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Students volunteer in honor of MLK Day BY YELE AJAYI STAFF WRITER
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honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Office of Volunteer Programs hosted its annual day of service Monday. Five service projects were set up around campus where student groups volunteered for a variety of causes. The projects included meal packaging, neighborhood clean-up and maintenance for seniors. Greg Damhorst, director of Illini Fighting Hunger and graduate student, said the service day honored King by serving families in need, educating younger students and maintaining the local environment, factors that were important to King and followed his preachings. “An important part of this is that we’re helping people from diverse backgrounds and bringing people together who normally wouldn’t be. It really is all in line with Mar-
tin Luther King’s vision,” Damhorst said. “It’s the sense of serving and helping people in need.” The event kicked off at the ARC, where Vaneitta Goines, director of the OVP, showed clips from the time of the civil rights movement. Following a discussion, pre-registered student groups headed out to their assigned locations to complete their service projects. At the Illini Union, Damhorst helped volunteers package meals that would be sent to the Eastern Illinois Foodbank and the Wesley Foundation. At La Casa cultural house, student staff from the OVP spoke to volunteers about how youth were involved in the civil rights movement and what communities today are doing today to solve racial conflict. “We hope people get out of this workshop that, yes, this happened in the past, but it’s happening now and we see this workshop as a continuation of that,” said Andrea Herrera,
senior in LAS. At the Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center, University students talked to children ranging in age from 6 to 10 about King’s mission. Students interested in environmental issues and local, healthy farming traveled out to Tiny Greens organic farms to help with many aspects of the organic farm and indoor growing facility. Illini Fighting Hunger, a satellite organization of Kids Against Hunger, helped local high school students package pasta meals for the Eastern Illinois Foodbank. Max Colon, freshman in LAS, said Illini Fighting Hunger is also trying to organize a program with University dining hall services to allow students to donate some of their meal credits, which would provide Illini Fighting Hunger the ability to provide some of the food for packaging and donation.
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Illini Fighting Hunger, a satellite organization of Kids Against Hunger, helped local high school students package pasta meals for the Eastern Illinois Foodbank. Max Colon, a freshman in the college of LAS, serves as the equipment coordinator for Illini Fighting Hunger. Colon signed up to do meal packaging at an event earlier in the year and said he was amazed with the nearly 12,000 meals packaged by a group of only 80 or so volunteers. Illini Fighting Hunger provides the leadership for meal packaging while other organizations provide the funding to buy the food for packaging.
Students interested in environmental issues and local, healthy farming traveled to Tiny Greens organic farms in Urbana. The volunteers helped plant potatoes, clear brush from forest areas and talked with community organizer Dustin Kelly about portions of the farm that are currently not being used. The farm used to produce alfalfa sprouts and baby micro greens, but after a salmonella outbreak in 2010, it had to recall much of its product and shut down in order to contain the outbreak, Kelly said. “I want to see what ideas the students can come up with to put this place back into production,” he said.
At the Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center, University students talked to children ranging in age from 6-10 years old about Martin Luther King Jr.’s mission. Christine Davis, junior in LAS, asked the children about their dreams and how they will achieve them. This project fit in with King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Other University students helped the children with an exercise called “F is for freedom,” which prompted them to talk about what freedom means as an American and in their lives. Some children also made a Martin Luther King Jr. book to commemorate the holiday.
At the Illini Union, Greg Damhorst, director of Illini Fighting Hunger and graduate student, helped volunteers package meals that would be sent over the Eastern Illinois Foodbank and the Wesley Foundation, a campus church and foundation. Their goal was to package more than 12,000 meals, consisting of vegetables and casseroles. Volunteers divided into groups of six and were assigned to tables full of food to be packaged. Damhorst said the event was in following with the work of Martin Luther King Jr., as he had a vision of helping others.
Andrea Herrera, senior in LAS, led an activism workshop at the La Casa Cultural Latina. Student staff from the Office of Volunteer Programs spoke to volunteers about how youth were involved in past civil rights movements. “We’re bringing it back to now and what is going on,” Herrera said. Students from Tucson, Ariz. also Skyped in and discussed the racial struggles they faced, such as the ban on ethnic studies programs in the Tucson Unified School District. The program included a presentation on immigration and deportation and what communities do in response to these issues.
