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C-U splashed with color
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The sky above Champaign’s Market Place Mall was splashed with tints of pink and yellow at 6 a.m. Saturday, but the bright hues of daybreak weren’t as vibrant as the various dyes that would cover participants of The Color Run after sunrise. Travis Snyder established The Color Run in March 2011, hoping to develop a 5K race with a less competitive environment. He created an untimed 5K with the goal of bringing communities together in the name of fitness and fun. According to The Color Run’s website, the organization held over 170 events in more than 30 countries worldwide in 2013. The paint race was inspired by other dye events like Disney’s World of Color and the Hindu festival, Holi. The Color Run also hosted events in other college towns on Sat-
urday, in Gainesville, Fla., and South Bend, Ind. Runners started at 8 a.m. around a course tracing Market Place Mall. The Champaign debut of The Color Run was also the first of its kind for Urbana resident, Yang Liu. “It’s fabulous; it’s fun,” Liu said. “People are happy. I hope we can have more of these kinds of events.” The 5K was also a success by the standards of The Color Run’s staff, including representative Sam Williams, who said over 2,000 participants raced in the event. Runners passed through several arches, each designating a specific color, where employees and volunteers were standing by, ready to douse them in chalky dyes. “It’s a good turnout,” Williams said. “We’re trying to set the bar [high], so we can put on a good, clean race.” By the end, participants
were stained with dyes of purple, red, yellow, pink, green and blue. They were then greeted by a stage blasting music and creating a celebratory environment for the runners after they crossed the finish line. Individual dye packets were thrown to the crowd for runners to shower over each other while dancing. The Color Run’s local charity affiliate this year, United Way of Champaign County, was given a percentage of the proceeds from the race. Each city that hosts an event has a local charity that is supported by the run. United Way was unable to calculate the amount of money raised by press time. According to The Color Run’s website, they also partner with Global Citizen, an organization that works to draw attention to alleviate problems associated with poverty worldwide, including hunger, access to
clean water and the ability to obtain an education. Daniel Jiang, a freshman in LAS, admitted he was originally drawn to the 5K by the colors when he found out about the event through social media, though he also cited exercise as a benefit that stood out to him. “No freshman 15!” Jiang said. Aashna Arora, a sophomore in DGS, said she enjoyed the event as well but noted it might be more successful if the event relocated closer to campus. She hopes the self-proclaimed “Happiest 5K on the Planet” will have a future here in Champaign county, perhaps one that will include more University students. “I think they should do this closer to the University,” Arora said. “More students would come.”
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Participants in Saturday’s Color Run dance as they pass by one of the designated color stations.
The University continues to see a rise in donations to the University of Illinois Foundation. This fiscal year, the Foundation received a 10.5 percent increase in donations while the Urbana-Champaign campus received about a 5 percent increase, said Dan Peterson, senior vice president for the UIF and vice chancellor for Institution Advancement. The Foundation comprises the University of Illinois’ three campuses which received $259.5 million in donations this year. The University received $180.9 million of the total donations. According to Peterson, “about 30 million dollars of it is directly attributable to student scholarships, fellowships or related programs ... 60 million for direct faculty support, 30 million for student support, 20 million for facilities, which the majority of that was for the State Farm Center which will benefit students ... 40 million was unrestricted money at the unit level,” Peterson said. He added that most of the money that donors don’t specify toward a college or a program will either go toward students or faculty.
