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New rule Jesse McCartney serenades students bans all tobacco THE DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
All tobacco products will be regulated under the 100 percent tobacco-free campus policy starting next August, Chancellor Robert Jones announced in an email Wednesday. Building on the SmokeFree Campus policy implemented in 2014, the policy will now prohibit all forms of tobacco, including snuff and chew. Vaping devices, which recently gained popularity, were already part of the old policy, said Michele Guerra, director of Wellbeing Services. “Typically when college SEE TOBACCO | 3A
Campus hosts first Indigenous People’s Day
ELISABETH NEELY THE DAILY ILLINI
Artist Jesse McCartney, teen heartthrob throughout the early 2000s, performed Saturday at Foellinger Auditorium. McCartney was brought to campus by a group called Star Course, which exists through the State Farm Center. The audience was sent into a screaming frenzy as McCartney stepped onstage, starting off the show with his song “She’s No You.” He performed a mix of old and new songs throughout the show, including his other hit, “Beautiful Soul.”
VR aids second language acquisition
BY ZIHAN WANG STAFF WRITER
In 1867, the University was founded on land inhabited by indigenous people. To honor those who lived in Central Illinois, the Native American and Indigenous Student Organization is hosting the first-ever campus-wide celebration for Indigenous People’s Day. “It is a day to recognize Indigenous People’s of the Americans ... to recognize the political realities and status of Native people, to celebrate the diversity and significance of Indigenous cultures and to remind people that we’re not simply the original people of the land,” said John McKinn, associate director of American Indian Studies Program, in an email. At the celebration, a sugar maple tree will be planted on the South Quad to commemorate the growth of the University’s relationship with the tribal nations. Charlene Teters, University
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in a follow-up email. The University Archives and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library will find a home at the Undergraduate Library after the project is completed. “Our incredible rare
Learning a second language might be difficult, but researchers at the Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab are exploring virtual reality technology as a tool to help students learn languages. Alexander Burkel, graduate student in LAS, designed a virtual reality program that simulates a job interview at a restaurant. As soon as the student test subjects strap on the VR headset, they are placed behind a restaurant counter, with Burkel giving them instructions to chop vegetables and crack eggs in a language the
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ALEXANDER SARDJEV THE DAILY ILLINI
The University has plans to add a modern touch to the Main Library, including adding a Media Commons modeled after the one currently in the Undergraduate Library. The project is scheduled to be completed by 2024.
Main Library gets modern makeover BY ASHLEY FU CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The University is giving the Main Library a $54-million modern makeover which will be completed in 2024, the year the library turns 100 years old. John Wilkin, dean of libraries and University
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librarian, said in an email the oldest stack ranges in the Main Library will be replaced with a modern facility. “Our students will not only find spaces to study and collaborate in the redesigned building, but they will also have access
to state-of-the-art services like the Media Commons,” Wilkin said. “By consolidating our services, we should also be able to provide better access to facilities.” The Underg raduate Library will also play a part in the project, Wilkin said
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Professor leads student team to prestigious award BY DANIEL RENTERIA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
University chemistry professor Christina White has become the first woman to receive the award for Creative Work in Synthetic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society, which was first awarded in 1957. White’s research focuses on the use of carbon-hydrogen bond reactivity to cre-
ate catalysts that streamline the process of complex molecule synthesis. “Three of these catalysts are now commercially available and have been used by academic and industrial chemists to simplify the process of making and diversifying molecules of medicinal interest,” White said in an email. White said she is proud to lead a group of scientists
who have made discoveries that are being recognized for changing the way other scientists think about the reactivity of C-H bonds. Some of the catalysts developed by W hite’s research team are named after both herself and the graduate students who helped work to develop them, such as the WhiteParadine catalyst, named after former Ph.D. student
Shauna Paradine. “Many of these students are deeply engaged problem solvers who have discovered solutions that I could not have envisaged,” White said. “This award is shared by all of the White group members past and present.” White also attributes much of her success to Eric
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