By Ryan Harding, Columnist
August 9, 2016
Filed under Columns, Opinions
Messages were written in chalk at the University's Main Quad last week which were supportive of Donald Trump’s general campaign platforms.
“Build the wall.”
“Trump deportation force.”
“They have to go back #Trump”
“Trump Coulter 2016.”
Not surprisingly, many students were ...
By Aaron Navarro
March 13, 2016
Filed under News
From setting up tables on the Quad to traveling to the Iowa caucuses, students are organizing and working hard to promote their candidates. Though some of these organizations have been running since last summer, they have been ramping up their efforts the past couple of weeks in preparation for early voting...
By Christin Watkins
September 30, 2015
Filed under News
Since the University imposed fines for smoking violations on campus on Sept. 8, Deputy Chief Skip Frost, of the University of Illinois Police Department, estimated the amount of fines collected has totaled $200 or less.In accordance with the Illinois Smoke-Free Campus Act the University established a s...
Tags: aces, ban, Brian Farber, Campaign, campus, Citations, compliance, Freshman, Illinois Smoke Free Campus Act, Infractions, Lucas Goldschmidt, METCAD, news, Skip Frost, Smoke, smoking, Smoking Ban, Software, students, top stories, Topstories, U Of I, uipd, university of illinois police department, Uofi
March 16, 2015
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John Baird felt the edges of a large envelope.
He found it at his home buried in a box, wedged between newspaper front pages and term papers from his years at the University. The basement of his house in Decatur, Illinois, was his personal time capsule, and as he shuffled through its contents, he start...
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October 7, 2014
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There’s something distinctly different about the Sphinx Virtuosi orchestra group. As with professional orchestra groups, the musical talent is there. However, while many “Big Five” chamber and other professional orchestras may be comprised of mainly white musicians, the Sphinx Virtuosi doesn’...
Tags: Aaron P. Dworkin, Afa S. Dworkin, african-american composer, all-black, alumni, andre dowell, artistic director, Arts_entertainment, Audiences, big five, blacks, Campaign, carnegie hall, Catalyst Quartet, celine dion, Chamber, classical music, Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, Commitment, communities, detroit, detroit symphony orchestra, Director Of Programming, Diversity, Documentary, Emmy Award, excellence, Executive Director, Foellinger Stage, Goal, group, Harmony Of Strings, illinois, Inception, Inclusion, Inspired By...works Of The C U Spinners And Weavers Gild, institution, justin timberlake, krannert center for the performing arts, latino, Latino Composers, Latinos, lifeandculture, members, merit, Michael Abels, Mozart, Music, Music Talent, Musical Talent, Musical World, nation, National Tour, New York Philharmonic, nonprofit competition, Npr, orchestra, orchestral music, pbs, Philadelphia Orchestra, piazzolla, presentation, Program, Purpose, sphinx competition, sphinx virtuosi, Stations, string orchestra, tour, Tv Show Specials, ui, uiuc, university of illinois, urbana_champaign, Venues, White Musicians
By Saher Khan
September 10, 2014
Filed under Uncategorized
By now, nearly all of the Internet is familiar with the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Various media outlets have inaccurately cited Pete Frates, a former Boston College baseball player diagnosed with ALS in 2012, as the originator of the viral phenomenon; however, ALS had nothing to do with the Ice Bucket Chall...
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