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The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871

The Daily Illini
The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871

The Daily Illini
The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871

The Daily Illini
The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871

The Daily Illini

BOT meeting kicks off

By Alissa Groeninger • September 10, 2009

Quinn names top advisor

By Alissa Groeninger • May 12, 2009

225 confirmed swine flu cases in Ill., schools urged to not close

By Alissa Groeninger • May 6, 2009

Confirmed Illinois swine flu cases increase with test

By Alissa Groeninger • May 5, 2009

Recount to be held for Unit 4 School Board race

By Alissa Groeninger • April 27, 2009
Ebert gives Cinema Studies program $1 million

Ebert gives Cinema Studies program $1 million

By Alissa Groeninger • April 22, 2009

County’s Final canvass does not change election results

By Alissa Groeninger • April 21, 2009

Mom’s Weekend a success for University organizations and local businesses

By Alissa Groeninger • April 20, 2009

County holds final canvass for elections, results could affect race

By Alissa Groeninger • April 20, 2009

Fight outside bar leads to an arrest

By Alissa Groeninger • April 20, 2009

Earth Week kicks off today

By Alissa Groeninger • April 20, 2009

Illinois to receive national funding for education

By Alissa Groeninger • April 20, 2009

President White says University has remained stable, hoping for additional funds from State

By Alissa Groeninger • April 15, 2009

Illinois’ unseasonably cold April to continue, affecting farmers

By Alissa Groeninger • April 14, 2009

Marathon could bring $1 million to Champaign-Urbana

By Alissa Groeninger • April 10, 2009

Illinois Treasurer eyes senate seat, raises $1.1 million

By Alissa Groeninger • April 9, 2009

Earthquake hits central Italy, University students abroad accounted for

By Alissa Groeninger • April 7, 2009

College of Business names new dean

By Alissa Groeninger • April 6, 2009

Green Party upset with candidate eligibility bill

By Alissa Groeninger • April 6, 2009

State Senate unanimously passes bill to remove minimum age requirement for entrance to University

By Alissa Groeninger • April 6, 2009

UI study compares types of education

By Alissa Groeninger • March 20, 2009
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn delivers his State of the Budget Address to a joint session of the General Assembly Wednesday on the House floor at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. If Quinn wants to raise income taxes, he must convince skeptics that it's the only remaining solution to the state's budget problems, and that means demonstrating that he's getting spending under control.

Quinn plans to increase income tax

By Alissa Groeninger • March 19, 2009

Art, technology collide into eDream

By Alissa Groeninger • March 18, 2009

Multiple exams throughout the semester test class performance

By Alissa Groeninger • March 12, 2009
Brad Meyer

Bar restrictions create mixed opinions on safety during Unofficial

By Alissa Groeninger • March 9, 2009
People celebrate Unofficial Friday morning, on March 6, 2009, in Champaign. Dean Santarinala

Cochrane says Unofficial is bigger than he intended

By Alissa Groeninger • March 6, 2009
Josh Birnbaum

Unofficial grows from promotional to controversial

By Alissa Groeninger • March 6, 2009
David Fullarton The Daily Illini Kelsey Caetano-AnollŽs, who at 15 is one of the university's youngest students, at the Alma Mater on Tuesday. Caetano-AnollŽs is at odds with a proposed policy which would not allow students her age to attend the university.

University age requirements may be reduced, cut entirely

By Alissa Groeninger • March 4, 2009

Report: Blacks less likely to take, pass AP exams

By Alissa Groeninger • February 25, 2009

Urbana Middle School forced to formulate plan for restructuring

By Alissa Groeninger • February 24, 2009
Chief Illiniwek leaves the field after performing during the halftime show of the Illinois-Ohio football game at Memorial Stadium on Oct. 14, 2006.

Two years into Chief’s retirement, no plans exist to create UI symbol

By Alissa Groeninger • February 20, 2009

Acts of Kindness program continues Huskie spirit

By Alissa Groeninger • February 13, 2009
ulian Shin, senior in Media, left, Christine Smith, junior in LAS, center, and Jen Hance, junior in LAS, visit a memorial on Martin Luther King, Jr. Commons at NIU in Dekalb, Ill., on Feb. 15. Erica Magda

Can you protect 40,000 people?

By Alissa Groeninger • February 13, 2009
Audience members watch a wreath laying memorial outside Cole Hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Ill. on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009. The ceremony marked to the minute the one year anniversary of the school shooting on the campus, wh Erica Magda

NIU victims’ families hang wreaths in their honor

By Alissa Groeninger • February 13, 2009

Student reflects on NIU tragedy, recounts struggle during shooting

By Alissa Groeninger • February 13, 2009

UI aerospace alumni shoot for the stars

By Alissa Groeninger • February 6, 2009

Fire breaks out in Urbana residence halls

By Alissa Groeninger • February 5, 2009

Champaign weighs redistricting options

By Alissa Groeninger • February 3, 2009

Central High School restructuring after not meeting AYP

By Alissa Groeninger • February 2, 2009

Champaign School District looking for new revenue source to meet consent decree

By Alissa Groeninger • January 26, 2009
Erica Magda

Town meeting fails to calm budget fears

By Alissa Groeninger • January 23, 2009

Medical schools consider expanding to help fill physicians shortage

By Alissa Groeninger • January 20, 2009
Teri McClain wears buttons and a bag in support of President-elect Barack Obama in front of the Capitol in Washington on Monday, where his swearing-in will take place on Tuesday. Alex Brandon, The Associated Press

