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CU Uber launch successful BY JANE LEE STAFF WRITER
Since the launch of uberX services in Champaign-Urbana last week, the number of local users has taken off. While no official number has been released, Chris Taylor, managing director of Uber Illinois, said the number of people requesting the app-based taxi service is rising quickly. “I can tell you that the business in Champaign is going really well,” Taylor said. Taylor said there were initially about a dozen Uber drivers in Champaign-Urbana though he expects the number to rise. Generally, drivers are parents who have extra time, students or others who drive part-time, he said. Statistics on the number of student drivers could not be released. “(A Driver) might be someone who is in between jobs or a student during a break who wants to get out there and
earn some extra cash to pay off for loans,” Taylor said. With Uber in town, there are more transportation options available for the community, but there is also a possible economic impact on other transportation companies. Elizabeth Beaty, administrative services manager in the finance department of the City of Urbana, said the city is working with Champaign on how Uber would fit in with the current reciprocal vehicle for hire license code and how it would be licensed. “Currently, we are working together to come up with a way to see how we would incorporate transportation network companies like Uber into our current code of ordinances,” she said. Beaty said any company like Uber would certainly be a direct competition to other transportation services. However, she said the cities of Urbana and Champaign
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Daniel Gonzalez and Reginald Scott’s original plan was to rob Vicente Mundo of cannabis and cash. The two Parkland College students claimed they did not intend to kill Mundo, according to Champaign County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Christopher Darr at a preliminary hearing Monday. During the hearing held at the Champaign County Courthouse in courtroom F, Darr took the stand to explain the testimonies of how the suspects described the events that took place on the night of Mundo’s death. Plans went awry when the meeting location was changed. Instead of meeting Mundo, a junior studying statistics at the University, in his apartment, they went to meet him in Gonzalez’s car in the garage of his apartment complex, Darr said.
dents and ensure safety. “Our whole purpose of doing that is making sure we have good passive communication with law enforcement. That way in case there are complaints or reported inci-
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Hard times may be ahead for the University, which faces $209 million in cuts to state funding in Governor Bruce Rauner’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2016, which begins July 1. “The appropriated dollars are the ones that end up in things that have to do with student services,” said Kent Redfi eld, professor emeritus at University of Illinois at Springfield. “There’s no question there’s going to be an overall decline in quality in both instruction and research.” A major portion of student services’ funding comes from state appropriations. Renee Romano, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, said programs ranging from leadership training to confl ict resolution and student conduct hearings face significant budgetary reductions. Student employees may also
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be at risk. “We’re likely to reduce student employment, cut back on student employees,” Romano said. “And of course that’s not good because students use the money that they earn to help them stay in school, but also many of our student employees are peer educators, so they do a lot of outreach for us.” Romano also said the HireIllini initiative, a University program that connects employers with students, would have less money to put into advertising and employer outreach and be far less effective. If the cuts are implemented, Romano said the University faces a budget shortfall this year due to
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