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SMOKE-FREE
Bull Moose on the loose on campus
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After voting, UI on board to eliminate smoking BY CORINNE RUFF AND TYLER DAVIS STAFF WRITERS
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FTER A YEAR AND A HALF OF DELIBERATION, UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS ARE TAKING STEPS TO COMPLETELY BAN TOBACCO SMOKE ON CAMPUS IN THE NEXT 13 MONTHS. “We want to ensure a healthy environment for our entire campus community. There is incontrovertible evidence that smoking is a dangerous addiction and that secondhand smoke affects everyone,” Chancellor Phyllis Wise said in a mass email to the University community. With slated date in November 2013 for a com-
plete ban on smoking on University property, this new policy builds on a current rule that prohibits smoking indoors in all Universityowned and leased facilities and within 25 feet of building entrances, exits, windows that open and ventilation intakes, according to the Campus Administrative Manual. This policy would have the University join five other Big Ten universities that have smokefree policies implemented for their campuses. “Some Big Ten (schools) have smoke-free campuses as well, but they don’t enforce it,” said Matt Gold, senator and senior in LAS. “The students tend to understand it’s a smoke-free campus and act on the honor system.”
See SMOKE-FREE, Page 3A POTENTIAL EFFECT OF SMOKE/TOBACCO-FREE POLICY ON TOBACCO USERS
PERCENT OF CAMPUS I N F AV O R O F T O B A C C O - F R E E R E G U L AT I O N
STUDENTS
EMPLOYEES
50.1%
50.6%
27.3%
9.1%
56.8%
help you cut down
help you quit
create difficulties for you
BREAKDOWN OF TOBACCO-FREE BIG TEN SCHOOLS
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Buildings smoke-free
Smoke-free Campus
Smoke-free Campus
Smoke-free Campus
Michigan State Buildings smoke-free
*mild conversation for smoke-free campus
MICHAEL BOJDA THE DAILY ILLINI
Smoke-free Campus *some conversation for tobacco-free campus
Nebraska Northwestern Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue
Wisconsin
Buildings smoke-free
Buildings smoke-free
Smoke-free Campus
Buildings smoke-free
Buildings smoke-free
Buildings & medical center smoke-free *some conversation for smoke-free campus
Theodore Roosevelt, portrayed by Kyle Deininger, a senior in Business, performs a speech from the presidential race of 1912. The event was put on by the UI Speech Team to encourage students to vote in the upcoming election and see the “candidates” dress in period attire and proclaim their political views from the tops of soapboxes around the Quad on Wednesday afternoon.
Minnesota
*mild conversation for smoke-free campus
Source: An online survey the University conducted with a random sample of about 10% of the campus community in late April 2012. Of those, 475 students and 357 employees participated SHANNON LANCOR Managing Editor for Visuals
Transition to Compass 2g nearly complete provide students with syllabuses, grades and assignments for specific courses. Elise Feltman, freshman in Media, has courses in both Compass and Compass 2g and said Compass 2g is a better option. “I prefer Compass 2g since it’s more organized and much more specific,” she said. Compass 2g was presented to the University in November 2011. As of Fall 2012, 86 percent of all enrolled students have at least one course on Compass 2g, according to an email sent to Baird from Tracy Tolliver, assistant director of CITES production applications. In comparison with the original Compass, Compass 2g offers professors a simpler process of
BY JACQUI OGRODNIK CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Illinois Compass is nearing its end as the deadline to switch over to the second generation nears. CITES will decommission the original Illinois Compass software, powered by Blackboard Vista, which was introduced to campus over a decade ago, according to Robert Baird, acting associate director of CITES academic technology services and assistant professor. Courses that used the original Compass will be read-only so that professors can still access them but will not be able to use them as teaching tools. The newer version, Compass 2g, allows students to access courses in both systems. Both versions
creating and editing their courses and notifying students of course updates. Despite Compass 2g’s popularity, many professors still use the original Compass and have yet to make the transition. “I’ve been using Compass for the last five or six years,” said Brian Quick, associate professor of communications. “Students can access their class notes and grades, which really helps the students out.” To ease the transition process, CITES offers professors a training program that focuses on helping them adjust to the new Compass. “It’s not just sit-there-buttonpushing,” Baird said . “We bring
professors and TAs in there, and we give them the basics of the software, and meanwhile, as we go through the training, we share and talk about their own needs. It’s a real collaborative workshop environment.” Compass 2g is available for all colleges and courses. According to the Tolliver’s email, 83 open learning and training courses not managed by CITES are in Compass 2g. “We work with equine dentistry, crop sciences and dance,” Baird said. “There’s not a course you can think of that doesn’t have something they want to put online.”
MICHAEL BOJDA THE DAILY ILLINI
LEFT: Houses on Garwood and Champaign streets in the Bristol Place neighborhood in the northern part of Champaign. RIGHT: Houses on Fifth Street and Nathaniel Burch Drive in the Douglass Square neighborhood in Champaign. The area was recently renovated.
Bristol Place may be razed, then rebuilt to improve neighborhood
Jacqui can be reached at news@ dailyillini.com.
YOUR VOICE
Which version of Compass do you use? Why? COMPILED BY JACQUI OGRODNIK
BY CARINA LEE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
“I am a TA, so it was already set up for me. ... It also helps students in the long run by keeping track of their grades and submitted assignments. With assignments submitted on paper, you can’t keep track of areas your students need to focus on.”
“I use Compass 2g because I need to. I have received numerous emails daily about the transition CITES is making us do.” MARCUS KELLER, associate professor of French Compass 2g
STAFF WRITER
“I have a large course I’m teaching next semester, but my classes usually have only 20-30 people. I never really thought about switching since I only use it once every few years.”
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“I am new to the University this semester. I learned that the old Compass was going away, so why should I learn the old one for only one semester? I wanted to get ahead of the curve.”
CRAIG KOSLOFSKY, professor of History Compass
BRANDON CARR, teacher’s assistant Compass 2g
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Police officers stopped by the Bristol Park neighborhood to talk face-to-face with residents on Tuesday to find ways to address safety concerns. The Champaign Community Coalition, a group of local organizations dedicated to improving safety conditions and policecommunity relations, was behind the effort. Volunteers and members of the Urbana, Champaign and University police departments came to “walk as one” by knocking on doors and giving a bag full of packets containing information on topics such as curfew and Halloween safety. Rene Dunn, Champaign police
CORI ANDERSON, visiting instructor of Slavic Languages and Literature Compass 2g
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spokeswoman, said the visits served as a city effort to speak with residents face-to-face. “This is our opportunity to get out and network with the residents,” Dunn said. “It helps us build on police and community relationships, and it gives the residents a voice instead of us expecting them to come to us.” The Bristol Park neighborhood lies northeast of Bradley Avenue and Neil Street and consists of Bristol Place, Garwood Addition and Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park. According to the Bristol Park Neighborhood Plan, the value of homes in Bristol Park are much lower than those in
Classifieds
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Sudoku
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