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Wednesday December 5, 2012

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ISS to discuss funds, donations and ideas BY TYLER DAVIS STAFF WRITER

Illinois Student Senate members will discuss fund allocation for the biannual Association of Big Ten Students Winter Conference, a gathering for student governors at Big Ten universities, at their meeting Wednesday. An ISS delegation of six senators will attend the conference at the Indiana University from Jan. 11-13. The student senate will discuss appropriating $823.90 for

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Faculty and staff can now request weather alert radios for their buildings from the University police department. The University received a limited supply of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA , weather radios at the beginning of 2012. Since then, the police department has been trying to distribute the radios to campus facilities. Recently, however, the University police department decided to better utilize all of its available technology. Sherry Wooten, emergency planning coordinator, said they are now making it their goal to remind University departments of the resources that are available for campus facilities. “Our goal is to reach as many faculty members, students, staff and visitors as possible,” she said. Weather alert radios are allhazard radios which are connected to the NOAA national weather services, which provides weather data, forecasts and warnings to alert local and national communities of weather conditions. These radios continuously broadcast local weather forecasts as well as special alerts that might affect the area the radio is monitoring, such as tornado warnings or severe thunderstorm warnings, Wooten said. The radios were developed to warn people of approaching threats, no matter what the weather conditions are, said Lt. Steven Trame of UIPD. “The radios will even work during a power outage and will receive alerts on a special frequency from the National Weather Services if severe weather is approaching,” he said.

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hotel rooms, gas and conference registration. This will be vice presidentexternal Ryan Young’s fourth time in attendance. “It’s a good way for student leaders across the Big Ten to get together and share ideas (and) talk about any major issues that are occurring at the national level that we all need to get together to have a voice on,” he said. Young said the conference will have a welcome session Friday

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Police offer free weather radios to campus facilities BY KLAUDIA DUKALA

High: 46˚ Low: 32˚

The radios, which will be given out free, utilize Specific Area Message Encoding or SAME technology. This technology allows users to program the radio to monitor a specific county, instead of an entire state. “You wouldn’t necessarily want to hear a tornado warning issued for Iroquois County in Douglas County when the storm is tracking from southwest to northeast,” Wooten said. Areas that have a high concentration of students and staff, such as residence halls, sporting venues and campus recreation facilities, should be equipped with the radios in case of an emergency, Wooten said. “By offering these radios to campus departments, they can be monitored by employees who would then circulate the emergency information to others throughout the buildings,” she said. These weather alert radios were given to the University through the Champaign County Emergency Management Agency after the agency received a grant from the Illinois Terrorism Task Force, Wooten said. Kristine Sass, freshman in LAS and resident of Snyder Hall, said she would like to see these radios utilized in her residence hall. “It’s nice to know that the University is doing everything it can to provide us with a safe environment,” she said. “I think these would be really useful, especially in a place that houses so many students.” Any University employee can request one for their building by emailing dpscomments@illinois.edu or contacting Sherry Wooten directly at 217-300-1544 or sawooten@illinois.edu.

Klaudia can be reached at dukal2@ dailyillini.com.

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Students perform as part of the Tito Carrillo Jazz Combo concert at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday.

Applications hit record high, but fewer admits enroll at UI BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER

By the end of the last admissions period, the University had received 31,454 applications for the class of 2016, a record high. The University offered about 20,000 of those applicants admission. But come August, just shy of 7,000 of those students had made the decision to become Illini. The University has had declining returns on its acceptance letters since 2006. In the time since that year, the yield of accepted Illinois residents has dropped from 58.4 percent to 45.3 percent for incoming freshmen, according to data collected by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Counting in the admissions of nonresidents and international students, those numbers dip from 49.7 percent in 2006 to 34.8 percent this year. The University has a yearly goal to have 7,000 freshmen enroll. But because the University has to compete with other schools, it must admit more students each year to reach its enrollment goals, said Daniel Mann, director of student financial aid. A decrease in yield reflects both the increased number of students admitted and a consistent number of students actually attending the University. “We have to offer admission to more students to fill our class

