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The Daily Illini www.DailyIllini.com
The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871
Vol. 142 Issue 13
BY MADDIE REHAYEM STAFF WRITER
His name may not be trending right now, but his creation sure is. Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square, was on campus Tuesday to speak with engineering students, and The Daily Illini took the chance to sit down with the man behind the social media.
Daily Illini: Where did the idea for Twitter come from? Jack Dorsey: I grew up in St.
Louis; my parents loved the city. I developed this fascination with cities (and) obsession with maps, and they bought a Macintosh in 1984, when I was 8 years old ... and I made it a goal to teach myself how to program so I could draw maps on the computer, and then they also had a police scanner and a CB (Citizen’s Band) radio (short-distance radio communication system), so I could listen to police cars and ambulances reporting where they were and what they were doing. I could actually see the
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Students honored the victims of the 9/11 attacks, as well as military personnel who have died since, by congregating on the Quad on Tuesday night. Flags were placed in the ground to represent those who lost their lives.
Petition claims violations by student senate A new petition sent Monday to the Illinois Student Senate demanding external review of a meeting has sparked controversy among student senators. The petition charges that the senate was in violation of state law and the senate’s internal rules during its first meeting of the academic year, which was held Aug. 29. According to the petition, the senate ignored the terms of the Open Meetings Act by not making their agenda available to the public and that it did not adhere to its anti-discrimination policy during the election of the vice presidentinternal. The petition requests the review of the College of Law Moot Court Bench, which serves as the senate’s judiciary. Max Ellithorpe, senator and
graduate student, wrote the petition. He said the act requires materials to be published 48 hours in advance of a meeting in order to encourage “transparency and public access.” He said he brought up the issue during the meeting but was ignored. “The judiciary needs to know about it,” he said. “We need to know if the senate breached the constitution, if the meeting was out of order and if the meeting should be held invalid.” Jim Maskeri, senator and senior in LAS, said he thinks the petition is a waste of time. “The majority of student senators are in it for the right reasons,” he said. “However, there are some that would rather impede the process and flow of discussion for their own individual enjoyment.” While Maskeri said the complaint
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may be valid, there are arguments against the Ellithorpe’s petition. “I don’t think this is something ISS and the judiciary should be spending their time on, trying to invalidate a meeting, while we should be tackling the Academic Integrity Policy, the RSO handbook and other things that affect students,” Maskeri said. Brock Gebhardt, student body president, said the agenda is always finalized 48 hours in advance of the general meeting, during the executive meetings, which take place every Sunday and are open to the public. “Sometimes we have documents forwarded to us late and so as to not confuse the new senators, we decided to wait with the information,” he said. The proposal has been transmitted to an assistant dean in the
College of Law, and Gebhardt has asked the judiciary to speed up the process so ISS can have the results within the next two weeks. The petition also states that Carey Hawkins-Ash, senator and graduate student, was discriminated against during the Q-and-A portion of his nomination speech. Hawkins-Ash was questioned on his age, while the other candidate, an undergraduate student, was not. “I think we’re going down a dangerous line if we are going to compare candidates based on age,” Ellithorpe said. “It’s not acceptable.” If the meeting is found invalid by the judiciary, ISS may have to repeat the election for the vice president-internal.
Tweets on Dorsey’s visit Jack Dorsey (@jack) - Amazing day with the brilliant UIUC students. Thanks all! Great discussion. Brad Leege (@bradleege) - @jack Thanks for promoting Big 10 schools! Not all of Midwest is flyover country. Brandon (@brandond) - @jack awesome listening to talk tonight. Always enjoy listening to intelligent people speak. Now come grab some beer at Blind Pig 2 More online: Visit DailyIllini.com for the
full transcript of Jack Dorsey’s chat with the DI and a Storify of tweets from his Champaign-Urbana followers.
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city living and breathing. And Twitter came out of an idea of: I have all these verticals, I have cars and taxis and couriers and ambulances and police cars and fire trucks, but I’m missing one key element of the city, which were the people.
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Police simulator training more than just a video game BY CARINA LEE STAFF WRITER
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Daily Illini reporter Carina Lee tries out the Urbana Police Department’s Decision Simulator as Lt. Andy Hewkin explains where to look when shooting.
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Police officers can be challenged with making life-anddeath decisions nearly every day. To prepare them for these situations, high-tech tools are being implemented into police training programs. One such tool, response-to-resistance simulators, which are already being used by the Urbana Police Department, will become part of the Champaign Police Department’s program next month. The simulators allow officers to attain this realistic experience by going through the 300 possible scenarios stored in the program, which is controlled by instructors. These scenarios range from target practice to catching a burglar at the scene. The Urbana Police Department reuses old pistols for the
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simulator training. When an officer pulls the trigger, a laser beam will shoot the screen, and the screen will interact with the beam as the officer carries out the task. The training instructor can pick from three outcomes, depending on how well the officer is performing. Richard Coleman , Urbana patrol officer, went through the simulator training and said it is more than just a video game. “It was like playing a big video game, but it’s used for training, and I think it’s actually a really, really good tool,” he said. “With this real-life scenario, it actually prepares you to get ready.” Lt. Jim Clark of the Champaign Police Department said officers will be going through training with this tool starting next month. “We ended up purchasing it
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with grant funds from the United States Department of Justice,” Clark said. “I’ve been in contact with the vendor this week and trying to get all the stuff fi nalized (by) hopefully the end of this month or the first of next month.” Clark said the simulator will be a great asset to the Champaign Police Department because it will cut down the amount of training necessary. “We do a lot of scenario-based training, so we have to have instructors running the training; we have to have role players to play suspects and officers actually going through the training,” he said. “With this new simulator, we will be able to do that with a very minimal amount of manpower because it is all simulated and video-screened.” Sgt. Andy Hewkin, simulator training coordinator for Urbana,
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said former police Chief Mike Bily made the decision to adopt the program to the Urbana Police Department, which was implemented last year. “Our former police Chief Mike Bily realized that Urbana needed to do something different when it came to training and response resistance and the use of fi rearms,” Hewkin said. Clark said the simulators will eventually help reduce the amount of time training takes. “I’m excited; it’s going to be a great tool,” Clark said. “It’s just a very short amount of time, (whereas) the kind of training we are doing now, it’s an all-day thing. We will be able to do a lot more training with this simulator tool.”
Carina can be reached at lee713@ dailyillini.com.
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