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University students reported safe after attacks STAFF WRITER
Students protest against Chief imagery in front of Gameday Spirit on Monday, Oct 26 2015.
Saturday eveni ng, around 40 students huddled on the steps of the Union in near silence as everyone waited for the arrival of clear, plastic cups that could shield their candles from the windy night. Once the stack arrived, people began quietly conversing as lighters were shared. Even with the makeshift protection, the candles would often burnout, prompting strangers to help one another keep the fl ames lit. Once all the candles were lit, the students gathered in the center of the the Quad to show support for France, following the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday that left 129 dead and 352 wounded. “It just shows how fear and danger can’t cancel out the human spirit,” said Amrutha Prasad, senior in LAS. “We will rally together always.” Prasad, who organized the event, studied abroad in Paris last year. Among the solemn crowd was Vincent Cailliot, a French exchange
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THE CHIEF
AN UNSPOKEN PRESENCE, PART III Editor’s Note: This is part three in a four-part series about how the tradition of the Chief continues on campus despite its ban in 2007. The Daily Illini will focus on how and why the Chief has remained a prevalent image, and the mark it has left and will eventually leave on the C-U community and those of Native American heritage. See Thursday’s edition of The Daily Illini for the next installment, which will discuss what the future could hold for the Chief. Xochitl Sandoval didn’t notice the Chief at first. Sandoval, who is of indigenous heritage, first transferred to the University as a junior and said she began to notice the Chief’s presence all over campus as she became more accustomed to the University. “It was total disbelief. I could not believe that these people, this community, that I thought was going to be of learners, of students, is engaging in something that is so blatantly racist,” Sandoval said, an alumna of the University. After the initial disbelief wore off, Sandoval began to feel anger mixed with sadness. In one of her classes, they discussed how imagery like the Chief was problematic, but after the discussion, students continued wearing the logo to class.
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student. “When it happened, I was shocked,” he said. “I was watching the news every second.” Cailliot said he attends school in Paris and has friends that were in the area when the attacks occurred. “It doesn’t touch you the same way when it’s not your country,” he said. “Because I’m French, I’m devastated.” The attacks began at 9:20 p.m. on Friday when a bomb went off at the Stade de France, the country’s national soccer stadium. The attacks continued throughout the night in various locations throughout the city including several restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall.International authorities are investigating the attackers and have launched a manhunt to fi nd suspects in Belgium. French president Francois Hollande blamed the Islamic group ISIS for organizing the attack, the BBC reported. After the attacks, a number of countries paid respect to their ally by lighting famous monuments with the French colors. Cailliot said it was nice to have support and see the world mourn the dead. Students who had never been to France also came to support the cause on the Quad. “I came out here
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She emailed her Spanish professor to express her concerns about how students wearing Chief apparel in her class impeded her academic success. She went to the Dean of Students to make a formal complaint. Then, she met with an attorney from the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Access. While these resources offered some advice on how to deal with the situation, Sandoval felt that she had no valid options left that would get rid of the Chief. On March 11, 2014, she contemplated suicide. She wrote a letter to the administration in which she expressed her “emotional, physical and spiritual pain that seeing the former-yet-stilllingering Chief mascot” had on her. The letter prompted a response from both pro-Chief and anti-Chief proponents, creating a dialogue that offered Sandoval support from the community. Nineteen months later, Sandoval has moved on to graduate school at the University of Chicago. However, much has changed in C-U. The presence of Chief Illiniwek on and near campus remains in the form of merchandise at campus stores like Gameday Spirit and Te Shurt, as well as on murals and pictures at student-frequented bars, like KAM’s and Legends. The logo is even found outside the auditorium at Gregory Hall, with a quote about
freedom of speech. During football games, unofficial Chief Ivan Dozier, a graduate student in Crop Sciences, makes appearances in the stands and during the “Three-in-One” song at halftime, when many members of the crowd yell “Chief.” In 2007, the University’s Board of Trustees made the decision to stop using Native American imagery as the symbol for the University and its athletics along with related “regalia, logo and the names ‘Chief Illiniwek’ and ‘Chief.’” The Board also said in the resolution that it is the job of the Chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign campus to oversee and enforce this. Despite this resolution, there are still ways that the Chief remains on campus.
