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Nugent Hall model for University of Florida facility Disability-accessible residence hall at UI serving as archetype BY TAYLOR ODISHO STAFF WRITER
As the University maintains its status as one of the most accessible college campuses in the nation, one university works to do the same. The University of Florida will create a new residence hall that will offer more accessibility to handicapped students. The new hall, which will open in August 2015, is modeled after the University’s Nugent Hall. The UF chose Nugent Hall as an archetype for the Residence Hall Project for a number reasons, one of them being its staff’s ties to Illinois. “As a former student at the University of Illinois, I’m well aware of the very long commitment and excellent reputation the University has in its regard for having facilities that are accessible and well beyond the ADA (Americans with Disability Act) standards in the United States,” said Dave Kratzer, vice
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Crops grow on the Hendrick House’s farm field that is on loan from the Sustainable Student Farm on Monday. Hendrick House use organic practices, no pesticides or chemicals, to help feed three dorms — Hendrick House, Presby Hall and Armory House — and around 30 fraternities and sororities.
Local food a growing movement
Hendrick House, new law raise awareness for eating local BY ELEANOR BLACK STAFF WRITER
Within the Sustainable Student Farm, located on the outskirts of campus, lies a half-acre plot fi lled with rows of vegetation. This plot belongs to Hendrick House and grows tomatoes, lettuce, beans and other vegetables to provide food for private certified housing on campus. The farm is just one part of Illinois’ local food movement. In August, Gov. Pat Quinn approved “Eat Local, Buy Illinois Products Day,” which is recognized statewide and will occur on the fi rst Saturday of every month. Naomi Jakobsson, D-103, cosponsored the bill in the Illinois General Assembly before Quinn signed it into law. “Well, I think it’s certainly a
very good thing for this area, for economic development, for local businesses,” Jakobsson said. “Some of them are small and really trying to make it, and others have been around, but it’s also important to support them. It also helps people fi nd out where all the products and local businesses are.” This movement would promote the fresh produce from the Hendrick House plot, as well as other locally grown food. Hendrick House Chef Ann Swanson is in charge of the plot, which she started preparing in May. With the plot, Swanson said her goal is for Hendrick House to become more sustainable by sourcing more than 95 percent of its vegetables through her. “The benefits are just countless. One, it cuts down on emis-
sions because you’re not shipping products across the country, (and) you can control exactly what you’re doing to the plants, so you know exactly how it’s going to taste,” she said. “Of course, it’s being harvested out of the ground that day, so you really can’t get a fresher product than what we’re serving right now.” Drew Thomason , outreach coordinator at the Illinois Stewardship Alliance, said the day serves as a way to raise awareness about local food. “It gives people a taste of buying local, and hopefully throughout the month they’ll (continue),” he said. Thomason said the most quantifiable benefit of buying locally is its effect on the economy. He said Illinois consumers buy
Donation funds mammograms for uninsured women STAFF WRITER
Presence Covenant Medical Center’s Foundation donated $10,000 to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District in early September to finance free breast and cervical cancer screenings for uninsured women, more than 700 of which are on a waiting list. “Women from 35-64 years of age who do not have access to care, do not have health insurance or Medicare or any of those services ... can enroll through us for screening services,” said Cathy Propst, Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer program coordinator at the CUPHD. Propst said the program provides women with a clinical breast exam, pelvic exam and Pap test. When they turn 40, a mammogram — an X-ray of breast tissue used to look for masses or abnormalities that indicate breast cancer — is added to the service. Louise Fellmann, women’s health patient navigator and program coordinator at Presence Covenant Medical Center, said she recommended that any woman over the age of 40 or any woman who has a family history of breast cancer should discuss scheduling yearly mammograms with her doctor.
“If a woman doesn’t have a mammogram every ten years, a lot could change, and they could have a mass that has gotten larger spread more to the other organs, possibly,” she said. Fellmann said the early detection screenings the program is offering to uninsured women will help women in the community stay healthier and live longer. “I feel that it will help in a lot of ways, because the woman who couldn’t afford a mammogram will now have a better chance of survival by having a screening done and finding (a mass or calcification) early,” she said. However, Propst said funding for the program has been difficult because of budget cuts from state and federal funding sources in the last three to four years. “It has dropped enough that we don’t always have enough money each fiscal year to serve all the women in our communities that need those services,” Propst said. Since November, Propst’s office has adapted a priority system in which the highest priority women are served according to a woman’s statistical risk in developing cancer. The first-level priority is for women who are symptomatic with a breast lump or a nip-
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ple discharge, indicating that they potentially need diagnostic services. The second level is for women who are over the age of 50 because the risk for developing breast cancer increases with age. The third level is for women who are 40-49, and the fourth level is for women who are 35-39. “When Presence learned that there were women in Champaign County who are waiting for service because of our funding difficulty, they offered us to partner with their ‘It’s All in the Jeans’ campaign,” Propst said. When a company registers for “It’s All in the Jeans,” a Presence campaign, it asks its employees to pay $5 to wear jeans on the first Friday of October, because October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This year, the campaign will be held on Oct. 4. Angela Reinhart, development specialist with Presence Cove-
nant Medical Center’s Foundation, said the purpose of this campaign is to raise funds for community education programs, patient care packs for individuals at the hospital and, for the first time, mammography scholarships. “This year, we were in the position where we could donate $10,000 in scholarships to CUPHD for individuals on a waiting list to receive a mammogram,” Reinhart said. “We’ve been raising funds in the past, and this year we were able to get a considerable amount.” About 60 companies and 3,000 participants have registered for the “It’s All in the Jeans” campaign. Reinhart said she is expecting about 160 companies and 5,000 participants because there is usually a rush at the end of the registration period. She said the campaign raises roughly around $30,000 per year. Among the sponsors for the
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campaign are PepsiCo, Acoustic MedSystems Inc., ChampaignUrbana MTD, College of Engineering Career Services and Walgreens. The screening services are not provided at the CUPHD office. Rather, the office has contracts with local providers, including hospitals, large clinics and private doctor offices. “We hold contracts with providers throughout the county area, so the women enroll with us, and they go to the medical provider close to their home for the actual hands-on services,” Propst said. “Then we actually pay the bills out of our office.” If any of the women are diagnosed with cancer, the program is able to transfer them to receive medical care, which is not paid for by the CUPHD.
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about $4.3 billion worth of food every year, with about $3.9 billion of that leaving the state and going to growers in California, Mexico and Florida. “That is money that’s kind of being drained from our economy,” he said, “At the same time, we’ve got some of the best farmland in the world. So, what we’re saying is, use this day as a springboard to buy local to keep some of that money locally.” He added that if Illinois consumers bought 15 percent of their food from local producers, it would bring $639 million into our economy annually. ISA has started a “10% Campaign” that asks chefs, cooks and restaurant owners to pledge to try and buy 10 percent of their food locally,
president for student affairs at UF. Sharon Blansett, assistant to the associate vice president for Student Affairs at UF, said UF housing administrators and the Association of College and University Housing OfficersInternational referred the project’s team to Beckwith Residential Support Services at Nugent Hall. “All Student Affairs and Housing staff keep tabs on innovative programs nationwide through regional and national organizations,” Blansett said. Patricia Malik, director of Beckwith Residential Support Services, said the University is known for innovation and going above and beyond the ADA’s standards. “The Beckwith Residential Support Services ... is not required by law,” Malik said. “The only thing required by law
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