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Tuesday October 23, 2012
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ISS at odds over spending Two senators want to give back funds BY CORINNE RUFF STAFF WRITER
With an extra 40 cents in your pocket, you could buy a stick of gum or 24 minutes of parking. Whatever you might use 40 cents for, two senators from the Illinois Student Senate want to return about that amount of money to you. The proposal, written by senators Matt Gold, senior in LAS, and Max Ellithorpe, graduate student, will be introduced during the senate’s regular meeting Wednesday. They want to refund students the excess money the senate retains at the end of each fi scal year. According to last year’s rollover, that amount would turn out to be just over 40 cents per student. “The student senate has a
ISS spending so far this year For a complete description of these categories, visit Dailyillini.com.
Name Plates $929.60 Quad Day $3,786.42 ABTS $1,063.62 Summer Supplies $252.40 Stamps $90.00 Travel Around the WorldRA $40.08
Allocated to spend: GPAC Website $10.00 Illini Basketball $9,000.00 Webmaster $1,200.00 October Events $1,050.00 Robert’s Rules of Order $22.84 I-Clicker $7,000 Political Debate $420.00 Co-sponsorship of reception following the debate includes: Cookies $120 Brownies $130.00 Water $45.00 Coffee $125.00 SOURCE: FINANCIAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
BY CLAIRE EVERETT STAFF WRITER
Student senate’s surplus grows since ’08 The Illinois Student Senate recieves $39,000 each year from the University through a portion of the service fee. At the end of the year, unspent money rolls over into the next year.
Amount of money rolled over
$20,000
$18,713
$15,000
$12,980
$10,000
$5,000
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Sustainability Week begins with tours
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CLAIRE EVERETT THE DAILY ILLINI
Olivia Webb, sophomore in ACES and Engineering, takes compressed, sustainable paper pulp out of a mold at the Student Sustainable Farm's open house Monday.
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“Orange, Blue, and Go Green Week,” the University’s third annual Sustainability Week, began with an open house at the Student Sustainable Farm on Monday. Members from environmental organizations and projects came to the farm to eat sustainably farmed food, learn about one group’s new sustainable papermaking and take a tour of the farm. Brenda Welch is a chef at Florida Avenue Residence Hall, which buys its produce from the student farm, and said produce from other sources was incomparable to theirs. “Having things fresh and delivered to you the day it’s ripe is just incredible,” Welch said. Anthropology professor Laura Davis encouraged her students to
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Fiscal year Source: Rhonda Kirts, ISS adviser and associate dean of students
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For 1st time, early voting an option on campus at Union For the first time, students can vote early on campus. Early-voting stations opened Monday morning at the Illini Union in Room 317. “The location of the early voting station on campus has been controversial in past years, and the Union generously made this room available to us free of charge,” Champaign County Clerk Gordy Hulten said on Monday. State Sen. Mike Frerichs, D-52, was also on campus for the opening of the early voting stations. Frerichs led the push to pass legislation to open eight new early-voting locations in Champaign. Frerichs said he
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the University’s Student Sustainable Farm apart from those of other universities. At the end of the event, Grant gave a tour of the farm’s high tunnels, greenhouses used to prolong growing seasons, and explained the benefits of the newly expanded space. Students for Environmental Concerns president Emily Cross, senior in LAS, said she was excited for what was to come from this year’s Sustainability Week. “I’d really like to see students getting active and working with the University to make our footprint more sustainable,” Cross said. “Sustainability Week helps with raising awareness and showing students how they can get involved.”
Claire can be reached at everett5@ dailyillini.com.
SNL’s Meyers comes to Assembly Hall on tour BY ALISON MARCOTTE
STAFF WRITER
Agricultural waste and indigenous fibers, such as prairie grass, sunflower stalks and tomato vines, are dried, chipped, “beaten into pulp” and pressed for stabilization, Benson said. Fibers are then placed in a vat of water where a mold in the shape of a rectangle collects the fibers. Steve Kostell, co-creator of Fresh Press and Art and Design Lecturer, said the goal of the initiative is to create a “make and take” cooperative. “Students can come and prepare the fibers and make the pulp, then make sheets of paper and take it with them to do whatever creative process they’re interested in,” Kostell said. Farm manager and University alumnus Zack Grant said the multidisciplinary collaboration between departments is what sets
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come to the open house and sample the produce. Davis said, “To think a little more deeply about where our food is coming from and what it’s becoming is a major concern of mine.” Nearby the food tent where attendees were able to try out the food, a papermaking tent was set up. At that tent, the Fresh Press, an agri-fiber papermaking group started by two University Art and Design employees, demonstrated how to make environmentallyfriendly paper. “Papermaking from trees is a very intensive process of water and energy, so we’re looking to mitigate that by changing the way paper is made,” said Eric Benson, co-creator of the papermaking initiative and assistant professor of graphic design.
What: Early voting Where: Illini Union Room 317 When: Oct. 22 through Nov. 3 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. Polls are closed Sundays. took up the cause because having a polling place in a high-traffic area of campus is beneficial to the democratic process. It would also be a welcome change from the inconvenient locations of past campus stations, he said. “Two years ago, the previous county clerk turned down the free location being offered by the Union and opted instead to
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“Saturday Night Live” head writer Seth Meyers is coming to Assembly Hall on Tuesday as a part of his stand-up comedy tour. Meyers is in his sixth season as SNL’s head writer and “Weekend Update” anchor and his 11th season as an SNL cast member. A Northwestern University graduate, Meyers has performed at iO, an improv comedy theater in Chicago, and toured internationally with Boom Chicago. Meyers headlined the 2011 White House Correspondents Association dinner and hosted the 2010 and 2011 ESPY Awards. The Daily Illini recently interviewed Meyers about his tour, SNL and comedy in general.
Daily Illini: Could you tell me more about the stand-up tour, and what inspired you to start the tour? Seth Meyers: I’m not really on
tour as much during the SNL season. I only have a few weeks off here and there, but I try to get out and do as much stand-up as possible. I always like doing
college shows. It’s such a great audience for me. And so it’s just lucky that Illinois had a date open when I was coming, when I was available.
DI: How does performing stand-up compare to writing for and acting on SNL? SM: The great thing about writ-
ing on SNL is that we have this incredibly talented cast, and it’s such a gift to be able to put words in their mouths. It always makes whatever you write so much better. Whereas the nice part about stand-up is you get to spend time with the audience. It’s just yourself for an hour. And so for me, it’s really nice to be able to step out behind the desk and have that freedom to have a little bit more open interaction with people, as opposed to just talking to a camera.
DI: How is writing for SNL during election season? How does this year’s election differ from the last one? SM: Four years ago, we knew we had something pretty special
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happening when John McCain picked a running mate that looked exactly like Tina Fey. We were aware that we were probably getting luckier than we had any right to get. This year is also fun, though. It’s a little bit more fun when there’s no incumbent because you have two new kinds of characters enter the political scene. This year obviously we have President Obama, who we’ve spent four years with already, but we have a new actor playing him, so that’s kind of exciting. And then on the other side, we love
Jason’s (Sudeikis) Mitt Romney.
DI: I read that you were a member of Phi Gamma Delta at Northwestern. U of I has one of the largest Greek communities in the country; how was your own experience with Greek life? SM: It was great. I really enjoyed it. Northwestern was a pretty Greek school when I was there. And the friends I made there are still some of my closest friends, although they’re behaving in a much different way than they did when they
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