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No decision on professor’s termination Board of Trustees takes no action toward Louis Wozniak BY BRITTANY GIBSON STAFF WRITER

The University Board of Trustees held a closed-door hearing regarding Professor Louis Wozniak’s future employment status Monday, ultimately taking no action. University spokesman Tom Hardy said a date for the board to render its verdict has not yet been specified. “Any action that the board would take would be taken in public,� he said, but declined further comment. Wozniak has been a professor at the University since 1966 and has had his teaching privileges suspended twice during this time, totaling ten years of suspension. His position as associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems

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TCF receives nearly 25 complaints per $1B of deposits, study finds Bank spokesman: Report misleads on rate of complaints BY MEGAN JONES CONTRIBUTING WRITER

While a quarter of University students hold accounts with TCF Bank, not all are pleased with their banking experiences, according to a national study. A Sept. 17 report published by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group disclosed that TCF Bank customers are most likely to complain to the feds. According to the study, which was submitted to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 24.9 complaints have been made for every $1 billion of deposits TCF Bank holds , which is the highest rate of complaint for all banks included in the study. TCF is followed by Sovereign Bank, which has 9.1 complaints and Capital One Bank, which has 6.5 complaints per $1 billion. Most of the complaints in the study deal with checking account issues. “Unlike most other banks of comparable size or larger, we derive almost all of our deposits from consumer accounts, making apples-toapples comparisons among banks difficult,� said Geoff Thomas, TCF Bank spokesman. “However, we have always placed the highest priority on properly managing and addressing all complaints from our customers.� University spokesman Tom Hardy said 25 percent of Urbana campus students hold accounts with TCF Bank. The University agreed to an exclusive banking partnership, excluding faculty, with TCF Bank

in 2007 on the Urbana and Chicago campuses, said Peter Newman, senior assistant vice president of Treasury Operations. The contract ends in February 2015. The bank was awarded the contract for factors including free checking accounts for students, provisions for campus bank locations and ATMs as well as prior experience with campus bank partnerships, Newman said in an email. Thomas said TCF has a formal process for promptly responding to all customer complaints, including reviewing each customer’s individual situation and taking corrective action when warranted. He said the bank uses complaint activity to perform ongoing reviews of products and customer service, making changes where necessary. The study shows that TCF Bank responded to more than half of the complaints with offers of money. Students have the option of linking their i-cards to their TCF Bank checking accounts to use as an ATM or debit card. Hardy said this is convenient for students’ financial services. The bank, headquartered in Wayzata, Minn., also provides a donation to the University scholarship fund and maintains nine ATM on campus. However, students are not required to have an account with TCF, Newman said. Of the 25 percent of students on campus who hold TCF checking accounts, student viewpoints vary. “I use TCF Bank because my dad told me to sign up for it during registration, and they gave me a free hoodie,� said Harry Belden, freshman in FAA. “I’ve only used it a couple of times, and I’ve yet to have any

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Adolescents with depression, among other factors, may have an increased risk of developing eating disorders, according to research from a University professor. The research was published in a study in the International Journal of Eating Disorders and was authorized by Janet Liechty, assistant professor of Social Work and Medicine, and Meng-Jung Lee, a doctoral student. Liechty and Lee examined how the psychosocial conditions in adolescents effect the risk of developing problematic eating behaviors as young adults. “We wanted to look at whether psychosocial and behavioral risk factors impact disordered eating in young adulthood,� Liechty said. “We know they do in adolescence, but what we want to know is if they persist to be risk factors in disordered behavior in young adulthood.� The researchers used a national data set of adolescents in grades 7-12 in 1994-1996 to examine the psychosocial and behavioral predictors of eating disorder indicators. There were four predictors in total. The two behavioral predictors were dieting

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Chancellor Phyllis Wise speaks to the audience during the Maudelle Tanner Brown Bousfield Hall Dedication in front of the new residence hall Tuesday.

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and extreme weight loss behaviors, such as purging, using laxatives and using diet pills to lose weight. “We want to find out whether these kids started to use those dangerous unhealthy weight loss behaviors that would predict later behaviors,� Lee said. The other two psychosocial predictors were depression and body image distortion, which is when a person has an inaccurate perception of his or her body. “One girl actually has a healthy weight, but she thinks she is overweight. We called that an overestimation,� Lee said. “We use this misconception to predict whether it will be a risk factor.� Seven years later, the same adolescents were examined at the ages of 18-26 for several outcomes. Liechty attempted to predict these outcomes using the psychosocial factors in the teenagers. “The outcomes we looked at were whether they reported binge eating, whether they reported of ever being diagnosed with an eating disorder and extreme weight loss behaviors,� Liechty said. Lee said the study found that those psycho-

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social and behavioral factors all contributed to later unhealthy eating behaviors. Among men, early-life dieting persisted into adulthood, and early body image distortion predicted eating disorder diagnosis in adulthood. Among women, early dieting predicted unhealthy extreme weight loss behavior and early extreme weight loss behavior predicted extreme eating disorder diagnosis. Depression, Liechty said, was the biggest and most important of the predictors. It predicted extreme weight loss behavior, eating disorder diagnosis and binge eating in both men and women. “Eating disorder diagnoses emerges in young adulthood, so it’s an important time to pay attention,� Liechty said. “A lot of us have crazy eating habits as adolescents, but when those patterns get fixed and persist overtime, that’s when they can really wreak havoc on our systems.� Joanna King, a local licensed clinical professional counselor, said it is difficult to confront a person who shows signs of an eating disorder because the disorder is a very strong com-

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BY ELI MURRAY

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Robert Rumbelow, former University director of bands, was charged with two counts of theft control intent that may result in a three-to-seven year sentence, per count, in an Illinois correctional facility. In court Tuesday, Rumbelow was granted permission to return to his home state of Texas before the trial but was denied permission to leave the country. Rumbelow resigned Aug. 22 following a University of Illinois Police Department investigation that concluded that he sold more than $50,000 worth of University instruments and deposited the money in his personal bank accounts. According to a press release from University police, Rumbelow admitted to selling the University’s instruments and

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said he intended to return the money to the band department. Rumbelow paid the University $86,000 amid his resignation. Inventory lists prepared by Rumbelow in the University’s program to trade in old instruments for credit toward new ones were found to have inconsistencies, according to the release. The investigation concluded that 76 instruments, many of which were sold by Rumbelow on eBay and through other contacts, were missing from these lists. Rumbelow and his attorney declined comment. He is scheduled to appear in court for a pretrial hearing Nov. 12.

Lauren Rohr and Hannah Prokop contributed to this report. Eli can be reached at ejmurray2@dailyillini.com.

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Study links depression to risk of eating disorders BY JACQUI OGRODNIK

Engineering has been on hold since the last class he taught in 2010. Wozniak could not be reached for comment. President Robert Easter has recommended the termination of Wozniak’s employment at the University after multiple controversial incidents surrounding the professor. Professor Wozniak created a personal website where he cited his own complaints toward the administration. The site contains letters written from prior students and a timeline of his career, beginning around 1975 when he first received tenure and continuing through 2013 where Easter’s recommendation to the Board of Trustees meet-

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