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TechnographThe Daily Illini releases special sections throughout the year on topics relevant to the campus community. From Quad Day to Finals, we're on your campus, giving in-depth coverage to what matters most. Check back here often to see the archive of past special sections, as well as any additional content that didn't make the morning edition.
Fall 2008 Football Preview
Published August 27, 2008After making it the Rose Bowl during the 2007 season, the Illini football teams looks to strike back against their foes. Following what the players are calling one of the hardest training camps in Illini history, Coach Ron Zook and the Fighting Illini could be a tough team to beat. Click here for all of your 2008 Illini football information.
Fall 2008 Welcome Back Edition
Published August 20, 2008Regardless of whether you?'ve spent the last three months anticipating your return to campus or looking forward to your first day as a college student, The Daily Illini?s Welcome Back Edition will be your best source of information. Full of previews for the coming semester and recaps from the summer sessions, this edition kicks off the year for our staff and for our readers. Check out all the information about your favorite sports teams, news on campus and begin getting ready for the November elections.
Spring 2008 Graduation Guide
Published April 30, 2008With graduation lurking around the corner, many University students are preparing for their future. Yet there are many different routes that students are taking. Some are getting internships or jobs, while others are going to graduate school. Either way, The Daily Illini's Spring 2008 Graduation Guide has advice for students and parents about the next chapter of life.
Spring 2008 Mom's Day Guide
Published April 8, 2008Getting ready for your Mom to come on campus? No worries, this edition of The Daily Illini will help you figure out just what to do. From cleaning your apartment to cooking, you want to make sure that everything is set when she comes in. And once she's in, if you take her out for a night on the town, you'll want to make sure she stays appropriately dressed. After all, things have changed since Mom was on campus, whether she went here or not. Don't believe us? Check out this guide to see just how much things have changed.
Spring 2008 Housing Guide
Published February 5, 2008From construction of new apartments to constructing the perfect living space, the Spring 2008 Housing Guide has all of the helpful hints you need for living in Champaign-Urbana. Take it from our editors, who provide you insight on living arrangements from the dorms to single apartments to apartments with five women. This is especially helpful if it's your first time living out of the dorms, as this online guide covers offers practical advice on how to protect your belongings and how to ensure the security of your housing and the lease that got you that sweet pad!
Spring 2008 Career Guide
Published January 29, 2008As graduation nears and the job and internship search intensifies for seniors and all University students, The Daily Illini's 2008 Spring Career Guide features stories on the best ways to get help on campus. Our staff has also pooled their experience (or lack of) to recommend the best strategies for finding a job or internship, how to cope with a bad summer job and even a few fallback options if your major doesn't lead to a career. Take a few minutes to stop stressing about the end of college or preparing for the day you too will have to think about resumes and interviews to check out the online version of the guide.
Rose Bowl Guide
Published December 12, 2007After not playing in a bowl game since 1984, the Illini football team was able to fight their way to the "Grandaddy of Them All," the Rose Bowl. Starting off the season with a loss against Missouri, the Illini were determined to prove themselves. The team rebounded with wins against ranked teams such as Wisconsin and Ohio State. The 2007 Rose Bowl Guide takes you through the Illini's journey to Pasadena and previews the Big Ten-Pac-10 match-up with USC.
Fall Finals Edition
Published December 10, 2007Don't lose your hair over finals. Afterall, they're actually worse in other countries. That and other lessons can be learned from the Fall 2007 Finals Guide. The Daily Illini's staff put together this special section to help students manage the semester's hardest week. In addition to study tips, the staff editors tell you how they cope with this stressful time period. Go ahead and read this, it might be just what you need to make it through finals week!
Holiday Gift Guide
Published November 27, 2007Gift-giving can be a strenous time and when it clashes with finals week, it can be all too much. Let the wise words of the Daily Illini inspire, direct, and suggest where to shop, when to shop, how to shop, and what not to get your girlfriend. If you're list of things to do over this holiday break run thin, we have also included an itemized list of events going on in southern, central, and the chicagoland area during the University's winter break. Don't fret, relax, kick-back and let the spending begin!
Basketball Preview Guide
Published November 6, 2007Many questions surround Bruce Weber's 2007-08 basketball squad. As the Illini head into the season, what should you expect from this year's new-look team? Will Brian Randle emerge as the veteran leader? What freshmen will step up and make an impact? This guide offers inside analysis and coverage of the team, the conference and the rest of the NCAA. It's a brand new season, so kick it off right and get informed with the Illinois basketball preview.
Homecoming Guide
Published October 22, 2007The 2007 Homecoming guide features many-to-all of the important event happenings for this year's Homecoming week and weekend. The guide offers advice in a slew of different departments, guaranteed to makes sure that you and/or your family have the best time possible. Campus-wide events can be confusing, and often times overwhelming; we'll help break it down for you into the ABC's. Stories include: where to take you're parents, whether the Fighting Illini stand a chance against Ball State, and a list of recommended events to attend throughout the week. Check it out!
Fall Housing Guide
Published October 9, 2007The 2007 Housing Guide offers students a slew of information, opinions, and how- tos on when and where to find that perfect "pad." Advice and information ranges from fraternity house living, to late leasing, what to look for before signing that oh-so-tempting lease, or even how easy cooking for yourself can be. Looking for some direction? Take a peek at our Fall Housing Guide online edition to get the low-down the housing situation that?s best for you and your roommates. ?Don?t get left out in the cold!?
Fall Career Guide
Published September 17, 2007The 2007 fall career guide features a slew of tips and tricks for undergraduate job searching. With career fairs and interviews on the brain, the guide examines how the Illinois-state job market is looking based on a series of reports; information on GRE and LSAT preparation and how you can get started; how recent hikes in the "US News Best Colleges" rank of the University is affecting job recruitment; and how double majoring can increase your marketability as a job candidate. Check out the guide in it's online edition here and get an inside look at what you're future could look like. Check it out, there's a job at stake.
