The Daily Illini: Volume 144 Issue 39

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STATE FARM CENTER FLOODED OVERNIGHT Storm line blockage causes water accumulation on the court

University to add winter classes Eight classes will be offered online, effectiveness called into question Opinions, 4A

LIFE & CULTURE, 6A

SPORTS, 1B WEDNESDAY October 29, 2014

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C-U ranked 7th top college town BY JANE LEE STAFF WRITER

A UIPD police car sits in the parking lot at the Division of Public Safety building on Monday.

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Undercover officers deployed BY WALBERT CASTILLO STAFF WRITER

In response to an influx of crime alerts, the Champaign Police Department and the University Police Department recently deployed undercover cops and increased the number of police officers on campus and in city areas. The police departments are also working with the University’s Student Patrol to meet the increased demand for Safewalks. The Champaign Police Department announced 12 incidents of mob action and robberies occurring near campus, in a press release Oct. 20. To ease students’ heightened concerns, Skip Frost, deputy chief of the University Police Department, said they are working with local police departments to address the issues. Lt. Jim Clark, Champaign Police south district commander, said the amount of police officers doubled this week. Although the amount

of officers working varies by day, he said they move several officers to different parts of campus areas at night. Regarding the implementation of undercover police officers, Frost said that the police departments are focusing on identifying and following people who may have exhibited behaviors that hint toward criminal activity. He said undercover cops could be deployed at all hours of the day. “The simplest way to put it is, when people don’t know that we’re uniform police officers, it’s kind of hard for them not to commit the crimes,� Frost said. Clark said undercover cops receive the same basic type of training as uniformed police officers, and are undergoing surveillance on possible subjects. Additionally, they watch to make sure people are not walking by themselves. He said Champaign has implemented undercover officers numerous times

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Q: Do you feel safe on campus with the recent crime outbreak? If not, will you feel safer on campus knowing that there are undercover police officers patrolling the area?

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While you won’t find much more than a view of cornfields on a drive from Chicago to Champaign-Urbana, the cities’ culture and diversity have made them stand out of the Midwestern farmland as one of the best college towns in the country. For many students in the department of landscape architecture, it’s the blend of urban and rural landscapes in the cities that attract people to the cities. “One of the things for me that I like is that you have Green Street up there with a lot of commercial attraction, but then also you have a really nice huge campus that’s right adjacent to that,� said Sam Stuber, junior in FAA. “There are quieter spaces and busier spaces within a small vicinity. It’s kind of nice to have that.� Ch a mpa ig n-Urba na ranked seventh overall in the American Institute of Economic Research’s list of Top 20 College Towns, which is part of the institute’s rank-

ing of Top 75 College Cities and Towns in America. Luke Delorme, research fellow at AIER, said the institute looked at 271 metropolitan institutional areas that had at least 10,000 students. The areas were then ranked across twelve categories. “We basically look at each category and see how far away from average is the metropolitan institutional area and then we average those,� he said. “That is how we get the overall rank.� The ranking focuses on four categories that are then divided into 12 criteria: student life, which looks at student concentration, cost of housing and city accessibility; culture, which looks at arts and leisure concentration, international student population and percentage of workers in innovative fields; economic health, which looks at unemployment rate, entrepreneurial activity and brain drain or gain; and opportunity, which looks at research and development per

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Veterinary facilities to undergo renovation Improvements include leveling floors, installing metal stalls BY FATIMA FARHA STAFF WRITER

At fi rst sight, ward four of the Large Animal Clinic in the University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital looks like any regular clinic, except for its dirty, unstable floors and old wooden stalls. To make the ward feel safer and more accessible to its patients, the clinic will begin renovations in January with funds from the state of Illinois. The Large Animal Clinic is divided into four wards, three of which have already

been renovated. With the $2.1 million grant from the Capital Development Board, the clinic will implement renovations on the fourth ward, said Jonathan Foreman, professor of veterinary clinical medicine and the teaching hospital. The renovations will include installing metal fi xtures as stalls and leveling the fl oors, making them easier for horses to run and walk on. “The weather is either too hot or too cold a lot in the summertime or winter-

time, we do a lot of examinations in this space so it’s a really heavily used space,� Foreman said. “So if we can make it safer for the patients and for the students around the patients, then that’s our real goal.� Foreman said these renovations will allow for better and more comfortable treatment of the animals by students. Many of the floors in the facility are not level and have sticky textures that prevent horses from running freely during examinations. New metal bars for stalls will not only make the clinic look more professional, it will also protect the horses inside, which the current wooden stalls do not,

Foreman added. There will also be more space for the animals and their caretakers. “We don’t use this space as much as we would like to, so if we could get in here more and have it be reliable and know that when we use it that it’s safer, we see that as a bonus for everybody,� Foreman said. Melody Martychenko, graduate student in veterinary medicine, said the renovations will give horses better treatment and let the students figure out what is wrong with them more efficiently. She also pointed out that the floors will become much easier to clean, making the clinic more sanitary.

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A graduate student wraps a horse’s shins with adhesive to prevent further injuries at the Large Animal Clinic on Monday. “It’ll make the environment working with the horses and around the horses much more safe,� Martychenko said. The Capital Development Board is also providing

funds for additional renovations to the classrooms in the veterinary school. Foreman said he hopes the new renovations to the

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