UI campus prepares for Barack Obama’s historic inauguration

By Alissa Groeninger • January 20, 2009

UI plans ways to reduce costs

By Alissa Groeninger • January 16, 2009

Urbana School District anticipates budget crisis

By Alissa Groeninger • December 12, 2008

University braces for economic hardships

By Alissa Groeninger • December 12, 2008

Norovirus plagues campus

By Alissa Groeninger • November 21, 2008

Students pick grad school as economy declines

By Alissa Groeninger • November 19, 2008

Student debt increasing, costs versus benefits of college weighed

By Alissa Groeninger • November 14, 2008

Tuition increases jump across country

By Alissa Groeninger • November 12, 2008
Elio Beta, a first-year medical student, works on a lab for his medical histology class in the Medical Science Building on Wednesday afternoon. More first-year students are attending medical school than ever before. Erica Magda

More students attend medical schools

By Alissa Groeninger • November 3, 2008

Architects introduced, magnet programming discussed

By Alissa Groeninger • October 31, 2008
 

Halloween top holiday in Carbondale, Madison

By Alissa Groeninger • October 28, 2008

Study finds social skills important in future earnings

By Alissa Groeninger • October 27, 2008

Battling global warming at Beckman Institute

By Alissa Groeninger • October 21, 2008

University YWCA says enough to violence

By Alissa Groeninger • October 20, 2008

Champaign looks to turn elementary schools into magnet schools

By Alissa Groeninger • October 20, 2008

Colleges consider dropping SAT/ ACT, University still sees need

By Alissa Groeninger • October 20, 2008

Experts discuss gender inequality in academia

By Alissa Groeninger • October 16, 2008

Economic crunch creates greater need for financial aid

By Alissa Groeninger • October 13, 2008

Student Senate opposes county sales tax increase

By Alissa Groeninger • October 8, 2008

Grants from community improve teaching

By Alissa Groeninger • October 1, 2008

School board finalizes long-term initiative to improve education

By Alissa Groeninger • September 24, 2008

Champaign to make progress in closing achievement gap

By Alissa Groeninger • September 22, 2008

Champaign to make addition its north side schools

By Alissa Groeninger • September 18, 2008
Crossing guard Rose Hudson helps Leeann Stack and her son Alex, 7, across Prospect Street in Champaign by Bottenfield Elementary on Thursday. Erica Magda

C-U working to make roads safer for children

By Alissa Groeninger • September 12, 2008

All alumni, students invited into association free of charge

By Alissa Groeninger • September 10, 2008

Teach for America tries to end educational inequality

By Alissa Groeninger • September 4, 2008
Angela Green, a new assistant professor, gives a course overview of Humanity in the Food Web on Tuesday in the Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building. Erica Magda

UI attracts new professors with fresh teaching philosophies

By Alissa Groeninger • August 29, 2008

Urbana meets progress goals, shows improvement

By Alissa Groeninger • August 27, 2008

UI political groups organize events to promote candidates

By Alissa Groeninger • July 26, 2008

COLUMN: It’s difficult to contact people

By Alissa Groeninger • May 4, 2008

Study: teachers’ pay lags behind coaches’

By Alissa Groeninger • May 2, 2008
University of Illinois President B. Joseph White shakes the hand of a doctoral graduate at the U of I Commencement ceremony at Assembly Hall on Sunday afternoon, May 13, 2007. Erica Magda

Graduates concerned with finding a job

By Alissa Groeninger • April 30, 2008
 

Champaign attempts to curb crime

By Alissa Groeninger • April 24, 2008

Failing marks force area schools to restructure

By Alissa Groeninger • April 21, 2008

Double lives of student moms a difficult dynamic to balance

By Alissa Groeninger • April 8, 2008

C-U districts please taxpayers

By Alissa Groeninger • April 2, 2008

International education week under way

By Alissa Groeninger • March 31, 2008

Survey shows difference in job concerns

By Alissa Groeninger • March 27, 2008

Textbook bill aims to keep costs down

By Alissa Groeninger • March 27, 2008

Degrees can improve status, study shows

By Alissa Groeninger • March 10, 2008

Fidgety Boys program studies learning style

By Alissa Groeninger • March 3, 2008

Student homelessness on rise across Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

By Alissa Groeninger • February 22, 2008
14-year-old Urbana resident Kelsey Caetano-Anolles sits in front of her piano at her home on Monday. She is graduating from Urbana High School this May and is hoping to attend the University of Illinois in Fall 2008. Erica Magda

14-year-old to graduate high school

By Alissa Groeninger • February 13, 2008
Rev. Charles Nash sits in his office in Champaign, Thursday. Erica Magda

Operation Graduation connects students with community support

By Alissa Groeninger • February 8, 2008

College to offer Master’s Degree in public health

By Alissa Groeninger • January 29, 2008

Champaign school officials enlist community for improvement plan

By Alissa Groeninger • January 22, 2008
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