whipped through the trees Sunday morning at the Arboretum in Urbana, 103 women gathered at the starting line and waited for their cue to take off running. The runners participated in the Women's Wellness Week 5K, the kickoff for a week of events planned by the Panhellenic Council to educate and unite women. 12

Steve Broglio, a professor in the Kinesiology department, works with the Ridell SRS Hit System in the middle Unity high school's football practice fields, Oct. 30.

UI conducts hard-hitting research

6:26 AM 11/5/2007 — Football players can get hit thousands of times throughout a season. The unanswered question is how hard is too hard, especially for high school athletes. Steve Broglio, assistant professor in AHS, is conducting research attempting to measure the amount of force it takes for a high school football player to receive a concussion. 0

Police seeking person of interest in recent campus attacks

10:31 PM 11/5/2007 — The Champaign and University police departments are looking for a person of interest in two attacks that occurred on campus early Thursday morning, according to a press release from the Champaign Police Department. Police are interested in talking to Fernando Rizo-Perez, a Hispanic male, 5'4" to 5'6" tall with an average build. 0

Bottled water banned from state budget

11:06 PM 11/4/2007 — Employees in Illinois state agencies are about to have something to talk about around the water cooler - until Nov. 16. Following in the footsteps of municipalities and states across the country, Illinois' Department of Central Management Services has decided to ban state agencies from using state funds to purchase bottled water beginning on that date. 0

University places first in donor contest by registering most students in Illinois

12:03 AM 11/5/2007 — The University placed first in a statewide competition this past weekend, topping 19 other Illinois colleges and universities on its way to claiming the title. This competition, though, had nothing to do with athletics, academics, or campus life. This one was about organ donation. 1

Bryan Thompson, senior in LAS, holds up an energy-saving compact flourescent light bulb, which he hopes will replace the University's incandescent bulbs.

Student committee asks UI to use energy-efficient bulbs

12:06 AM 11/5/2007 — After turning on a lamp in Grainger Engineering Library, Bryan Thompson, senior in LAS, got an idea. Thompson, a member of the Illinois Student Senate's Committee on Student Life, noticed that the lamp was using an incandescent bulb and sent an e-mail asking the Grainger staff to replace its inefficient incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent and light-emitting diode lights. 1

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. 0

UI alumnus creates campus Wikipedia, welcomes content

11:16 PM 11/4/2007 — Although Richard Cornish lives in Lawrence, Kan., he is using the Internet to stay close to his alma mater. Cornish, who works for the Lawrence Journal-World, left the University last December with both bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism. A few months later, he founded uofiwiki. 0

Group holds rally for environment

12:06 AM 11/5/2007 — Step It Up, a national organization designed to make people aware of environmental issues, held a rally beside the University Alma Mater, Saturday. "We are burning our oils faster than any time in history of the world," said Joe Futrelle, research coordinator for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. 0

Right-wing Israeli protesters hold torches as they march during a protest against US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit outside the United States Consulate in Jerusalem, Sunday. A few hundred right-wing Israelis demonstrated against an upcoming meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders scheduled for Annapolis, Maryland and any negotiations by Israel over the status of the city of Jerusalem.

Israeli leader: Palestinian state may be independent before Bush's term ends; Rice promises upcoming peace talks

11:23 PM 11/4/2007 — JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday vigorous peace negotiations could go far toward establishing an independent Palestinian state before President Bush leaves office. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice promised a "serious and substantive" launch to new talks. 0

Greeks go 'green' in recycling competition

11:08 PM 11/4/2007 — Beginning Monday and ending Nov. 16, 23 Greek chapters will participate in the Green House Competition to determine which is the best recycling team on campus. The competition, organized and sponsored by the student group Community Organized Recycling Efforts is the group's first project since it was founded at the beginning of this school year. 0

Egypt's antiquities chief Dr. Zahi Hawass speaks to the media over the linen-wrapped mummy of King Tut in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt on Sunday. The mummy of the 19-year-old pharaoh, whose life and death has captivated people for nearly a century, was placed in a climate-controlled glass box in the tomb, with only the face and feet showing under the linen covering.

Egypt unveils King Tut's face to public

10:53 PM 11/4/2007 — LUXOR, Egypt - King Tut's buck-toothed face was unveiled Sunday for the first time in public - more than 3,000 years after the youngest and most famous pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt was shrouded in linen and buried in his golden underground tomb. Archeologists carefully lifted the fragile mummy out of a quartz sarcophagus decorated with stone-carved protective goddesses, momentarily pulling aside a beige covering to reveal a leathery black body. 0

Ultranationalist demonstrators, carrying an assortment of banners and flags, take part in their authorized rally in downtown Moscow, on Sunday. Demonstrators complained of the presence in Russia of dark-skinned migrants from other former Soviet republics, whom they derisively refer to as

Thousands of Russian nationalists stage anti-immigrant march in Moscow

10:08 PM 11/4/2007 — MOSCOW - A white supremacist from Texas lifted his black cowboy hat into the air as he stepped forward to address thousands of Russian nationalists at a rally Sunday in Moscow. "I'm taking my hat off as a sign of respect for your strong identity in ethnicity, nation and race," said Preston Wiginton, 43, exposing his close-cropped head to a freezing drizzle. 0

Police reports

8:40 PM 11/4/2007 — Champaign A 21-year-old Westville woman was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol at the 600 block of Neil Street early Friday morning. According to a police report, the offender drove into a parking meter and was then found to be in possession of a controlled substance, driving on a revoked driver's license and operating an uninsured vehicle. 0

Odds and ends: Endangered snakes shipped to man, taken on city bus

8:36 PM 11/4/2007 — MUNCIE, Ind. - This time, the snakes weren't on a plane - they were on a bus. Now, a man who police say picked up a package of venomous baby timber rattlesnakes at the post office and took it home on a city bus is facing charges. Dustin A. Draper of Muncie faces preliminary charges of possession of an endangered species and transportation of a dangerous reptile without a permit. 0