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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
