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Easter, Wise address faculty at annual meeting BY FARAZ MIRZA STAFF WRITER
Chancellor Phyllis Wise and President Robert Easter addressed faculty at the annual faculty meeting on Monday about several recent concerns, including the rejected appointment of Steven Salaita after he wrote controversial tweets in August. The meeting was held at the Illini Union Ballroom. Salaita supporters, mostly consisting of students, turned their backs as Wise stepped up to the podium to speak. “We have to deal with the polarization and the division on this campus between people and their opposing views,” Wise said. In her speech, Wise said she had spoken to many students on campus, including those who turned their backs in protest. The chancellor said she hopes the campus debates and lectures concerning Salaita continue to take place, because they are “healthy” and will help the University move forward. President Easter nodded in agreement. “We all agree that we have to continue to increase the excellence here,” Wise said. “I think we really need to be talking with each other more, so that we appreciate how each of us work.” Wise also discussed the campus’ strategic plan,
which was unveiled last August and consists of four main goals: fostering scholarship, providing transformational learning experiences to the students, making visible and significant societal impact and carefully stewarding existing resources and generating new resources to fuel the University’s initiatives. Wise also stated that the faculty consistently look to the students to help them leverage the intellectual capacity at the University, and that they are always looking to recruit faculty and students who are even better than ones currently at the University. “One of the things I value most is virtually every room that I go into, I am not at all, by far, the average light in the room,” Wise said. “Everyone is smarter than I am, everyone is more generous, more intelligent than I am; and I have had a wonderful time learning from all of you.” President Easter discussed the financial state and budget of the University. Easter said the University of Illinois System receives $850 million of funding from the federal government annually. “The University of Illinois is a billion-dollar research enterprise and more — that’s just the funding that comes
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A damaged car displayed on the Main Quad illustrates the dangers of drinking and driving as part of the Alcohol Awareness event on Monday.
‘Alcohol Awareness’ on campus Damaged car shows students the dangers of drinking and driving BY RUGE LI STAFF WRITER
McKinley Health Center’s Special Population’s program held an alcohol awareness display on the Quad on Monday that included a “junked car” as a model to show people how dangerous it can be to drink and drive. The display also had SEE FACULTY | 3B games, information about drinking and prizes to promote the annual event, Alcohol Awareness: Think Before You Drink, which will be held Thursday from 6-8 p.m. in SDRP Multipurpose Rooms ABC. One student who participated in the display, Nicole Wilson, said that she was impressed by the extremely damaged car and she said she will be more cautious by thinking before drinking. SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINI Janki Thakkar, junior in President Robert Easter responds to a faculty member's LAS and treasurer of the program, said that this is concern about the University's alleged disregard for unions.
Urbana landlords continue to pay increased fee BY WALBERT CASTILLO STAFF WRITER
Landlords in Urbana will continue to pay an extra registration fee implemented by the Urbana City Council in 2013. The fee was unanimously voted into permanence by the council on Oct. 6 to pay for a new staff inspector to help achieve a goal to evaluate the safety and cleanliness of Urbana’s 9,600 rental housing units over the next three to five years. Libby Tyler, community development director and city planner of Urbana, said depending on the type of unit, the extra landlord registration fee increased by $4 or $5, from the average amount of roughly $50. With the increased fee, the city collected an extra $67,405 more in rental registration fees from 2013 to 2014. “Although this may sound ambitious, our number one goal is to inspect all 9,600 rental housing units at least once every three to five years,” Tyler said. Tyler said that the only concern she has with the increased registration fees
is if landlords will add the fee to tenants’ rent. Although Tyler frowns upon this, she said that it is vital to have rental housing. “It’s just part of a business cost that we incur just like registering a vehicle,” said Jason Reda, manager of Green Street Realty. “It’s something that we’ll incur. We won’t take it out on our tenants by charging
“It’s something that we’ll incur. We won’t take it out on our tenants by charging them a little more.” JASON REDA
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them a little more.” Urbana City Council Alderman Charlie Smyth, Ward 1, said the fee will help the city meet its goal of inspecting all apartment units, regardless of size. “When the rental registration program initiated 20 years ago, it only cov-