Obama demands equality for all at 2nd inauguration BY DAVID ESPO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Turning the page on years of war and recession, President Barack Obama summoned a divided nation Monday to act with “passion and dedication” to broaden equality and prosperity at home, nurture democracy around the world and combat global warming as he embarked on a second term before a vast and cheering crowd that spilled down the historic National Mall. “America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands,” the 44th president declared in a second inaugural address that broke new ground by assigning gay rights a prominent place in the wider struggle for equality for all. In a unity plea to politicians and the nation at large, he called for “collective action” to confront challenges and said, “Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time — but it does require us to act in our time.” Elected four years ago as America’s first black president, Obama spoke from specially constructed flag-bedecked stands
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outside the Capitol after reciting oath of office that all presidents have uttered since the nation’s founding. The events highlighted a day SCOTT ANDREWS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS replete with all the fanfare that a security-minded capital could President Barack Obama waves to crowd after his inaugural speech at the muster — from white-gloved ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Monday. Marine trumpeters who heralded the arrival of dignitaries House before marking his 48th to the civil rights leader for the on the inaugural stands to the birthday. swearing-in, along with a secmid-winter orange flowers that On a day of renewal for democ- ond one that been Abraham Lingraced the tables at a tradition- racy, everyone seemed to have coln’s. The president also paused al lunch with lawmakers inside an opinion, and many seemed inside the Capitol Rotunda to eager to share it.“I’m just thank- gaze at a dark bronze statue of the Capitol. The weathful that we’ve King. er was relativegot another Others watching at a distance ly warm, in the four years of were less upbeat than Cole. democracy that Frank Pinto, 62, and an unemmid- 40s, and while the crowd everyone can ployed construction contractor, was not as large grow in,” said took in the inaugural events on as on InauguraWilbur Cole, 52, television at a bar in Hartford, tion Day four a postman from Conn. He said because of the years ago, it was suburban Mem- president’s policies, “My grandestimated at up phis, Tenn., kids will be in debt and their kids to 1 million. who spent part will be in debt.” Big enough of the day visThe tone was less overtly polititing the civil ical in the nation’s capital, where that he turned rights museum bipartisanship was on the menu around as he was leaving the there at the site in the speechmaking and at the WILBUR COLE, inaugural stands where the Rev. congressional lunch. postman to savor the view Martin Luther “Congratulations and God-
“I’m just thankful that we’ve got another four years of democracy that everyone can grow in.”
one fi nal time. “I’m not going to see this again,” said the man whose political career has been meteoric — from the Illinois Legislature to the U.S. Senate and the White
King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. The inauguration this year shared the day with King’s birthday holiday, and the president used a Bible that had belonged
speed,” House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, said to Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as he presented them
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BY CORINNE RUFF STAFF WRITER
The Urbana City Council will discuss an ordinance requesting the rezoning of the block on Lincoln Avenue between Church and Hill streets from residential housing to neighborhood business zoning during its Tuesday meeting. Howard Wakeland, owner of Advantage Properties, owns nine of the 11 properties on the block, seven of which hold sin-
gle-family houses and four of which are vacant. The two other properties are owned and occupied by families who, unlike their neighbors, have declined offers to sell their homes to Wakeland. Wakeland first tried in May 2008 to rezone the properties, located two blocks north of University Avenue, to a general business zone but withdrew his application after facing opposition at a public hearing that month. The meeting minutes show Wakeland wanted to rezone
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Six new police officers sworn into Champaign Police Department, helping fulfill limited staff quotas BY CARINA LEE STAFF WRITER
As the Champaign Police D e p a r t m e n t ’s search committee continues to search for two more officers, six new officers were sworn in early this month. Lt. Jim Clark was the coordinator of the hiring committee and said the department was short-staffed
because of retiring officers. Because the department wants to maintain a police force of 119 officers, the additional two officers will allow them to hit that “magic number.” Two of the new officers are training at the University’s Police Training Institute. Mayor Don Gerard said he
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