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Administrator: Continued tuition hikes not feasible BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGER STAFF WRITER
The University can’t afford to raise tuition prices much higher than it already has, Vice President for Academic Affairs Christophe Pierre told the Board of Trustees’ Audit, Budget, Finance and Facilities Committee at its meeting Monday. He will give another presentation at the full board meeting on Nov. 14. This presentation will give board members context about tuition rates ahead of the January meeting, where the board hopes to set rates for next year’s incoming freshmen. The University has increasingly relied on tuition funds
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Siddhant Kapoor, junior, lights a candle during the annual Diwali Lighting of the Quad on Monday. It is hosted by the Indian Graduate Student Assocation.
Wood biochar provides energy UI researchers find use as clean power source
Supercapacitors are traditionally used in low-power devices such as PC cards, photographic flashes, flashlights or portable media players, Jiang said. Nancy Holm, assistant director for sponsored research at the Center, oversaw the Hazardous Waste Research Fund, which provided funding for Jiang’s project. She has coordinated the Illinois Biochar Group for the past three years. “We research ways to use materials and make other ways of producing energy so that we don’t have to use things like coal which can produce hazardous waste,” Holm said. Jiang and his team have studied Red Cedar wood biochar supercapacitors in par-
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A wood biochar supercapacitor may seem like a burnt piece of wood in a small plastic container at first glance; however, these little devices could be the future of environmentally friendly energy. For the past two years, Junhua Jiang, senior research engineer, and a team of researchers at the University’s Illinois Sustainable Technology Center have been studying wood biochar supercapacitors as an electrochemical source of power. “Supercapacitors are ideal for applications needing instant power and can even provide constant power — like batteries, but at lower cost,” he said.
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A wood biochar supercapacitor uses environmentally friendly energy to power a small flashlight. ticular. They found that these function much more efficiently than the commercial types of supercapacitors. “There’s a lot of interest in biochar because it’s got some
interesting properties,” Holm said. The properties of wood biochar supercapacitors are what
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for revenue. A $52.2 million increase in tuition revenues accounted for 99.8 percent of the University’s $52.3 million budget increase in Fiscal Year 2014, according to Pierre’s presentation at the September board meeting. In the past 10 years, state appropriations have dropped 25 percent, while tuition has increased accordingly. Tuition now makes up $1.1 billion of the University’s revenue, compared to $600 million provided by state appropriations, Pierre said. But the University can’t afford to raise rates much more “if it doesn’t want to price itself out of the market,” Pierre said.
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Multiple suspects identified in paintball gun attacks DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
Two incidents of paintball gun attacks were reported on campus last week. The first incident was reported in the 500 block of South Neil Street at 10 p.m. on Oct. 29. University Police Lt. Matt Myrick said a female victim was shot by the paintball gun near Sherman Hall, 900 S. Fifth St. Her injury was not severe enough to require medical attention. Michael M. Dunbar, 19, of Champaign; Matthew T. Durham, 18, of Champaign; Amani J. Howard, 18, of Champaign; and Sheldon C. Knox, 19, of Champaign, were issued state of Illinois notices to appear in court to each face a reckless conduct charge. Myrick said an officer also found paintball guns and accessories for paintball guns in one of the suspect’s cars. The second paintball incident occurred Thursday. Stephon J. Bobo, 19, of Champaign; Anthony McClinton, 18, of
Champaign; and Justin X. ReedWilliams, 22, of Urbana, were arrested on the charges of mob action and reckless conduct in parking lot A-9, 605 E. Healey St., at around 11 p.m. after an officer pulled over the car they were in for a traffic violation and saw a paintball gun in the vehicle. After searching the vehicle, an officer found Airsoft guns, BB guns, a paintball gun, a bag of 500 paintballs and other paintball gun accessories. Champaign Police were also on the scene and notified University Police that they had earlier received a report of a paintball attack. The suspects in the second incident were later released with no charges filed because there was no identifiable victim, Myrick said. There may have been more victims in the paintball attacks who did not report the attack to the police, Myrick said. He added that people should be aware of their surroundings and report an attack immediately.
FAA alumnus donates sculpture, joins mentoring program was 39, and now I’m 70, and he’s 92. We’ve been life-long friends.” Breslow said Zagorski changed his life in a “very profound way” when he first met him. “He taught me about industrial design,” he said. “I switched from Bradley, where I was failing out of school, and transferred to the University of Illinois in order to study industrial design, and ultimately study with him.” His close relationship with Zagorski is the reason he got involved in the new mentoring program for FAA. “My goal as a mentor is to be able to help and influence young people and give back, primarily,” he said. “I’ve been very lucky in my life to have three mentors, Ed
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Jeffrey Breslow, FAA alumnus, donated his sculpture “New Day” to his now retired former professor and friend, Edward Zagorski. Standing in the Research Park directly across from the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign, Breslow presented the sculpture in Zagorski’s honor on Oct. 26. Breslow said his inspiration to donate the sculpture stemmed from all Zagorski taught him. In fact, he said Zagorski is the reason he ended up in the field of industrial design. “This is somebody I’ve known all my life, for 53 years we’ve been dear friends,” he said. “I met him when I was 17 and he
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was the first, and certainly the most prominent, but I’ve had two other mentors. I find that most people in life never have a mentor — not one.” Michele Plante, FAA career services coordinator, said that the new professional mentoring program, open to seniors in the college, aims to help bridge the gap between being a student and working as a professional. “The goals are to provide insight for our students into their professional field, to extend their network of contacts, and to give them practice interacting with professionals in a video chat medium,” she said. “The program also provides a method for alumni and friends of the college to connect directly with Fine and Applied
Arts and our students.” Breslow recently retired from his position as CEO of his company, Big Monster Toys, leaving the company in the hands of his partner, Don Rosenwinkle. Breslow said this is yet another way Zagorski had a hand in his success, as Rosenwinkle was among the countless other students, and people, he said Zagorski has touched. “I hosted his 90th birthday party in Champaign two years ago. We had 75 people from all around the country and a couple from England come,” he said. “My story is not that unique. He’s influenced many people in his career. ... Everybody just reveres him and adores him; he’s
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“New Day,” a statue located near First Street and St. Mary’s Road, was designed by Jeffrey Breslow, a University alumnus.
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