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the first year that they put a junked car in this display. They want the display to show students how drunk driving can jeopardize people’s lives. She also said the junked car worked well and it brought many students to the display to learn more about what happened to the car. Michelle Taddeo, graduate assistant at McKinley Health Center, said the goal for this display was to notify students about drinking and how this affects their body and the people around them. Thakkar added that the goal is also to raise awareness of how to engage in safe habits when people consume alcohol. “We really want people to know how many people are affected by accidents related to drinking, whether it’s drinking and driving or just personal injury, or domestic
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ered five-unit apartments and up, because they were safer than our smaller rental units,” Smyth said. However, he said that three years ago, the Urbana City Council decided to include all types of unit apartments to the rental registration program. Tyler said she discovered the department was understaffed to take on so many apartment units. With only two inspectors, she didn’t think all apartment units could be inspected in three to five years. She said that there simply isn’t enough manpower to check up on all smoke detectors, fire
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extinguishers, plumbing and functioning windows and doors. The permanent increase in registration fees, however, will go toward hiring additional staff members such as housing inspectors, and increase the frequency of inspections being done so that the city may reach its goal. Smyth said that although it will take a couple of years to really see the impact of this permanent fee, he is confident that their goal can be met.
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ley, the coroner’s office, Student Legal Services and the University Police Department. The event will be presented by the Special Population’s Student Health Concerns Committee and Delta Zeta Sorority. As a member of the program, Taddeo said she researched and learned new, alcohol-related statistics of what happens on campus every year, including Unofficial statistics. As a graduate student, she said she also has a better perspective on how undergraduate students think about drinking. “It really gives them a perspective of how alcohol affects your body, your interpersonal relationships, your community, your surroundings, your academics and your bank account,” Taddeo said. “We want to give you all of the information, so you could take it and make safer and smarter decisions.”
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UIF appoints interim president, begins replacement search DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
Landlord registration fees collected from the city of Urbana between the years of 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 SOURCE: Department of Community Development Services
violence, physical assault — things like that, all things that can happen when you’re impaired,” Taddeo said. “We just want to spread that awareness, and hopefully students and campus members will really understand the importance of controlling your drinking so that you keep yourself and the people around you safe.” The Alcohol Awareness Program event Thursday will have a mix of interactive activities and a panel of speakers. The first hour of the event will have activities including a sobriety test and a “Myths and Facts of Alcohol” activity. In the sobriety test, participators will use drunk goggles provided by the police station to feel how their perception changes when they are drinking. A panel of experts will provide more information and answer students’ questions related to alcohol. These experts will come from the Alcohol and Other Drug Office within McKin-
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The University of Illinois Foundation announced the appointment of an interim president, Edward F. Ewald. Ewald is currently the senior vice president for development programs and will become the interim president of the foundation effective October 18, according to a press release from UIF. In this position, Ewald will oversee the day-to-day operations of UIF and lead the professional and support staff for the University development program. He will serve the position while the foundation searches for a replacement for Thomas J. Farrell, former president. The foundation board made the decision for the appointment, according to Jessica Hampson, UIF interim director of marketing and communications. Previously, Ewald served as interim vice chancellor for institutional advancement on the Urbana campus and as the interim vice chancellor for institutional development on the Chicago campus.
EDWARD F. EWALD “He has experience after having worked with us on all three campuses,” Hampson said. “He has a really good footing and understanding.” Ewald has worked at UIF for 22 years after he joined in 1992 and has served in various management and leadership positions, including campaign director for the Brilliant Futures campaign, which raised $2.43 billion. The UIF is responsible for securing and distributing private gifts to the University of Illinois and its three campuses.
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