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

Diana Anghel

Diana Anghel, Editor-In-Chief

Farewell to 2021: New leadership ahead

Farewell to 2021: New leadership ahead

By Diana Anghel, Editor-in-Chief January 3, 2022
Daily Illini Editor-in-Chief Diana Anghel passes an edited Graduation Guide page to Managing Editor for Reporting Heather Robinson on Saturday in the basement of the University YMCA. The Daily Illini teaches young journalists about these values before diving head-first into the “real” journalistic world, Anghel writes. It gives them an opportunity to shape into the best version of themselves fit to serve a society.

Editorial | Why student journalism matters

By Diana Anghel, Editor-in-Chief April 25, 2021
The 6.7% welcomes you

The 6.7% welcomes you

By Diana Anghel, Editor-in-Chief April 25, 2021
The DI joins College Media Madness fundraiser

The DI joins College Media Madness fundraiser

By Diana Anghel, Editor-in-Chief March 18, 2021
Weathering the storm: New staff takes over

Weathering the storm: New staff takes over

By Diana Anghel, Editor-in-Chief March 15, 2021
A University testing site worker passes a COVID-19 test tube to a student at the State Farm Center testing site on Oct. 8.

UI projects $270 million in COVID-19 costs in FY 2021

By Diana Anghel, Assistant News Editor November 16, 2020
The homepage of the Big Ten Voting Challenge explains the event. Big Ten schools compete against each other to see which college can turn out the most votes and which can achieve the greatest increase in voting rates.

Big Ten promotes student voter initiative

By Diana Anghel, Assistant News Editor September 1, 2020
Students wait in line outside of a University coronavirus testing site. Most of the University’s testing locations were closed the weekend of move-in and lines spilled into the next week.

Students experience long testing lines

By Diana Anghel, Assistant News Editor August 31, 2020
A Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District bus traveling the 120W Teal route makes its way down White Street on Sunday. While traveling northbound on Fifth Street in Champaign, an MTD bus was caught in gunfire on Sunday.

MTD bus struck by gunfire

By Diana Anghel, Assistant News Editor August 27, 2020
Students step onto a MTD bus at the Illinois terminal on Oct. 20, 2019.

MTD reduces scheduled service

By Diana Anghel, Assistant News Editor August 18, 2020
Dont dismiss importance of staying organized

Don’t dismiss importance of staying organized

By Diana Anghel, Assistant News Editor August 5, 2020
Students and their dads tailgate outside of Memorial Stadium before the game against Minnesota on Nov. 3, 2018 during Dads Weekend.

Campus slang brings sense of community, uniformity

By Diana Anghel, Assistant News Editor July 31, 2020
Alice Cary. the newly appointed Illinois Chief of Police, poses for a portrait.

University hires new chief of police

By Diana Anghel, Assistant News Editor July 7, 2020
Several dollar bills lay in a pile.

Students raise concern over financial aid changes

By Diana Anghel, Assistant News Editor June 12, 2020
UI fund covers tuition increase for new students

UI fund covers tuition increase for new students

By Diana Anghel, Assistant News Editor May 1, 2020
University offers online counseling to students

University offers online counseling to students

By Diana Anghel, Assistant News Editor April 2, 2020
The first working prototype of the RapidVent is featured in a video on the Illinois RapidVent teams website.

Grainger, Carle Health design emergency ventilator

By Diana Anghel, Assistant News Editor March 30, 2020
Rey Guzman hangs a sign at the Emporium bar in the West Loop on March 15, 2020, soon after Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced all bars and restaurants would be closed to dine-in customers beginning March 16.

Pritzker holds press conference on COVID-19 updates

By Diana Anghel, Assistant News Editor March 16, 2020
Students raise their fists in protest of Kam’s on Thursday night. Kam’s workers did not interact with the student protesters.

Student activists protest in front of KAM’s

By Diana Anghel, Staff Writer February 24, 2020
Printed tweets with messages and distinct script images made with a printer connected to Twitter in a dorm room at Carr Hall on Oct. 31. Two University students created this printer out of curiosity and desire for a challenge.

Students build Twitter-connected printer

By Diana Anghel, Contributing Writer November 7, 2019
New bus company on campus strives to be “Bestway”

New bus company on campus strives to be “Bestway”

By Diana Anghel, Contributing Writer October 31, 2019
Installation by Naomi Bebo in Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape at Krannert Art Museum on Tuesday. The exhibit highlights the damage imposed on indigenous lands by the nuclear power industry.

Krannert exhibit raises awareness of nuclear industry

By Diana Anghel, Contributing Writer October 24, 2019
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