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Winter weather hits Champaign-Urbana
9:11 PM 2/24/2008 — A winter weather advisory was in effect until 6 p.m. yesterday for the Urbana-Chamapaign area. Up to two inches of snow and sleet were expected. Champaign's snow removal ordinance goes into effect 48 hours after the end of a snowfall. The ordinance requires property owners within the City's University District and Downtown Business District to remove snow from their sidewalks after at least two inches of snow accumulation or if there is ice, sleet or freezing rain.
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University of Illinois student dead, cause unknown
7:14 PM 2/22/2008 — Rob Davis, a 21-year-old University of Illinois student, died Thursday after being hospitalized with a yet-to-be-identified infection, campus officials said Friday. Davis, a senior from Mokena majoring in biology, died at 8:49 p.m. Thursday at Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, according to the Will County coroner's office.
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University student contracted meningitis
3:01 PM 2/23/2008 — A female University student was hospialized on Wednesday with an infection later confirmed to be meningococcal meningitis, said Robert D. Palinkas, director of McKinley Health Center.
"At this point, we don't think there is any reason for alarm," Palinkas said in the press release.
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Fraternity criticized for party
1:22 PM 2/23/2008 — Theme parties are nothing new to the Triangle Fraternity. The house hosts one every semester, but it was not until the most recent party on Feb. 2 that allegations of racism came into play.
While residents of the third and fourth floors chose 1970s and "Nightmare on Elm Street" themes respectively, students living on the second floor chose to model their space after the city of Compton, Calif.
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Trustee forum gets hung up on Chief
1:17 PM 2/23/2008 — Chief Illiniwek may be considered dead to some, but he was alive and well as a heated topic of discussion at the second student trustee debate, sponsored by PRIDE, a Registered Student Organization that supports the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
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Redistricting plan created, not approved by all
11:20 PM 2/21/2008 — Last week, the Champaign City Council chose the redistricting plan to be brought forward in an upcoming City Council meeting.
The new plan was designed to rebalance the districts, as the city acquired more than 7,500 new citizens since the last census. Due to this, some of the districts, most notably districts 3 and 5, became unbalanced with the rest.
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Urbana to conduct special census
11:26 PM 2/21/2008 — The city of Urbana will be conducting an early special census this year for an updated population count. The new numbers will help Urbana qualify for additional state funding for its public schools, senior citizen programs, libraries, roads and transportation, which residents use daily.
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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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Freedom of expression questioned at Allen Hall
11:29 PM 2/21/2008 — At first glance, it looks like graffiti that might be found on a bathroom wall: ink stains, scribbled remarks, a drawing of a vagina.
Look closer.
Written statements about censorship and free speech replaced a tissue-paper vulva that was removed from a bulletin board in Allen Hall by the University Division of Housing last week.
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Student homelessness on rise across Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
11:14 PM 2/21/2008 — The Illinois State Board of Education has reported that 60,000 homeless students live in the state of Illinois, which is significantly more than previously predicted.
The board recently began analyzing data that count the students who receive free lunches to better predict how many students are homeless across the state, said Peggy Dunn, Illinois state coordinator for homeless education.
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Tearing down fliers sparks complaints against candidates
12:16 AM 2/22/2008 — Student election campaigning is drawing negative attention as complaints are filed against candidates accused of tearing down campaign fliers.
"It happens every year," said Ryan Ruzic, former student body president. "But the Student Election Commission has done little to stop it.
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Northwestern reviews dean's use of anonymous quotes
12:48 PM 2/22/2008 — EVANSTON, Ill. - Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of the Medill School of Journalism.
John Lavine cited unnamed students in two introductory letters he wrote for the journalism school's alumni magazine last year.
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Sixteenth annual Ally Conference comes to campus this weekend
10:55 PM 2/21/2008 — This weekend, more than 1,500 students from schools across the region will descend on the University for the annual Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference, an annual event that promotes diversity, activism and network development among students, staff and faculty.
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All 46 aboard Venezuela plane killed in mountain crash
1:17 PM 2/23/2008 — CARACAS, Venezuela - All 46 people aboard a Venezuelan passenger plane died when it slammed into an Andean mountain, rescue crews confirmed Friday. "By the way it crashed we can determine there are no survivors," said Gen. Ramon Vinas, head of the civil aviation authority.
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Local proposition urges Congress to bring troops home
10:13 PM 2/21/2008 — A local group has banded together it request that Congress only allows for enough funding to bring the troops in Iraq home. Click on the icon to hear The Daily Illini's Melissa Chua bring you more on the proposition.
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Campuswide issues discussed at ISS debate
12:19 AM 2/22/2008 — The Chief, diversity and campus security were among the topics discussed at the Liberal Arts and Sciences Illinois Student Senate candidate debate Thursday night. Toward the end of the debate, each of the candidates present - except Ramsen Zacharia, freshman in LAS, who left early and did not participate in discussion of these topics - expressed his views, which were on both sides of the spectrum.
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Serb protesters break into U.S. Embassy in Belgrade
11:23 PM 2/21/2008 — BELGRADE, Serbia - Serb rioters broke into the U.S. Embassy and set fire to an office Thursday, and police clashed with protesters outside after a large demonstration against Kosovo's declaration of independence. The embassy said a charred body was found in the embassy after the attack.
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Turkey launches ground incursion into Iraq, escalating conflict with Kurd rebels
12:13 PM 2/22/2008 — ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish troops have launched a ground incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of separatist Kurdish rebels, the military said Friday.
It is the first confirmed ground operation by the Turkish military into Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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Odds and Ends: Scientists launch space flight with fish for research
9:52 PM 2/21/2008 — STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Seventy-two small fish were briefly launched into space by researchers Thursday, hoping their swimming patterns would shed some light on motion sickness. German researchers sent the cichlids on a 10-minute rocket ride that blasted off from a launch pad in northern Sweden, said Professor Reinhard Hilbig, who was in charge of the project.
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Police report
9:50 PM 2/21/2008 — Champaign A 41-year-old man was arrested for drug possession at the 100 block of North Walnut Avenue early Tuesday morning. According to a police report, the operator of the vehicle was found to have drug equipment and cannabis. He was taken into custody for driving under a suspended license and having no front license plate.
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