The Daily Illini: Volume 143 Issue 74

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ILLINI OF THE WEEK: TONY DALLAGO

Alpha Kappa Alpha celebrates 100 years on campus

Senior wrestler came out of the weekend with 2 Big Ten victories and a career record.

Feb. 12 will now be marked as Gamma Day in the state of Illinois.

LIFE & CULTURE, 6A

SPORTS, 1B

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UC Senate discusses faculty rights pus spokeswoman Robin Kaler said. At the Urbana-Champaign Senate meeting Monday, Associate Provost Katherine Galvin presented the Provost Communication, which redefi nes the guidelines for hiring, promoting and evaluating nontenured, specialized faculty. “The reason for this initiative was a convergence of sev-

BY MARYCATE MOST STAFF WRITER

Through the newly developed Provost’s Communication for Specialized Faculty, the University hopes to create more stability and employment predictability in the lives of nontenure-track faculty members. “Part of what we are trying to accomplish with this effort is to create career paths,� cam-

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eral things going on,� Galvin said. “But more fundamentally, (there was) the desire to do something more — recognizing the contributions of these employees and taking steps so we can maintain the very best non-tenure-system faculty.� Nontenured faculty members may teach classes, hold office hours, help plan curricula, grade essays, conduct research

and perform any duties that tenured faculty do. The distinguishing feature between tenured and specialized faculty is that tenured faculty members were hired to support all three of the University missions: teaching, discovery and public engagement; while specialized faculty were hired to fulfi ll only one of those three missions, Kaler said.

These specialized faculty members are hired on a semester-tosemester or year-to-year basis, which may cause them feelings of insecurity, Galvin said. Now, departments may extend contracts to up to three years and may promote lecturers and instructors to senior lecturers and senior instructors when that department determines that the faculty member deserves a promotion.

The drafting of the Provost Communication follows two years of discussion with faculty across the University, Kaler said. “All of the initiatives in this document are the result of a lot of communications with people across campus,� she said. “It is a direct response to what

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SOURCE: City of Champaign Website

Icy sidewalks cause issues for C-U, campus prevent more student injuries. Lack said the Public Works Department, which is responsible for snow and ice cleanup on roads, was already busy handling the streets but was trying to send someone to help with the sidewalks. It would take a while. “Knowing that something needed to be done right away, I told them I would get my guys down there right away,� Lack said. He piled 600 pounds of salt into his car and headed for “the slickest spots,� including Green, Fifth and Sixth streets for the next hour. “They saw that there was a defi nite need for it,� said Champaign Lt. Jim Clark. “Quite often, we do stuff that’s above and beyond what our typical job description is in order to protect people, and that’s exactly what the officers did that night.�

BY BRITTNEY NADLER STAFF WRITER

Within 20 minutes, one student had been knocked unconscious, two students had head injuries and another student had what appeared to be a broken arm. Upon arriving on Green Street to respond to the cause of the injuries, Sgt. Aaron Lack, of the Champaign Police Department, said he saw students falling left and right because of the slick sidewalks. “We’ve had an unusual winter with an extreme amount of snow,� Lack said. “It was unusually cold and right (at) about 1 a.m., it became very slick on the sidewalks. If there was snow on the sidewalks, I think people would have been more careful.� During the early morning hours of Feb. 1, Lack and offi cers Christopher Chambers, William Killin, Jeff Pickett and John McAllister personally spread salt on sidewalks to

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COURTNEY CIMO THE DAILY ILLINI

Mitch Altman, career hacker and inventor, leads students in a popular hands-on workshop at Allen Hall.

Tuning out the TV, tuning into reality

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Mitch Altman, a career hacker, shared a few life hacks during his stay at Allen Hall BY CLAIRE HETTINGER STAFF WRITER

At 20 years old, Mitch Altman couldn’t remember life without television. But finally something clicked, and he was fed up. He gathered all of his TVs — even those that he had found on the street, lugged home and meticulously coaxed back into working condition — and got rid of them. Forever. Since he started school at five years old, he would come home every day to his family’s apartment, turn on the TV and sit for hours. He spent time with his friends Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart and Oliver Wendell Douglas — stand-ins for the friends he couldn’t seem to make at school. Bullies and bruises didn’t exist in the world that Altman escaped to — where every problem could be solved in 30 minutes with breaks for commercials.

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But as time went on, the problems weren’t always solved at the end of the show. The cops caught some bad guys, but there were always more. The reporters on news programs never failed to have some terrible event to report on. “The more I watched TV the more the world seemed like a worse place, and of course it’s a place I get beat up by bullies because that’s the way the world is,� Altman said. “Why do I watch this?� five-year-old Altman would ask himself, but he could never seem to come up with an answer, so he continued to tune in day after day, week after week, month after month for 15 years. When he turned 20, the question still lingered in his mind. This time he had an answer: he didn’t have to.

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Diagram of a TV-B-Gone

This device, a composite of software and hardware, turns TVs on and off from a distance up to 50 meters. The whole process takes about one minute. 1. On/off switch 2. Red blinking light tells you if the device is working 3. Ultraviolet bulb sends out light patterns that correspond with different TV companies’ on/off patterns 4. Computer connector where the software for the device is loaded on 5. Battery pack 6. Waffle board 7. Arduino compatible board

Former Illini Media building to offer new student options BY DECLAN HARTY

Two restaurants and one retailer are expected to move into the first floor. Business are planning to open in summer 2014. ELEVATOR

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Joining the many construction projects on Green Street, the Illini Media Building will add three new businesses and campus housing over the next year. The building, located at 512 E. Green St. in Champaign, will soon host five new student apartments, two restaurants and one retailer, said Doug Larson, owner of the building and president of the Larson Company. With inside construction and remodeling scheduled to finish at the end of the spring, Larson said the first-floor businesses should be ready to open this summer. Additionally, the student apartments that will take up the second floor will likely be available for rent starting in the fall semester. Larson is currently negotiating contracts to sign the two restaurants to the building’s first-floor spaces along Green Street. The

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First Floor • Two restaurants lining Green Street • Retail space or an additional restaurant BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINI

third space on the first floor will host either a cell phone store or an additional restaurant, he said. Although he declined to comment on which businesses were interested in occupying the space, he said he thinks “the college market works a lot for some franchisetype operations.� Roland Realty will manage the apartments on the second-floor space. There will be four apart-

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Second Floor • Four apartments with four bedrooms and two bathrooms • One apartment with two bedrooms and one bathroom Third Floor • Illini Media Company Fourth Floor • EatCU.com • New Student Programs • The Counseling Center

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