Admissions and tuition changes, 2006-11 In 2010, the Illinois Board of Higher Education identified these three universities as being the most popular out-of-state destinations for Illinois college students. University of Missouri ! Decrease in admissions yield: 12.1 percent ! Increase in in-state tuition: $1,005 ! Increase in out-of-state tuition: $4,458 University of Iowa ! Decrease in admissions yield: 13.8 percent ! Increase in in-state tuition: $1,568 ! Increase in out-of-state tuition: $6,352 Indiana University ! Decrease in admissions yield: 26.6 percent ! Increase in in-state tuition: $1,776 ! Increase in out-of-state tuition: $8,780 because the competition for topnotch students just keeps getting more and more intense each year,” Mann said. “And many times, it is scholarships and financial aid that is being used to compete for those students.”

As tuition rises, fewer students enroll at University As tuition costs have increased progressively throughout the years, the number of students accepting admittance to the University has decreased, as shown in the yield.

Yield 2006

7,172

2007

6,948

2008

7,299

2009

6,991

2010

6,936

2011

7,255

2012

6,932 0

5,000

Total enrolled

14,438

49.7%

15,361

45.2%

16,039

45.5%

17,053

41.0%

18,324

37.9%

19,425

37.3%

19,924 10,000

15,000

34.8%

20,000

Number of students

Total admitted

Illinois in-state base rate tuition by year 2006: $7,708

2007: $8,440

2008: $9,242

2009: $9,484

Source: Stacey Kostell, Director of undergraduate admissions

Stacey Kostell, director of undergraduate admissions, said a reason for this drop is an increase in admits to the number of international and out-of-state students ,who have to pay a higher rate of tuition than Illinois residents. The

2010: $10,386

2011: $11,104

2012: $11,636

BRYAN LORENZ Design editor

Universtiy admitted 8,300 nonresident and international freshmen this year, which is more than twice the number of admitted nonresident and international

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Ill. Senate approves measure allowing licenses for illegal immigrants BY JOHN O’CONNOR AND SOPHIA TAREEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SETH PERLMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Illinois Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno, R-Lemont, speaks with reporters at the Illinois State Capitol Tuesday in Springfield, Ill.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A plan that would allow illegal immigrants in Illinois to get driver’s licenses cleared another hurdle Tuesday, with the state Senate approving the measure hours after Republican leaders in the General Assembly offered their support and said they’ve been working with Democrats on the issue for years. The measure, which would let illegal immigrants get tested for licenses and buy insurance without facing deportation, passed the state Senate 41-14. It now heads to the House. The licenses couldn’t be used for other purposes, such as boarding a plane or voter identification.

Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno of Lemont and House Minority Leader Tom Cross of Oswego stood with former Gov. Jim Edgar and other Republicans earlier Tuesday to announce their support for the legislation. Illinois has about 250,000 illegal immigrants who are driving without training and insurance, proponents say. Those drivers caused $64 million in damage claims each year, according to the Highway Safety Coalition, a group that supports the bill. The legislation was sponsored by Chicago Democratic Senate President John Cullerton. Supporters say the temporary licenses issued would look the same as those given to foreigners who are in the country

legally, so police couldn’t target illegal immigrants. The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights kicked off their campaign in support of the licenses at a Nov. 20 event in Chicago with Cullerton and Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn. Edgar and Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka, who also attended an event in support of the bill Tuesday, were there, but not Radogno or Cross. At the time, Radogno said she had a scheduling confl ict and a spokeswoman said she hadn’t discussed the matter with Cross. Asked Tuesday about their Nov. 20 absence, Cross and Radogno downplayed the issue, and coalition chief Lawrence Benito said legislation hadn’t

been drafted until last week. Cross said Tuesday that he’d seen the bill and was supportive of it. “It’s not a new issue and it’s had bipartisan engagement for five years,” Radogno said. “What we see now is both sides coming together and some movement on both sides to get a product that can actually move the ball forward.” Neither addressed the point Edgar made two weeks ago that the measure is a sound opportunity for the GOP to reach out to Latino voters, who played a large role in the shellacking the Republicans took in the General Assembly in the Nov. 6 election. Democrats won supermajority control of both the House and Senate.