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Lincoln Hall project in gear
11:03 PM 12/9/2007 — A long-awaited project for the University is set to begin next summer. Teachers, faculty and staff will move out of Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., with building renovations planned to begin fall 2008.
According to Linda Katehi, provost and vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, the project includes drastic changes on the inside of the building, as well as upgrading the building to make it more environmentally friendly.
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Pastor protests war with trail mix
12:41 AM 12/10/2007 — Just minutes before snow began to fall Wednesday afternoon, two people in coats and gloves were handing out small bags of trail mix in front of the Community United Church of Christ, 805 S. Sixth St., Champaign.
The Rev. Mike Mulberry, the church's pastor, and Pat Syoen, a church member and Urbana resident, started distributing trail mix about three years ago as a way to protest the war in Iraq.
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Last 3,000 Rose Bowl tickets sold Tuesday morning
4:39 PM 12/11/2007 — It didn't take long for the University of Illinois to sell the last of its Rose Bowl tickets - just half an hour.
The university put the last 3,000 of its tickets on sale at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning. All were sold by 9:30.
Tuesday was the first chance the general public had to buy tickets from the university.
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Champaign toxic site gets volatile response
12:47 PM 12/10/2007 — An old booster house in an abandoned field with peeling white paint and rusty pipes is all that is left above the ground at the corner of Fifth and Hill streets in Champaign.
But it is what remains below the surface that has some community members calling foul.
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Urbana starts program for recycling dead batteries
10:47 PM 12/9/2007 — "Batteries not included" labels on holiday toys may be a parent's worst nightmare this time of year, but for environmentalists the idea of hundreds of batteries being thrown away is even scarier.
"There is a better and higher use for (battery) materials," said Rod Fletcher, environmental manager for the city of Urbana.
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State creates meth manufacturer database
10:27 PM 12/9/2007 — Due to a drastic rise in methamphetamine lab incidents in the past few years, Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed a law declaring a database, known as the Methamphetamine Manufacturer Registry, in June 2006. This past June, the Illinois State Police launched a Web site designed to give communities throughout the state the opportunity to view the names of people convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine.
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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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Oil spill devastates South Korea's west coast
11:05 PM 12/9/2007 — MALLIPO BEACH, South Korea - Thousands of people mobilized by South Korea's Coast Guard used shovels and buckets Sunday to clean up a disastrous oil spill polluting a swathe of the country's scenic and environmentally rich western coast.
About 100 ships, including Coast Guard, navy and private fishing boats, were also to help contain and clean up South Korea's worst spill, said Coast Guard official Kim Young-hwan.
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NIU set to resume finals schedule after security threat
4:38 PM 12/11/2007 — DEKALB, Ill. - Northern Illinois University is closed Monday because of icy weather and a security concerns after police found threats scrawled on a bathroom wall over the weekend.
In a statement posted on the university's Web site, administrators say finals scheduled for Monday will be held on December 14th.
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Champaign County aims for more voters at primaries
10:35 PM 12/9/2007 — When polls open for the Feb. 5 primary election, Champaign County Clerk Mark Sheldon hopes about one-third of voters cast a ballot - an improvement from the 2002 primary, when only one in four Champaign County voters took part in the election.
Educators, civil servants and political groups have expressed concern about disinterest in the upcoming primary, particularly among students.
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Odds and ends: Postal carrier found with stolen greeting cards in car
8:39 PM 12/9/2007 — NEW YORK - Call it a special delivery. A postal carrier pocketed dozens of greeting cards he was supposed to deliver to get at the cash inside, postal inspectors said. He was found with more than 130 pieces of other people's mail in his car, according to a court complaint.
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Police reports
8:42 PM 12/9/2007 — Champaign Red Roof Inn, 212 W. Anthony Drive, reported aggravated discharge of a firearm Saturday morning. According to a police report, a 23-year-old offender fired shots into a vacant hotel room window. The offender damaged the window and the drywall of the room.
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Column: Sorry everyone, I'm taking it easy this week
6:04 PM 12/10/2007 — It's Dec. 10 and finals week is officially here. Crack open the caffeine so you can make it through those notes from economics you haven't looked at since September. This week makes the Undergrad Library as crowded as Green Street on a Friday night. There's still that light at the end of the tunnel: Just six more days until the official beginning of winter break, but these days are perhaps the most stressful of the entire semester.
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Frosh prepare for first finals
6:09 PM 12/10/2007 — As the semester winds down and finals kick into high gear, students living in University Housing are adjusting as they attempt to focus on exams while living in close quarters.
About 80 percent of the residents in University Housing are freshmen, experiencing their first round of college final exams.
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Counseling Center offers ways for students to de-stress during finals
6:14 PM 12/10/2007 — The words "finals week" may conjure up a great deal of anxiety and fear among the University student body.
Westley Scott, sophomore in LAS, said he associates the word "stress" with finals week.
"I had a girlfriend last year, so that kind of screwed it up," he said.
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Column:Don't feel like studying for finals? Here are some fun activities to try
6:15 PM 12/10/2007 — I was probably in the womb when I first discovered ways to kill time without actually accomplishing anything.
I envision myself curled up in the fetal position - of course, I would have still been a fetus - thinking about which of the many types of "Law and Order" I would watch, or which YouTube video I could best entertain myself with.
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Don't fret your final exam prep, the tests could be much worse
6:16 PM 12/10/2007 — Well it's that special time of year again. The snow has fallen, the streets are icy and everyone is hiding behind textbooks in preparation for finals. Students are now doing "The Final Countdown," if you will. This unfortunate ritual has to be navigated before we can really enjoy the holiday season and subsequently forget everything we spent a week obsessing over.
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Students take breaks from studying at bars
6:20 PM 12/10/2007 — While some University students may have the car packed and running before they sit down to take their last final, others are planning to stay in town for a last dose of Campustown fun before heading home for the holidays.
Torin Oiness, sophomore in Business, has his last final Thursday, but he plans to stay in Champaign until Saturday.
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Many students hit UI libraries hard during finals week
6:29 PM 12/10/2007 — Students at the library this week are either working there or fervently preparing for finals. As much as a student might think they have the hardest exams or the most difficult papers to write at the end of each semester, everyone is going through a similar experience.
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Column: Taking finals in a fraternity makes for good memories
6:31 PM 12/10/2007 — If you want to lift your self-esteem at final exam time, I recommend joining a fraternity. "I may not be a great student," you will say to yourself, "but at least I didn't miss a final because our social chair said I wasn't man enough to do a four-hour kegstand.
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Column: Valuable advice for dealing with finals week
6:33 PM 12/10/2007 — Welcome, readers, to the patriarch of all special editions, the one to wade you precariously through what might be the most trying week of these last five months. Relax, engineers, we all have it bad. Get over it.
I would have taken the opportunity to generously highlight how to waste your finals week, but Jonathon Jacobson has already taken that liberty (see 4A).
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