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UI leadership program now faces revision
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in areas such as leadership and networking. The political science departThe director position for the ment and the College of LAS program will be terminated at have eliminated the master’s the end of the school year. He said he wants to preserve education portion of the civic leadership program, a joint bach- the essentials of this program, elor’s and master’s degree pro- while making it more cost-effecgram for students interested in tive and available for more stupublic leadership, because of a dents on campus. lack of funding. “This is the direction we’re As the program now stands, moving in, and I’m pretty excited the University selects 10 stu- about the possibilities,” he said. He said the dents per year program has in their undergraduate junior not been closed year, and they by the Urbathen take a resina-Champaign Senate because dency or internship in their sec“it would be preond semester of mature of us to their undergradtake those steps uate senior year. to formally close Students come the master’s program.” back to campus in the fall to “We’re not complete a oneshutting it down year master’s entirely,” he MAX ELLITHORPE, degree by worksaid. “We’re program fellow ing on a group just kind of takproject about public policy. ing the master’s degree portion William Bernhard, depart- of it, and we are putting it on the ment head for political science, shelf.” said the program is funded by But Max Ellithorpe, current external donors and foundations. program fellow, and many other The University also provided a fellows fear for the future of the $100,000 commitment per year program. for five years and tuition waivers “There is really not much like for the about 70 graduates that this in the United States; this is have completed the program in one of the only programs that has this model,” Ellithorpe said. the last seven years. After reaching the five-year “There’s already a minor in leaddeadline in 2010, the University ership, and we see the central extended its commitment by two value in this program as the masmore years. ter’s degree in combination with The department launched a the other stuff.” review of the program, bracing He said he would not be happy with an undergraduate-only for a loss of University funds. Bernhard said the department program, hoping that current has three goals for the revised fellows will be given more of a program: maintain the overall chance to restructure the proobjective, expand participation gram with administrators. and better integrate the pro“I think the fellows are ready gram within the political sci- to collaborate with the Univerence department, all while being sity, but we hope they’re ready mindful of the new budgetary to work with us, not to just tell constraints. He said the depart- us what their decisions are,” he ment has discussed making the said. program into a concentration or Esteban Gast, senior in LAS, minor where students would still and other program fellows spoke have internship opportunities and the chance to take courses See LEADERSHIP, Page 3A BY TYLER DAVIS STAFF WRITER
“There is really not much like this in the United States; this is one of the only programs that has this model.”
DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINI
Ryan Smetana, center, solos during “MLK” at The Other Guys Annual Holiday Concert for an audience of approximately 800 attendees at Foellinger Auditorium on Dec. 1. Other holiday songs performed include “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” “Baby Please Come Home for Christmas” and “Cold December Night.”
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C-U community launches Wiki site BY JACQUI OGRODNIK STAFF WRITER
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AA & The Ultimate Raasers perform at the Diwali Talent Show put on by the Indian Student Association at the ARC on Saturday. The panel of judges awarded the group first place.
Diwali talent show brings students closer to roots ciation incorporated them into a skit the emcees performed. Throughout the show, the emcees acted out a search for the diya to light during Diwali. Premal Tailor, association member and sophomore in Engineering, said the group wanted a show that incorporated the traditions of Diwali in a fun environment. “During the show, we have
BY ATOOSA SAYEH STAFF WRITER
The Indian Student Association held a talent show Saturday that incorporated elements of the five-day Hindu festival Diwali in its performances. About 300 people attended the event at the ARC on Saturday to celebrate the holiday, which traditionally involves the lighting of small clay lamps fi lled with oil. These lamps are known as diyas, and the asso-
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A group of residents, with the help of University students, has created Wikipedia of sorts for the Champaign-Urbana community. Cuwiki.net launched Dec. 1 and was formally presented at an event at the Douglass Branch Library. Eileen Walz and Rubayya Hoque, first year graduate students in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, or GSLIS, introduced the site to community members with demonstrations at the event. “This website is created by the community, not just for the community,” Walz said. “It contains virtual space that anyone can add to, edit and share local knowledge.” CU Wiki was created by a Champaign-Urbana committee that started up in 2011. The committee was searching for a way to build “a website about the Champaign-Urbana area that anyone can edit,” which is now the website’s tagline. “Anyone can go in there and write whatever they want,” Hoque said. “The website con-
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tains pre-made layouts for new articles. If someone made changes to your article, it allows you to monitor those changes.” While the website started as a community project and not a student project, many University classes have begun assisting in generating content for the site. “If we don’t get involved and upload information, there’s not going to be anything there,” said Abdul Alkalimat, UC2B policy board member and professor of African-American studies. In September, two Community Informatics classes in the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences began adding multiple articles to the site as well as snippets of information to which others can add. Spanish classes will also be taking on projects to translate pages into Spanish. Other language classes are expected to join these projects, Walz said. “Teams of students will be targeting different sectors of society,” Hoque said. “While one group focuses on bars in the community, another group
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Kevin Wolz, senior in LAS, shows how tall a hazelnut plant has gotten over the year at his perennial polyculture site at the Sustainable Student Farm. His project received full funding on Friday.
Committee approves funding for student farm BY CLAIRE EVERETT STAFF WRITER
A proposed 20.5-acre solar farm at the University received final approval by the Student Sustainability Committee at its meeting Friday. The farm, which was debated about extensively, will provide the University with two percent of its energy by next year. The committee will fund $1.05 million of the cost of the farm over the course of three years.
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Teresa Tousignant, chair of the energy working group and graduate student, voted against the solar farm project. “It happens on agricultural land, which is an issue that has not been well-publicized, but the rate of loss of farmland in the United States is phenomenal,” Tousignant said. Although location was the main concern with the solar
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