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MONDAY April 16, 2018
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Vol. 147 Issue 56
Moms take over Campustown
ISG voted to impeach Minik BY CORI LIPPERT STAFF WRITER
The Illinois Student Government voted to impeach Andrew Minik, senior in Business, citing his neglect for his position and his misconduct while serving as chair of diversity and inclusion. Walter Lindwall, junior in LAS and student body president, said the incident that brought him over the tipping point to file impeachment charges was an email Minik shared with members of Turning Point USA, an organization in which Minik holds the position of the president. The email, sent privately to Minik by an undocumented student and calling for the cancellation of the “Build the Wall” event organized by Turning Point USA, was shared with members of the orgaSABRINA YAN THE DAILY ILLINI
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Moms Weekend brought students and their families together on campus Saturday. Despite gloomy weather, Campustown saw an increase in visitors for the event.
Mike Ingram to run for county board UI signs open letter
condemning Sinclair
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First-time political candidate and promoter at Canopy Club Mike Ingram has been elected as the District 6 Democratic candidate for Champaign County Board in the November general election. Ingram said he was spurred into action after Donald Trump was elected president. “It felt like it was time to stop talking about stuff and actually do something,” Ingram said. Although he had friends pushing him to consider filling other offices or have loftier goals and ambitions, Ingram said he felt the Champaign County Board was the place to start. Ingram was sponsored by organizations such as the Champaign County Young Democrats and two local branches of labor unions: the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Dave Beck, staff representative of AFSCME Council 31, said it backed Ingram because it thought he would support labor in the county. Ingram also aligned with its opinion on the treatment of the Champaign County Nursing Home, a key issue in this election. “Mike has said throughout his candidacy, since day one, that he wanted to do whatever we could do
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The University has been added to a growing list of journalism programs voicing disapproval of Sinclair Broadcast Group, a broadcast network that has issued conservative-leaning must-run segments to local news stations. Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, interim dean of the College of Media, joined 15 other journalism colleges in signing an open letter denouncing Sinclair. “My signature on this letter reflected a relatively narrow case of not adequately disclosing the motives of the story that went out over a large number of local stations,” Chodzko-Zajko said. “I think that Sinclair Broadcasting overstepped the line.”
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Mike Ingram, a first-time political candidate and Canopy Club promoter, will run in the Champaign County Board general election in November as the District 6 Democratic candidate.
to save the nursing home and keep it a county nursing home. That was sort of the primary issue that drove the decision,” Beck said. The Champaign County Nursing Home has housed generation upon generation of people in Champaign
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T he open let ter, addressed to Sinclair Executive Chairman David Smith, began at the University of Maryland and has been circulating to deans of journalism schools across the country, Chodzko-Zajko said. “The fears articulated in the Sinclair script regarding an extreme danger posed to democracy by news media telling the public what to think describes our fears about the impact of the Sinclair must-carry script,” the letter said. A video of Sinclair news anchors reciting the same must-run script about “fake news” went viral after it was published on April 2. “They did not disclose
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County, but the home was hit hard by the state budget crisis and fell increasingly into debt, Ingram said. When a referendum came up that would give the Champaign County Board the decision power to sell the nursing home, Ingram said his district highly
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opposed it. “For the very hawkish, fiscal types of people, it is hard to justify why the county shouldn’t sell the nursing home, but it discounts a lot of the good the home does and represents
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