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In the vault According to Marty Kaufmann, assistant athletic director and licensing director, the University still owns the trademark rights to the Chief under the Collegiate Licensing Company’s College Vault program. He explained that since 1983, this company has managed all of the University’s trademarks and logos, including the Chief, and only manufacturers, not retailers, can hold licenses to reproduce them on merchandise. When the Chief was retired in
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Students light candles during a vigil in support of those affected by the recent tragedies in Paris.
Possible grant cut would affect thousands BY ABIGALE SVOBODA NEWS EDITOR
Raneem Shamseldin may not receive her Monetary Award Program grant next semester but she’ll still be on campus. Shamseldin is one of the University’s 5,667 students who received MAP grant funding at the start of the fall semester, despite the lack of a state budget. In August, the University had distributed over $12 million in MAP grants. On Wednesday, Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson sent an email to MAP-eligible students notifying them that if money is not allocated for MAP grants in the state budget, students will need to pay back the money their account was credited for the fall semester. Students would not receive grants for the spring semester. The announcement has left students with MAP grants uncertain of how, or if, they
will be able to afford University tuition in the spring. Additionally, students may have to determine how to repay their MAP grants — a program that is never supposed to require repayment, even after graduation. “It’d be insane if we ended up going into next semester, and we still didn’t have any funding for MAP. There are over 130,000 students in the state of Illinois who rely on MAP grants,” said Mitch Dickey, student body president. “Those students are either faced with either dropping out or having to figure out some way to pay for the grants out of pocket.” Shamseldin, a junior in ACES, estimates that she has a total of $24,000 in loans and scholarships in addition to her MAP grant. She said she has a “back-up plan” to account for any lost funding but is still disappointed in the possibility of needing to repay the grants.
“What’s the point of getting help if we’re just going to have to give it all back?” she asked. If necessary, she has money saved from the four jobs she worked over the course of high school. “I just planned to use it next year, not this semester,” she said. “I’ll work over winter break and in the summer too.” The University’s decision to credit MAP grants to students’ accounts was made on the assumption that the budget would be decided and the program would be funded at $373.25 million, the same amount budget in fiscal year 2015. The decision was made despite the fact that on June 25, Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed a bill that would have allocated $397,073,100 to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission to fund MAP grants. The University is still waiting on a state budget
decision for fiscal year 2016 — which began on July 1. At a Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, University Chief Financial Officer Walter Knorr said he does not expect a state budget until January. Wilson said it is highly unlikely MAP grants won’t be included in the state’s allocation for the University, however students should enroll for the spring semester knowing it is a possibility. Shamseldin, a product of Illinois’ public schools, is a first-year student with junior standing. With the help of her high school, she earned her associate’s degree at Rock Valley Community College while attending high school. During high school, Shamseldin also worked multiple jobs. Between waiting tables and working at the Crosby Law Firm, she also found time to intern on Rauner’s campaign team. “I’m more content with
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(Rauner) having control of our budget than I was with Quinn but education is one of the things we disagree on,” she said. “Cuts definitely needed to be made but I don’t think they should be to education.” After earning her degree in Agriculture and Consumer Economics, Shamseldin hopes to attend law school and eventually work in government. Until then, Shamseldin is involved in government through the Illinois Student Senate as the Champaign City Council liaison. She is also the executive assistant to Matt Hill, Illinois Student Senate vice president-external. The Illinois Student Senate traveled to the capitol building in Springfield on Oct. 20 for a “Crisis Advocacy Day” to lobby in favor of MAP grants and against Rauner’s proposed 31.5 percent cut to higher education funding.
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Additionally, the student senate organized a letter writing campaign to urge Illinois legislators to fight for MAP grants. The students sent 70 handwritten letters ahead of an Illinois House Committee on the Whole meeting discussing MAP grant funding. At the meeting, members of the House amended House Bill 4156 to introduce new wording to fund MAP grants. The majority voted in favor of the amended bill — 68 voted in favor, 15 voted against and 10 voted present. The bill must now be approved by the House. If approved, the bill would then go to the senate. Finally, the bill would be sent to Rauner for approval.
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