Over the past 10 years, t he Fou nd at ion h as received over $2 billion in donations. Over the last fiscal year, a total of 75,000 donors gave 151,000 gifts or individual transactions to the University. Of those donors, Peterson said that almost 500 individuals have donated for 35 years and four donors have donated for 50 years to the University. According to Peterson, the top four recipients of the donations were respectfully: the College of Engineering, athletics, the College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences and the College Liberal Arts and Sciences. According to John Fundator, senior communications specialist at the Foundation, the money donated to the Foundation for all three campuses was divided into cash gift (38.7 percent) pledge payments (27 percent), grant payments (21.2 percent), estate distributions (9.3 percent) and annuities/life income (3.8 percent). “Donors have the option of designating their contributions to specific units (colleges, schools, depart-
Donations toward the University of Illinois Foundation reached $259.5 million this past fiscal year, which ended June 30, 2014. The donations toward the foundation involve all three Illinois campuses. $35.8 million of the total will be used toward student support. 300 259.5 234.9 250 216.6 213.9 221.4 211.8 210.6 184.9 190.5 200 151.5 150 100 50 0
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You can do a lot of things in a weekend — maybe even start a business. This weekend, Founders, an entrepreneurship organization on campus, hosted 54 at the Illini Union, a startup weekend that invited students from all majors spend 54 hours to take an idea and turn it into a business. “The idea of 54 is that we bring in about 80 to 90 people, and we want them to pitch their ideas, take their ideas from just an idea at the dinner table to reality, to make a business
over the course of the weekend,” said Alek Festekjian, 54 organizer and sophomore in Engineering. Each day of 54 had a different agenda that helped take students through the process of creating their business. Friday’s theme was “Imagine,” where participants pitched their business ideas to fellow participants in 60 seconds. Once each participant pitched their idea, voting took place in order to determine the top 10 to 12 ideas. After voting,
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Winning team: 8-Count. Their startup revolves around a micro product that fits into your mouth to calculate concussion probability during sports.
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iSEE was also formed to combine the many disciplines on campus into one major outreach program that would accomplish certain goals connected to sustainability and environmental research. “This Congress is really a way to encompass all three of those objectives for this institute because we still recognize that feeding 9 billion people sustainably is a really grand societal challenge,” Khanna said. “It requires more research from our campus community and educating our stu-
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able and socially acceptable,” Khanna said. The main goal for the first Congress is to discuss different ways to supply food and fuel to a world of 9 billion people and the responsibilities that technology has to fulfill these duties. iSEE was created last fall to work on different areas on campus that were important for stimulating research, education and outreach, said Khanna. It was created to stimulate programs for undergraduate and graduate research, as well as focus on public education and outreach.
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To create conversations about the environment and sustainable energy for the billions of people in this world, the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE), will be hosting its first Congress, titled “Feeding 9 Billion: A Path to Sustainable Agriculture,” from Tuesday to Thursday this week. The Congress will include several lectures and panels from leading researchers from across the world. Madhu Khanna, associate director for education and outreach at iSEE and
professor in ACES, said she hopes these speakers will help engage the community in discussion about essential initiatives to assure worldwide sustainability. Khanna will also speak on a panel about climate change and agriculture on Wednesday. “We can have really broad-based conversations about the research that’s needed, the public-private partnerships that are needed and what are the ways forward in terms of trying to achieve this goal of increasing food security and doing it in a way that is environmentally sustain-
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Illinois designated Paralympic facility DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
The University of Illinois has been named an official U.S. Paralympic training site by the United States Olympic Committee. According to a press release from the committee, the designation was given to the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services inside the College of Applied Health Sciences at Illinois. The University received a $160,000 grant donated by BP, which was announced Friday at the USOC annual assembly in Chicago. The wheelchair training facility will be getting new and upgraded equipment. “We are pleased to support the University of Illinois and its dynamic wheelchair program in a more formal manner,” said Cathy Sellers, U.S. Paralympics track and field high performance director, in a press release. “The program has produced many Paralympic athletes who have reached the podium and we look forward to its continued success.” Illinois has 22 athletes currently training on cam-
pus, 12 of which are U.S. Paralympians. The University wheelchair track and field team was wellrepresented at the 2012 Paralympic Games where it earned 10 medals. Tatyana McFadden, 2014 graduate, brought home three gold medals and a bronze, while current junior Raymond Martin earned four gold medals. McFadden also medaled in the 2014 winter games in Sochi. “We are excited about the opportunity to deepen our relationship with the United States Olympic Committee by becoming one of its elite Paralympic training facilities,” said Tanya Gallagher, dean of the College of Applied Health Sciences, in a press release. “Since athletes from our program at Illinois participated in the first Paralympic Games we have had a sustained commitment to the world-wide recognition and celebration of athletic ability that these games represent. We are honored to have been selected as a training site and for the support we received from BP.”
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