By Claire Textor
March 1, 2016
When Matthew Rice was a senior at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, as a member of the Political Action Club, he was tasked with determining why students chose out of state schools as opposed to those in Illinois.In August, state legislators passed a bill requiring colleges t...
Tags: Academic Senate, Advanced Placement, andrew conneen, Ap Score, collin schumock, daniel larsen, High School, illinois student senate, matthew rice, news, top stories, Topstories
By Dixie Limbachia
September 30, 2015
Illinois schools can no longer claim access to their students’ social media accounts, according to a new Illinois law that will go into effect on Sept. 15, 2016.Previously, Illinois elementary and secondary schools could force students to give administrators access to accounts such as Facebook, Twitter and ...
Tags: Act, Bill, champaign, cyberbullying, High School, illinois, Law, Legislature, news, school policy, Social Media, Urbana, William Davis
By Madeline Galassi
April 6, 2015
Videos and memes have become increasingly popular and can be seen almost everywhere on the web. A new app, Trio, allows users to create them on their own device by choosing different multimedia from across the web.
Trio, which was launched on March 4 by the company Meograph, is the first of its kind ...
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February 4, 2015
I couldn’t see the cold, unfamiliar hands disappear within my thick patch of curls claiming ownership over my head. But I felt them.
Seemingly everywhere I looked — long, straight, luscious hair spilled down the backs of women. Meanwhile, my hair barely kissed my shoulders, and despite my effor...
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By Sarah Foster
February 3, 2015
The products of Nicole Beck’s creative mind have decorated the Champaign-Urbana area for four years.Sculptures “Asteray,” “Astroterra” and “Foxgloves” stand tall in the community for art-enthusiasts and simple spectators alike, while another sculpture, “Amplifiers,” installed last ...
Tags: amplifiers, Art, Art Committee, art-enthusiasts, artists, Arts_entertainment, artwork, asteray, Asteroid, Astroterra, Blue Waters, Cad, Chicago, college of engineering, community, Computer Aided Designs, Drawing, earth, ecosystem, electrical and computer engineering, Fine Arts, french, High School, illinois, indiana, john bardeen, john michael dallesasse, led beacon, libertyville, lifeandculture, Maquette, missouri, Model, modern art, Mosaic, navy pier, Nick Holonyak, Nicole Beck, painting, Person_to_know, prairie smoke, Prairie Wild Flower, purdue university, Researchers, scale, Society, Supercomputer, the daily illini, U Of I, ui, uiuc, university of illinois, Uofi, urbana free library, urbana_champaign
By Rebecca Jacobs
December 10, 2014
Patricia Starks couldn’t sleep without hearing the sounds of fighter jets flying overhead when she returned to the University from Iraq.
Starks is just one of about 300 veterans on campus. The transition from military life to civilian and student life varies for veterans, but Illini Veterans, a Reg...
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By Susan Szuch
November 20, 2014
For many students, Thanksgiving Break means taking a bus, driving or flying home to see family and friends.
However, that doesn’t mean there is any shortage of things to do for those who stay at the University. From simply enjoying the company of others on Thanksgiving Day to volunteering, these ...
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November 18, 2014
It all started in 1994 with two high school sweethearts, a love of music and Polyvinyl Press, a self-published mini-magazine (“fanzine”) about local, underground music.
At the time, Matt Lunsford and Darcie Knight were two high school students living in Danville with an appreciation for the DIY music ...
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By Rebecca Jacobs
November 13, 2014
An orange and blue bell dangles off a tree branch in Lincoln Hall’s center courtyard. Another hangs outside the Illini Union.
These are just two of the 1,500 total bells hung in the Champaign-Urbana community in the past three years by Be Kind Illinois.
Be Kind Illinois is the local chapter of Be...
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November 11, 2014
Beverly Smith’s out-of-office email signature includes the quote:
“Education is the ladder, my children take that ladder.”
The quote is from Chief Manuelito, a principal war chief of the Diné tribe in the 1800s, citing the Navajo Treaty. Smith, assistant director of the Native American House s...
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By Stephanie Kim
October 14, 2014
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, University alumna and award-winning spoken word poet, returned to campus on Monday to challenge community views on domestic violence and feminism.
Tsai was chosen as the University’s keynote speaker for October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month because of her ability to “fuse to...
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By Brittney Nadler
September 15, 2014
It was a girl that changed *Derrick’s life the night she introduced him to alcohol.
In high school, he was the kid that got mad at friends who used substances and often wondered why anyone would hang out with “that” crowd. He was “in the shell,” and a “loser,” as he described himself. Until he...
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