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Wendy’s opening at Healy and Sixth on Monday
Wendy’s is reopening on campus Monday after closing in the mid-1990s. Wendy’s will be located at 608 S. Sixth St. The restaurant’s old location was at 528 E. Green St., which is now the location of Chipotle and Noodles & Company. HEALY ST
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Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers on Sixth and Green streets will open its doors Monday at 9 a.m., serving a limited breakfast menu and staying open until the bars close. The two-story restaurant, located at 608 S. Sixth St., took over the space once occupied by Den Liquors. Tony Allegro, director of operations at WAM Holdings, said this will be WAM’s first store on a college campus out of 17 total. “We’re a family-owned business ... and being close to the student body, we think we can build a relationship with the community and with the school,” Allegro said.
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Matt Wavering, director of commercial brokerage at Coldwell Banker Commercial Devonshire Realty, who represents WAM Holdings, saw an opportunity for the chain to bring the restaurant to campus. “There’s a lack of national burger chains on campus,” Wavering said. “With the amount of food traffic here, in the center of campus, I think we’ll do well in this location.” Wendy’s will be open for business from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. every day the first week and will stay open until 3 a.m. every Friday and Saturday. After next week, doors will open at 7:30 a.m. every day. The restaurant has hired 40 staff members, many of which are students. Allegro said they
plan to give future job opportunities to students on campus. JSM announced its lease with Wendy’s in August, and construction began in October. Wavering said they liked the location because of its proximity to the proposed construction site in Lot J, the parking lot at the corner of Green and Sixth streets, which neighbors Legends Bar and Grill. JSM plans to construct a hotel, apartment building and retail building in the lot. Wavering said he predicts the construction crews, and eventually the out-oftown guests, will help fuel the new business. Wendy’s was previously located at 528 E.
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Police’s new street crimes unit kicks off with successful bust
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Engineering students talk with representatives from Expedia at the 2013 Engineering Expo this Thursday at the ARC. Companies from all over the country sent representatives to recruit students and alumni from the University of Illinois College of Engineering.
The University Police Department’s new street crimes unit had its first success Saturday in a drug bust involving the arrests of five nonstudents. The unit was formed at the end of last month and is made up of two undercover officers solely dedicated to long-term investigations of crimes such as armed robberies and drug-related incidences. Capt. Skip Frost of the University Police Department said the department is pleased with the unit’s early success. “We’ve wanted to do this for some time,” Frost said. “Now we are in the position to do it, and we have also seen the needs with the crime that we see increases in, especially robberies.” He said one of the department’s goals is to find the roots of known problems and prevent crimes from happening. “You don’t have time to sit and watch something that you believe to be a developing or potential problems,” Frost said. “The idea is to be proactive instead of reactive.” The University Police Department is not the first agency to develop such a unit in the area. The Urbana Police Department formed its unit in 2003. Lt. Robert Fitzgerald of the Urbana Police Department said the unit has three officers on duty, which is coordinating with the new University unit. “It’s working out very well for us,” Fitzgerald said. “They have a great working relationship between our street crimes unit and their (University) unit.” Fitzgerald said the street crimes unit of Urbana Police Department also supports patrolling during special events such as Unofficial St.Patrick’s Day. Champaign County has its own street crimes unit; while Champaign does not, it has its own narcotics unit. University police continue to investigate the incident from Saturday. Drug enforcement detective Joe McCullough said the
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UI students, brothers place 1st at hackathon, win trip to California participants made MHacks the largest student hackathon ever, breaking the previous record of 500 at PennApps, according to a news release. The Razfar brothers created Speakeasy, which beat 122 other submissions to win fi rst place, said Daniel Friedman, an organizer of MHacks, in an email. The Web application translates the voices of people speaking in two different languages. The users speak into microphones, and the application transcribes the audio to the language of the other speaker. The application then reads aloud the transcribed audio. Ehsan said he and Ali wanted to develop an application with the potential to help people who may not necessarily live in the “fi rst world,” like many other apps do.
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Two University students and brothers are moving on to a national-level hackathon after placing fi rst at MHacks, a hacking competition hosted by the University of Michigan from Feb. 1-3. Ali and Ehsan Razfar won fi rst place and will compete in Facebook’s hackathon in California. The Razfar brothers were followed by a secondplace team from the University of Michigan. The MHacks competition, with the slogan “Most Epic Hackathon. Ever.,” included 36 hours of hacking and featured Facebook as a sponsor. The three-day event invited student hackers from universities across the region to develop Web and mobile applications. The 550
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Ehsan suggested a scenario in which a child of an immigrant who does not speak English could use the Speakeasy app to understand what is happening in his classroom while also being able to contribute to a discussion using his native language. This was the fi rst hackathon for Ehsan, sophomore in Engineering. He followed the lead of his brother Ali, a senior in Engineering, who had previously competed in seven hackathons. “He just has been learning how to do this stuff within the last year,” Ali said. Ehsan said his and Ali’s ability to work together helped them win the competition. “We definitely work well together,” Ehsan said. “I mean, we came out of the same womb.”
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Ehsan Razfar participates in MHacks, a hackathon hosted by the University of Michigan last weekend. He later went on with his partner and brother, Ali Razfar, to win the competition.
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