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BY FRANCES WELCH STAFF WRITER
Only a week after his rescue, Mark Doose is back on the slopes in Switzerland. While spending his spring semester at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Doose — a University bioengineering student studying abroad in Lausanne, Switzerland — became lost during a ski trip bombarded by a snowstorm. “I was stuck and hiked with my skis down the ravine for a kilometer or so and then I had to cross the ravine,� he said. “The first crossing was about knee deep and then I just kept moving as fast as I could after that to stay warm.� Mark proceeded to hike all of Sunday and Monday, sleeping just a few hours in the snow and traveling more than three kilometers and crossing the ravine various times. Each time, Mark faced a higher water level, and on the third, a dead end
waterfall. He was forced to climb up the bank approximately 100 feet and continue to travel another half kilometer. “That night I made a little snow hut next to an embankment and slept there for about six hours with my hands in my pants and my gloves in my armpits,� he said. “I hiked a little further until I could see a road and started yelling. It wasn’t until Tuesday that Mark was finally found. Passing hikers and their dogs heard his shouts and were able to help him. “It was incredible. When I first heard the hikers respond, I was overwhelmed,� he said. “... When the gendarmes (police) and the helicopter came it was a huge relief.� Mark was lifted out of the snow by a helicopter and was brought to a Swiss German hospital, where he sustained only minor frostbite in his fingers and a bruised toe. For those tense two days,
Mark’s mother, Barbara, was praying and chanting throughout the nights for her son’s safety. “Words really can’t express the emotions‌,â€? she said. “A parent’s heart breaks at thinking of their child going through any kind of physical or emotional pain. I still cry thinking about what Mark went through, then rejoice constantly that he survived with no lasting physical harm!â€? Barbara was the one who dropped Mark off at the airport on his way to his study abroad program. It was the last time she saw him before the incident. During the first night of Mark’s disappearance, his parents, who reside in suburban communities of Chicago, began to panic when they had not heard from him to talk about his day on the slopes. Mark kept moving to keep out of the wind. He knew that
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sion, the U of I will be in the Capitol to participate vigorously in this debate, stressing the twin aspects of prudent (and) responsible stewardship of public resources.� University Spokesman Tom Hardy said the University had originally been directed by the Illinois Board of Higher Education to prepare a budget scenario in
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Governor Bruce Rauner presented his budget plan to the General Assembly on Wednesday, outlining major changes to education and pension funding, along with changes in Illinois’ tax code. Rauner announced major cuts to the state’s budget, which will mean cuts for the University. “The budget outlined today is the budget Illinois can afford, and that in itself is an example of ‘thinking anew,’� Rauner said. “For far too long we have been living beyond our means — spending money that Illinois taxpayers could not afford.� Under the budget proposal, state funding for higher education would decline by 31.5 percent, just over $387 million. The University faces massive cuts in state appropriations under the governor’s budget, which will amount to nearly $209 million. “A budget cut of that magnitude would substantially harm our students and the people of Illinois by most severely impacting the University’s core education and research missions,� said President Robert Easter in a statement. “Between now and the end of the legislative ses-
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How Mark Doose survived 2 days lost in the Alps
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other activity are monitored. Hashtags quickly group content, and even search tools bring up closest results. Snapchat entices a level of secrecy with its time-limited photo and video sharing between known contacts. But from the app’s depths, an account named “illiniway� has attracted over 10,000 followers by sharing daily visu-
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which the University would reduce its budget by 20 percent. The cuts put forward by the governor, Hardy said, greatly exceed what the University expected, and could affect everything from student services to faculty salaries to class sizes. Among the more contro-
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University increases admittance in hopes of retaining residents BY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER
Since Friday, the University has sent out a warm welcome to 22,267 students accepted to attend this coming Fall. The University has received four percent fewer applications this year than in 2014. This year, 34,119 students applied, and 22,267 students were admitted. In 2014, 35,695 students applied, and
20,040 were admitted. Robin Kaler, campus spokeswoman, said the 11 percent increase was done in an effort to improve yield and attract more Illinois residents. This year the University changed its application and admissions procedures by cutting the early decision date, or waiting list. All applications were due by Dec. 1, and only priority applications for honors
programs were due Nov. 1. The change was made because more early applicants were applying, and therefore more were placed on the waiting list, according to a previous interview with Nancy Walsh, director of admissions operations. “In December, it was getting harder and harder to make a true final decision on those students,� Walsh said
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