Editorial | UI salaries reflect administration’s ineptitude in fiscal duties
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
January 23, 2020
Illinois isn’t a stranger to debt or financial crises. As a state nearly on the brink of insolvency, you’d think the one place that should be financially stable is a state school. However, after the University’s in-state tuition freeze and Illinois Commitment program to guarantee education to...
Editorial | Mental health counseling at UI requires restructuring
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
December 10, 2019
The University is home to nearly 34,000 undergraduate students and roughly 10,000 graduate students. As an institution of higher education, it is little more than a stress factory for its inhabitants — the vast majority of whom are between 18 and 22 years old, smack dab in the middle of the age group...
Editorial | ‘Frozen II’ lessens climate change severity with miraculous solutions
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
December 5, 2019
“Frozen II,” Disney’s long-anticipated sequel to the instant box office success “Frozen,” hit theaters Nov. 22. The film, made for families, seems to present climate change as one of the central issues. While this inclusion of real-world problems in the whimsical world of enchanted, singing s...
Editorial | Instagram hides likes for profit
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
November 21, 2019
Recently, Instagram announced it would begin removing “likes” from posts in the U.S. in an attempt to protect the self-esteem of its users. The change went into effect last week and now, users are still able to see the number of likes on the content they post, but their followers and lurkers can...
Editorial | The Daily Northwestern doesn’t deserve huge blowback
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
November 14, 2019
Journalists must remain transparent, report facts and minimize harm. This is their mandate. This weekend, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited the Northwestern campus, which sparked protests in the Chicagoland area. Any student or professional publication would have sent out reporters t...
Editorial | No voices should be silenced
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
November 7, 2019
After covering an “Abolish ICE” rally in September, The Harvard Crimson came under fire from its own campus. Student activists leading the charge against the newspaper declared Crimson reporters’ attempts to contact the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for comment to be “culturally inse...
Editorial | Halloween is capitalism in costume
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
October 31, 2019
Every year on this day, millions of young Americans don their spookiest apparel, grab a bag or bucket to hold their loot and — armed with the age-old Halloween greeting, “Trick or treat!” — take to the streets in search of candy. And every year on this day, the tradition subtly entrenches the i...
Editorial | Stop the modern-day slavery, shop ethically sourced clothing
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
October 24, 2019
People often talk about slavery as if it’s a concept of the past; however, a recent investigation by the Guardian shows slave labor is flourishing — just in a different way than it did a century ago. Now, big corporations utilize sweatshops and what is ostensibly slave labor to produce their high-end cloth...
Editorial | UI should cover abortion medication costs; follow in California’s footsteps
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
October 17, 2019
Last week, California became the first state to pass legislation requiring public colleges to provide students with access to abortion medication at no cost. In a time when many states are rolling back access to abortion services, California’s decision is not only monumental, but should also be co...
Editorial | Americans deserve transparency from institutions
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
October 10, 2019
In a time rife with political turmoil, the American people need transparency from our leaders now more than ever. We need to know what’s going on — the full stories — in order to make informed opinions about our elected officials and how they’re handling the offices we gave them. The public rel...
Editorial | Last straw for Trump makes waves
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
October 3, 2019
From the beginning of his presidency, Donald Trump has remained at the center of scandal after scandal. Talk of impeachment has circulated within the Democratic Party and beyond since his inauguration. Because of this, Trump and the American people seem to have become numb to these threats. But now, afte...
Editorial | Face the facts: Climate change is real
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
September 26, 2019
As millions of people around the world, including in Champaign, took to the streets Friday to demand transformative action against climate change, government leaders from the United Nations were getting ready to travel to New York for the 2019 Climate Action Summit. All leaders were expected to br...
