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THE DAILY ILLINI
WEDNESDAY March 5, 2014
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Vol. 143 Issue 88
BY MARYCATE MOST STAFF WRITER
After a student was shot and killed on the Purdue University campus in January, University administration and the University’s Office of Campus Emergency Planning were reminded of the likelihood of unforeseen violent outbreaks on campus. “We were rudely reminded about (campus safety),” said Chancellor Phyllis Wise. “Many Purdue professors basically paid no attention, continued to lecture and in some cases actually were disparaging of students and other staff that were trying to alert them that this might actually be dangerous.” Administrators and the Division of Public Safety’s Office of Campus Emergency Planning have emphasized the importance of creating both a conjunct emergency response plan across campus as well as individual plans for each University building. On Monday, Provost Ilesanmi Adesida and Wise approved recommendations from University Police Lt. Todd Short that asked each faculty and staff member to include emergency response plans in their syllabi
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Illini Joseph Bertrand sits on the court after suffering a knee injury. Bertrand was limited to just 9 minutes of play in Tuesday’s 84-53 loss to Michigan. Tuesday was senior night, Bertrand’s last game at State Farm Center. He tallied just two points on 1-for-3 shooting and one turnover. Michigan clinched the Big Ten regular season title, thanks in part to 16 made 3-pointers.
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During a campus violence emergency, faculty, staff and students are asked to follow procedures to ensure that they are out of harm’s way. These are the step-by-step guidelines that the Emergency Planning office gives to handle this situation: 1. When an emergency situation arises, find a secure space away from the affected area. 2. Ensure that location is secure by whatever means necessary. In some situations, this may include locking and barricading the door. 3. Stay in place and stay silent unless seeking rescue. 4. Stay away from anything that could lead to injury or harm. SOURCE: ILLINOIS.EDU/ EMERGENCYPLANNING
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Mayor Gerard talks Unofficial pros and cons STAFF WRITER
With Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day coming up this Friday, The Daily Illini sat down with Champaign Mayor Don Gerard to discuss the event. The Daily Illini: What are your thoughts on Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day? Don Gerard: Whenever you have great numbers of people you’re going to have a few bad apples, but to be honest, the weather’s helped us out and the efforts of students and a lot of people in the community working together has really substantially curbed the threat of the event adversely affecting the rest of the community. The elephant in the room that I’m not afraid to address is that it’s a huge economic boom for a lot of businesses. I mean, down on campus, if you’re selling pizzas or sandwiches or whatever, the people working that day may hate it, but the owners sure like the receipts at the end of the day. DI: What effect do you think Unofficial has on the community? DG: It’s funny. Initially, it seemed like it was a real drain because it seemed like we had to spend so much money on life safety and public safety officials working that day,
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but as it’s gotten older, it’s become kind of an unofficial homecoming. They treat it as such; they’re not here to light a couch on fire and throw it off a balcony, they’re here to see their friends and visit Joe’s or KAM’S or whatever, which is nice. It’s more manageable. ... In that regard, there’s certainly positive aspects growing out of it. DI: Do you have any concerns about Unofficial? DG: I have concerns any time we have tens of thousands of people coming to town. That’s the price of doing business a lot of times. We want people to visit. There are places — college towns — that don’t want it. We do. ... This brings tens of thousands of people, and no matter what you say, if it’s a different type of person coming to town to run in a marathon or drink with their buddies from college, it’s still a lot of people coming to town. DI: What precautions, if any, is Champaign taking for Unofficial? DG: We set a bunch of rules about trying to limit individual’s ability to buy great quantities of alcohol, but we understand they can go to another community and do that if they so choose. So it’s one of those things where it’s more of a
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Champaign Mayor Don Gerard, pictured here in April 2011, recently spoke with The Daily Illini about Unofficial. Gerard acknowledged the financial benefits and safety problems of the campus holiday. routine we’ve gotten into. ... We’ve partnered with all the entities to try to do a lot of patrolling, just keeping an eye out. We’ve worked with property owners. They don’t want houses trashed either, so a lot of them have sent out letters to their residents that say, “Hey, if you have a party, here are the ramifications.” ... But also, if your friend gets too drunk and does something stupid and you’re underage ... you’re not going to get a ticket if somebody is in dire straits... It’s a fine line, but we’re erring to the side of we’d rather keep people safe than making it a numbers game of trying to catch as many people as possible. The goal isn’t to catch people. The goal is to keep people out of trouble.
DI: Would you like to see Unofficial continue or end? DG: It’s one of those things where if it’s Unofficial, or Halloween or the Naked Olympics or whatever it is, these things float around ... It’s kind of the spirit of the things. We have not had a lot of true civil disobedience. We’ve had uncivil individuals, but we have not had any mass ugliness. You see schools win the national championship and people are turning over cars. You never really see that here, and Unofficial has, for the most part in recent years, been fairly benign, with the exception that there are a lot of intoxicated people ... I would love to see Unofficial turned into the event where University of Illinois students raised $100,000 for pediatric cancer research or something,
but that’s not right now. DI: Is there anything you want to say to the campus community? DG: Basically if you’re of age, you have the right. It’s your legal right. With every right comes responsibilities, and if you don’t have the right to drink, you still have responsibilities. I would encourage you before you take your first drink to really think about how you’re going to conduct yourself that day because the price you pay for something could be far greater than you imagined. There’s nothing wrong with blowing off some steam and partying, but stay out of trouble and respect everybody else.
Angelica can be reached at lavito2@dailyillini.com.
Urbana mayor releases safety order for Unofficial members of the public participating in the ‘Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day’ event,” she said in the order. The emergency order prohibits the sale and consumption of alcohol on licensed premises from 6 to 11 a.m. March 7 as well as prohibiting the serving of pitchers and alcohol in glass or metal containers from
BY ELI MURRAY STAFF WRITER
Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing released an emergency order outlining preventative measures that the city is taking. “I have reasonable belief that there may be a threat to the public health, safety, and welfare from celebratory activities by
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6 a.m. Friday to 2:30 a.m. Saturday. Finally, the order prohibits persons under the age of 21 from entering licensed premises before 9 p.m. Friday and ensures those premises will have a person aged at least 21 checking IDs at the door. Prussing said the emergency order is to combat unsafe
behavior that is promoted by the “large-scale unsanctioned drinking event” that attracts thousands of attendees from across the country. She said that while there are some economic benefits to the event, there are high costs that the public must pay as well. “Ideally the cost of all the pre-
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ventive efforts and the public costs of injuries and emergency health care should be paid by those who profit from the event,” she said. “I hope students will take care not only for themselves but for others.”
Eli can be reached at ejmurra2@dailyillini.com.
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