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THE DAILY ILLINI
MONDAY February 11, 2019
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Vol. 148 Issue 40
Groups aim to prevent stalking
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BY GRACE MALONEY CONTRIBUTING WRITER
This past January marked the 15th National Stalking Awareness Month. To start off the month, an Illinois law recognizing unwanted contact via social media as a form of stalking took effect on Jan. 1. “Adding that specific language to the criminal code about social media not only makes the law stronger, but also helps raise the awareness, too,” said Patrick Wade, communications director for University of Illinois Police Department. According to the Stalking Prevention, Awareness and Resource Center, or SPARC, people aged 18 to 24 have the highest rate of stalking victimization, placing the average college student right in this range. As technology progresses, laws must keep up with them. “That’s keeping up with the ways that people communicate now,” said SEE STALKING | 3A
Krannert displays famous painting
PHOTO COURTESY OF CONNIE EGGLESTON
Connie Eggleston (left), who graduated from the University of Illinois in 1972, dances with friends in the 1960s for the Champaign studio “Artist in Motion.”
A long way to go Over 50 years ago, Project 500 aimed to bring more minority students to the University. Today, black student enrollment remains low. BY TAYLOR HOWARD STAFF WRITER
A few short months after Project 500, an initiative to recruit more black and brown students to the University, was implemented in 1968, minority students claimed they were still being discriminated against by administration through housing, funding and lack of equitable resources. Although students planned to meet with campus officials to discuss their concerns, it was not anticipated this would result in the largest campus arrest in United States history.
The arrest
Like every start of an academic school year, University students return to campus with anticipation and excitement for the new year, purchasing textbooks last minute, decorating dorm rooms and planning out schedules. However, some students were fighting for equal opportunity on campus. Minority students were upset about the change in their housing accommodations, as they were relocated from staying at Illinois Student Residence Hall to spaces not suitable for living like sewing rooms, laundry rooms and lounges.
Connie Eggleston, a 1972 alumna, and her peers wanted to meet with administration to discuss how to remedy the circumstances. In doing so, the black students planned to march to the Illini Union and host a peaceful sit-in to attract Chancellor Jack Peltison’s attention to discuss their demands. On Sept. 10, 1968, around 7 p.m., the sit-in began. The students gathered and occasionally gave speeches regarding their concerns. Eggleston said they had no intention of causing any problems, but they wanted to make sure the black students’ voices were heard. “The students were socializing and playing games, nonviolently, when administration showed up. The students were informed that they will get the chancellor and gave the students permission to be in the building,” Eggleston said. Eggleston also said University officials addressed the students multiple times to say the chancellor was on his way. But, he never showed up. Students were asked to leave the Union because of a mandatory student curfew at midnight. However, no one left. At the Project 500 panel, Patricia McKinney Lewis, ’73 alumna,
said as the night progressed, students became fearful for their lives. “Around 1 a.m., we were told we could not leave because there were people outside of the Union who could harm us,” she said. “I could hear glass breaking, but (I) did not see any damage.” At 2 a.m., students were told it was safe to return to their dorms. But as the students were leaving the Union to return home, they were instead led to a police paddy wagon. Over 240 students were arrested and taken to local jails for partaking in the sit-in. Eggleston’s feisty and strongwilled personality did not cease once the policemen showed up, but rather allowed her to use her platform to combat the mistreatment. Instead of going to jail like many of her peers, she jumped out of the paddy wagon and walked back to her dorm. Eggleston said although it was disheartening the sit-in wasn’t successful, students left the Union peacefully. After the arrest, black student involvement increased as tension grew on campus within the faculty, staff and administration.
Before the arrest
pus, Connie Eggleston had every intention to succeed when she got to the University. Encouraged by her brother, she decided to put her modeling career on hold and pursue her education. However, when she got on campus, it was not what she expected. “When I first came here in 1966, there was about 33,000 whites and less than one percent black, so there were only 100 something of us on campus,” Eggleston said. Recruitment and retention within the black and brown community was an area of concern for students. The issue stemmed from their lack of housing. Black students were not able to live in residence halls due to high pricing and lack of accommodation. However, different groups on campus, like Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. provided housing for minority students. Even the former director of the black cultural center, Bruce D. Nesbitt, helped house students at his campus home to keep them from walking over two miles to class. Valeri Ann Nesbitt Howard, Bruce D. Nesbitt’s daughter, said many of the students that lived in
Like many students on cam-
BY DAVID RUVINSKIY STAFF WRITER
After watching a Marilyn Monroe concert named “Blonde Ambition” in 1995, University alumna Louise Fishman felt compelled to recreate the connection she felt with the artist through a painting of the same name, which will be on display starting Feb. 28 at the Krannert Art Museum. Fishman’s painting will be the centerpiece of the exhibition entitled “Emphatic: American Painting from the Collection.” Amy Powell, curaSEE PAINTING | 3A
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Professor earns award for tinnitus research BY ALEX SARDJEV CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Tinnitus is one of the most common health conditions in the United States, affecting an estimated 45 million Americans, according to the American Tinnitus Association. Despite its prevalence, scientific knowledge about the condition remains limited. In an effort to better understand tinnitus, Fatima Husain, associate pro-
fessor in the speech and hearing science department at the University, and her lab are conducting indepth research and analysis, which has earned Husain an appointment to the Center for Advanced Study for spring 2020. Tinnitus generally refers to a phantom ringing in one’s ears, though its manifestations and severity can vary greatly from person to person.
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“If you start experiencing tinnitus today, we don’t know if yours will go away in three days or three decades,” Husain said. There is currently no cure, and while some therapies do exist, they are often inconvenient or not universally effective, she said. Husain also said there is a strong correlation between tinnitus and hearing loss, but it has not been determined if one causes the
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other. “In college, I would listen to a lot of really loud music through headphones,” said Charles “Stretch” Ledford, associate professor in Media and former subject of a 2014 study on tinnitus. “The other possible cause, which is more likely, is not using proper gear while being around skeet shooters as a scoutmaster.” Ledford said he tends to notice his tinnitus when
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he’s in a loud, crowded environment, like a bar or a restaurant. The primary problem surrounding existing data on tinnitus is that much of it is contradictory. One of Husain’s goals is to use research to develop a theory that can explain this data. Her research involves using neuroimaging to comprehend the mechanisms of
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