THE DAILY ILLINI
THURSDAY October 25, 2018
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Vol. 148 Issue 18
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VeoRide addresses misuse on UI campus BY JOSE ZEPEDA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Almost two months after introducing its bike share service to campus, VeoRide has encountered problems including pranks, bicycle misplacement and damage to the bicycles. According to Linda Jackson, communications director for VeoRide, the appbased dockless bike sharing service is figuring out how to better educate users about the rules associated with using VeoRide and to emphasize its reporting system after the mistreatment of bicycles began to appear on campus and online. Some users have been leaving the bicycles in front of buildings or in the middle of the streets, which disrupts the flow of foot and vehicle traffic. “I literally see bikes parked up in the street where cars are supposed to be parked and I’m like, ‘Why?’” said Angelica Czarnecka, senior in Engineering. “People don’t have common sense with where to leave them.” Jackson said students shouldn’t treat the bicycles differently just because they are not personal bicycles. “Treat them like they’re your own bikes,” she said. Photos have surfaced on the internet showing VeoRide bicycles in elevators, on top of bus stops and in the middle of streets. One morning, the entire Stratford Christian Cooperative House was surprised and confused to find at least 70 VeoRide bicycles in its front lawn facing directly toward the house. According to Rachel Hillebrand, sophomore in ACES and resident of Stratford, the prank was pulled off by their male counterparts in Koinonia Christian Cooperative House. Hillebrand was stunned to find all the bicycles on the lawn. “When we woke up to it, we were like, ‘What the heck is this?’ But we knew it had to be Koinonia,” Hillebrand said. “They even admitted to it as well.” Trevor Peterson, senior in Engineering and resident of Koinonia, said they pulled off the prank because of a rivalry between the two houses. “There has always been a bit of a sibling rivalry between our houses, and the ball was in our court, so to speak, to pull something on them,” Peterson said. “In the end, it was a totally harmless prank with all of the bikes obtained legally without violating any rules, and I’m honestly impressed with how many we were able to get.” However, the prank didn’t last long; the bicycles
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Alex van Doren freezes in surprise as daughter Kora takes interest in what the inside of her mother’s mouth looks like at Hessel Park.
Lacking lactation spaces Student mothers struggle with limited resources pregnant around the same time, but they’re grateful they did. “If I didn’t have other friends with children around the same age as my daughter or if I was not an advanced Ph.D. candidate already, I probably would have dropped out,” van Doren said. Hoppe and Orengo are both working toward their doctorates in Slavic Languages and literatures; Hoppe is in in her sixth year, and Orengo is in her fifth year. They met van Doren, a doctoral student in comparative literature cur-
BY JESSICA PETERSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER
“Other people don’t understand if (they) aren’t a parent.” Three mothers met alongside the playground at Hessel Park in late April with their daughters close at hand. Kora Samayoa, the youngest of the three children, was the only one not wearing a matching dinosaur patterned outfit. Her mom, Alex, explained with a chuckle it was because hers needed to be washed. Nadia Hoppe, Serenity Stanton Orengo and Alex van Doren did not plan to get
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rently in her fifth and final year, through her work at the European Union Center on campus as a doctoral research associate. Hoppe was the first to have her baby, Livia FroedgeHoppe, toward the end of the fall semester in 2016, right around when she stopped taking coursework. The winter break worked as her maternity leave, but Hoppe remembered asking her supervisors about what would happen if she were to deliver in the middle of the semester. No one could give her a solid answer. The insecu-
rity surrounding what the standard was for pregnant students grew to be so prominent that Hoppe began to wonder if the University even considered student parents to be a possibility. “People want to be helpful, but then they make you feel weird because maybe they haven’t done what you need from them,” Hoppe said. This sentiment echoed for Orengo who had been trying to get pregnant during the time she visited McKinley for an appointment. She took a pregnancy test, and when it came back negative,
the nurse congratulated her. Orengo said the encounter “rubbed her the wrong way.” She wondered if this is the automatic response the center gives to a patient who isn’t pregnant. The main reason McKinley would need to know about current pregnancy in a patient’s history is when the center performs X-rays or prescribes certain medications, according to Dr. Robert Woodward, medical director at McKinley. He also wrote in his email the staff does not have a specific SEE LACTATION | 3A
Student volunteers aid grieving children UI organization provides support at Camp Healing Heart BY CLARE BUDIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
“Finstagrams” act as therapy sessions
A group of volunteers from UNICEF at the University buddied up with children and teens who are recovering from the recent death of a loved one through Camp Healing Heart on Saturday in Monticello. The idea of having University UNICEF participate in Camp Healing Heart came from Alexa Villanueva, senior in AHS and the organization’s service committee chair. Villanueva learned of the event through the camp sponsor, Carle Hospice.
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Although the program has been known in the local community since its founding in 2005, there has been little awareness of it among student organizations on campus until recently, Villanueva said. Laura Mabr y, public relations coordinator for the Carle Foundation, said once kids arrive at the camp, they are paired with a volunteer buddy for additional support and companionship, whether it is during games or when talking about loss and healing. SEE HEALING | 3A
PHOTO COURTESY OF SOPHY KIM
Camp Healing Heart helps children and teenagers recover from deaths of loved ones through different activities.
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