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Three-year degrees expand options for students

In this economy, we’re pinching pennies. We’re taking classes online at community colleges, taking out more loans, even taking a break from our studies to work. And to top it off, the Board of Trustees just approved a tuition increase for next year’s class. But Interim President Stanley Ikenberry is being realistic. During last week’s Board of Trustees meeting, he suggested an accelerated baccalaureate degree option on all three campuses.

   3/15/2010 - 9:55 PM    Post your comment

From Different Perspectives

Jared Hall
College students not in position to judge administrative, faculty salaries

Right up front, I’m going to make a confession. I spent several minutes thumbing through the Salary Guide that The Daily Illini published last week. There’s a certain voyeuristic thrill to looking up the salaries of your favorite (and least favorite) professors, gawking at the high pay of certain administrators and marveling at how a seemingly inept football coach could be paid so darn much.

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3/15/2010 - 10:03 PM    2 comments
Mary Schaubert
Live your life without “don’ts”

Mary may be on the brink of adult life, but she is still told no several times a day. She has decided that the time has come, to start making her own decisions.

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3/14/2010 - 10:18 PM    1 comment
Student Trustee-elect Daniel Soso urges student body to get involved

As we approach an election year with a major budget crisis and an interim chancellor, we are coming upon a time of great change on our campus.

3/15/2010 - 10:16 PM    Post your comment
Megan Graham
Curbing obesity in America relies on personal, not government, change

Many states are beginning to use “sin taxes” as a means to mend struggling budgets. New York is currently fighting for a penny-per-ounce soda tax to create revenue and even, in New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s opinion, “save lives.”

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3/15/2010 - 10:11 PM    Post your comment
New Web Site introduced to create more transparency in honor of Sunshine Week

Sunshine Week is a national project devoted to government transparency. Although it started Sunday with a rainy day, a new Web site designed to shed some light on Illinois government surfaced.

3/14/2010 - 10:21 PM    Post your comment
Colleen Lindsay
Thou shalt not drink soda: yet another sin tax?

The government loves to tell us what to do with our money. Taxes rise to fund lawmakers’ policies, get us out of debt accumulated by wasteful spending by past lawmakers and to fund elegant dinners for fancy bigwigs. There are even divisions of taxes: sales tax, property tax, stamp duty, payroll tax, income tax and even a sin tax. Yes, we get taxed for “sinning”.

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3/14/2010 - 10:14 PM    4 comments

Letters to the Editor & Guest Columns

Letters to the Editor
SORF salary mix up

The March 9 publication of the salary guide was a great idea. However, I was miffed to see that my salary was listed as more than twice the amount I was actually paid.

   3/9/2010 - 11:47 PM    1 comment
Letters to the Editor
Faces in the media must match population

In this small community of Champaign-Urbana, there are already six long term care facilities, but very rarely can I find news dealing with aging. There has been too little coverage, and even a negative portrayal in media on aging.

   3/3/2010 - 11:08 PM    Post your comment
Letters to the Editor
Campus parking a pain for students, visitors

After two and a half years on campus and multiple parking tickets reminding me so, I have reached the point where I can no longer stand the parking available on our campus.

   3/3/2010 - 11:05 PM    3 comments
Letters to the Editor
Rising costs hurt higher education

Rising costs at the University of Illinois are making a quality education unattainable for many prospective and current students.

   3/3/2010 - 5:28 PM    Post your comment

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