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Runners leave the start line and begin the Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon, relay, and half marathon near Memorial Stadium on Saturday. The annual race was canceled in 2015 due to thunder storms.
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Swastikas were found graffitied onto three separate University buildings, according to a University Massmail sent Thursday. The symbols were taken down in Lincoln Hall, Gregory Hall and the Armory. Within an hour of discovering the vandalism, the Facilities and Services staff, F&S, worked with the University of Illinois Police Department to remove the swastikas. “We took the reports as soon as we received them, and F&S removed the vandalism,” said UIPD spokesperson Patrick Wade. University police said the incident occurred between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. in Lincoln Hall, between 7:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. in Gregory Hall and in between 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. in the Armory. Police are currently investigating and reviewing the security camera footage. The massmail said that incidences such as these may result in disciplinary actions or criminal
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Classes will resume as normal for the final three days of classes this semester. The Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition Local 6546 voted Sunday evening to end the strike and return to work as normal. University administration and the NTFC, released a joint statement Saturday evening, stating a tentative five-year contract was agreed upon. This comes 575 days since the union has been without a contract. Negotiations began in October 2014. This is the first achieved contract for the union after three rounds of labor actions and the union will hold a vote to ratify and accept the contract on Thursday. “The (NTFC) and Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson and Interim Provost Edward Feser are pleased to announce that we have reached a tentative agreement for a five-year contract for specialized faculty members. Everyone involved appreciates the hard work and partnership that went into reaching this important step in the process,” the statement said. History professor and NTFC Communications Chair, Dorothee Schneider, sent out a statement on behalf of the NTFC about the possible agreement. In the statement, Interim Provost Edward Feser said, “We would not achieve our mission as a leading public research university without the excellent work and dedication of our specialized faculty. We are a stronger institution when they are integral partners in governance, when their teaching is protected by academic freedom, and when they have appropriate predictability and stability in their appointments.” Feser also said that the agreement encompasses
It’s been 575 days since the Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition Local 6546 has had a contract with the administration. The two parties reached an agreement and here are a few issues covered in the contract. the above priorities without replacing the departments and colleges as overseers of the hiring and promotion aspects of the University’s academic programs. The agreement will also maintain the academic units’ flexibility with multi-year contract offers in regards to the units’ own needs and fi nancial capacity, Feser said. Also in the statement, Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson said, “We greatly value the contributions of our specialized faculty, and we appreciate that negotiators for the union remained at the bargaining table with us to find common ground that achieves our shared goals.” The NTFC began considering striking early this April. The coalition represents around 500 nontenure track faculty and an “overwhelming majority” voted in favor of striking. “We are very closely tied to the undergraduate body … One of the things that is important about a strike in education is minimizing the impact on students but also making clear why the impact is what it is,”said Union President Shawn Gilmore. “If we do strike and you do withhold your classes, it’s important to not leave students up in the air about what that means.” Most of the main goals the union bargained for were agreed upon in the contract, said Dorothee Schneider, communication chair for the
- Greater employment security - Academic freedom protections - Participation in faculty governance.
group. Some points included greater employment security, academic freedom protections and participation in faculty governance. Their first round of strikes were held on April 19 and 20, cancelling some classes taught by non-tenure faculty. Interim Provost Ed Feser sent an email April 15 to all non-tenure track faculty, whom the Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition Local 6546 represents, stating faculty who strike will not be paid. Sam LeRoy, sophomore in Business and Illinois Student Senator, said he personally was frustrated, especially after seeing gridlock in Illinois legislature, to see the same brand of politics come back to the University. Because two parties cannot come to an agreement, now one party is going to bring a group of constituents up for collateral damage: the students. He said students are paying tuition and receiving scholarships to receive education and do not deserve any missed opportunities. After the union and administration had yet to reach an agreement days later, non-tenure faculty held a work-in in the Henry Administration Building April 26 and 27. They then continued to picket Thursday and Friday.
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Many stories of social turmoil get buried with history, but one group is working to remember the forgotten and marginalized stories within the Champaign-Urbana community. A project created by Public History at UIUC is an online story map that allows readers to scroll through the stories connected to the various landmarks on campus. So far, the map has primarily featured stories of social movements including activism on the quad, boycotts dating back to 1971 and an outline of the removal of Chief Illiniwek. Public History at UIUC is a faculty-student Research Cluster sponsored by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. Arianna Adkins, a junior in LAS, has been working on the project since the beginning of this semester. Adkins is one of about a dozen people putting the map together, five of which are undergraduates. “I worked on (the piece about) Project 500 and the riots at ISR which happened in September of 1968. Students involved with the project protested the administration’s failure to keep promises,” Adkins said. “At the time,(African American students) were living in really bad housing.” A large number of the stories unearthed from around campus focus on the activism of minorities. Professor Kathryn Oberdeck, codirector of the project, spoke about interviewing local families that hosted African American students when they could not find a place to rent in the 1960’s.
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Students march across the intersection between Green and Wright Street, carrying posters with messages in protest of police brutality on Dec. 8, 2014. “Activism of marginalized communities of color is a pretty big theme among the stories we’re seeing,” Adkins said. The group has also been recording oral histories by interviewing community members and have done extensive archival research of student newspapers. This research will be added to the website as well. Daniel Gilbert, a professor of labor and employment relationships, is the other co-director of the project. He said the research cluster eventually would like to connect with museums and historical societies that are doing similar work in other areas. “We wanted to create a way to connect historians with community members who could help accurately reflect the history of our University,” Oberdeck said. “It’s really been interesting to be in a collaboration with other communities and groups that feel we can bring visibility to their struggles.” Oberdeck notes that this is an opportunity to engage the community in discussion about contemporary move-
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ments. For instance, outlining what the confederate flag means to our community. Gilbert noted that social movements continue to occur on our campus today citing the “All Lives Matter” movement and the movement to rename monuments and buildings named after racist figures. “It’s important for the University to delve into it’s own history so we can realize that there is more than one history,” Adkins said. “There’s more to be seen than what the University boasts about. There’s a long history of activism on this campus.” While the project will go on hiatus for the summer, the group will return next semester to continue their research. This project was never intended to be comprehensive. While this project has only been off the ground for one semester, their mission will never be complete. “This is by no means finished and it probably won’t ever be. It is an ongoing public history,” Adkins said. “It’s still going on today.”
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Edward Feser and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Renee Romano, said this year alone they have seen many threatening posts and actions directed toward specific groups and they “do not advance legitimate discourse and debate.” “This academic year we’ve seen threatening anonymous Facebook posts directed at our African American students and demeaning chalkings targeting Latinas and Latinos,” the Massmail said. “We condemn acts like these that are intended to intimidate particular groups.” The message called for a conclusion of the year with a more welcoming and supportive campus. “Let’s conclude this year with a steadfast commitment to being welcoming and supportive of each other,” the massmail said. “And to demonstrating with our words and acts what it means to be a member of the Illinois family.”
University project maps out social movements throughout history
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prosecution. Wade said the probability of fi nding the suspect ranges, compared to past cases. “In some cases, there are witnesses or we happen to have good security camera footage of the incident. In other incidents, that’s not the case. It depends a lot on when and where the vandalism occurred,” Wade said. Because police believe these incidents occurred during times people would be moving through these buildings, they encourage anyone with information to contact UIPD. “The more information we have about an incident, the more likely we are to identify the offender,” Wade said. A separate situation was noted in the massmail where a probationary UI employee created and left a noose at a table in a work area. The employee later admitted to being responsible for creating the noose and was promptly dismissed from the University. The Massmail, signed by Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson, Interim Provost
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