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Local police: Unofficial better than expected despite weather BY BRITTNEY NADLER AND MIRANDA HOLLOWAY STAFF WRITER AND ASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR
Despite fears of past tragedies and increased participation because of warmer weather, no serious injuries were reported during the 18th annual Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day weekend, said Champaign Police Lt. Jim Clark. “I don’t want to say I’m pleased with Unofficial because we’re never pleased with Unofficial, but we are pleased with the way the students behaved,” Clark said. “It seems like they got the messages we put out.” Between the Champaign, Urbana and University police departments, 271 notices to appear were issued — Champaign issued 238, Urbana issued 21 and University police issued 12. Of those notices to appear, 115 were issued for minor in possession and 100 for public possession, according to Rene Dunn, spokeswoman for the Champaign Police Department. Additionally, 15 offenders were taken to the Champaign County Jail. This year, police saw fewer arrests made for the social host violations than in previous years, which is
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Lucas Frye, a junior in ACES, is interviewed by The Daily Illini about his future plans as the new student trustee. The campus election, where Frye beat out Nick Reinberg, was held on March 4 and 5, and his term will begin on July 1.
Meet the new student trustee The Daily Illini sat down with newly elected trustee Lucas Frye BY MEGAN JONES STAFF WRITER
The Daily Illini’s Editorial Board sat down with newly elected student trustee Lucas Frye to speak about his views and goals for his term. Frye, junior in LAS, serves as the president of the ACES Coun-
cil and a member of Student Alumni Ambassadors. He is from Easton, Ill., where he graduated in a class of 50. The Daily Illini: What are your thoughts on gender confi rmation surgery being added to the student health insurance plan now that it has been approved by the Board of Trustees? Lucas Frye: My reservations were simply that as far as the specific issue, it was pretty interesting how it came about. It was pretty short notice. A
lot of the things that are like this, you want to gauge student opinion on whether to vote ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ This is really difficult to do in the timeframe and series of events ... It would be a little frustrating to be in the current student trustee’s position. If there was that issue, why did no one go to him? I don’t know if that occurred or not ... If a precedent like that was added, regardless of which group was trying to make a change to the health care program ... a lot of students could have a similar concern and say ‘Well I don’t
have this coverage either.’ Now, it’s going to be harder when other things come up and we’re going to have to just keep barreling them through. Eventually, it could get diffi cult to set which line we want to draw regarding how far our student health insurance plan is going to go. DI: As part of your campaign, you said that you wanted to make sure that registered student organizations will be given a group forum. How do
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The Urbana-Champaign Senate met Monday to discuss the Presidential Search Committee, non-tenure track faculty, and revisions of student election rules.
Presidential search committee Following the announcement of the creation of a Presidential Search Committee that will be charged with fi nding potential replacements for University President Robert Easter after he retires on June 30, 2015. “What we are trying to do is find the best candidates to do this search correctly,” said Senate Executive Committee Chairman Roy Campbell. “Previous experience is very valuable.” Nominations for faculty committee members will take place until March 13, and elections will take place from March 19-21. After the vote, the elected committee members will need to be approved by the University Senate’s Conference, and after that, the Board of Trustees, Campbell said. “We are following what precedents have been set from the Chancellor’s search committee,” Campbell said. “I hope this meets
Non-tenure track faculty Discussion regarding the Provost’s Communication for Specialized Faculty continued from last month’s Senate meeting. Executive Vice Provost Barbara Wilson began the discussion by reintroducing the Provost’s Communication and describing how the provost office has worked since 2011 with a number of deans, human resources representatives and a variety of faculty to construct the set of guiding principles for non-tenure track, or as they are described now, specialized faculty. The Provost’s communication was brought to the Senate for the first time at its February meeting, but senators failed to approve the communication because they did not meet quorum at the time of the vote. “I don’t think we did a particularly good job last time of helping give the historical context of this process,” Wilson said. “We had a really robust conversation here and we have done some things since then in response to your feedback.”
