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Court denies motion to delay trustee election Candidate Ash denied spot on ballot due to residency requirements BY TYLER DAVIS STAFF WRITER
A write-in student trustee candidate said his motion to delay elections for the office was denied Monday by the Circuit Court of Champaign County because it was not fi led in time. Carey Ash, graduate student senator, is refuting University claims that he is not an Illinois resident, which is required by state law to run for the office of student trustee. “Despite the University’s diction, I am a legal resident of the great state of Illinois,” he said. “I have been in this state for five years, and every day of those five years, I have committed myself to the service of the students.” After review of copies of his driver’s license, tax returns, leases, vehicle registration and other docu-
mentation, Kenneth Ballom, dean of students, denied Ash’s candidacy on the basis that Ash does not qualify for the University’s standards of instate tuition among “a combination of other criteria.” According to section 3-903 of the student code, students must, for one year, be employed in Illinois or rely on Illinois resources for more than 50 percent of the income spent on tuition, fees and living expenses. Though Ash is a graduate assistant at the University, this employment is disqualified under the code. The factors, however, are stated to be “not necessarily conclusive, (but) have probative value in support of a claim for resident classification.” “There is not just one criteria it is a combination of criteria not just tuition,” Ballom said in an email. “Every applicant in question should produce information sufficient to support current residency and intent to remain in Illinois that is satisfactory. The culmination of all of the infor-
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Billionaire Khan to speak at graduation ceremony BY EMILY THORNTON DAYTIME ASSISTANT EDITOR
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Shahid Khan, 1971 alumnus and local billionaire, will give this year’s commencement address. Khan, president of car parts manufacturing company Flex-N-Gate and owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars, will speak at both campuswide commencement ceremonies at Assembly Hall on May 12. He could not be reached for comment at press time. Chancellor Phyllis Wise said in a news release that Khan was chosen because he “exemplifies the type of graduate the University produces”. “The chancellor chose him because he’s such a wonderful example of how far someone can go in life when they get such a good educational opportunity,” said Robin Kaler, University spokeswoman. “He is a great role model for students.” Khan left Pakistan at the age of 16 to attend the University. While studying
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engineering, he began working for Flex-NGate. Following graduation, he was immediately hired as the company’s engineer manager, according to the release. After KHAN leaving Flex-N-Gate in 1978, Khan started the company Bumper Works and purchased Flex-N-Gate two years later. He serves on the University of Illinois Foundation’s board of directors and has also served on the President’s Council. He was inducted into the University’s Engineering at Illinois Hall of Fame in 2010.
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SADIE TEPER THE DAILY ILLINI
Jennifer Cho, sophomore in AHS, signs the board, pledging that she will help to end slavery as part of the Stand For Freedom event Tuesday morning.
Weather delays anti-slavery event Outdoor event to raise awareness of slavery postponed indefinitely
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BY MEGAN VASILIADIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The National Weather Service’s winter weather advisory led organizers to indefi nitely postpone a 27-hour “Stand for Freedom” anti-slavery event Tuesday. Members of the University’s chapter
of the International Justice Mission, a Christian social justice and advocacy group, had been planning on collectively standing on the Quad for the 27 hours to represent their estimate of 27 million people living in slavery today and raising their minimum goal of $2,700. An estimated 40 to 50 volunteers had signed up for one or more one-hour shifts. “The goal was to spread awareness about (slavery), but (we thought) if no one is here, we should probably cancel
it,” said Zach Baumann, volunteer and junior in ACES. Wesley Liou, chapter president and junior in Business, said the goal of the University’s chapter is to support the District of Columbia-based organization throughout the year by hosting several charity events. Liou said this “Stand for Freedom” campaign is one of their many efforts to raise awareness of the injustices around the world.
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Union waiting on UI response to contract proposal
Computer labs get makeover
BY AUSTIN KEATING STAFF WRITER
Updates to the ICS lab in the English Building include new chairs, newly installed cubicles, newly painted walls and added collaboration tables.
Four days before the Service Employees International Union Local 73 has the legal right to strike, negotiating team members are waiting on a University response to a four-year contract proposal they offered Monday. The union, which represents about 800 University food and building service workers, has been in negotiation with the University since its contract expired in July 2012. Ricky Baldwin, the union’s lead negotiator, said the group made
concessions in terms of the length of the contract in exchange for a higher base rate pay increase. After being offered the proposal, University negotiators needed more time for review, Baldwin said. Campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler would not say when the University will give its response. “The University is working on a counterproposal and is staying in contact with the chief negotiators for the union,” Kaler said. Monday’s bargaining session was to be the second-to-last scheduled session, but the union can-
celed Friday’s session and cited a need for time to review the University’s counterproposal. “More than likely they will make a counterproposal (that is) significantly less but hopefully more than what they proposed previously,” Baldwin said. “If they do that, we’ll take it to the members to vote over the weekend and hope for the best.” Baldwin added that if the counterproposal does not satisfy union members, they still plan to strike.
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Jenny Choe, senior in LAS, studies for an English midterm examination in the updated instructional computer services lab of the English Building. CITES plans to bring similar updates to all its instructional computer service labs.
Spring-election voters will need to use networks other than UIUCnet to access the ballot website, a CITES representative said Tuesday. Brian Mertz, senior security outreach specialist for CITES, said an incompatibility issue between the UIUCnet service and the vote.illinois.edu website will likely not be resolved before student voting closes at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. Students using the IllinoisNet wireless and other
connections off campus should not have a problem. UIUCnet provides an unsecured connection meant for simple Internet use, so CITES restricts access to certain ports, one of which is used by vote.illinois.edu. As a result, vote.illinois. edu will be inaccessible through UIUCnet. IllinoisNet wireless, which is a secured connection, does not have this restricted access to different ports. Adam Joines, chair of the Campus Student Election Com-
mission, said he had fielded complaints about people being unable to vote, but the problems were resolved simply: by changing computers, switching networks or by voting from another location. “As far as I know, everything has gone swimmingly,” Joines said. Still, CITES’ website recommends using IllinoisNet in any location where the connection is listed on one’s computer as available.
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