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MONDAY April 28, 2014
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Number of shootings rises in Champaign we’ll go years without having any significant incidents and sometimes they all clump up in a cluster together.” There has not been a noticeable pattern in the locations or events of the shootings, said Champaign Police Sergeant Dave Griffet. He added that the shootings could be drug related and attributed the increase in shots fired to an offender’s easy access to a gun. “It’s easy to get a gun. A lot of it has to do with the fact that a lot of younger people don’t rationalize or resolve things as the way that maybe most people did in their lives,” Griffet said. He believes that young people fail with coping strategies and do not consider the consequences of their actions. The offenders take advantage of their opportunity to “attack” or “retaliate.” “I believe that a lot of our young people feel as though you know they can react however they want to and they don’t understand that it comes with consequences,” he said. Out of the 14 shootings that have taken place, some of them have occurred during the day
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The city of Champaign is seeing an increase in shootings. Between March 13 and April 6, there have been 14 shootings in the Champaign area. Last year, the Champaign Police Department saw an increase in shootings in June. According to a June 28 press release, there was a total of 12 fi rearm-related incidents between June 7 and June 28. With the current rise in shootings, Champaign police officers are expressing concern because the increase is beginning even earlier in the year. “This is a concern — we haven’t even gotten into the typically warmer months of the year where we would expect this type of violence to kick off,” said Champaign Police Department Deputy Chief Troy Daniels. University of Illinois Police Department Deputy Chief Skip Frost said the warmer weather contributes to the increase in crime; however, it is only a contributing factor. “Sometimes that plays into it, but I can’t tell you it’s the definitive reason,” he said. “This thing goes in cycles, sometimes
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Runners participating in the Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K start the race by photos from the Christie heading north on First Street and passing under an American Flag on Saturday. A 5K race was held on Friday night. Hillary Kimaiyo won the Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon as he crossed the finish line at Clinic Marathon on Memorial Stadium. Kimaiyo, a 32-year-old from Kenya, finished the race in 2 hours, 20 minutes and 35 Saturday, visit online at seconds. Bess Ritter, a 26-year-old from Chicago, was the first female to cross the finish line, in 3 hours DailyIllini.com. and 11 seconds.
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researchers, except for one — the XL 30 ESEM-FEG electron microscope. That’s because this particular microscope is used in the Bugscope Project, which lets classrooms around the world tap into the controls and view samples of insects. So far, they’ve had over 900 sessions.
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session with Bugscope Tuesday. The entire second grade class of his school, over 90 students, participated. “I think we’re extremely fortunate to have something at this ... caliber to expose the kids to technology,” he said. “Most adults in their life don’t have the chance to look at anything remotely close to an electron microscope, so to have a kid actually know what an electron microscope is at 7-, 8-yearsold, is pretty phenomenal.”
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“People use this 24 hours a day for research. It’s on the calendar just like all the other instruments here,” said Bugscope team member Scott Robinson. The team is made up of three members: Robinson, microscopist Cate Wallace and etymologist Joe Wong. Robinson and Wallace work in the underworld in the Imaging Technology Group and work Bugscope into their schedules as a free outreach program. Alan Dravland, student teacher at Joe Henderson Elementary School in California, scheduled a
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Religion classes could improve open-mindedness, research shows the first two years and a Bible as literature course during the second two years. “(Religious education) kind of helps people see other potentials for cultures, well beyond their own world, and I think that is very positive at that age,” Layton said. Masood Haque, former president of Interfaith in Action and a senior in LAS, said that the hard feelings and misunderstandings of the different cultures that he sees on campus revolve mainly on a lack of exposure to different groups and mindsets. He said sometimes the most information people have about a certain group is based on stereotypes they have seen about certain groups. By creating a moment of real contact with different types of people, his group hopes to break down stereotypes and promote relationships that will strengthen not only individuals but the community as a whole.
BY CLAIRE HETTINGER STAFF WRITER
On a campus that prides itself on being “Inclusive Illinois,” University religious education research suggests ways to help people be more open-minded. Richard Layton, professor of religion, recently co-wrote the book, “For the Civic Good: The Liberal Case for Teaching Religion in the Public Schools,” with Walter Feinberg, professor of education policy, organization and leadership. Layton said they hoped to fi nd what school districts could achieve through religion or Bible courses that they could not through other means. Then, they hope to present this information to school districts so they can evaluate if this is something of value to educators or not. They decided it is most effective for high school students to take a world religions course in
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One of the ways the University their religion says is the absolute encourages inclusion is through truth and that is it. He also said the I-Connect that, for him, workshops that an example of all freshmen these groups are required to are the people participate in, on the Quad with the idea of who say things creating a more like, “If you get o p e n - m i nd e d an abortion, community. you are going L a D a r i to hell.” And “If you are gay, us Du P ree, you are going to an I-Connect hell.” facilitator and “ We work a senior with really hard to an individual educate stuplan of study, said he experidents about like ences diversity ‘Hey, pay attenconflicts all the ALLISON ALEXANDER tion to some of SOPHOMORE IN BUSINESS time on campus. these issues He said on that are hapcampus, there is pening around a certain amount of conflict that here,’” DuPree said. “It is really goes on because of closed mind- hard to have a voice in the adminedness. He mentioned the groups istration on this campus if you of people who believe that what are not the majority.”
“We see diversity every day, but we don’t necessarily think about what it means, or how it affects each of us.”
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problem some religious groups encounter. She said they try to make students understand some people are in the privileged group and some are in the minority group because this viewpoint is not something that many people are exposed to. “I am an international student, and I have a lot of friends who come from the same background as me. In our own country the majority — the mainstream — is not religious. So we were not exposed to religious diversity before (college),” Sun said. She said she and her friends have experienced uncomfortable interactions with groups on campus who try to preach their religious to others. She said it is not so much that they do not want to talk to other groups about their religion, but it is just
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DuPree identifies himself as queer and realizes a lot of religions are not accepting of queer individuals. “I distance myself on purpose from those faiths because I’m like, if you are not going to accept me to begin with, or if you are going to discredit anything I have to bring to the table because of this one identity, then I don’t want to have anything to do with you either,” he said. But he said it is a structural problem and it is incorporated into the very essence and culture of our University, as well as our country. Tianjun (Jennifer) Sun, an I-Connect facilitator and a junior in LAS, said the facilitators try and make the other students think about religions from different points of view. One example being how they would feel if someone tried to plan an event on one of their major holidays such as Christmas, which is a
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