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When Sakshi Srivastava, junior in Engineering, got an internship, a classmate told her that she only received it because she is a woman. “That made me feel marginalized... Women in engineering work just as hard as men in engineering do, and sometimes even harder to overcome bias,” she said. To counter this, Srivastava has worked since last summer to solidify more support for women in engineering, as 17.5 percent
of engineering students on campus are female, while around 45 percent of students on campus are female. A male statute, known as “Grainger Bob,” sits on a bench outside of the Grainger Engineering Library; however, Srivastava believes he is missing a female counterpart. She believes that a statue would show commitment to females in STEM fields and fosters campus unity. She hopes that students who visit campus will see the statue and recognize the belongingness for women.
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The Urbana-Champaign Senate meeting, which took place in the Levis Faculty Center, addressed important issues concerning the campus.
The Urbana-Champaign Senate approved a proposal on Monday to show support for women in the College of Engineering. The proposal strives to maintain Chancellor Phyllis Wise’s strategic plan for 2013-2016 to promote a campus commitment to diversity by erecting a statue of one or more female engineers with care to include minority representation. The senate recommended that the College of Engineering continues efforts to recruit and retain female, minority and underrepresented groups of fac-
ulty and students. The senate also recommended that College of Engineering Dean Andreas Cangellaris appoint a committee to recommend the selection of the statue, its location and the artist who will create it, as well as to secure funding sources. In November, Srivastava teamed with Illinois Student Senator Joshua Baalman, sophomore in LAS, to lobby the Illinois Student Senate to pass a similar resolution.
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tweets from participants that day, Surles decided to respond. “In regards to the tweets, there were a couple of exchanges that I had with specific people, and it was because I couldn’t believe they were saying some of these things,” Surles said. “So that’s why I responded the way I did.” Jokes aside, Surles said he hopes the outreach on social media helped keep participants safe. “I hope that the folks coming to Unofficial are seeing our information and take it and use it. I hope those things really get out there, like the number for Safe Rides,” Surles said. “I hope they focused on the really important part other than me being sarcastic.”
@immikeman: About to get turnt up! Let me know of any parties! @UrbanaPD: @immikeman Yeah! Lets us know too!!! ----@patrick_wade: I think @UrbanaPD wins the #Unofficial social media award. Follow them now if you haven’t already. @UrbanaPD: @patrick_wade You know what the odd thing is? Nobody has invited us to
a party yet. What up with that? Rude. #Unofficial2014 #Notcoolonebit ----@never_rong: just came to from my second #blackout of the day. who’s ready for round 3?? #Unofficial2014 #UIUC #Unofficial14 @dlatto24 @ TheRealBigBear @UrbanaPD: @never_rong Make round three some water and food, would ya? -----
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Urbana Police Department Lt. Rich Surles took to Twitter to educate and interact with participants of Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day. Surles is the man behind the Urbana’s Police’s tweets Friday, which combined humor and education to reach out to the public. Urbana Police, along with the Champaign Police Department and the University Police Department, focused on education in their tweets, Surles said. “We compiled a list of things that we were going to send out in advance,” Surles said. “A lot of it was very educational in terms of, ‘If this is what you’ll do, these are the consequences.’” Upon seeing some of the
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“I don’t want to say I’m pleased with Unofficial because we’re never pleased with Unofficial, but we are pleased with the way students behaved.”
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when someone hosts a party and serves alcohol to individuals under 21, Clark said. Clark said more small parties were held over the weekend and the department did not see any “large, unruly” parties this year. He said he believes the extensive campaign efforts to raise awareness of the dangerous effects of drinking could have played a part in the outcome of the weekend. “That was our goal: trying to push out the educational campaign to so many different venues through the University,” he said. “I hope it had some effect.” In Urbana, 21 notices to appear were issued for incidents ranging from loud music to underage drinking with fi nes between $165 to $325, said Urbana South Patrol Commander Robert Fitzgerald, noting that Unofficial is “more of a Champaign thing.” “It was pretty quiet on our side,” Fitzgerald said. “The only problems we had were people walking back and forth from parties who had open alcohol. We didn’t have too many problems in Urbana this year.” Although 10 more citations
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