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UI ties for 41st in ranking of US universities US News & World Report ranks UI in 3-way tie for 11th top public university DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
The University was ranked in a six-way tie for 41st place in U.S. News & World Report’s National University ranking for 2014, which was released Tuesday. The University shares 41st place with Boston University, Lehigh University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of California-Santa Barbara and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Last year the University was ranked in a five-way tie for 46th place, along with Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas, the University of Washington and Yeshiva University. In the top public schools category, the University rose from a four-way tie for 13th place last year, to a three-way tie in 11th place with University of California-Santa Barbara and University of Wisconsin-Madison this year. “It’s lovely when U.S. News
recognizes our excellence, but we have a set of measures by which we determine our success,” said campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler. “Some of those mesh with U.S. News, and many of them don’t.” She added that while officials cannot completely measure how the University is doing, “the impacts that the University and alumni have on the world by their discoveries (is) how we know we’re doing well.” U.S. News & World Report ranks eligible schools on up to 16 different factors including tuition, graduation rates and class size. Each category is weighted for importance. The top three schools on the National University ranking list are Princeton University in first place, followed by Harvard University in second place and Yale University in third place.
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A little girl showing her patriotism gets a boost as names are read aloud at the 9/11 tenth anniversary ceremony on September 11, 2011 in New York, New York.
C-U community remembers 9/11 Ceremonies, events pay tribute to sacrifices made by veterans, responders
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In commemoration of 9/11, ROTC will host its annual run around the Quad at 6 a.m. on Wednesday. The run starts at the Armory and ends on the Quad and is just under three miles.
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama asked Congress on Tuesday to postpone a vote on airstrikes against Syria to allow time to explore a Russian proposal to get Syria to turn over its chemical weapons to international control. Obama made the dramatic lastminute turnaround in closeddoor meetings with members of Congress and then in a primetime address to the nation, even as he was dispatching Secretary of State John Kerry to Geneva to meet with his Russian counterpart later this week. Their goal: a binding resolution in the U.N. Security Council, where Russia had threatened to veto any move against its ally in Syria. “Over the last few days, we’ve seen some encouraging signs, in part because of the credible threat of U.S. military action,” Obama said in a 15-minute address from the White House. “It’s too early to tell whether this offer will succeed ... but this initiative has the potential
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to advertise it. 0RUH LQVLGH Osborne said an See the estimated 200 to Editorial 250 people usualBoard’s reaction to ly participate in 9/11, 12 years ago the event. “When I fi rst and today. started here, we had all of the ROTC runners,” Osborne said. “Now we have University police officers, firefighters (and) students, veterans and disabled, all participating.” Local veterans will also have a chance to participate in the event.
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awareness of 9/11 within the community. However, Bourbeau said many students were around eight years old when 9/11 occurred, so they were not affected by it on a personal level. “Time heals wounds. I think the wounds are (beginning) to heal, so people aren’t passionately aggressive about 9/11,” Bourbeau said. “It’s important to educate and remind people what happened (and of) the sacrifice a lot of men and women made by joining the military due to 9/11.” Nick Osborne, an assistant dean for Student Services, works with the Veteran Student Support Services that cosponsor the events by helping
to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force.” As the United States stepped back from the thorny debate over whether to strike, Syria said it was already agreeing to the Russian proposal to surrender its chemical weapons and adhere to a longstanding global arms control agreement that bans the production, stockpiling and use of such weapons. “We are ready to honor our commitments under this convention, including providing information about these weapons,” Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al Moallem said in Moscow. Obama, as well as the leaders of France and Britain, agreed to work with Russia and China to explore the proposal that would call for the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons. France said it would propose a resolution that would include a requirement that those responsible for an Aug. 21 alleged chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb be referred to the International Criminal Court for trial. Obama worked anew to try to rally support from a skeptical
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks to reporters after meeting with President Barack Obama at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Reid said the U.S. should not withdraw possible military intervention, which he said led to Syria’s willingness to negotiate. nation for military action against Syria, even if that is now more to prod a deal than an imminent threat. He said that U.S. armed forces would remain on standby, ready to strike if necessary. “America is not the world’s policeman,” he said. “Terrible things happen across the globe,
and it is beyond our means to right every wrong, but when with modest effort and risk we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we
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State Rep. Naomi Jakobsson wants to prevent students’ deaths. The bill, introduced last spring, intends to provide immunity for underage drinkers who need to call the police for someone who may be suffering of alcohol poisoning. This is similar to the University’s unwritten policy, which is currently followed under police officers’ discretion. Jakobsson, D-103, went through the process of revising the bill with the help of attorney and State
Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-112. “It certainly exempts sororities and fraternities, which might have some sort of drinking-encouraging party,” Jakobsson clarified. “If there is any hazing that force fraternities or sororities to drink, that would not be immune.” Graduate student Shana Harrison, who has worked closely with Jakobsson, commended the representatives’ efforts with House Bill 2341. “(Jakobsson) has done a fabulous job reaching out to different college campuses, not just the Uni-
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is) to do some outreach to others across the state and to contact their state representatives and eventually (state) senators,” Jaokobsson said. “After we get it out of the House, (they can) contact their representatives and say ‘please vote for this bill.’” Vice President-External Timmy Knudsen said he envisions senators playing an important part in student awareness of the bill. “I think that ISS can be a big voice for this bill and for pursu-
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versity of Illinois, to get support,” Harrison said. “I know she came to the College Democrats of Illinois Convention (held last March), where we had all these college chapters from across the state of Illinois, and she came to really talk about this bill and the implications it had for college students.” Recently, Jakobsson was invited to speak at the first Illinois Student Senate meeting of the school year in which senators were informed about the bill and the role they can play. “(The role of student senators
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