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University student’s bond set at $10M in homicide case
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Indie-rock band Daughter plays at Pygmalion Music Festival on Thursday at Krannert Center.
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Un iversit y student Mengchen Huang, 25, has been identified as the victim in the Urbana Police Department’s ongoing homicide investigation, according to a press release from Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup. Huang was a graduate student from Nanjing, China, enrolled in the School of Art and Design, said campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler. An autopsy will be performed and an inquest may be held at a future date. Suspect Yongfei Ci has been charged in connection with the death of Huang, and his bond has been set at $10 million according to the Champaign County Sheriff’s Office. Ci, 29, is the victim’s ex-boyfriend. He started at the University in 2008 and is currently pursuing a doctorate degree in math, Kaler said. According to a press release from the Urbana Police Department, at around 11 a.m. Friday, officers were dispatched to 1343 N. Lincoln Ave. and directed to an apartment where they found Huang dead.
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Mitchell Smith, vice president of operations for The Scion Group, which owns and manages One South, confi rmed that the apartment was located at One South apartment complex, 1321 N. Lincoln Ave. According to the female who reported the incident, the suspect forced his way into the apartment and detained two females inside. One female, who was secured in the bathroom, left the apartment uninjured and stopped a person in the area, who then reported the incident to police. Local police and METCAD 911 were able to determine the possible location of the suspect using cellphone technology. The suspect was taken into custody at Value Place, a motel located at 1212 W. Anthony Drive in Champaign. An Illini-Alert describing the suspect was issued around 12:45 p.m. Kelsey Adler, junior in LAS, lives at One South and said she also received emails from One South notifying her of the homicide.
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BY JULIANNE MICOLETA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Champaign-Urbana MTD became the sixth transit provider in the country and the only transit provider in Illinois to earn certification for its environmental sustainability and management system to International Organization for Standardization standards last week. The ISO 14001:2004 is a group of standards dealing specifically with environmental sustainability and management systems. It enables an organization to analyze, control and reduce the environmental impact of its activities, products and services, and operate with greater efficiency and control. Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Ltd, the world’s leading provider of independent assessment services, conducted the certification audit of MTD’s program. “This certification means that our EMS program has been certified by an external auditor that looked at our system,” said Jane Sullivan, MTD sustainability and transportation planner. “They took a look to make sure
the proper procedures were in place and that we were training our employees correctly.” Sullivan said Lloyd’s personnel visited MTD to ensure that they were meeting state and local environmental regulations. The personnel visited and audited MTD’s maintenance facility and grounds that include a body shop, a fueling station, a bus wash, a machine shop, a tire shop and storage for parts and bus overflow. “They made sure that we were conducting things in a way that was maintaining a safe and clean environment,” Sullivan said. The certification process began in 2011 when MTD enrolled in the Federal Transit Administration’s ISO 14001 EMS Institute at Virginia Tech University. MTD employees traveled to the EMS Institute where, the center, along with local, state and federal government facilities, taught and assisted MTD to implement the ISO standards. “Some of our employees learned what it takes to create this system,” Sullivan said. “They were involved with writ-
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ing procedures and then coming back here and training our other employees.” She said she thinks the certification proves that MTD is committed to environmental sustainability and that the company is very serious about watching its environmental impact. Many other environmental efforts are being taken beyond the certification. The most visible of these are the hybrid buses. As of January 2013, more than half of MTD’s 102 buses are hybrid. Additionally, there are various policies and practices that MTD has implemented to reduce its environmental impact and increase its commitment to a greener existence. “As an employee, I’m a big fan of (MTD’s) green practices,” MTD bus driver Stephanie Blunier said. “I think that they’re doing a lot and that their efforts go beyond the buses. They’re doing a lot in maintenance, and that’s where a lot of the environmental sustainability comes from.”
MTD shifts to hybrid buses as part of ISO sustainability certificate This is the 40-foot diesel-electric hybrid MTD bus, and it uses 25% less fuel than regular diesel buses. It is one of three different types of hybrid buses run by MTD, which altogether make up 54% of the MTD fleet - a total of 56 out of 102 that they have. The use of batteries offsets the emissions of nitrogen oxide and other smog forming emissions, resulting in better air quality and fewer greenhouse gases. CARRIAGE Hybrid buses are also expected to have lower maintenance costs for brakes, transmission and oil because engine and brake life lengthen substantially. In addition, there are fewer electrical parts in a hybrid bus than a traditional transmission. This means that less wear and tear means fewer dollars spent on repair.
EXHAUST Studies prove there are lower emissions of nitrogen oxide and other smog-forming emissions from hybrid buses than conventional diesel buses.
WINDOWS They also feature a more eco-friendly design that lets natural light flood in from emergency hatchets and a back window.
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Civil rights activist speaks out about injustices of prison system Angela Davis shares her story at YMCA’s Friday Forum lecture
BY STANTON POLANSKI CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Angela Davis, who spoke at the University YMCA on Friday, became the third woman to appear on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List on Aug. 18, 1970. She was being held accountable for the bloody aftermath of a California courtroom’s hostage situation and an ensuing shootout with police — but she wasn’t even there. She would stay at friends’ homes to avoid the FBI agents, and at night she’d be back on the move. The FBI found and arrested her in New York City in October 1970. But while she was in jail, an international movement rallied to set her free. She would later be released in
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Angela Davis speaks to the audience at the University YMCA on Wright Street on Friday.
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people behind bars than any other country in the world and holds 25 percent of the world’s prisoners; only 5 percent of the world’s population lives in the U.S. Davis said the number of jails in the country has been rapidly increasing since the war on drugs. “We see the increasing profitability in imprisonment,” Davis said. “The tendency is to assume that there are so many people in prison because these people commit crime. And then I have to ask, what about all the people who are not in prison who commit crime and who commit the same crimes as the people who are in prison?” Though Davis’ case in the early ‘70s was able to gain enough attention to force the court into giving her a chance at proving her innocence, many others are not as lucky. University YMCA Executive Director Mike Doyle said that Davis’ fame can help make forgotten stories better known. “Someone like Angela Davis
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February 1972 thanks to that movement. Because of her past and the people she knew who were in prison wrongfully, she has tried to change the prison system ever since. She spoke in Lazter Hall at the University YMCA on Friday about her past and problems with the prison system as part of this fall’s Friday Forum lecture series Rethinking Security: Beyond Mass Incarceration. “I can actually remember being run off the freeway in Southern California because I had put a bumper sticker on my car that said ‘black is beautiful.’ That was in those days — I was a graduate student,” Davis said. “I can reflect.” She named off people who had served time under false charges over the years — names that keep her passionate. According to Global Research’s website, about 2 million people are in jail in the U.S., a number unmatched by any society in human history. The U.S. has more
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