Editorial | The right mindset helps reduce ‘cabin fever’
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
March 26, 2020
In the days following the Illinois state government's decision to effectuate a state-wide “stay-home” order, secluded students and faculty worry that isolation may beget an insanity similar to that exhibited in The Shining. With fellow Illini quickly shipped home and locked indoors for the foreseeable ...
Protect those around you: Self-quarantine after break
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
March 12, 2020
Coronavirus has monopolized thoughts — and comedy — on campus the last couple of weeks. Memes featuring the virus, affectionately dubbed “corona,” have flooded social media feeds. Students make casual jokes about it as they walk to class. Classes become derailed as professors add their own hum...
Editorial | Vote ‘Yes’ to Media Fee
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
March 5, 2020
A tall coffee from Starbucks costs $1.85. Here at Illini Media Company, we are asking just the same from you: $1.85 a semester to help us continue to serve the University. The Illini Media Company consists of The Daily Illini, WPGU 107.1 FM and Illio Yearbook. When you want to stay up to date with news a...
Editorial | Stop appropriating celebrity grief
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
February 27, 2020
When a celebrity dies, the world collectively pauses. Social media becomes flooded with the news of how and where, and for a moment, nothing else seems to matter. It’s interesting to see who comes crawling out of the woodwork following such a calamity and how their narrative will be twisted to lessen th...
Editorial | Illini sports deserve equal recognition
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
February 20, 2020
Last weekend, the Illinois wheelchair basketball teams played at the ARC in what was the only home tournament of their season. The women’s team pulled away from the tournament having won all three of their games, and the men’s team achieved two out of three victories. These student-athletes w...
Editorial | It’s past time to cancel Valentine’s Day
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
February 13, 2020
It’s the time of pink and flying chubby babies once more. Paper hearts adorn windows, pink streamers hang from ceilings and all the nice restaurants are booked. Jewelry, floral and chocolate sales have shot straight through the roof like one of Cupid’s arrows. Love is in the air … or is it? Va...
Editorial | Lawsuit against UI Counseling Center isn’t enough
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
February 6, 2020
A therapist’s office should be a safe environment, a place in which people can share whatever is on their mind. Ranging anywhere from the stress of school to darker thoughts about harming oneself or others, therapists are equipped with the right tools for many situations. But what happens when ce...
Editorial | The Times’ dual endorsement is a bad idea
By The Daily Illini Editorial Board
January 30, 2020
Breaking with precedent, The New York Times endorsed two Democratic presidential candidates earlier this month, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar. The Times editorial board member Katie Kingsbury defends this decision, stating, “the circumstances created by Trump’s election provided an opportunity ...
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. The state is nearly on the brink of insolvency, but you’d think the one place that should be financially stable is a public school. However, after the University’s in-state tuition freeze and Illinois Commitment program to guarantee edu...
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...
