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THURSDAY April 3, 2014
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Ten nominated to search committee for University president BY MARYCATE MOST STAFF WRITER
The Urbana-Champaign Senate and the Illinois Student Senate have nominated six faculty members and four students to fill positions on the Presidential Search Committee, charged with finding presidential candidates to replace University President Robert Easter when he retires on June 30, 2015. Of the six faculty members, three faculty representatives will be selected by the University Board of Trustees to serve on the Presidential Search Committee. The Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs will select one student. The faculty candidates include Engineering professor Douglas Beck, Business professor Jeffrey Brown, Engineering professor Roy Campbell, Applied Health Sciences professor Kim Graber, Engineering professor Matthew Wheeler and LAS professor Nick Burbules.
“This is another example of shared governance,” said University spokesman Tom Hardy. “There are policies and practices in place to guide how this was done. It will be comprised of representatives from the various constituencies (of the University).” The Illinois Student Senate reviewed four student-submitted applications and forwarded them to the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs. The student nominations include student senator Mitch Dickey; Jaylin McClinton, sophomore in LAS; Xavier Ramirez, a senior who plans to attend graduate school; and student Diego Espinoza. “I saw this as a very rare opportunity for students to decide a very important member of the University,” Dickey said. “We are choosing someone who will be the leader ... who will outlast us.”
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Dean finalists to present future visions of College of LAS and University BY MARYCATE MOST STAFF WRITER
A search committee for the Dean of the College of LAS has selected four finalists for the position. The finalists include James Glaser, dean of academic affairs for Arts and Sciences at Tufts University; Joseph Francisco, associate dean for research and graduate education in the College of Science at Purdue University; Elizabeth Spiller, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida State
University; and Barbara Wilson, executive vice provost for faculty and academic affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Each finalist will visit campus over the next two weeks and give a public presentation regarding their “Vision for Illinois’ College of LAS.” They will also be answering questions following their presentations. The search committee launched the process in early
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Luci Hamlin and her husband, Spc. Timothy Hamlin, wait to get back to their home on the base following a shooting incident at Fort Hood, Texas, on Wednesday.
Gunman opens fire on Fort Hood
Four dead, 11 wounded in 4-hour lockdown at Texas military base BY ALAN ZAREMBO, MATT PEARCE AND PARESH DAVE LOS ANGELES TIMES
KILLEEN, Texas — Four people were dead, including a gunman, and at least 11 others were wounded in a shooting at Fort Hood, officials said Wednesday. The base was locked down for about four hours, until a siren sounded shortly before 9 p.m. to end the lockdown. At least two of the injured had multiple gunshot wounds, a hospital spokesman said. A U.S. military official said at least 11 other people had been wounded, but cautioned that the numbers could change. Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told CNN he had been told that four people were
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stream of police cars arrived at the base as service members, followed by family members, congregated outside the gate. The 1st Cavalry Division, which is based at Fort Hood, sent a Twitter alert telling people on base to close doors and stay away from windows. Spc. Cody Bishop, 28, said his company of about 140 soldiers was in formation on a training exercise when the order came to “shelter in place.” “We were standing in formation,” he said. “They suddenly called everybody inside. They said stay inside. You can’t even go outside.” Bishop said soldiers immediately gathered around television sets to try to learn what was going on. “We’ve got four different news channels on and getting four different reports,” he said not long after the shooting broke out. He texted his wife, with whom he lives off base with his son, that he was OK.
Campaign contribution limits further lifted by Supreme Court BY MICHAEL DOYLE
The International Student and Scholar Services and Intensive English Institute held the third annual “Travel Around the World” event Wednesday. The cultural fair held on the Quad is designed to represent the countries and cultures at the University.
dead, including the shooter, and that 14 were hurt. He said the incident was not related to terrorism. The shooting began shortly after 5 p.m., when Fort Hood tweeted and broadcast an alarm that all personnel should take shelter. The sprawling military base went on lockdown while investigators tried to determine whether there was a second gunman. The U.S. military official said the shooter was an enlisted soldier named Ivan Lopez, who is dead, but it’s unclear whether he shot himself or was killed by military police. Three others are dead, the official said, noting that, that number could change as well. That official said no motive was known as of yet. A spokesman for one of the
hospitals where the wounded have been sent, Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas, said their conditions ranged from stable to critical. Two victims have multiple gunshot wounds, he said. The base north of Austin was the site in 2009 of the deadliest mass shooting at a military base in U.S. history. President Barack Obama, who was in Chicago, said late Wednesday that he was “heartbroken something like this might have happened again.” “We’re following it closely. The situation is fluid right now ... I want to just assure all of us we are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened,” said the president, flanked by an American flag as he addressed reporters inside a Chicago steakhouse. The chaos began in late afternoon at the base just outside Killeen, a town of 127,000 residents, including many military members and their families. A
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday further opened up the taps on political campaign spending, with a bombshell ruling that removes the longstanding limits on how much total money an individual can contribute to federal candidates. In what amounts to a 5-4 ruling won by conservatives, the court declared the aggregate contribution limits imposed four decades ago violated the First Amendment’s free-speech protections. Though individual donations may still be limited, for now, the ruling means donors can spread their wealth across as many candidates and causes as they can find.
“They ... intrude without justification on a citizen’s ability to exercise the most fundamental First Amendment activities,” Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote of the aggregate contribution limits. Roberts’ 40-page opinion, joined by three other conservative justices, continues the court’s dismantling of congressional campaign finance reform efforts, including landmarks laws passed in 1974 and 2002, and its constitutional reasoning leaves remaining campaign restrictions at risk. Justice Clarence Thomas joined the conclusion, making an effective 5-4 majority, though he wrote a separate concurring opinion calling for the end of other campaign limits as well.
The court’s four Democratic appointees dissented. “It understates the importance of protecting the political integrity of our governmental institutions,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote of the conservative majority’s opinion. “It creates a loophole that will allow a single individual to contribute millions of dollars to a political party or to a candidate’s campaign.” A 1974 campaign finance law, enacted in the wake of the Watergate political scandal, imposed several kinds of restrictions. Limits were placed on how much an individual or committee could give a particular candidate. Aggregate limits were also set, capping the total that a donor might contribute to
all candidates and committees. The ruling Wednesday covers the aggregate limits, which currently restrict an individual to giving $123,200 to candidates and parties over a twoyear election cycle. Of this total, an individual can give up to $48,600 to federal candidates and their campaign committees and up to $74,600 to political parties and non-candidate committees. The limits are adjusted every two years for inflation. “We have made clear that Congress may not regulate contributions simply to reduce the amount of money in politics, or to restrict the political participation of some in order to enhance the relative influence of others,” Roberts wrote.
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