Illini Football Preview
Published August 28, 2007After years of suffering through mediocre seasons, could 2007 be the year? The Daily Illini's Football Preview takes a look into the upcoming campaign by dissecting the roster, naming key players and evaluating both sides of the ball. Everyone from Juice to J, Arrelious to Zook , the Illini are broken down for readers to see. Is this the year? We'll find out in a few months. Until then, check out the Daily Illini Football Preview.
2007 New Student Guide
Published July 23, 2007Welcome to the University of Illinois. We at the Daily Illini would like to be the first to congratulate you on getting accepted to this excellent institution. Our New Student Guide will help you get acclimated with everything the University has to offer. From the best places to eat or drink to where to buy your books and even how to find your way around the Quad, the DI has provided an in depth introduction to Campus life.
2007 Orientation Guide
Published May 26, 2007Are you an incoming freshmen ready to make the jump from high school to college life? Or maybe you're a worried parent, hesitant to see your child off. Or you could be a transfer student coming from far off lands or a community college. Whoever you are, get yourself acclimated to the University with this guide. The 2007 Orientation Guide is a look at all you need to know about U of I from dorm life to football cheers to places to check out on campus.
Daily Illini Year in Review
Published May 7, 2007Recap the biggest moments of the Spring 2007 semester with this guide's stories and commentary. The Daily Illini takes you inside the newsroom and behind the scenes, offering a perspective usually reserved for the water cooler. From news and sports to opinions and photos, this section lets you know what happened around town.
Daily Illini Graduation Guide
Published May 1, 2007Learn the things every student should do before they leave University life forever. The 2007 Daily Illini Graduation Guide is a compilation on college life, and what it takes to truly live as an Illini.
Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival - The Daily Illini Movie Guide
Published April 23, 2007A Welcome From Roger Ebert: 'Welcome to the Ninth Annual Overlooked Film Festival. Comparisons with previous years are impossible, but I think we have one of our strongest programs, with an unusual range of films, and three live musical performances, plus the score from "La Dolce Vita."'
Mom's Day Guide
Published April 10, 2007Mom's Day is an annual Illini tradition, and the Daily Illini's special preview section offered everything a student could need to be ready for the main event. We had a calendar of events and featured a few of the newest Mom's Day offerings on campus and off, but also provided a new twist on a campus staple. Managing editor Beth Gilomen suggests her favorite places to enjoy a drink or two with your mom, while sports editor Dave Just calls for more recognition to the annually crowned "Queen Mom." We profiled a student who recently added motherhood to the demands of finishing college and preparing for law school. We interviewed local mom-and-daughter duo Denise and Casey Zook, who donned their game-day orange for our cover shot. And we asked one alumna to talk about how Champaign is different now that her daughter goes to U of I.
NCAA Tournament Guide #2
Published March 26, 2007The Illini's season may not have ended like they would have liked, but our March Mayhem Guide #2 offered a comprehensive look at Illinois' earlier-than-expected exit and where the Tournament stood after four team punched their tickets to Atlanta and the Final Four. Columnist Lucas Deal gave his take on Florida's chances at being repeat champions and Illinois Athletic Director Ron Guenther's press row outburst. Finally, the Daily Illini featured an article profiling the program's future. To succeed, the Illini need an offensive creator and Weber and the rest of the Illini discussed their hope to once again return to the top of the Big Ten.
NCAA Tournament Guide #1
Published March 14, 2007As Illinois headed to Columbus, Ohio for its first-round NCAA Tournament match-up with Virginia Tech, the Daily Illini prepared a special six-page section for its readers. The DI's basketball staff prepared articles on what Illinois wanted to accomplish in the Tournament, to a scouting report on Virginia Tech, to a feature story profiling Chester Frazier, the Illini's "heart of this team." Not only did the stories focus on Illinois' chances in the Tournament, but our most experienced staffers provided a region-by-region guide to sports fans filling out their brackets. Throw in some photos of the Illini's troubling season and readers had all they needed.
Big Ten Tournament preview
Published March 7, 2007The Daily Illini's Big Ten Tournament preview featured coverage of the Illini's first-round match-up with Penn State and the team's state of mind after its regular season finale loss to Iowa. DI Sports staffers made their picks for who would win the tournament, which player would take Most Valuable Player honors and which Illini player would be most crucial to the Illini's success.
Housing Guide
Published February 6, 2007The Daily Illini Housing Guide is published twice during the academic year. It can be used as a resource for students looking to rent or currently renting On-Campus housing. Information varies from residence hall description to tips for handling landlord-tenant disputes.
- Housing Safety
- Residence hall profiles
- Both sides of subletting
- Is your rent inflated?
Spring Career Guide
Published January 30, 2007Students looking to secure post-graduate employment should pick up the Spring Career Guide. This guide, published twice per academic year, even covers such topics as graduate school testing.
- How do you land that internship?
- How do you make your resume look really hip?
- What's the job market like?
- What happens if you don't land a job?
Semester In Review
Published December 13, 2006Fall 2006 has been a semester to remember for everyone! From Juice Williams to Global Campus to The Dodging Illini making a splash on campus, The Daily Illini has been there giving you the news that shows how diverse and ever-changing the campus is. Check here to see The Daily Illini's best of fall 2006.
Illini Basketball Preview
Published November 1, 2006Illini Men's Basketball is heating up for another season! But before you head out to a game, check out the Basketball Preview to get details and information on the team, their schedule, and a few predictions about their season from our seasoned columnists. When the facts and stats matter, The Daily Illini has you covered and there's nothing but net.
